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Where The Great Ones Run
I have had this sound byte for a long time and finally decided to do something with it. When I was in my teens, drag racing was very popular. We had three tracks within easy driving distance. My favorite was US 30 Dragstrip in Indiana. Every week you would hear the voice of Jan Gabriel on AM radio proclaiming...
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday... at smokin' US 30 Dragstrip, where the great ones run!
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Whoa! This piece was mega! Seriously mate, from the driving guitars to the surprise sax intermission, you really created a fantastic piece of music that never gets dull. I'm curious to your process behind this one. Did you shred with an actual guitar(s), or was it something like Geoshred? Or was it a royalty-free sample you found online and sliced up?
@jwmmakerofmusic Hi Jim! This one was fun. Really brought back some nice memories of summer nights at the drag strip. I remember the smell of tire smoke, the burning eyes from nitromethane, and the earth-shaking sound. Perfect for a bunch of teenage boys with an abundance of adrenaline and testosterone.
No real “process”. I started this a few years ago and just picked up where I left off. The crazy guitars are mostly Riffler. It does a decent job of simulating shredding guitars. I had been listening to some Steve Vai recently, and it gave me some ideas. I’ll never play like him, but it’s fun to try. The sax part is from Session Band Jazz 4. It’s a great little cheap app that uses actual sax riffs that you can slice and dice. It’s a bit outdated and doesn’t always play nice, but with a little patience you can get some fun results.
I did try something new this time. Normally I try to pick chords, scales, and patterns that “should” work together. This time I just started doing things that were just plain wrong. However, they sounded good to my ears. That’s the thing. Others may not agree, and probably won’t. For a little while, I was a 15 year old dude and felt like a rebel.
One of the cool things about Riffler is that you can generate the MIDI data and play it on non-heavy-metal instruments. The results can be “interesting”. I’m playing around with a few things that attempt to simulate jazz fusion from the 70s and 80s. That is, overly complicated stuff played really fast in unison. It’s a blast.
Have you ever been to Great Lakes Dragaway in Wisconsin? If not, I highly recommend it. I took my wife there a few years ago to see jet dragsters. It was extremely fast and loud and it gave her goosebumps. We saw “The Shockwave”, a semi truck with three jet engines that powered it to over 300 mph in about 4 seconds. How cool is that! It might be a great date night for you and your lady that she will never forget.
Looks like dinner’s ready. Chicken Kiev! Peace bro.
Have you ever considered writing literature? That was a really great description that transported me there.
SESSION BAND! THAT'S the name of those apps. Been trying to remember for the longest time. 😅 Riffler sounds like a lot of fun to mess with.
Hehe. That's cool though. I like the cacophony of not using sounds that "should" work together. Sometimes it produces more interesting results.
Nice!
Once my lady moves here, I'll consider checking out the Great Lakes Dragaway! I've never been there before (due to not knowing it existed in the first place 🫣 ). I bet she'd have a great time as well as me.
Peace out. Chicken Kiev sounds delicious!
Very cool! I went to Santa Pod (in the UK) a few times many years ago. You described it perfectly. You can feel the power in the air and the sound goes right through you. An amazing experience, definitely not good for the ears!
Very cool and original track, not to speak about the throwback: I live about 30-40 minutes from Mantorp which hold one pretty famous track/strip (not as much as Santa Pod as pb mention but known in the game). I was very into American cars early in life and went to one event with my brother, must have been 76-77 and it was hot as hell and absolutely packed with people. Cool memories, thanks for reviving them.
Nice work - it went in some very different directions from what I expected. Not a big fan of racing, but definitely feels like you captured the spirit of drag racing with this.
@pbelgium @Pxlhg Hi guys. Drag racing has really gotten expensive! In the 70s and 80s we knew several guys who raced. One of them owned a family gas station and auto repair shop, and the other was the son of a local Buick dealer. There also were plenty of regular guys with fast street cars that came out on Sunday. We called it “Run what ya brung”. I recently read that a single run for a top fuel car now can cost as much as $10,000… if nothing broke! It’s incredible to watch now, but I think I liked it better when the racers were just regular guys. Thanks for listening!
Thank you, Michael. I can understand why many people aren’t into drag racing. The races are over in a few seconds! Do you like horse racing? I didn’t much care for it until I met my wife. She was a farm girl and grew up around horses. She competed in rodeos. Mostly barrel racing and trick riding. When we would go to the track, she liked to hang out at the paddock just before the race. She would observe the horses, pick one, and say… That big boy wants to run! She was often right, and we made a few bucks. We were never big gamblers, but it was a great way to spend a summer afternoon.
There’s drag racing not too far from me, and my daughter got me to go with her a few times. Some days it’s all pro, and other days it’s open entry for anyone whose car meets safety requirements, but with various classes of cars racing throughout the day. People are really serious about it though, and we got to talk to a few drivers. Definitely the god, guns, and T***p crowd, but there was a really good atmosphere there. One car had a pretty catastrophic engine failure as the driver was getting his tires hot, and you could see the pain on his face as he contemplated what happened. I get the appeal, but it’s just not my thing.
Enjoyed this one Paul, great example of your art 🙏