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Sounds of the Drags 2001
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ColeCoonce
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"Exciting Sounds of Model Road Racing"
talk about an oxymoron $100
Check out this discography of auto racing sounds (c/o of the Carburetor Shop)....
(Some of their "excellent condition" vinyl is selling for $350!)
FTR: Like the wired.com article mentioned, "Nitronic Research Presents The Big Sounds of the Drags 2001" was modeled on the original Capitol Records recording, "The Big Sounds of the Drags." (A copy is available for $35 at the Carburetor Shop.)
And as much as I like the original "Big Sounds," it doesn't have this:
http://thebigsoundsofthedrags2001.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/big-vs-shirley/
I still have the original "Big Sounds"
My dad and I used to lie down on the floor, with our heads towards the middle of the cabinet style record player (or deluxe hi-fi) as it was in those days and listen to the sound start at one speaker and move to the other.
We thought it sounded pretty damned good!!
My dad and I used to lie down on the floor, with our heads towards the middle of the cabinet style record player (or deluxe hi-fi) as it was in those days and listen to the sound start at one speaker and move to the other.
We thought it sounded pretty damned good!!
ColeCoonce
Nitro Member
Tracks 20 - 25 missing from Cole's blog.It says there's 37 tracks but I only find 31.
Somehow with the wordpress.com interface, those tracks got sucked into the nether regions of cyberspace... but I have managed to pull them out of that vacuum.
Situation is now normal.
Of those previously missing, my favorite is the one entitled "Jack Rabbitted Off The Ground," from an interview with "Mousie" Marcellus, as he recalls the inimitable driving style of his racing partner, "Wild Willie" Borsch during the Fuel Altered days.
Anyway, I appreciated the catch Brent, and my apologies for the filing glitch. The site now has every track, ready and available for the completists...
You!
Nitro Member
I was lucky enough to be at the "Premier Listening Party" of this great CD back in 2001. Still had the t-shirt until recently too but the dryer finally killed it.
The party was pretty cool. Had "Root Beer" Frank Hedge's Nostalgia Top Fuel car up on the SIDEWALK(!) in front this trendy little bar (re:cool dive bar) that hosted the event. Fired it at about, what Cole, like 10:30 pm on a school night! On the freakin' SIDEWALK!
Good times...
The party was pretty cool. Had "Root Beer" Frank Hedge's Nostalgia Top Fuel car up on the SIDEWALK(!) in front this trendy little bar (re:cool dive bar) that hosted the event. Fired it at about, what Cole, like 10:30 pm on a school night! On the freakin' SIDEWALK!
Good times...
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The BigFoot Lodge LA BigFoot Lodge
I still have a handful of sealed CD's for the Things college fund...
ColeCoonce
Nitro Member
I can't remember exactly what time of night we lit off the Mastercam Top Fuel car on Los Feliz Blvd. But I do remember hanging out on the street, taking mental note of the frequency of passing cop cars and trying to time lighting the dragster off during our biggest window of no law enforcement. I also remember walking into the Chinese restaurant next door to the BigFoot Lodge and telling the proprietors that their plate glass windows were about to rattle and that a car on the sidewalk may look like it's on fire but it really isn't, and to not be alarmed and not to call the police. I think I scared them more than I reassured them....
The other thing I remember is that as soon as we lit if off (right AFTER a cop car passed by), an MTA bus pulled up to its bus stop, directly behind the cackling fueler. With Tim Gibson in the car, "Root Beer" whapped the throttle linkage, and some of the busriders had these looks of genuine fear and disapproval, but there was this one old Asian lady who had a look of complete inscrutability, kinda like where she comes from people light off Top Fuel cars on the sidewalk every day.
Yes, Bill: Good times.
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Hey Cole, I just remembered to check out your blog again so I could download the tracks and now it shows that track 25 is missing. Seems like Wordpress likes to pick on your blog for some reason.
ColeCoonce
Nitro Member
Hey Cole, I just remembered to check out your blog again so I could download the tracks and now it shows that track 25 is missing. Seems like Wordpress likes to pick on your blog for some reason.
One thing I really like about you Brent is that you are nothing if not thorough! Suffice it to say, you keep both me and Wordpress honest, and you have my appreciation for that....
Check it: The missing sound file can be found here:
Fueler With A Pedal Clutch THE BIG SOUNDS OF THE DRAGS 2001
It is pretty much straight, unadulterated audio drag porn (albeit a rare sound): a Top Fuel car w/ a pedal clutch.
ps: For whatever it's worth, I don't consider the site a blog, but more of an archive. Although Wordpress was designed more or less for bloggers, I use it to archive various works (including those of others that I have the rights to....)
To that end, among the stuff I archived recently was my great, great grandfather's Civil War memoirs, which includes his remembrances of Second Manassas, Antietam, Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, the Wilderness, the Siege of Petersburg, etc...
I think it is necessary to have this stuff archived and searchable on the web, and WordPress is fairly seamless way to do it.... I wish more near- or out-of-print works were available online.
Can you imagine if Robert C. Post's "High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing 1950-1990" was at our greasy fingertips that way?
