The Dark Tower - Lud: The God Drums
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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Track 3 from my project "The Dark Tower vol II", inspired by Stephen King's series of books.
Composed, performed and produced by Fingers T.
Contains a sample from ZZ Top's "Velcro Fly"
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Dark tower deserves a lord of the rings quality adaptation
books 5-7 need a lord of the rings quality author
I think books 2-7 should get the GoT treatment. Book 1 should be a 2.5 hour movie directed by Quentin Tarantino, while channeling his inner Sergio Leone.
@@matthewdingman3967 all the fights you waited for for 7 books were over in half a page..
@@gbvoul I have not waited for any fight...if you do not like King that's fine Oubstill can't denie that he is one of the best authors ever on earth
@@robinbauer1975 really? he got the location of co-op city wrong in the book
See that turtle, ain't he keen?
All things serve the fuckin' Beam!
When they mention that I start to think of It.
So say yeah yeah!
"When you reach the end, Do it Over again..." -Velcro Fly (ZZ Top)
Ka is a wheel
thats oddly appropriate given how the dark tower series ends
@@thedoctajon OH MY GOSH ME TOO
An accidentally absolutely appropriate reference? "I say yeah, yeah!"
@@paulgardner5079 I'm pretty sure that with some of the best foreshadowing I've ever seen. Can't really think of why else Stephen King would include this song
I just imagine them getting closer to Lud, hearing this periodically and louder each time...no movie will ever do the feeling of this story justice.
The movie they came out with made me want to vomit.
@@MooseOnTheLoose99 Stephen King himself liked it. Shouldnt have expected too much.
@@horsthooden4600
To be fair i liked roland portrayal on the recent movie
The scenes in wich he does the gunsman oath and the figth scenes where truly fitting of the book
I think it was more an issue of length,they packed in 1 movie what should be done in 2 or 3
The plot wasnt bad but it lacked time to be properly developed
@@valentinov901 Fully agree!
Mike Flanagan (the creator of masterpieces like The Haunting of Hill House and Black Mass) is doing a proper streaming adaptation. If anyone can do the books justice, he's most certainly one of the better candidates
To Eddie Dean, this is probably really surreal and weird. I couldn’t imagine recognizing the backbeat of a rock-n-roll song in some post-apocalyptic city playing out loud drowning out all other sounds. But to Roland, Jake, and Susannah, this shit probably just sounds scary as hell and intense.
This was exactly what I was thinking...imagine being pulled into a parallel universe where the people make human sacrifices to the drum track of a ZZ Top song.
It's also so crazy to think that the people of Lud went from being the ones who controlled Blaine to eventually doing a complete 180.
@@AmaricanBall729 In general any time we're dealing with the Old Ones' vanished civilization it's really interesting and weird in a fun way. A culture like ours, but much worse, that somehow blended technology with magic (and was trying to use one to extinguish the other entirely). Fun stuff.
For years I wondered what this would sound like. Thank you. It's so ominous.
Thankee sai.
They played snippets of it in the audiobook, this and the fact that they often get the author or celebrities to read them are two of the reasons that I prefer audiobooks.
The last time I read this was not that long after this book was released, and there was no way to hear it properly, without all of the guitars and vocals. But now I'm able to get a better idea of just how ominous it actually is! THANK YOU SO MUCH! My bad was playing a lyrics video right before this; I totally should have listened to this first! But
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS WITH US! And thank you for doing so for *free*, no less! Thank you, this is amazing! ❤😊
ZZ Top invented post apocalyptic industrial music without even realizing it. Leave it to some guys in Texas to come across such happy accidents.
Something I love about this take on the god drums is that it sounds a lot like train tracks. Blaine would be pleased
I'm listening to this on repeat as I read through Lud. Great job, man.
“Jesus Pumpkin-Pie Christ, don’t you get it? You’re killing each other over a piece of music that was never even
released as a single!”
+Kane Deck Exactly what I was hoping for, just the right amount of grungy, surreal coolness.
Kane Deck hehe not a bad idea, I just got into Lud myself
Kane Deck Gotta love Eddie
Which is ironic, because it was a single.
The Screaming Muscle maybe not on their level of the tower?
SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR, AFTER A WHILE CROCODILE. DON'T FORGET TO WRITE
nightmuffin937 don't ask him silly questions, he won't play silly games
SEE YOU LATER PATRICIAGATOR was always my favorite lol
TOUGH TITTY SAID THE KITTY
KILL IF YOU MUST BUT COMMAND ME NOTHING!
so epic
That's catchy as hell. Totally fits the fusion of post-apocalyptic with dipolar computers. One can imagine Blaine the Mono chugging madly along to the beat.
Now that I picture it in my head... Yeah, I can actually visualize Blaine rolling to this music.
I swear using this drum beat in the way Stephen King did was absolute genius.
I can't stop listening to it now.
You think Frank Beard has ever read this book and been like, "WTF?"
VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD.
VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK.
VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK.
VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK.
VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD.
YOU ARE KA-TET; ONE MADE FROM MANY. SO AM I. WHOSE KA-TET IS THE STRONGER IS SOMETHING WE MUST NOW PROVE.
Synthetic Templar Freaked me out when Blaine mentioned Oy’s name, like how did he even know..
"SO, CAST YOUR NET WANDERERS! TRY ME WITH YOUR QUESTIONS, LET THE CONTEST BEGIN."
Why did the dead baby cross the road?
Marshmallow Cupcake It was stapled to the chicken you dumb fuck
Marshmallow Cupcake Roland& Blayne: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
If I listen to this long enough, it listens back.
That is one of the coolest things I have ever heard anyone say about a song. 👌🏽🎶🎵
The growing intensity makes for such perfect atmosphere as Roland races after Jake through subterranean Lud.
Killing each other over a track that was never released as a single!
But it was in this world... or has yours moved on?
JESUS PUMPKIN PIE CHRIST
This captures the crazy, chaotic energy of the whole Lud sequence perfectly
Finally decided to look up the isolated drums even though I've read this series multiple times. Holy shit this sets the scene.
I like that everyone who read the books knows this secret language now if do ya ken, and thankee sai
say thankee sai
Say thankee sai-
Long days and pleasant nights to ya sai !!
You comment true.
+MrShloker ken is just a scottish dialect. Just a little heads up
A soundtrack to a book. Of one of my favorite books of all time. Thank you so much.
+Master Bruce Thankee sai
May Ka guide ye
Master Bruce thankee big big!
The last part is the best of the Saga!!!
"That's a rock and roll backbeat," Eddie said suddenly. "I know it is. Take away the guitars and that's what you've got left. In fact, it sounds quite a lot like ZZ Top."
"ZZ who?" Susannah asked.
Eddie grinned. "They didn't exist in your when," he said. "I mean, they probably did, but in '63 they would have just been just a bunch of kids in Texas." He listened . "I'll be goddamned if that doesn't sound just like the backbeat to something like, 'Sharp-Dressed Man' or 'Velcro Fly.'"
"Velcro Fly?" Jake said. "That's a stupid name for a song."
"Pretty funny, though." Eddie said. "You missed it by ten years or so, sport."
"We'd better roll over," Roland said. "Morning comes early."
"I can't sleep with that shit going on," Eddie said.
- The Wastelands, Dark Tower Book III by Stephen King
I love you.
I'm listening to the audiobook for the umpteenth time. This is exactly the part. It's like deja vu
@@MooseOnTheLoose99 I feel like Jake cause I missed this. I'm thinking omg someone wrote a song about *loop tape* cause we can't call it Velcro if it's not *Velcro* ® what an amazing story. I have been listening all year on repeat.
@@megalorain Yup! I listen to one of the many books throughout the year. I use them for bedtime in an earphone and I just drift right off. Audiobooks, the wave of the future!
@@MooseOnTheLoose99 I love them! I'm redoing Anna Karenina *highly recommend the unbearable lightness of being* if I am going to sleep I like to listen to the gunslinger series. The french whisperer has great sleep videos! Do you recommend anything specifically? I'm trying on and off with War and Peace.
Hey-ho, let's go! Bring on those wise fuckin elves!
Blaine is a pain
And that is the truth.
+Abaddon393 Dont ask silly questions
+Ragnarok Don't play silly games
No, you call someone a pain when they're merely annoying. Blaine is terrifying.
I wont play silly games
I'm just a simple choo choo train,
and i'll always be the same.
A great relaxation beat.
After a hard day's work, when your brain is all knotted up - put on headphones, slightly louder than comfortable, sit back, close your eyes and listen to this.
After a few minutes, either you've gone insane or the drums beat all the knots out of your brain.
Who knew the god drums were so funky tbh
I could imagine this version playing while Gasher is racing Jake through the subterranean corridors, and while Jake and Roland are following Blaine's metal sphere while all around them Lud is blowing up and its inhabitants are all killing themselves like some giant suicide cult.
It's not even a version, this is literally the description in the book: 'It was the disco-pulse percussion of "Velcro Fly." Eddie was sure of it.'
I wasn't familiar with the song when I read it, yet somehow heard this exact drum beat while Oy and Roland were running through the mountains of broken TVs chasing Jake and Gasher.
@@johnb2422 I knew it wasn't right but I just imagined Pearl Necklace's drums but this is much scarier.
Dark Tower would be the greatest anime series of all time if they handled it right.
Imagine living all your life with this pounding in your head at full volume. Creepy......
this very prospect of the thought of the situation described in the book makes me want to vomit.
A mad in a Cradle, a kid with a leper, blue is for girls and pink is for men, Grays and Pubes are fighting again.
Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.
+MaskMan191 What a poet you are, dear
+TheChipmunk2008 and he didnt know it!
See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, come along the beam today.
See the turtle, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin beam.
Don't ask me silly questions
I won't play silly games
I'm just a simple choo choo train
And I'll always be the same.
I only want to race along
Beneath the bright blue sky
And be a happy choo choo train
Until the day I die.
Man, if you could make an hour-long version of this, it would be PERFECT for reading the Lud chapters.
Just loop it friend
I just finished the book yesterday. I wish I had found this sooner...
I just finished this book (again), but have never heard "Velcro Fly" by ZZ Top. The song itself is pretty standard stuff, but stripped down to the drums as in the book it's terrifying. Thanks so much for this.
I'm glad this exists on YT. Dark Tower seemed unknown to others since my brother is the only who I've heard read the series. Again, glad to see I was wrong.
Akio of Lud
3 is the number of all of our Fates:
see that gods-damned TURTLE
AIN’T he sly?!
Ye haven’t any wings to buy-
So withers’ spectrum, follows on
As Autumn’s ancient loss begone.
Ours is hollow, theirs is yon
And still this FUCKING BEAM is drawn
Have to listen to this every few days for fresh inspiration.
My favorite segment of my favorite tale from my favorite author.
And every time I listen, I keep praying for a movie.
And dreading the thought that somebody'll give it the "Under the Dome" treatment and fuck it all up.
LOL I know what you mean about UTD!
Thankee sai.
they've tried but never got started. they're talking about making a trilogy plus a tv show in-between and they want to cast Jesse Pinkman as Eddie
+MrShloker Aaron Paul would make an amazing Eddie Dean
Well 2017 is the planned release date of the first film. Javier Bardem or Russell Crowe are rumored to be interested in the role of Roland.
+capitaltwizzler exactly my toughts!
Lud leaves an impression. I couldn’t have picked a better piece of music to represent it.
This is the canon description, 'some ZZ Top song like Velcro Fly.'
Holy shit, dude.
This is my new workout music. Hopefully I won't kill everyone else in the gym.
Omfg, I died at your comment. xD
Challenge them to a riddling
Just one person per listen.
This would be terrifying if being blasted in a post-apocalyptic, abandoned city.
Me if I lived in Lud:
*drums start playing*
My family: please don’t-
*jams the fuck out*
At some point it got so fast it sounded like I could hear Blaine the Mono chugging along through Mid-World in the background. But a gunslinger does not listen with just his ears. He who listens with his ears has forgotten the face of his father.
As i listen this i can easily imagine Roland and Oy following Jake's trail through Lud.
without the vocals and with these drums only this track really is scary..
scary how perfectly it fits into a book series as good as the dark tower..
i would ve gone mad..these truely are the god drums..
The RNGenius I'm still reading the book and I'm at a point where they're still over 100 miles from lud. Listening to this drum beat and imagining it coming from a city kinda terrifies me.
Stephen King’s Danse Macabre introduced me to Shirley Jackson, I almost died when I got to the subtle tribute he paid to her in his Dark Tower series
The Waste Lands pg. 537
Certainly there had been an intelligence left in the ancient computers below the city, a single living organism which had long ago ceased to exist sanely under conditions that, within its merciless dipolar circuits, could only be absolute reality. It had held its increasingly alien logic within its of memory for eight hundred years and might have held them so for eight hundred more.
The Haunting of Hill House pg. 1
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane stood by itself against its hills holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
That scene in the Jack Nicholson / Michael Keaton Batman where the Joker's parade balloons spew out poison gas always reminds me of when Blaine gassed Lud on the way out of town.
Honestly, mate, thank you for this. It truly realises Lud. I've been listening to this for years, but even so, when I close my eyes I can still see Roland and Oy running the gauntlet after Gasher and Jake, and Eddie and Suze on their way to the Cradle. Did a fantastic job, brother.
See that turtle, ain't he keen?
All things serve the fuckin' Beam!
And if you want to run and play,
Come along the Beam today,
See them come a-runnin' just as fast as they can,
'Cos everybody's crazy 'bout the mighty fuckin' Beam!
I've always wished for a stand alone story of Lud.
That is actually brilliant. There would be more than enough for a trilogy even.
You have brought literature to life through music. I set my watch and warrant on it and say thank-ya.
Thank-ya big big
Long days and pleasant nights
Now inspired to read series again with your brilliant music as backing. So glad I discovered it, even though so late in the day.
Say thankee sai, thankee big big
Check out the audible audiobook. Frank Muller does it justice big big.
@@MooseOnTheLoose99 Oh, yes! Frank is my favorite audio book narrator. May he rest in peace at the end of the clearing. I'm listening to Dark Tower series for the second time. Now I finally know what those blasted drums sound like! Wonderful!
See the Turtle. Ain't he keen? Even the God Drums served the beam? Lol
Remember, *ALL THINGS* serve the mighty f*kkin' Beam! See them come a-runnin' just as fast as they can, 'cuz all th' girls go crazy 'bout the mighty f*kkin Beam!
Well, maybe not *ALL* things serve the Beam. Sony and Nikolaj Arcel certainly only served us a turd. All is chassit, all is nineteen, even the Rotten Tomatoes score of "The Dark Tower" (2017)!
“Have you got any Z.Z. Top?” Eddie asked sourly.
“YES INDEED,” Blaine said. “HOW ABOUT A LITTLE 'TUBE-SNAKE BOOGIE,' EDDIE OF NEW YORK?”
Gotta crank it to max volume for the full effect. Ready to make a sacrifice.
Now reading the third book... Can't wait to finally find The Dark Tower with Roland and the rest of my Ka-Tet friends
I'd go crazy too if this was all i heard.
I'm approaching the Lud chapters of my (I think) fifth readthrough of the series. Looking forward to listening to this while I read!
I can actually picture music like this playing in several places during the entire sequence in Lud-when Roland is chasing Gasher and Jake, when Eddie and Susannah are chasing after the Pubes, and when Blaine is carrying them through the city as it self destructs.
Okay, while reading the wastelands I never actually heard Velcro Fly by ZZ Top but I found this soon after I heard it and I love how you've managed to make it sound menacing. I can almost hear the screams of violence and glass breaking in the background. If they ever start trying to put a dark tower film in production, you should totally try doing the soundtrack for it.
I like to think that these are the drums that the Master (from Doctor Who) has heard all his life in his head.
But it doesn't really have the four beat that the drums in his head had.
These drums are just as unnerving >_
It was Spankers stone what come out of the hat, and we set him to dance.
I know this is internet-ancient, but I'm just now finding it. BadASS track, I'll have to check out the rest of the project.
Read The Dark Tower, my friend.
Feandromar Oh, I read the Tower books as they were initially released. I just hadn't run across this music project before.
@@Mechalith imagine me finding it now
@@superrugby2 Or now!
HOLY SHIT why didn't I discover this when I was reading! I'd dig the shit out of it, do ya ken!
Easy fix. Read it again.... And again, and again, etc.
Awesome to see these kinds of videos being made for this series. A shame that the creator hasn't uploaded in years, these are masterpieces!
hope my stone don't come out the hat, and they set me to dance
Holy shit this is so good man. Im on book 4 Wizard and Glass right now. Such an amazing series
Ah Susan.
ASK ME A QUESTION! AND MAKE IT A GOOD ONE!
See you later alligator after awhile crocodile don't forget to write, little trail hand.
Why did the dead baby cross the road?
@@tbd-1 because it was STAPLED TO THE CHICKEN
I was at work and Velcro Fly started playing like an hour ago. It's insane how even with people talking over it, the drum part comes through enough that Lud was on the mind
this saga is AWESOME, but it's so bizzarre...
***** Amen to that, it's pretty unique, and it has a very unsettling mix of everyday reality and weird, dark magic and powers.
and that is the truth.
Never thought to look it up now until my second read thru of the dark tower on the wastelands adds so much actually hearing it and imagining this so incredibly loud you can hear it miles away as they approach lud
See the Turtle, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin' Beam.
Listenin to this on loop now Gnasher has Jake and Eddie and Susannah are going through the city ..... re reading the Dark tower series and loving it like this is the first time I am reading it .. gosh !!!
Well done! I wasn’t familiar with Velcro Fly, so had to stop the book to experience it. Luckily I found this! Awesome choice to use in the book. This isn’t just any beat - it’s so intense and complex! Funny how without context people revert so quickly to supernatural explanations for things. This would have been overwhelming and completely terrifying to the people who experience it in the book! Thanks again for creating this.
Velcro fly by zz top. The drums in that .......perfect.
Am I taking crazy pills here ?
This mix still slaps.
Whenever I think of the books it autoplays in my head.
This is what it sounds like in your head when I take a bunch of hits of poppers.
Your hallucinations are contagious?
😂
Only King could think of a way to make life in post-apocalyptic hellscape worse.
Oh, are you suffering in all the toxins, mutants, starvation, and brutality? Here's a fragment of cheesy 80's song randomly blasting from loudspeakers! It triggers a killing spree! Not only that, it's annoyingly catchy, so you'll hear it in your head fucking constantly.
Imagine trying to find the source of it. You scour the toxic ruins of the old world for years, looking for that one damn computer that's still working. You find a working one and smash it up, the drums don't play for ages, you think, FINALLY it's gone for good. Then in the middle of the night, just as you're about to drift off: *dun-DUN DUN-DUN-DUN DUN-nuh-nuh*
I need a version of this that goes on for hours.
From the demented f*cking mind of Stephen King. Just finished DT2: The Wastelands. Wow. This could be a mini-series. Makes "The Walking Dead" look like pre-school.
Fucking epic, dude. I just listened to this while reading the scene where Eddie breaks Blaine's brain and advances on him with the revolver to finish the job. Goddamn savage.
Best music to clean the house to :D
"What these people had apparently wanted to hear in the recorded drum-track was an invitation to commit ritual murder. And now, when the drums began to throb through these hundreds or thousands of speakers-a hammering back-beat which was only the percussion to a Z.Z. Top song called "Velcro Fly," if Eddie was right-it became their signal to unlimber the hangropes and run a few folks up the nearest speaker-posts.
'How many?' she wondered as Eddie rolled her along in her wheel-chair, its nicked and dented hard rubber tires crackling over broken glass and whispering through drifts of discarded paper. How many have been killed over the years because some electronic circuit under the city got the hiccups?"
- The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands
Never get tired of these
MaQuGo119 "careful, cully!"
I can't stop listening this! and i'm very close to Blaine
Don't forget to check out the album: The Crimson King by Demons & Wizards (it's power metal).
Seize the Day, the best of their album
Wrong. First, it's not even about Dark Tower. Second, Crimson King is the best song on the album.
I'm awake so
You better feed me now
I won't slow down
Once we have left this town
Dear sweet Christ... That would actually be pretty terrifying to hear in the distance of some awful destroyed city like Lud... *shudder* it makes the Waste Lands that much more intense an experience
This is awesome! I can so picture the Ka-tet traveling through Lud. Thank you so much! :)
I don't even see any complaining about the movie. I guess we all decided it's not worth it, so no one actually watched it yet.
I watched it, but beforehand I watched the interview with Stephen King on the subject. The way he explains the movie let's you know it's terrible and why they made it that way. Still, shit movie to be sure.
Not to be that guy, but with the whole of the story being the whole of the story, Roland cannot be a black dude.. JS
Love this. I think my favorite new pastime is reading the Lud part of The Wastelands with this on constant replay! :D
Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth... this is fucking badass, more or less how I imagined it.
I picture a sweeping camera angle through the city of Lud. All the conflict falling any as the camera pulls up and over he city.
Love days and pleasant nights.
This is way more chilling and terrifying than I thought it sounded in my head. It's sounds so panicked, feverish, and insane, and unlike anything one would expect to appear in Roland's world.
Perfect. Just as I imagined they would sound.
I'm not quite sure how I ended up here, but this is legit good. An auditory treat. Thank you.
Brilliant. Thankee sai. Long days and pleasant nights.
ZZ Top - Velcro Fly....Awesome!
@stellastey Thank you. It's great to hear that my music can live up to reader's expectations.
No one is commenting on the awesome job you did adding the other elements to the zz top loop. Great work. You have not forgotten the face of your father.
Earlier today I was driving across the George Washington Bridge and had this stuck in my head :)
Say thankee Sai. Say thankee big big
Thank ye kindly