Post by nikonbob55 on Dec 12, 2005 1:32:16 GMT
Hi gang,
Yes, I know - Christmas is just around the corner - but I decided to keep the spirit of Halloween going and post this remake I did the day after Thanksgiving.
This was actually the very first song I wrote for BATW, back in the summer of 1984. Motivation, you ask?
Flashback - late 60's, early 70's - Hammer Films in the U.K. releases a series of Dracula films with Christopher Lee as the Count and Peter Cushing as his nemisis, Van Helsing. I think these are the best of all the Drac films (and having been a horror buff virtually all my life, I have seen a few).
Fast Forward - mid 70's - while browsing the paperback titles in a news stand inside the building I was working in, I come across the new paperback release of "'Salem's Lot", by Stephen King. I read the blurbs inside the first few pages, and decide to give it a read. This marks the very first time I ever experienced the sensation of the hair on the back of my neck rising, and I am hooked on Stephen King....to this day, I try and grab his new books as soon as they hit the shelves.
Back to the present - I'd been thinking about this one for a couple of weeks, leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, and as I had the day after off, and would be home alone, I figured why not - let's have at it today.
We actually played it out a couple of times, in the early days - I did the Geddy Lee thing, playing the intro on keys, with my bass strapped across my back, then swinging it around in time for the kickoff, but we never did get to make a decent recording of it.
Here is the result - it's not for everyone, to be sure, but if you like Stephen King, or if you enjoy a good old horror flick now and again, then give it a spin, if you'd like. Not what you'd expect to see released just before Christmas, but what the heck?
Here ye be :
www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=138556
Yes, I know - Christmas is just around the corner - but I decided to keep the spirit of Halloween going and post this remake I did the day after Thanksgiving.
This was actually the very first song I wrote for BATW, back in the summer of 1984. Motivation, you ask?
Flashback - late 60's, early 70's - Hammer Films in the U.K. releases a series of Dracula films with Christopher Lee as the Count and Peter Cushing as his nemisis, Van Helsing. I think these are the best of all the Drac films (and having been a horror buff virtually all my life, I have seen a few).
Fast Forward - mid 70's - while browsing the paperback titles in a news stand inside the building I was working in, I come across the new paperback release of "'Salem's Lot", by Stephen King. I read the blurbs inside the first few pages, and decide to give it a read. This marks the very first time I ever experienced the sensation of the hair on the back of my neck rising, and I am hooked on Stephen King....to this day, I try and grab his new books as soon as they hit the shelves.
Back to the present - I'd been thinking about this one for a couple of weeks, leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, and as I had the day after off, and would be home alone, I figured why not - let's have at it today.
We actually played it out a couple of times, in the early days - I did the Geddy Lee thing, playing the intro on keys, with my bass strapped across my back, then swinging it around in time for the kickoff, but we never did get to make a decent recording of it.
Here is the result - it's not for everyone, to be sure, but if you like Stephen King, or if you enjoy a good old horror flick now and again, then give it a spin, if you'd like. Not what you'd expect to see released just before Christmas, but what the heck?
Here ye be :
www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=138556