"Convoy" Day!

[joeLowB]

"It was the dark of the moon
On the sixth of June..."

So begins the epic trucker anthem "Convoy" from 1976.

I crank this up on the sixth of June and bang out the bass line as Rubber Duck makes his was "Across the USA". Always makes me laugh. Plus a simple and fun to play.

Catch you on the flip flop, good buddies.

 

[Bassed in NZ]

“I says Pig Pen this here’s the Rubber Duck
And I’m about to put the hammer down”

Absolute classic - my dad worked for a trucking company and this came out when I was 5 years old. It was #1 on the charts here in New Zealand for 4 weeks and is burned into my consciousness (in a good way!)

Almost 50 years later, whenever I hear / see a helicopter flying overhead, I still hear the line “and choppers filled the skies”

Cheers for the memories!

 

[joeLowB]

“I says Pig Pen this here’s the Rubber Duck
And I’m about to put the hammer down”

Absolute classic - my dad worked for a trucking company and this came out when I was 5 years old. It was #1 on the charts here in New Zealand for 4 weeks and is burned into my consciousness (in a good way!)

Almost 50 years later, whenever I hear / see a helicopter flying overhead, I still hear the line “and choppers filled the skies”

Cheers for the memories!

"They even had a bear in the air" Indeed!

I grew up in the USA Midwestern state of Nebraska, which is where CW McCall was from. We had few heroes in that ranch country and he became a folk hero...along with all the truckers.

The lyrics are embedded in my brain too... "So we smashed the gate, doin' 98, let them truckers roll, 10-4"

Thanks for smiling with me!!

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[Killing Floor]

Yes!!!!

Little Beaver approves

 

[dadglasser]

"It was the dark of the moon
On the sixth of June..."

So begins the epic trucker anthem "Convoy" from 1976.

I crank this up on the sixth of June and bang out the bass line as Rubber Duck makes his was "Across the USA". Always makes me laugh. Plus a simple and fun to play.

Catch you on the flip flop, good buddies.

One of my friends from high-school (graduated 1974) got into the whole CB radio craze. He was saving up for new radios and antennae for a couple of months and then he went to a real-life gathering of many of the folks to whom he'd been talking. He was surprised and, I think, disappointed that in real life most of the people were real working folks who drank Bud or Coors and ate hotdogs and potato chips. I suppose he was thinking that they'd all be college graduates. He was Italian so his code name was "Spicy Meatball", but most of his on air pals shortened it to just Meatball. He should have known then that things were not what they seemed. 10-4 Meatball!

 

[5StringBlues]

Come on back and talk to teddy bear......