The intense, hard-driving sound of Whistler hit the underground radar-detector scene with the impact of a falling anvil. But somehow, the dream turned into a whistling nightmare.

Crash, Guns ‘n’ Whistles: Those two just put on an amazing show. I remember this festival in LA in ‘84 where the SL500 played this incredible laser-detector solo with a jockstrap.

Odin Thorloki, Whistallica: People say those two guys are lower-end models. Not me. They taught me how to rock. Saved my life. Saved me from a few speeding tickets, too.

Whistler DE-1732: Most people know us by the early albums, like Laserbeast and Radar on Radar. But we’ve also got Radar Gun, Love Laser, Tone Alert, Radarocalypse!, Radar Gun Live! and No Speed Limits In Hell. We’re not just old guys getting back into this. We’ve been at it all along.

Whistler SL500: I met DE-1732 back in Toronto. I’d been wanting to start a band for a while, but I’m kind of a no-frills guy. Not much of a rock star, you know? So I was at our church beaver roast one Friday when I saw this really cool-looking radar detector with this wicked smile. When he told me he was VG-2 undetectable, just like me, I knew this was the guy.

Whistler DE-1732: That’s actually what our first song together was about. “Immunity”, it was called. “Uniformed inspector / Seeking your detector / His idea of fun is / Seeing you punished / But you’re immuuuuuune!”

Whistler SL500: We oughtta do that one again.

Narrator: So how’d the latest tour go?

Whistler SL500: Sucked.

Whistler DE-1732: Yeah, it was pretty rough. For one thing, we’re illegal in some states, so that was kind of a hassle. And we missed a bunch of gigs ‘cause we couldn’t use our GPS.

Whistler SL500: The tour bus only had two DC jacks. We call it a bus. It’s really more of a minivan. Anyway, me and DE-1732 had to use those jacks. So no GPS, no gigs, no payment. Nobody wants to pay you in this business.

Whistler DE-1732: Everything went wrong on the tour, but, like, at least there was a tour for it to go wrong on, you know? The way I see it is, there’s all kinds of left undone, and done or not done or partially done, and all these things we meant to do but something good was on TV, so like, things are bad, but they can’t get worse, because if they did, it’d be even worse. That’s kinda my philosophy, eh?

Whistler SL500: Now we got this deal going with this discount deal-a-day web site. I think it could totally turn things around.

Whistler DE-1732: Hope springs eternal, right? Whistler ‘till they put me in a landfill!

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