The Grand Tour

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citizensm1th

8,371 posts

138 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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Pesty said:
My daughters are 18 and 21 I’ve taken both to see the wall in concert and they both listen to pink floyd albums. In fact their Spotify play list is pretty much all my music list from my origional iPod thing.
They know who he is. I seem to have managed one thing right possibly.
Na i don't think so. a child should develop their own tastes and fashions not the ones of their parents.

If raising rugrats to like the music their parents enjoy is the goal, music would never have progressed any further than man banging two rocks together in a cave.

Your Daughters at their age should not as you put it have a " Spotify playlist is pretty much all my music list from my original iPod" .

NDA

21,677 posts

226 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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TTmonkey said:
They respect and admire the things special to you, and have grown to appreciate them themselves.
I think this is it. My son (16) quite often listens to Steely Dan and it gives me pleasure that he does so. I also (quite strangely) like one Johnny Cash song (Folsom Prison Blues) and he listens to that a fair bit too - which I think is hilarious as I've only played it a couple of times in the car and it must be the most uncool track in the world. smile

TTmonkey

20,911 posts

248 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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citizensm1th said:
Pesty said:
My daughters are 18 and 21 I’ve taken both to see the wall in concert and they both listen to pink floyd albums. In fact their Spotify play list is pretty much all my music list from my origional iPod thing.
They know who he is. I seem to have managed one thing right possibly.
Na i don't think so. a child should develop their own tastes and fashions not the ones of their parents.

If raising rugrats to like the music their parents enjoy is the goal, music would never have progressed any further than man banging two rocks together in a cave.

Your Daughters at their age should not as you put it have a " Spotify playlist is pretty much all my music list from my original iPod" .
My dad used to play nothing but Neil Diamond in his car on our trips to Spain for summer holidays in the seventies. Three days of the same music towing a caravan 1400 miles. I was brain washed by it. It was utter hell. Relentless.

Love a bit of Neil Diamond now, reminds me of the great times when I was a kid and my father worked his bks off all year to take us away to Spain for six weeks in the summer every year when all my friends in school went away to Butlins for a week and spent the rest of the summer holidays fending for themselves.

RIP dad. Never did appreciate you when you were here.....

AnotherClarkey

3,605 posts

190 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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Why did Clarkson keep going on about heeling and toeing? It was double declutching he needed to drive that car properly - no wonder he had issues.

juice

8,568 posts

283 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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Just got round to watching it, absolutely superb. The dogging bit had me in stitches !!

Contract Killer

4,383 posts

184 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
ajprice said:
No comments here on Clarkson drilling out the side window {a bit of perspex that had been put into the window frame}? hehe .
Nope.
I was actually quite impressed with his drilling, i was expecting the second hole to be right on the piss. However it looked perfectly straight.

Clockwork Cupcake

74,835 posts

273 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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AnotherClarkey said:
Why did Clarkson keep going on about heeling and toeing? It was double declutching he needed to drive that car properly - no wonder he had issues.
I suspect because "heel & toe" is something cool that race drivers do, whilst "double declutching" is always associated with pipes, slippers, and MGBs. biggrin

Contract Killer said:
I was actually quite impressed with his drilling, i was expecting the second hole to be right on the piss. However it looked perfectly straight.
Probably got someone else to drill the 2nd one. hehe


king arthur

6,604 posts

262 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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citizensm1th said:
Na i don't think so. a child should develop their own tastes and fashions not the ones of their parents.

If raising rugrats to like the music their parents enjoy is the goal, music would never have progressed any further than man banging two rocks together in a cave.

Your Daughters at their age should not as you put it have a " Spotify playlist is pretty much all my music list from my original iPod" .
There are a significant number of young people out there who are finding that music from the 70s and 80s was a lot better than most of what is being made today. I don't know for sure, but I suspect my eldest nephew who is in his mid twenties would absolutely have known who Nick Mason and Stuart Copeland are. I'll ask him next time I see him.

Strudul

1,595 posts

86 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
I suspect because "heel & toe" is something cool that race drivers do, whilst "double declutching" is always associated with pipes, slippers, and MGBs. biggrin
But F&F wink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-bN-RkJLM

911gone

207 posts

76 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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It was a good episode, the Jag and Aston were superb. I was especially impressed when they said the Aston had more power than the Civic!

On the issue of the 2 drummers, I think you need to have a keen interest in the band, or music in general to know the names of the drummers. I would think a fair % of people have heard of the 2 bands in question, but not the wider band members (me included).


schmunk

4,399 posts

126 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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TTmonkey said:
My dad used to play nothing but Neil Diamond in his car on our trips to Spain.

Love a bit of Neil Diamond now,
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-...

Bebee

4,684 posts

226 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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Stuart Copeland was an innovator, Nick Mason was a drummer in a good band.

I loved this episode, a classic racing Aston/Jag, and two drummers against each other, I was very influenced by Copeland when I started playing drums in 1981, you can tell his playing a mile off but Mason sounds like anyone, still a decent drummer though.

carl_w

9,216 posts

259 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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Bebee said:
Stuart Copeland was an innovator, Nick Mason was a drummer in a good band.
Stewart Copeland also had a post-Police career doing movie, TV and game soundtracks including The Equalizer and Spyro the Dragon.

And of course... Droids https://youtu.be/riIOiNq0RHk?list=PLx1UA5PiBi5rVuS...

slipstream 1985

12,308 posts

180 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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Doofus said:
I'm in my late forties, and I've always hated Pink Floyd.

I did like Police, but I had no idea Beaker off the Muppets was their drummer...
BURN HIM!

Clockwork Cupcake

74,835 posts

273 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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carl_w said:
Stewart Copeland also had a post-Police career doing movie, TV and game soundtracks including The Equalizer
Indeed. It was his distinctive music for The Equaliser that first brought him to my attention, back in the day. It was only after that that I connected him with The Police.

tvrforever

3,182 posts

266 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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chrisga said:
No, I couldn't get it to work over firestick either. Same thing as you spinning round buffer thing for ages. We have rubbish 3.5mbps broadband though so thought it was that. Finally got it working through the xbox amazon app.
We had absolutely the same issues here, did factory reset etc and spect over an hour with AWS support - who concluded that our FireTV stick was broken and out of warranty... (We also switched to the xbox to view and was fine.) They gave us a discount on a new 4K one that works perfectly this week.

I'm now wondering if I should ask AWS for the cost of the new 4k dongle back...




But last week's and this week's episodes have been great smile



RotaryPoweredBlender

83 posts

76 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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The last two episodes have been very watchable. The Lancia/Audi bit was proper amazing telly and this week’s Aston/Jag was very good too. Loved the cinematography of the Ford GT bit as well.

Still FFWD’d through the stupid celebrity face off but though. I enjoy Conversation St when they’re talking, but have to FFWD through the stupid intro in which Hammonds face makes me want to kick a puppy.

MartG

20,716 posts

205 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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The bit about the Lamborghini Urus - surprised they didn't joke that you could read it as U R U/S ( = you are unserviceable )

king arthur

6,604 posts

262 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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MartG said:
The bit about the Lamborghini Urus - surprised they didn't joke that you could read it as U R U/S ( = you are unserviceable )
Yeah that would have been much funnier.

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TheGuru

744 posts

102 months

Sunday 28th January 2018
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911gone said:
On the issue of the 2 drummers, I think you need to have a keen interest in the band, or music in general to know the names of the drummers. I would think a fair % of people have heard of the 2 bands in question, but not the wider band members (me included).
Yeah, I used to play drums and have a keen interest in music, that’s how I know these two and in Mason’s case also because of his motorsport interests. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t know them. I can’t name any bassists (except Lemmy) or rhythm guitarists for example, or even drummers from most other bands.


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