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Traveling abroad, your experiences as a musician
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A.Rosengren
Solid Snake
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Posted : Oct 17, 2009 13:31
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Nobody likes getting questioned and having their luggage searched and swabbed for explosives or substances. It's just part of it.
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boogie_man
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Posted : Oct 18, 2009 21:02
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I hope you guys don't yell "BoOm" when you're on a plane. ^^
Would you say traveling has changed alot compared to the 90s? Before 9/11, massive terror fears etc? |
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Axis Mundi
Axis Mundi
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Posted : Oct 18, 2009 21:06
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As an American it takes a hell of a lot longer to get back into my own country then before, and a hell of a lot longer to get through US customs than any other country I've ever flown into, and the Homeland Security video they show you on the plane seems frighteningly Orwellian to me. 
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A.Rosengren
Solid Snake
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Posted : Oct 18, 2009 21:30
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<3 George Orwell.
I was in New York around christmas in 2003, it was pretty tough to get in, I had this 200kg large samoan demonish woman asking me where I was going, all the info I had was Babylon/Long Island, and my friends name. The demon stared at me for a while before she decided to stamp my passport and let me in.
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Fotis elf
Alchemix
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Posted : Oct 19, 2009 07:42
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On 2009-10-17 12:21, A.Rosengren wrote:
My Novation Nocturn got wiped for explosive residue in Frankfurt and my bag was wiped with a 'sniffer'. I don't have dreads, 20000000 piercings or hair 
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It´s obvious that they don´t like Novations in Frankfurt  ,cause my remote sl got the same treatment..
no hair here either hehe
novation is a bomb
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shellbound
IsraTrance Junior Member
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Posted : Oct 19, 2009 17:33
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shit, i'm an american and when i was returning from israel, i had a stop-over flight in new york and not only did they thoroughly search my bags, but they assigned some dude to follow me everywhere in the airport (including the bathroom...and he didn't even offer to hold it or wipe my ass or anything) for an hour until i boarded my next flight. the only "suspicious" thing about me i can think of is i had about 20 different stamps in my passport, including israel, egypt, and jordan. which in itself is not that uncommon and should't be grounds for such treatment.
https://soundcloud.com/dead-end-dance
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tHuJoN
Freakulizer / Khainz
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Posted : Oct 19, 2009 19:00
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Xolvexs
IsraTrance Senior Member
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Posted : Oct 19, 2009 19:28
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On 2009-10-19 17:33, septa wrote:
shit, i'm an american and when i was returning from israel, i had a stop-over flight in new york and not only did they thoroughly search my bags, but they assigned some dude to follow me everywhere in the airport (including the bathroom...and he didn't even offer to hold it or wipe my ass or anything) for an hour until i boarded my next flight. the only "suspicious" thing about me i can think of is i had about 20 different stamps in my passport, including israel, egypt, and jordan. which in itself is not that uncommon and should't be grounds for such treatment.
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they were not suspicious. They were measuring your gay-friendliness and homophobia quotient. I know this i experienced it too..they found me slightly homophobic and conducted a cavity search.
When death comes to your doorstep, make sure you are alive |
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Wizack Twizack
Wizack Twizack
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Posted : Oct 19, 2009 23:33
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Mute
IsraTrance Full Member
Access Gremlin
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Posted : Oct 21, 2009 20:28
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On 2009-10-17 12:21, A.Rosengren wrote:
My Novation Nocturn got wiped for explosive residue in Frankfurt and my bag was wiped with a 'sniffer'. I don't have dreads, 20000000 piercings or hair
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I had my Mpc wiped for that residue as well in Frankfurt, it was very funny hehe
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Upavas
Upavas
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Posted : Oct 22, 2009 07:45
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I just came back from the US, when I went they detained me for 5 1/2 hours, claiming that I was an illegal immigrant, and that with a Canadian residency. After 5 hours I freaked out, explained to them that Canada was much nicer than the USA anyway, alone the health insurance here in Canada (currently a hot topic in the US) is a 1000 times better and free, and numerous other reasons. They let me in after I missed my flight out of Vancouver, I had to wait 4 more hours for the next flight and the party organizer picked me up aftyer I had to wait for another 3 hours at the Airport in Sacramento. I was scheduled to play at a party in San Francisco on the 31st, but due to the fact that I had a visa waiver in my passport that was still valid they did not renew the visa so I could not stay long enough. What assholes... glad to be back home in Vancouver now and happy with my new desktop that I bought in the USA, they even waived the import tax in Canada, amazing, what a difference.
Upavas - Here And Now (Sangoma Rec.) new EP out Oct.29th, get it here:
http://timecode.bandcamp.com
http://upavas.com
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AumShantiAum
IsraTrance Junior Member
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Posted : Oct 22, 2009 08:08
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American airports are infamous for their paranoia, they definitely make your travel experience a long and painful process
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juice
IsraTrance Full Member
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Posted : Oct 22, 2009 08:50
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be polite nd professional, don't let your country down....
america is an alien country so we need seprate thread with subject line should be
:some funny & painful experiences while travelling alien nation:
Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion. |
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shellbound
IsraTrance Junior Member
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Posted : Oct 22, 2009 15:37
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On 2009-10-19 23:33, Wizack Twizack wrote:
And if u are staying in dubai and going to israel after, make sure u have a new temporarly passport ready ^^
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yup. this goes for any arabic country (with the exception of egypt and jordan). i think the same is true in reverse as well. that is, if you have an israeli stamp in your passport, you most likely will not be able to get into syria.
https://soundcloud.com/dead-end-dance
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