The song is actually called “Fly, Robin, Fly” a 1975 song by the German group called Silver Convention. It was basically an instrumental except for the chorus of the song title followed by “Up, up to the sky!” No, I don’t remember this songs lyrics, I Googled them! The reason for so few words was the group only spoke German and that’s all they wanted to learn in English. Achtung, baby! And, gasuntight “Gesundheit” is all the German I know (and I didn’t even know how to spell it that well… Thank you Vincent!). So, we’re even.
It was preceded on Billboard’s #1 spot by “That’s the Way (I Like It)” by KC and the Sunshine Band! Such a time to be alive! And to think I was trying to play in a rock band… of all things…
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This one totally cracked me up… and not just because Robyn is drumming barefoot.
I loved KC and the Sunshine Band.
Robyn is one tough rock chick even though she doesn’t show it. I knew some guys who like drumming with no shoes. I thought them crazy, but then there where some field goal kickers who didn’t wear shoes either. Me, I wear steel-toed shoes everyday (an old habit when I did industrial videos like everyday and I was in some sort of factory or plant). Handy when your wife runs your foot over with the car (twice)!
Oh, and I have “Get Down Tonight” on my iTunes as that’s a classic! I was not much into the disco scene (gee, as a rocker I wonder why?) and disco actually put a real damper on my musical career. Rock bands weren’t in demand by 1979 in the bar scene and I decided I could make more money shooting weddings… and that really started my freelance career!
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She’s really tough!
Not even a scratch! 😀
LMAO! That was funny – more so as I play in a folk band… Sometimes we’re put on really tiny stages to perform, and there are times between the fiddle (my instrument), the guitar, etc., that getting whacked by a fellow band member’s instrument is a real possibility! 🙂
Yeah, I actually knocked a drummer off his chair one night in a small bar. Not only did the song come to a quick stop, I got a few empty beer cans tossed at me as well. The life of the performing musician!
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Re: ferabreu: I thought that was the funny part too. Not only did she beat the crap out of Bud, but she came away clean. I was always told NOT to hit women, and I followed that rule except for my older sisters (who were out to kill me secretly it seemed)!
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I was at a hardcore show this weekend and the bassist took out the singer. Huge gash in his scalp, had to call an ambulance for the guy.
Welcome, Captain! 🙂
What is it with us bass players, eh? I remember seeing in 1992, almost in disbelief at the time, Nirvana’s bassist Krist Novoselic toss his bass into the air and then watched it come back down and smack him straight in the forehead. That was a wild MTV music awards performance for sure. He stumbled off stage hurt as Cobain and the drummer trashed the set. Talk “those were the days” incidents!
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Oh, and since I just recently was treated to a true sushi experience, I do know what “wasabi” is and it is tasty indeed!
Cool nick-name, man!
I recently bought a bass, because we needed a bassist in our band. Does that spell trouble for my band members?
I like how Bud gets inured after that and Robyn hasn’t got a scratch 😛
I meant injured 🙁
Hey Dan! Yes, if you’re gonna play bass you gotta be the trouble-maker of the group. I was always messing with the other members of the band. Mainly because on-stage we get ignored. The girls always go for the lead guitarist, or the vocalist or even the damn drummer, but bass players? Nope. We’re stuck paying the bill.
Enjoy the bass, I have always loved playing mine!
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i love this strip!
I’m minded to post here because I recall watching a YouTube video of Heart (in their original 1970’s hippy-chick incarnation) performing “Crazy on You” live. Association, you see: a band fronted by two hot chicks who could also sing and play guitar. Nancy Wilson is moving around on stage like a blonde guitar-playing angel. As is Roger Fisher, the co-guitarist. Rumour had it that they’d had a bad relationship breakdown shortly before going on stage. while at one point they co-ordinate well enough to do the Shadows walk in unison, shortly after it breaks down to the point where Nancy steps back and to her right. Roger goes into the big solo while bounding athletically across the stage and launching a great hurtling leap off the drummer’s podium. To his left.
Whether by accident or design, the finger-post of his guitar and the bit on the end with the keys on misses Nancy’s head. By millimetres. She recovers quickly and if you blink you miss it. But seeing Robyn get clonked by a stray moving guitar is how it MIGHT have been for Heart that night… definitely not a Magic Man. More “If looks could kill”, in fact…