What is your most inspirational flying song?

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Jaques Strappe · Post by **Jaques Strappe** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:40 am

Rock you like a Hurricane The Scorpions

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:55 pm

Siddley Hawker wrote:figured what the hey, there are probably no Keelaghan fans around anyway.

Not only is he an amazing musician, if you hang around long enough after a concert he'll go for beers with ya.

I like Keelaghan, I've got five or six of his cd's.

Sadly my Keelaghan CD's did not survive the last move across the bumpy roads of the great planes. I have to hit HMV one of these days. I don't mind giving a guy with his talent a few extra bucks.

Check out the story behind his song about the Captain Torres. Very moving. The ship foundered near St. Paul's Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence north of Cape Breton.

Any book on it which you might suggest? Incidently, I have profound respect for you. Not many people on AvCanada would correctly use the term "foundered". If you get up to northern Alberta, I'll buy the first round. ::notworthy::

bandaid · Post by **bandaid** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:16 pm

I am also a James Keelaghan fan, have several of his cd's and have seen him live probably 10 times. If you get a chance to see him and Oscar Lopes together go, it's a good concert.
My all time favorite for driving is Jesse Cooke. I play guitar and I am always impressed by someone who play it as well as Jesse does.

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:18 pm

Bandaid: I've not heard of him. Would there be a particular album you'd suggest?

Jaques Strappe · Post by **Jaques Strappe** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:23 pm

If you like Jesse Cook you probably know Robert Micheals. His live in Montreal album is great! Has anyone heard of George Lucas?

Deskdriver, do a search on either itunes or amazon for Jesse Cook and you can sample the music. Guitar Music for small rooms has some Jesse Cook on it.

bandaid · Post by **bandaid** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:46 pm

I hate to admit it but I downloaded most of the Jesse Cooke I have off the internet. I do have his nomad cd and enjoy it.
I have heard of Robert Michaels in fact I have his Allegro cd and really enjoy it as well
My third choice would be Jack Johnson, another fine quitar player.
If your looking for this kind of music most of the music stores have them listed under New Age. I'm not sure what that means, but that's where you find them.

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:48 pm

New Age. I'm not sure what that means, but that's where you find them.

Typically New Age means: Pot smoking, hemp-wearing, crystal-gripping hippie shit. I like some of the music, but care little for the demographic.

bandaid · Post by **bandaid** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:15 pm

DeskDriver wrote:

Typically New Age means: Pot smoking, hemp-wearing, crystal-gripping hippie shit. I like some of the music, but care little for the demographic.

Well that's not me at all, I just like those who can play the guitar with the kind of talent and passion that these three guys do, four when you include Oscar Lopes.

Go Guns · Post by **Go Guns** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:34 pm

Most aviator types would probably enjoy "Southern Star" by James Keelaghan. I wish I could remember the album name.

DeskDriver · Post by **DeskDriver** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:52 pm

Southern Star is actually titled "Princes of the Clouds". You can find it on the 1990 album, "Small Rebellions".

For those nomads among us, the song, "The One's Who Made Home" will hit home.

bandaid · Post by **bandaid** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:29 pm

You can look here for a listing of all his cd's.
http://www.keelaghan.com/music.html

Boss Hawg · Post by **Boss Hawg** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:33 pm

Listened to a lot of Jackson Browne last summer since it was the only CD I had. I really like Running on empty, but it's maybe not the most appropriate song for flying.

Kind of like showing Alive or Passenger 57 as the inflight movie on a long haul flight.

Anything by Gordon Lightfoot if I have a selection.

flyindude · Post by **flyindude** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:44 pm

People = Shit by Slipknot

captainsweaty · Post by **captainsweaty** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:17 pm

Boys in the Bright White Sports car - Trooper
while medevacing into CYXD and 880 is playing decent music

A few others that come to mind....

silver jet - the hip
freak turbulence - the hip
comedown - bush
machinehead - bush
flying - blue rodeo

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:08 pm

This Flight Tonight by Joni Mitchell and later by Nazereth also rock.

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:27 pm

DD I haven't been able to find a book about the Captain Torres, just a brief mention in the book "Wind Whales and Whisky" by Silver Donald Cameron. The sinking occurred in December 1989, in one hell of a storm in the Gulf. Winds were hitting 70 knots and the waves were 40 to 50 feet, coupled with -20 temps. She was on her way to Port-Cartier, the next town down the road here to pick up a load of iron ore - thus only in ballast - when the engines lost power. The Captain sent out a mayday, and requested a tug, but then they fixed the problem and cancelled the call. The problem recurred, but by then it was too rough to attempt a rescue.

Quote from the book:
"Then the storm worsened and the problem recurred. By Thursday December 8, the Captain Torres found herself in a desperate fight for survival, engineless and drifting, swept by towering seas. Sixty miles east, the Phillipine freighter Johanna B was also disabled and sinking; off Newfoundland the Shelbourne longliner Johnny and Sisters II had disappeared.
Captain Torres battled overnight, her struggles tensely reported in regional newscasts. In the fishing villages, men watched the bright blip of the Captain Torres on their radar screeens and listened to the voices on the marine radio. As their situation grew hopeless, the seamen called home, patched through the phone lines around the world, saying farewells to wives, lovers, parents, children. The seas, said the master of the Captain Torres, were monumental, there is no way out.
And then, between one moment and the next, the voices ceased. The radios ashore yielded only static. The bright blips vanished from the radar screens. On Friday morning the CG cutter Sir Wilfred Grenfell spotted a liferaft with survivors, but while she was manouvering into position, the captain "saw two horrible breakers tumble the raft." When the Grenfell came alongside, no survivors remained. End quote.

Keelaghan was fascinated by that incident, and decided to write a song about it. It took him a couple of years to write it, and one night while he was on tour in Oz, he sang it in front of a live audience. A lady in the audience began to weep, and the person she was sitting beside asked her what was wrong. It turned out her husband had been the Captain of the Captain Torres.

Small world innit, and if I ever get to Northern Alberta I'll sure take you up on that offer.

By the way, Ian Tyson got a new cd out, Songs From The Gravel Road. My copy should be in the mail by now. You can order direct from his recording company, Stony Plain Records.

dune · Post by **dune** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:41 pm

ACDC - Thunderstruck
Radiohead - Everything in its right place

flyincanuck · Post by **flyincanuck** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:06 pm

Someone help me out!

Starting lyrics go something like: "Revin' up my engine baby, like a 747, shiney lanky long and lean"

It's an old rock and roll tune. Canadian guy too. ARGH. Got the title at home...if no one cracks this by the wknd then I'll come back with title and singer.

planedriver · Post by **planedriver** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:05 am

Its five o'clock somewhere. - Jimmy Buffet / Alan Jackson

The Black Hole · Post by **The Black Hole** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:41 am

Auto Pilot, by "Queens of the Stoneage"

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:33 am

flyincanuck wrote:Someone help me out!

Starting lyrics go something like: "Revin' up my engine baby, like a 747, shiney lanky long and lean"

It's an old rock and roll tune. Canadian guy too. ARGH. Got the title at home...if no one cracks this by the wknd then I'll come back with title and singer.

Star Baby - The Guess Who

peeelot · Post by **peeelot** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:31 am

Learning to fly by the foo fighters/ Bird man Our Lady Peace / The Great Beyond R.E.M/ and last but not least for all the night cargo guys Daysleeper R.E.M

bottom_feeder · Post by **bottom_feeder** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:02 pm

against the wind = Bob Seger

i won't back down = Tom Petty

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:35 pm

hazatude wrote:
flyincanuck wrote:Someone help me out!

Starting lyrics go something like: "Revin' up my engine baby, like a 747, shiney lanky long and lean"

It's an old rock and roll tune. Canadian guy too. ARGH. Got the title at home...if no one cracks this by the wknd then I'll come back with title and singer.
Star Baby - The Guess Who

Nope, right band wrong tune, "Own way to rock"