R I.P Florian Schneider

[ShaunWhite]

And so dies yet another genre defining musician. Not Covid, it was the really deadly one, cancer.

A man responsible for almost as many sales of Speak'n'Spells and soldering irons as albums.

https://youtu.be/4YPiCeLwh5o

[Emmson]

I have Pocket Calculator & Tour De France starred on spotify for a reason. RIP

[Derek27]

I never heard of him but I well remember and liked The Model, if I remember correctly was a UK No. 1 hit and brought them into the limelight.

[Euler]

When I worked in Germany, me & a few guys decided to go to the french riviera at the weekend. We played Autobahn on a loop as we sped down the Autobahn!

[ShaunWhite]

Went to see them in Nottingham on the last day of my O-Levels (79/80?), the abiding memory is the sound quality. Having only heard guitar bands until then their pure sounds through a 5Kw PA was, well obvioulsy memorable to this day. And it was in <<sss-stEReo-ooo>> which for a live band was unheard of at the time, that and walking off while everything kept playing...young mind blown Hitchhiked to Leicester the next day (different times) and bought a secondhand Moog I'd seen adverised in the NME with my entire life savings of £80. Still got it in the loft retirement fund, the only one I kept. And they were also basically why I got a ZX81 later too which defined my career. Sorry to ramble as usual but it was a pivotal time for me in many ways and they sort of soundtracked it.

[ShaunWhite]

When I worked in Germany, me a few guys decided to go to the french riviera at the weekend. We played Autobahn on a loop as we sped down the Autobahn!

Next time you get chance to go out on your bike ....>

Tour De France - Étape 1 (4m27s)
Tour De France - Étape 2 (6m41s)
Tour De France - Étape 3 (3m56s)

From the comfort of my chair the cadence(?) seems reasonable, downhill. They were all keen cyclists so I guess it is.

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[Wolf1877]

When I worked in Germany, me a few guys decided to go to the french riviera at the weekend. We played Autobahn on a loop as we sped down the Autobahn!

I drove down that very same 2 lane autobahn to Basel in my UK 1.0 Mini Metro when I was a young IT contractor plying my trade on the continent. Quite an interesting experience overtaking trucks in a car that could barely get up to 70mph.

Mind you the Metro was absolutely ace for driving up the side of a Swiss mountainside with steep ice laden hairpin bends in a crazy blizzard when I stupidly decided to take "the short route" to my French ski resort. Best car ever in snow and ice IMO.