Question for Drivers - Ambiance
What do you listen to while driving? (or, in passenger world, what am I going to be listening to while traveling in your cab?)Music radio
Talk radio
Homemade cassette
Your own special music that you recorded to share your unique musical vision of the world with the people who ride in your cab, as you offer them the chance to buy one of your CDs as well?
posted by DC Cab Rider @ 8:57 AM
5 Comments:
1) Passenger preference (but I control the volume)
2) Coast-to-Coast-AM with George Noory (Art Bell on weekends)
3) Enya
4) Golden Oldies
just the local commercial station in the morning for local news then BBC radio 2 in the PM.
Virgin Radio and all the BBC stations especially Radio 4.
It'll range from the BBC World service to mid-90s east coast gangsta rap. It's really all according to the passenger, if I'm about to pick-up an old lady I'll switch away from Ghostface Killah in an instant.
The main thing for me is that I can not deal with commercial radio. Unless the car has a CD or tape deck, I'm listenting to NPR, the extremely good and eclectic community station (often underground hip-hop, reggae, or experimental late at night), or the community jazz (and blues on Friday night) station. That's it, those are the 3 stations unless someone asks for something different. I just can't handle radio ads, especially not over an extended length of time.
I never think to bring music I make, most of it isn't the kind of stuff I'd want to listen to while driving.
Hey Crabbie, you can never tell, maybe that grandma's rock n roller. I can't stand right wing talk radio, but it seems just about every cab I ride in during the day is tuned in to one of those guys. I think that's about the one time I'd prefer a homemade CD of the cabbie's garage band wanna be stylings.
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