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Breaking Through
Some little theme for something that seemed possibly worth sharing...
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Yes! It has that driving sound of a theme that sets up a show. Nice mix and production as we have grown to expect from your work.
Thx. Ha! Yeah, now somebody just has to come up with the show to go with the theme!
It grooves! It's screaming for vocals. Like Terry Kath or David Clayton Thomas.
I was just thinking about Terry Kath and his incredible vocals and guitar playing with “Chicago”.
One of those tragic endings from a life on the road.
I also saw a Faebook message from David Clayton-Thomas about the fact that’s he’s retiring from
touring this year. His stint with “Blood Sweat and Tears” launched a life long career. I’ll wager he had to sing “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” over 100,000 times. Fame has it’s price. I can’t image having a handful of hits that need to be servered up over and over again and again.
There are many worse stories in the world of music than these two household names for people of my age.
I loved those Horn-based rock bands as distinct from Tower of Power funk outfits. The most amazing to me was a band of music teachers in the Southwest called “Los Blues”. They never had a hot but horn players all knew that self-named album for the quality of the arrangement of horns and group vocals:
and Bill Chase’s Trumpets only rock band outfit called “Chase”:
Lady does it again! Another quality piece of music.
More specifically, it sounds like the theme for a late night 80s television show. Definitely has the nostalgia factor of sitting in front of a CRT box waiting to watch Johnny Carson.
Listened to it three times already. I'd love to listen to a longer version to really soak in the vibes. 🫶 Excellent work.
Thanks. Yeah, this is as far as it's going to go, I'm afraid. I've got hundreds of these little minute-or-so ideas sitting around. Sometimes they can get expanded into a fuller thing. However, in this case after several years, I realized I wasn't going to be able to develop it any further. Yet it seemed a shame to leave it languishing in the vaults. So about a week ago I threw the horns on there just to give it some kind of melody.
Hard part was trying to come up with a title. Finally I ran across this photo that I shot outside my window at dusk about 15 years ago. I was chuffed to be able to find a purpose for this photo! Wish I had something better to go with the photo!
Looks like you’re in downtown Manhattan I guess?
I’m put in mind of that crossover period from late 70s to early 80s when disco still had some influence but people were experimenting with it a lot more. Too short, but enjoyable.
Thx! Ha! You remind me.. One of my first jobs out of high school was with a cleaning crew where they would lock us inside a department store overnight. The manager of the store was this guy Art, a real dick with curly hair and a yellow button down shirt and brown tie... We would watch him bossing around his employees every night at closing. We didn't work for him. We worked for the cleaning company, run by these guys from Kentucky that looked like ZZ Top.
So you can imagine, a bunch of barely-18 stoners locked in a department store unsupervised all night. Cleaning the store itself only took a couple of hours. That left plenty of time for hijinix, which would be a novel or a movie in itself to even begin to describe.
But one night the alarm accidentally went off, which caused Art to have to come in the middle of the night to turn it off. He walks in to find my brother sitting in his office with a portable B&W CRT TV off the shelf on his desk, watching Johnny Carson, with an open box of Twinkies from off the shelf, and rolling a joint. My brother looks up just as he's licking the rolling paper to find himself face-to-face with Art! So there's your sitcom to go with the theme right there!
Amazingly, we weren't even fired after that incident.
No, this is the Manhattan skyline as viewed from right across the East River in Queens. However, I did live for many years downtown, in the East Village.
Ah right. I was seeing the Empire State Building to the left of the Chrysler Building so thought it was further downtown. I know Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn better than Queens, so don’t really know that view so well.
Absolutely one of the best anecdotes I've ever read. Sounded like one helluva fun time. ❤️
The 80s certainly were a different era. I was only 6 when we entered the 90s, but I have some faded memories of my life in the 80s. Such as basements with wooden walls, shag carpeting, wallpaper, smoking in public everywhere you went (including at McDonald's!) as well as cigarette vending machines, etc. The 80s that people try to remember is mostly based off of the pop culture of those days. The 80s were different than what you saw on TV back then.
But even then, a lot of TV back then was better than it is these days. These days it just feels like everything is sanitised. Gen Xers had it made. Of course this is just my perspective and may not hold true for everyone else's personal experience. Ymmv and other tropes.
Thank you for sharing.
Great brass, too short !
That intro is Sublime. I could listen to it on a loop as an entire song.
I enjoyed that. A great mix too. Seems like it could be the start of a longer piece though.
Thanks! Yes, kind of a theme song in search of a show.
I think I'm going to just start calling it "Theme to Breaking Through" -- letting people assume there is a show of that name.
Let's see.. who would it be starring? I'm gonna go with Jeremy Jordan, Tony Shalhoub, and Zendaya.