they waited for their entry into their future as they entered the dark and dingy bar full of loud music and thundering sounds of rowdy bar patrons banging on the bar and tables demanding service and singing and talking , singing drinking songs , as the place is filled to the rear with what appeared to james to be the most undesirable of characters , bikers talking about the stretch they just did at the prison up the road for convictions stretching from aggravated assault to murder and rape and various other crimes he overhears as they passed through the ruckus .