Wool-E 0 #1 January 6, 2006 Ok, admittedly this is presumptuous, but are we all not sick and tired of the Tom Petty song "Freefallin'"? Some jumpin' buddies of mine loathe the song all together, and I'm sure many others just dispise it on videos and probably some still like / love it! Don't get me wrong, it's a great song and kudos to Tom Petty; it's just, as a skydiver, I burnt out on it long ago. Matter of fact, I was once at Z-hill's new year's shindig and they had a DJ that played freefallin and he got boo'ed! If you're just starting out skydiving, chances are, you still love the song and get inspired when you hear it on the way to the dropzone. But you'll probably find after hearing it on countless skydiving videos (especially tandems), you'll tire of it, then begin to curse the cacophonous din...ok, well, it might not come to that exactly. BUT, my question is, for those out there that feel as I do about "Freefallin", what about other Tom Petty songs? In general and for skydiving videos. Learning to Fly, Into the Great Wide Open... Do these songs still turn you on, or has the ad infinitum "And I'm freeeeeee...freee-falliinnn'" broke your heart (get it?!)_________________________________________ It's impossible to build a foolproof parachute because the fools are so ingenious! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashtanga 0 #2 January 6, 2006 Never heard od said song before. You said he describes skydiving? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Elisha 1 #3 January 6, 2006 You would get sick of anything if you heard it almost daily (or more often). As to the DJ, he should have been given a list of unplayable songs (e.g. those usually used to dub tandem vids). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cocheese 0 #4 January 6, 2006 I lived in Reseda for 2 months. It was a long day. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaoskitty 0 #5 January 6, 2006 Tell ya what.. next time you hear the song, replace "freeFALLin" with "FreeBALLin".. which will make you think of walking around with no underwear and thats a nice feeling isnt it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NelKel 0 #6 January 6, 2006 Yeah! I just about sick of that country song about it. You know the one......I went skydiving, I went rocky mountian climbing, I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fu man chu. It seams that everyother tandem picks that song._________________________________________ Someone dies, someone says how stupid, someone says it was avoidable, someone says how to avoid it, someone calls them an idiot, someone proposes rule chan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jumpah 0 #7 January 6, 2006 Quote I lived in Reseda for 2 months. It was a long day. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joellercoaster 6 #8 January 6, 2006 See also "Castles in the Sky" (maybe Ivan van Dahl? some dodgy Eurotrancer, anyway ). May I never hear it again. I'm not even a long-term skydiver and I hear what you're sayin' already.-- "I'll tell you how all skydivers are judged, . They are judged by the laws of physics." - kkeenan "You jump out, pull the string and either live or die. What's there to be good at? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nutz 0 #9 January 6, 2006 QuoteTell ya what.. next time you hear the song, replace "freeFALLin" with "FreeBALLin".. which will make you think of walking around with no underwear and thats a nice feeling isnt it? I'm out there Jerry - and I'm lovin' it!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #10 January 6, 2006 I agree that Freefallin' has been overdone, and it's not really about skydiving anyway. Hell, I remember reading on here a while back that the DJ at Skydive Atlanta during a party put on Van Halen's "Jump" which promptly got shouted down during the opening chords... How about "I won't back down" by the Traveling Wilburys (which had Jeff Lynn, Ringo Starr and Tom Petty). I used it once in a tandem video where the student was this little bitty 100 lb 4'-10" tall girl... She loved it. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,879 #11 January 6, 2006 Never much liked that song. I always liked "learning to fly" from that album better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #12 January 6, 2006 QuoteNever much liked that song. I always liked "learning to fly" from that album better. Yeah, it's good, but I liked Pink Floyd's "Learning To Fly" better... it even has a crescendo that sounds almost like a plane taking off, in addition to a kick-ass opening..."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hambone 0 #13 January 6, 2006 I hear what you are saying I will be riding in the car with my girlfriend and a song will come on and we will look at each otehr and say....Tandem Song...and change it...ha ha ha its pretty funny actually. But it does get rather old.Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rapter 0 #14 January 6, 2006 Check out "Falling Free" From the Alan Parson's Project album "On Air", It's dedicated to Rob Harris. Fall Free What's the use of worrying If we'll be here tomarrow All we need to be is here today Don't care if you're rich Or if you have to beg and borrow You can always find a way Dive and breakaway Fall free Freedom's in the air It's calling you Your heart is there Fall free Blaze accross the sky The perfect fall The perfect high Mother earth looks peaceful As we climb towards the ceiling We must be ten thousand feet or more Hear the windrush screaming While we fight to curb our feelings As we stand beside the door Let our spirits soar Fall free Freedom's in the air It's calling you Your heart is there Fall free Blaze accross the sky The perfect fall The perfect high (Inspired by Rob Harris, World Champion Skysurfer) Only the good die young, so I have found immortality, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #15 January 6, 2006 QuoteYou would get sick of anything if you heard it almost daily (or more often).Quote the song STILL does not bother me enough to BOO someone for playing it. as far as tandem video we don't even offer the song for the video but if someone asked to have it put on I wouldn't kick him in the balls...unless he was a complete dickhead who was disrepecting everyone I know and love.My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yardhippie 0 #16 January 6, 2006 QuoteTell ya what.. next time you hear the song, replace "freeFALLin" with "FreeBALLin".. which will make you think of walking around with no underwear and thats a nice feeling isnt it? Only you kitty... Rock out with your cock out! it is Friday aint it? Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Douva 0 #17 January 6, 2006 Whenever I hear a tandem request Tom Petty, I tell them that's a violation of the Overused Tandem Music Act of 1998. QuoteCheck out "Falling Free" From the Alan Parson's Project album "On Air", It's dedicated to Rob Harris. Fall Free What's the use of worrying If we'll be here tomarrow All we need to be is here today Don't care if you're rich Or if you have to beg and borrow You can always find a way Dive and breakaway Fall free Freedom's in the air It's calling you Your heart is there Fall free Blaze accross the sky The perfect fall The perfect high Mother earth looks peaceful As we climb towards the ceiling We must be ten thousand feet or more Hear the windrush screaming While we fight to curb our feelings As we stand beside the door Let our spirits soar Fall free Freedom's in the air It's calling you Your heart is there Fall free Blaze accross the sky The perfect fall The perfect high (Inspired by Rob Harris, World Champion Skysurfer) CLICK HERE to listen to it. But I'd better not find out anybody has started using this song, inspired by the life and death of one of the most gifted people to ever grace our sport, in tandem videos. I'd hate to have to kill again.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites RastaRicanAir 0 #18 January 6, 2006 While we're at it, can we petition USPA to ground the next person who puts No Doubt's 'Just A Girl' on a tandem video for a 35 year old woman? .......or any woman for that matter......?OrFunV/LocoBoca Rodriguez/Sonic Grieco/Muff Brother #4411 -"and ladies....messin with Robbie is venturing into territory you cant even imagine!-cuz Robbie is Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites cbain 0 #19 January 6, 2006 I like "High Speed Dirt" - Megadeath myself. Christina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites NewGuy2005 52 #20 January 6, 2006 What about "Kick Start My Heart" by..... What was their name? Had a cool video< with skydiving, on MTV, back when they played videos. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites tbrown 26 #21 January 7, 2006 I was always pissed off that the video is about a bunch of kids with skateboards at some skating pit. I mean fuck, the guy's just up the road from Perris and Elsinore and he can't put "freefallin'" together with skydiving ? What a fuckin' loser ! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites nate_1979 9 #22 January 7, 2006 Why we gotta be knocking Freefalling and Jump?/ I used jump on my first tandem, and freefallin on my AFF 1 .. FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MarkM 0 #23 January 7, 2006 Yeah, tandem videos have pretty much permanently burned me for certain songs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites billvon 2,879 #24 January 7, 2006 > Check out "Falling Free" From the Alan Parson's Project album "On Air" . . . "Icarus" and "one day to fly" work well too. Icarus Can we learn to stay behind the line? For if we have the means to fly Some of us will surely die Being reckless was his only crime But when the wind gets under these wings We will find what freedom brings Stay right by me walk don't run I don't want you flying too close to the sun One day to fly The man must be insane; who knows A mind alive with images so strange, so close But never rode the sky Watching the birds as they sail on the wind Trying to figure out the reason why Picturing wings held together with string One day to fly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites happythoughts 0 #25 January 7, 2006 Seal Crazy In a sky full of people, only some want to fly, Isn’t that crazy? In a world full of people, only some want to fly, Isn’t that crazy? Crazy... In a heaven of people there’s only some want to fly, Ain’t that crazy? Oh babe... oh darlin... In a world full of people there’s only some want to fly, Isn’t that crazy? Isn’t that crazy... isn’t that crazy... isn’t that crazy... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0 Go To Topic Listing
yardhippie 0 #16 January 6, 2006 QuoteTell ya what.. next time you hear the song, replace "freeFALLin" with "FreeBALLin".. which will make you think of walking around with no underwear and thats a nice feeling isnt it? Only you kitty... Rock out with your cock out! it is Friday aint it? Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #17 January 6, 2006 Whenever I hear a tandem request Tom Petty, I tell them that's a violation of the Overused Tandem Music Act of 1998. QuoteCheck out "Falling Free" From the Alan Parson's Project album "On Air", It's dedicated to Rob Harris. Fall Free What's the use of worrying If we'll be here tomarrow All we need to be is here today Don't care if you're rich Or if you have to beg and borrow You can always find a way Dive and breakaway Fall free Freedom's in the air It's calling you Your heart is there Fall free Blaze accross the sky The perfect fall The perfect high Mother earth looks peaceful As we climb towards the ceiling We must be ten thousand feet or more Hear the windrush screaming While we fight to curb our feelings As we stand beside the door Let our spirits soar Fall free Freedom's in the air It's calling you Your heart is there Fall free Blaze accross the sky The perfect fall The perfect high (Inspired by Rob Harris, World Champion Skysurfer) CLICK HERE to listen to it. But I'd better not find out anybody has started using this song, inspired by the life and death of one of the most gifted people to ever grace our sport, in tandem videos. I'd hate to have to kill again.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RastaRicanAir 0 #18 January 6, 2006 While we're at it, can we petition USPA to ground the next person who puts No Doubt's 'Just A Girl' on a tandem video for a 35 year old woman? .......or any woman for that matter......?OrFunV/LocoBoca Rodriguez/Sonic Grieco/Muff Brother #4411 -"and ladies....messin with Robbie is venturing into territory you cant even imagine!-cuz Robbie is Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cbain 0 #19 January 6, 2006 I like "High Speed Dirt" - Megadeath myself. Christina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NewGuy2005 52 #20 January 6, 2006 What about "Kick Start My Heart" by..... What was their name? Had a cool video< with skydiving, on MTV, back when they played videos. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tbrown 26 #21 January 7, 2006 I was always pissed off that the video is about a bunch of kids with skateboards at some skating pit. I mean fuck, the guy's just up the road from Perris and Elsinore and he can't put "freefallin'" together with skydiving ? What a fuckin' loser ! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nate_1979 9 #22 January 7, 2006 Why we gotta be knocking Freefalling and Jump?/ I used jump on my first tandem, and freefallin on my AFF 1 .. FGF #??? I miss the sky... There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarkM 0 #23 January 7, 2006 Yeah, tandem videos have pretty much permanently burned me for certain songs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,879 #24 January 7, 2006 > Check out "Falling Free" From the Alan Parson's Project album "On Air" . . . "Icarus" and "one day to fly" work well too. Icarus Can we learn to stay behind the line? For if we have the means to fly Some of us will surely die Being reckless was his only crime But when the wind gets under these wings We will find what freedom brings Stay right by me walk don't run I don't want you flying too close to the sun One day to fly The man must be insane; who knows A mind alive with images so strange, so close But never rode the sky Watching the birds as they sail on the wind Trying to figure out the reason why Picturing wings held together with string One day to fly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #25 January 7, 2006 Seal Crazy In a sky full of people, only some want to fly, Isn’t that crazy? In a world full of people, only some want to fly, Isn’t that crazy? Crazy... In a heaven of people there’s only some want to fly, Ain’t that crazy? Oh babe... oh darlin... In a world full of people there’s only some want to fly, Isn’t that crazy? Isn’t that crazy... isn’t that crazy... isn’t that crazy... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
