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Continuity woman on BBC4 tells us we're about to hear the snooker theme, tells those who dont know that it is Drag Racer by Doug Wood ... then they don't play it
Well I just played it
- some background lifted from another site:Doug Wood as a jobbing American musician in the 70s, recording soundtrack and library music in a small home studio, who got his first big break (sorry) when he linked up with John Gale as an international distributor...
"[Gale] wrote to me and said, the BBC has picked one of your tracks for the theme for... snooker."
*pulls bemused face*
"I thought, ok, first of all, I don't know what snooker IS, I have no idea, I've never even heard the word before, seemed like a funny British word, must be... y'know, I had no idea what it was."
(later)
"So I went to London, to visit my friend, I took the overnight plane outta JFK, we landed at Heathrow airport, it's 5.30 in the morning, I'm tired, bleary-eyed. So I'm going through customs, and the guy says, 'so I see you're a composer, have you written anything I'd know?'"
"And, I don't know why, but I remembered 'snooker', and I said 'well I wrote the music they're using for snooker'. And he looked at me and he said, 'you mean...'" *sings guitar riff* "...and he starts singing the song to me!"
"I was so astonished, I didn't know what to do, and the next thing I know he's on the microphone, and he announces to all the other customers, y'know we're in this big hangar in Heathrow, sound is reverberating, 'HEY EVERYBODY, THIS IS THE GUY WHO WROTE THE MUSIC FOR THE SNOOKER', and everybody cheers... I was so astonished, I've never been so surprised in my life."
"And it finally began to dawn on me that snooker was this really, really popular programme that people were watching, and they really loved this piece of music that the BBC had picked."0 -
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The Art of Drumming IS quite interesting. Speaking of drumming, I love these kind of videos
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PsychoPete wrote: »Get Thrashed is a good watch or Murder in The Front Row if you can find a stream online somewhere
Just watched it - thanks for that. I just about recognised every musician in it. Seeing Megadeth playing their first show in Ireland when I was 13 made a huge impression on me. A few months later Metallica, then Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, Sacred Reich and countless others until it culminated in Alice in Chains in 1991. Then electro hit and horizons broadened but the DNA of that music remains embedded. Slayer in The Academy six years ago, a very small venue for them, was something to behold.
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Well I just played it - some background lifted from another site:Doug Wood as a jobbing American musician in the 70s, recording soundtrack and library music in a small home studio, who got his first big break (sorry) when he linked up with John Gale as an international distributor...
"[Gale] wrote to me and said, the BBC has picked one of your tracks for the theme for... snooker."
*pulls bemused face*
"I thought, ok, first of all, I don't know what snooker IS, I have no idea, I've never even heard the word before, seemed like a funny British word, must be... y'know, I had no idea what it was."
(later)
"So I went to London, to visit my friend, I took the overnight plane outta JFK, we landed at Heathrow airport, it's 5.30 in the morning, I'm tired, bleary-eyed. So I'm going through customs, and the guy says, 'so I see you're a composer, have you written anything I'd know?'"
"And, I don't know why, but I remembered 'snooker', and I said 'well I wrote the music they're using for snooker'. And he looked at me and he said, 'you mean...'" *sings guitar riff* "...and he starts singing the song to me!"
"I was so astonished, I didn't know what to do, and the next thing I know he's on the microphone, and he announces to all the other customers, y'know we're in this big hangar in Heathrow, sound is reverberating, 'HEY EVERYBODY, THIS IS THE GUY WHO WROTE THE MUSIC FOR THE SNOOKER', and everybody cheers... I was so astonished, I've never been so surprised in my life."
"And it finally began to dawn on me that snooker was this really, really popular programme that people were watching, and they really loved this piece of music that the BBC had picked."
Love it That's a great story 0 -
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Feel free to remove if this is too random but this guy is incredible.
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Welsh Megaman wrote: »PLAY WORLD PARTY!!
Don't play Magnum, Del Amitri, that Dirty Cash song and a host of others.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXUQuQV-4o
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