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.
@@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
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.
@@Amarican_Ball 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.
@@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
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
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.
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!”
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! ❤😊
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.
"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
@@BuddTheSpud 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!
@@BuddTheSpud 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
@@BuddTheSpud 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!
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.
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)!
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
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.
@@OtaConnor sorry sai, only just saw this question. On top of the ZZ Top sample the drums are various samples, mostly from the PS2 software "MTV Music Generator 2". All of them are going through a delay with an insane amount of decay.
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
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 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
"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
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.
I can almost hear the WHOOOO-OOOOOOO! And the Clickety-clack went Charlie's wheels! Chuffa-chuffa went the smoke from Charlie's stack! Brump-brump went the conveyor as it fed coal into the firebox. Talk about zip! Talk about zowie! Golly gee, gosh and wowie!
Holy shit yeah I’d probably create some weird murderous religion based around hearing this played at ear shattering volumes 3 times a day every day too
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 !!!
This is perfect! Thanks to you I can finally imagine the sound of these drums, I didn't know cc top so I kinda associated the god drums of lud with the beginning of "The Horde" by Tankard.
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.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. Roland, the last Gunslinger is on a quest to find the Dark Tower. He encounters companions whom he brings onto his mysterious quest. As it turns out, his already vague compulsion to find said Tower turns into a much bigger story. There's seven books to the main story, Stephen King wrote it up, and it will make your head spin at times. There's the simplest I can give you sai, say thankya.
A good choice my friend. I myself have finished the dark tower series, and I'm taking a break with other authors before I plan to read some more King. As a book with my favourite villain of all time, I'm very much looking forward to reading 'the stand' too.
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.
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*
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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
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.
@@Amarican_Ball 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.
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.
@@BuddTheSpud 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
Something I love about this take on the god drums is that it sounds a lot like train tracks. Blaine would be pleased
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
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
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?
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! ❤😊
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
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.
"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
@@BuddTheSpud 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!
@@BuddTheSpud 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.
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.
I swear using this drum beat in the way Stephen King did was absolute genius.
I can't stop listening to it now.
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
Hey-ho, let's go! Bring on those wise fuckin elves!
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. 👌🏽🎶🎵
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!
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.
This captures the crazy, chaotic energy of the whole Lud sequence perfectly
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...
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.
Finally decided to look up the isolated drums even though I've read this series multiple times. Holy shit this sets the scene.
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!!!
The growing intensity makes for such perfect atmosphere as Roland races after Jake through subterranean Lud.
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.
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
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.
ZZ Top invented post apocalyptic industrial music without even realizing it. Leave it to some guys in Texas to come across such happy accidents.
It all serves the beam
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.
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.
Who knew the god drums were so funky tbh
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.
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.
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.
This would be terrifying if being blasted in a post-apocalyptic, abandoned city.
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.'
everyone who came here serves the beam
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.
Gotta crank it to max volume for the full effect. Ready to make a sacrifice.
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.
As i listen this i can easily imagine Roland and Oy following Jake's trail through Lud.
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
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.
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.
@@BuddTheSpud 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!
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.
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.
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)!
I'd go crazy too if this was all i heard.
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
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.
Tell me you're still alive OP you need to know how much I listen to this
I'm still here lol
What drum sounds did you use? I'm addicted
@@BggProductions nevermind bro sorry my bad 🗿
@@OtaConnor sorry sai, only just saw this question.
On top of the ZZ Top sample the drums are various samples, mostly from the PS2 software "MTV Music Generator 2". All of them are going through a delay with an insane amount of decay.
@@BggProductions hell yeah thank you!
Me if I lived in Lud:
*drums start playing*
My family: please don’t-
*jams the fuck out*
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
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 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 >_
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!
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!
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
I need a version of this that goes on for hours.
Holy shit this is so good man. Im on book 4 Wizard and Glass right now. Such an amazing series
Ah Susan.
"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
“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?”
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.
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'm approaching the Lud chapters of my (I think) fifth readthrough of the series. Looking forward to listening to this while I read!
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.
I can almost hear the WHOOOO-OOOOOOO!
And the
Clickety-clack went Charlie's wheels!
Chuffa-chuffa went the smoke from Charlie's stack!
Brump-brump went the conveyor as it fed coal into the firebox.
Talk about zip! Talk about zowie! Golly gee, gosh and wowie!
Never get tired of these
MaQuGo119 "careful, cully!"
It was Spankers stone what come out of the hat, and we set him to dance.
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.
hope my stone don't come out the hat, and they set me to dance
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
This mix still slaps.
Whenever I think of the books it autoplays in my head.
Love this. I think my favorite new pastime is reading the Lud part of The Wastelands with this on constant replay! :D
Holy shit yeah I’d probably create some weird murderous religion based around hearing this played at ear shattering volumes 3 times a day every day too
This is what it sounds like in your head when I take a bunch of hits of poppers.
Your hallucinations are contagious?
😂
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 !!!
Sounds like an Industrial Rave...although this on repeat for years on end? no wonder they all went so mad in Lud haha
Not on repeat. It would just play once a day. Or maybe it was once a week,
@@SuperKamiGuru-i3c Fair enough, im abit rusty and need to do another trip, regardless thats intense for years and years XD
I play this on horde night in 7 days to die
always gets my hopes for a new dark tower adaptation up lol
This is perfect! Thanks to you I can finally imagine the sound of these drums, I didn't know cc top so I kinda associated the god drums of lud with the beginning of "The Horde" by Tankard.
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
This is awesome! I can so picture the Ka-tet traveling through Lud. Thank you so much! :)
Now reading the third book... Can't wait to finally find The Dark Tower with Roland and the rest of my Ka-Tet friends
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Roland, the last Gunslinger is on a quest to find the Dark Tower. He encounters companions whom he brings onto his mysterious quest. As it turns out, his already vague compulsion to find said Tower turns into a much bigger story. There's seven books to the main story, Stephen King wrote it up, and it will make your head spin at times.
There's the simplest I can give you sai, say thankya.
@stellastey Thank you. It's great to hear that my music can live up to reader's expectations.
I was JUST listening to Velcro Fly. I'm so glad that you did this. This is awesome. Thank you.
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.
Now this is something that could, and should be in the movie. I cannot think that anyone can do it better than this. Job greatly done!
“I can’t sleep with that shit going on.”
A good choice my friend.
I myself have finished the dark tower series, and I'm taking a break with other authors before I plan to read some more King.
As a book with my favourite villain of all time, I'm very much looking forward to reading 'the stand' too.
I can strongly recommend IT.
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.
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*
Earlier today I was driving across the George Washington Bridge and had this stuck in my head :)
Say thankee Sai. Say thankee big big
This is simply a masterpiece! Thank you, Fingers T