Music in combination with aviation

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"You can always go around" by Ken Dravis is a bop

This one is great, thanks for sharing!

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"You can always go around" by Ken Dravis is a bop

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Once here in our beloved jetphotos forum, I was asked, how far offtopic can you go. And I responded, probably a bit too spontaneous, as far offtopic as you let me go.

Since the beginning of August 2024, I operate this topic with stricter rules. Names can be deleted from this topic if I wasn't able to achieve prior consent,

and that may happen upon request and also without that a request directly reaches me (but another jetphotos member).

But, as that is one of my topics, started by me, and thus, open for all jetphotos members since the beginning, today I miss two names. And I like to add these two names even

if they are deleted again tomorrow. In Düsseldorf there is a politician (name not mentioned) who obviously only has the size of knifes in his head. What he doesn't see is, big knifes are also owned

by big white men. [Volksverhetzung durch Politiker nicht ausgeschlossen].

So. Today I like to mention two names who together with me work against too much propaganda.

Mr Bruce Springsteen and

Mr Wolfgang Niedecken. As I know both of them, and I like both of them since .. at least 1990 (or longer), for me it should not be a problem to get the permission to publish their names

when the topic is Aufstehen gegen rechte Hetze -

und für Völkerverständigung . Not only between EDDL and EDDK...

Very dear greetings.

I like to close this entry with Wolfgang Niedecken (and his BAP) - Alles em Lot (1990) .

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'We are sorry, the club closes at 09:00 a.m., pls come back next thursday'

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As I've always done it since more than 15 years, I delete people and names from my forum entries who have not expressively said
'yes', I like to be mentioned in the jetphotos forum. Upon request.

Since the last weekend also without request.

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And now, for our breakfast, and so that all people again think.. 'this guy only knows schmusesongs' (and I can live with that, because I know it better),

back to my roots, back to my year. The haircut for men has changed - a little bit - since then, my dear friend.. And for the original comments, this time I'd again obviously need
a Spanish translator. With more than 68.000.000 requests since it was uploaded, a group of female singers, with a 45 year old song.

Boney M. - Rivers of Babylon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpDj1UTIn4Y

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Hm. I like to continue this series 'music legends on TV' . The man has sung alot of really really sad songs and whenever they are played on the radio, I thought by myself,
why always the saddest of his songs. I am young enough to not only know the very first song which he became famous for in 1971.
After that, he was #1 on the US Top 100 billboard charts in 1972, not with his saddest song, but with 'Lean on Me'.

And in 1982, he earned a Grammy for one of his best songs, if you ask me, a #2 on the US Top 100 billboard charts in 1981.

Bill Withers (1938-2020) died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 81 due to a heart failure. But his songs will live on, here his Top 100 #2 from 1981.

Bill Withers - Just the two of us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5OLnN7UvM

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..Ahm. I have just perceived that I have already reached two aims, Elvis Presley (died at the age of 42) and Freddie Mercury (died at the age of 45 plus two weeks).
Here on my side it is .. 45.5 almost exactly, ha.

I don't know if that's a reason to celebrate, but probably it is good that at least Mr Presley and Mr Hawkins senior have children. Who else would celebrate the 77th birthday of Freddie Mercury
this year (*September 5th 1946)?

Queen - Friends Will Be Friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIlz08fZos

PS: I MUST quote one comment for Freddies 'Hammer to Fall'. This comment says 'who else would celebrate the 77th birthday of Freddie Mercury'
in other words:
"It's been almost 40 years since this came out, and as a 2006-born, this song still rocks."
Thus, I assume that this young man is 17 years old. So, I don't know yet (I have an assumption) how we both like a 1984 classic rock song.

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Hm. I still don't know how many people read me here at jetphotos. A statistic says, right at this moment, we only have 377 active members.

318 persons are online here right now. And up to 8100 persons read this forum at once. Without that I know their names. That's definitely less than Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) would expect.

But that's definitely more than I expected when I became a Jetphotos member. Up to 8100 persons read what I write, at once. That's ok, let me compare that to my home airport,
8100 persons per hour... whoo eeeeya. That's slightly a different dimension than on my home airport! 8100 x 24 ... x 365 ... = 70,956,000 persons per year.

Here at Lohausen International we have a capacity of not much more than 24,000,000 persons per year. So what has happened. Together with my avatar, I've grown a little bit too big for my home airport (?). So, let's fly South of EDDL, to Rhein/Main (ICAO: EDDF).

And what's my range, in music. Well, a little less than with my avatar, not 7000 nautical miles, not everything between Oberpfaffenhofen (definitely not) and San Francisco:
Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0

The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ

Queen - Hammer to Fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU5LMG3WFBw

PS: To be honest, only two of the above mentioned lead singers are still alive, and only one is nearly my age. But all men have achieved quite alot, who have become older
than Mr Taylor Hawkins. I still can't quite believe that, he was found dead only two weeks after his birthday. So, that's my next step, to become older than Mr Hawkins senior.
R.I.P., man.

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From Harlem (New York) to Durban (South Africa).

This man tried something very very crazy, and I don't know if this is allowed here on this platform. A very long time ago (cp to my year of birth ... ), he tried to sing (and he still sings)
in German.

I've not found a South African (Star Alliance) nonstop flight to Durban, but this is what I've found today:
LH #572 to Johannesburg, a/c type B748 .

... my dear god, in this year it must feel like a visit from outer space when you see a Boeing 747 passage version (with passenger seats on the main deck) on your airport.
Only Washington and the Lufthansa own and fly these space ships (?!). But be sure, we are human, and we come on a friendly mission (enlarge the 747 photo album).

And this is the man with the music for your 747 destination South Africa, if you like. I'm not able to translate it, everytime when I hear it it is Fernweh pur.
From my fathers (!) shelf of vinyls.
Howard Carpendale - Du fängst den Wind niemals ein (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeTeG3QOHx0

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Once this topic has been opened by me, but now that I try to only open it, the server almost collapses? Too much good music?

But how can we have too much of it. So, I have another one.

Btw, one or two people in the internet may have noticed that I somehow have a little bit modernized the computer which I fly. Only a little bit.
Never change a winning combination (e.g. LH and B747).
So, what was it before. Asus motherboard with Intel chipset and premium sound with 5 plugs + 1 s/pdif.
And what is it now. Asus motherboard witth Intel chipset and premium sound with 5 plugs + 1 s/pdif.
So. Nothing's changed? Not quite. The new one is a Republic of Gamers (RoG) Strix Z590-E, with a December 2022 Bios (!), which obviously is the newest thing now here in my room. Not the cpu,
and not even the o/s (Win10 Pro 64b 22H2) is newer.
And this mobo comes with a sound solution which, when I'm ready with it, is a dream for less than 200,- . Today, this mobo doesn't still like the Behringer 802, where I since more than 10 years plug in my phones to listen to my computer, without one problem (with the old mobo). And the new mobo still makes idiotic noises when I turn up the volume. But I guess I've found something like a kill switch for these noises and until the end of the year (or even earlier), my computer sound should be as good as last year (or probably even better).

The new sound definitely sounds better than the old sound, if there weren't these noises... Stay tuned for news about that.

Back on topic.

Where was my parking position here when I left this topic a few weeks ago. Did I mention Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem (1961) ?
In 1947 he moved to Harlem New York, and he obviously was quite impressed, and this is his song after he arrived in New York. This is early color TV, and I'm pretty sure that in Germany, color TV was switched on not before 1963.
And in the USA? Nevertheless, enjoy the vinyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdZYUr-eJNc

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I (again) just imagine what had happened during the past 40 years if I had become a radio moderator.

Probably I still wouldn't have had my favorite female singers life in the studio, because your name has probably to be Howard Stern (*1954) or Jimmy Fallon (*1974) to have someone of these
life in the studio next to your microphone: Sia (*December 1975) with her song 'Chandelier', Alicia Keys (*January 1981) with her song 'Empire State of Mind (Part II)'
or Pink (*September 1979) together with her daughter Willow in the video 'Cover Me In Sunshine', which is so beautiful, it still makes me speechless everytime it runs on TV.

Now. This topic has been opened by me, so I somehow should find a way back on topic. Where is the combination with aviation.

You can help me with that. Three times NYC, one detail with Adelaide (Australia), and one detail with L.A. (imho, I'm not quite sure).

Only one of these airports is a problem for a LH-B744 nonstop flight. That was also a topic during the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. If Australia (!) had won,
my home airport would've stepped in (if you ask me), because from here, 25 of 26 participants in the ESC final 2023 can be reached with a nonstop flight.
Plus also NYC.

Australia didn't win in fact. And for Peter Urban (*1948_), the German voice behind the ESC since 1997, I had wished a better ESC result for his home country,
on his last day behind the ESC microphone, which was Saturday May 13th 2023.
Probably a little bit too much pyrotechnics, a little bit too much grunting and shouting (!), a little bit too little singing, the lack of a good melody, a little bit too many unshaved men on stage,

a little bit of too little which for a woman would take the telephone in her hand (and I've already discussed that during 15 or 30 minutes...),

a little bit of too little (dt.: zu wenig) women on stage,

which for Germany resulted in #26 (of 26), after all 25 juries had voted. And even after the audience telephone calls, it became obvious, too little Dark Rock enthusiasts worldwide
to win with such a contribution.

And even I had not voted for Germany, if I had been able to (voting for your own country was not possible).

Norway and Belgium would've been my favorites in the ESC 2023, if I had used my telephone for voting.

Nevertheless, dear greetings to Mr Urban, and a better future for all of us.

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Hm. Alex? If you have to kick me out then now is your occasion..

'Scorpions', as they are called - without the defined article, in contrast to 'The Beatles', are really a connection between my father and me. He and me have been a bit unlucky during the past 40 years, and so he died 2009 at the age of 64,
without that we had the chance to visit a 'Scorpions' concert together. I have (more than) another one video, ...

Scorpions - Is there anybody there who feels that vibration (1979).
And I've discovered a video version with an at least acceptable sound (played on the previously mentioned headphone). Schenker with an acoustic guitar (!), and it doesn't fit so very bad on him,
although I know this song as a 1990 version (?!) with Schenker and his E-guitar.

This version is 'Scorpions' Live from the Abbey 'Convento do Beato' near Lisboa, Portugal, again with a pretty decent sound (!), recorded Live, May 2001 in Portugal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtDen6azWaM

I only discovered the concert location because Meine uses the word 'Obrigado', which is one of only two words which I know in português.


And it appears as if Meine & Schenker operate a so called 'official' youtube channel. Which I don't want to leave unmentioned.
Scorpions - Send Me An Angel (1991).
In a version with an internet audience of 340 million people, more than 4 million followers, and more than 40.000 comments:
"I am 80 years old and am never tired of listening to them".

Yes, the same goes with me, although I'm only 45. As I said, music for father and son.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUYjd2rjsE

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I'm sorry, but now I have the key in my hand, the key why I only accept music, when there is a good guitar in it. There are things that you discover and you urgently wished that you discovered it together with your father, but for me that's no longer possible.

Mr Klaus Meine (*25.05.1948_) is the key. K.Meine & R.Schenker, or since 1969 better known as The Scorpions. And this is the song which since 1980 connects me with my father,
he had alway loved The Scorpions (and so I do), and somewhere among his sons or among his ex-wifes there still must exist at least one The Scorpions LP, with the following song on it,
only valid with 7min18:
The Scorpions - Lady Starlight (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnQ8Ox7laZc

Sorry, but that song somehow reduces me to tears, since 40 years.....

PS: 'Remastered Audio', so, this video is online since almost exactly 10 years. And I assume what Joseph did, so that this 40 year old song
sounds like a 2023 song (!). First of all, I assume that he owns the Original Vinyl LP from 1980, with the name 'Animal Magnetism'.
And then he must have used a combination of AKG K 240 MKII, Ortofon 2M Blue and a really really good computer sound solution for line in.

It really doesn't sound like a 40 year old song, and I've only opened the video (see above).
Probably, Joseph is something like a sound engineer, or at least, since 10 or 20 years he knows
how to pack the full size unrestricted (!) sound of a Original 1980 Vinyl LP into a video.

I must confess, it also might depend a little bit on the device which you use to play that video. Here since more than 10 years I use
Asus motherboards with premium sound line in and line out (S/PDIF + 5 'premium sound' interfaces). And that A/D converter really pretty well corresponds
with the above mentioned headphone.

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Now, for more than 40 years, I thought that Mr Clint Eastwood is born in March. And I can't tell you why... (obviously not all men are born in March).

So. let me correct my error. Mr Clint Eastwood (*31.05.1930 in San Francisco), and I hope he forgives me my mistake.

And now back on topic. Reno, San Francisco....

PS: Once You open this worldwide famous video platform, you see that you're not alone with your father's music. And I've known my father during 31 years, from my birth until his death in December 2009. 31 years is a good number, compared to Shane Hawkins, who lost his father much much earlier...
Again, one of my father's songs...
Middle of the Road - Soley Soley (1971).
Plus one detail for this song. The lead singer of Middle of the Road, Sally Carr owns numbers who really remind me of my father (*28.03.1945).