Paul Brandt – Convoy
An evening pause: A 2004 version of the 1975 C. W. McCall song that sure proves that life sometimes imitates art.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
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let us, go for a drive….
“She Talks in Stereo”
Gary Myrick and The Figures
(Route 67 North, Illinois)
https://youtu.be/kmoxMNFrJ8w
3:57
Here’s a more contemporary take based on the Canadian convoy appropriately set grifting off of Neil Young’s “Rocking in the Free World”:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zdnTWQrAAOI&t=250s&pp=2AH6AZACAQ%3D%3D
Note: Youtube appear to have mucked with the link to this video a bit. It loads and plays nothing when you click on the unmute button, but after a few seconds displays the end with the Replay symbol. When you click on that it plays OK.
MDN: I had that problem on youtube, but I don’t see it with the embedded video on my page.
MDN–
yes– that link you posted is not in the correct format.
Try this one….
(These guys have great Production values! Good find.)
Truckers Freedom Convoy 2022
https://youtu.be/zdnTWQrAAOI
4:18
Anecdotally—
I have a free, throw-away account at Spotify, and at no time whatsoever was Neil Young’s music “pulled” or otherwise not available to me the past month. Same for the JRE episodes they claim to have pulled.
C.B. radios were the thing in the 1970s. Now kid truck drivers expect dispatchers or security to call them on their individual cell phones. Brats.
In the 80‘s our trucks (hauling air freight) were equipped with 2-way VHF radios, just like the police use. Way better than that silly, useless CB radio band!
Channel 19 is still used some. Iran may have a sat now.