[Adrian II]

Better add this young lady on bass, then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgffDVO2UyA

A.

[Stanley]

Jaco still lives!

[GlennF]

Glenn, thanks for the Sina links I really enjoy her skills and production quality. So much talent.
She reminds me of the young people in my family. When I hear old grouches go off on "kids these days" I just sigh.

Yeah, I do a Patreon sponsorship for the channel which costs me $1 per video (about $4 a month) which I see as good value for money as the way youtube works, any money from advertising etc from cover videos goes to the original artist not the maker of the cover video. She makes nothing personally off the cover videos.

Some of her earlier covers have built up a phenomenal numbers of hits, her cover of the live album version of Sultans of Swing has something like 33 million views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8s93klams

Sina has been at it for a fair while now,  almost half her life, her very early stuff was almost 8 years ago when she was still in school and something like 14 years old and she is now going on 22 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abwqTcRjgiY

[GlennF]

If anyone can explain the lyrics of this one too me I would be eternally grateful ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz1VHwjNqMo

[Adrian II]

These? I think Manfred Mann's Earth Band stuck with the Springsteen lyrics.

Haven't got a clue, sorry! 

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/manfredmannsearthband/blindedbythelight.html

A.

[cyrusb]

I think Springsteen proved people will buy anything. He also taught us you can't start a fire without a spark. Real prize winning stuff.

[tooseevee]

If anyone can explain the lyrics of this one too me I would be eternally grateful ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz1VHwjNqMo

           There are lots of websites out there that interpret lyrics for ya'. I can't go through the whole thing here, it would be worse than "American Pie" or "Positively 4th Street" and "Desolation Row" put together. I'm talking about the time to type it out-wise 

           Is it the "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" part? or the whole thing? Think "Little Deuce Coupe". It's an urban story using nicknames and slang of the day and he was one of the best (as far as NJ is concerned). I never was a "huge" fan, but he was one of our best inner city, street level story tellers. 

           I lived near Asbury Park as he was "rising to power".

[GlennF]

yeah I worked out the deuce coupe reference

I did google the other lyrics but most sites said it was a mish-mash of real world people and events from his youth and stuff generated from a rhyming dictionary Just thought there may be more to it

Not that all songs have some hidden deeper meaning - Orinoco Flow is proof of that

[Arschloch]

Not that all songs have some hidden deeper meaning - Orinoco Flow is proof of that

Some songs have as many meanings as there are listeners to it. 

And than there are songs you may listen to just cos they sound good. Like listening to someone singing spanish. Or the song of the Norton Manx and MV500's. 

[olhogrider]

If anyone can explain the lyrics of this one too me I would be eternally grateful ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz1VHwjNqMo

One of the most common Mondegreens, Manfred makes it sound like "wrapped up like like douche another roner in the night". Gibberish. The original Springsteen lyric is "revved up like a Deuce ('32 Ford Roadster, like The Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coupe") another runner in the night".

Of course the most famous Mondegreen is Hendrix 'scuse me while I kiss this guy. Others include Creedence "there's a bathroom on the right", Elton John "don't let your son go down on me" or the Eagles "lookin' for a lover who won't blow my brother".

[Carlsberg Wordsworth]

Schaaf gives the Interceptor a good blitzing on some awesome looking roads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzeGPYJQf-o&t=3s

[GlennF]

Not YouTube, Apple TV,  but looks interesting, around the world on electric adventure bikes ...

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/you-should-definitely-be-watching-long-way-up-whether-you-like-motorcycles-or-not/

[gizzo]

Car stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_2xkRmBJvU

[Arschloch]

Car stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_2xkRmBJvU

Oh.. I like this global warming engine, ship it over. I don't mind living like a communist for a change.

[Bilgemaster]

Not YouTube, Apple TV,  but looks interesting, around the world on electric adventure bikes ...

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/you-should-definitely-be-watching-long-way-up-whether-you-like-motorcycles-or-not/

On a related note, fans of "The Long Way..." series might enjoy ADVRider's interview with their camera guy, Claudio van Planta, at https://youtu.be/8nClixP-bcM.

As well as establishing beyond all doubt what a true badass he is, which should surprise noone, after all, he did the same trips as Charlie and Ewan AND hauled around a ton of cameras and other equipment besides, the interview finally establishes what had become of that plucky little Russian IZh Planeta 5 350cc 2-stroke Claudio got to replace his stricken Beemer for a time in Mongolia during the first series. The eventual fate of that  "Red Devil" was left unanswered by the program, and I'd always wondered what had become of it. I'd even written the series' production offices to inquire, but never received any reply.

If you think about it, von Planta surely put more miles on the clock than the headlining duo, what with riding ahead for drive-bys, scouting "establishing" shots, doubling back, and such. Much of that was done on that little Planeta 5, which could gratifyingly run rings around those corpulent BMWs the principals were stumbling along on. Von Planta and his Planeta 5 sort of remind me of what folks used to say about Ginger Rogers: She did all the same dancing as Fred Astaire, but she did it backwards AND in heels!

The REAL Heroes of 'Long Way Round'

As for watching the new "electric" series, I've got enough streaming subscriptions. I doubt I'm gonna add AppleTV to the pack just to watch Ewan & Co. roam the pampas looking for a wall outlet. But someone wake me when it hits Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime or even Hulu, OK?