I am a musician. I have two rehearsal spaces with two different groups of people in two different homes. We took the time to sound proof our jam rooms for better in room sound and to not disturb the neighbours. We talked to the neighbours to make sure we are not an issue. We can jam all hours of the day and all is well. Everyone is happy.
Then I come home. I come home and I cant even open my windows…
Dear jam house on hunter street,
You are all a bunch of giant assholes. From noon to midnight almost every day there is the group of you that jams on Queens Of The Stone Age and the other group of you that that is doing a pretty good job of emulating Do Make Say Think and you have done nothing to isolate the noise in your space. I live DOWN THE STREET and you are louder then my stereo (and I’m fucking deaf.)
I deal with many strange happenings and peoples of Hunter Street and the occasional noise and rocking out is fine (its what I live for) but this constant disturbance of my entire street and in turn my peace will stop. The spring is here and summer is coming. I’m going to open my windows and enjoy my home life. I tolerated the noise all winter but no more.
I really hope you clue into this because a shit wind is blowing.—Declaration of War
This article appears in Apr 1-7, 2010.
it takes all kinds, and the shit put out now, is well, shit. if you went to this trouble soundproofing, as i’m sure you did, then you should be calling the cops every time they start up. when i had a couple bands doing their practice in my basement in sprytown way back when, i had the whole fucking thing triple done, so as not to bother anyone too. but there was this shithead, used to leave his window open, in all weather, all times of year, and the shit he listened to, would make your blood curl, and you heave. but there are all kinds of people with different tastes, and we can’t comfort all, or even be comforted ourselves.
Hey “Paranoid”—REALLY hating your use of the N-word.
Racist insults are not welcome in any conversation I participate in.
just ignore it rj, and it will crawl back under “her” rock, get it.
like your mommy said if you ignore them they’ll stop; eventually hopefully 🙂
This clearly doesn’t tell the whole story. It looks to me like you did a shit job of soundproofing, if someone who lives down the street can’t even hear their own stereo properly – and open windows are not soundproof in any way whatsoever.
I’m a musician too, but I can also sympathise with someone who doesn’t necessarily want to hear someone else’s loud jams for twelve hours a day. If you’re practicing all the time, rent practice space or do a better job of not aggravating the neighbours. This note might not have been the best way about it, but your neighbour has a point that you should heed.
No one should do Queens covers unless their from the first album, cause they’re simple tunes that are impossible to fuck up. Everything after is off limits. If they are violating this simple rule that alone is worth fighting over.