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Oddly enough, not an April Fool post.
Friday, 1 April 2011 23:17But it might surprise some folks anyway....
I guess I have to confess a guilty pleasure that I like _The Rockford Files_. I used to sit up late with my Mom and watch his often ill-fated adventures. I've always felt an odd solidarity with the guy, often roped into doing the "right" thing, against his better judgement and then, mor...e often than not, getting his ass kicked for it.
And now, it's cool to look back at that time, and realise that I've always felt that *that's* what cars are *really* supposed to look like. I LOVED our family's 74 Plymouth Duster.
But that's not what I *really* wanted to share.
Dammit, I LOVE that theme music!
On the one hand, it has alot of typical "70's era TV"-ness to it, which, I could give or take, but whoever wrote it didn't just settle for that. The main melody line is this funky synthesiser patch, and then it gives way to horns, and then a blues harmonica, and then hard driving guitar variations, back to horns, and on and off---- it was just so out there, so all over the place, and so FLUID as it navigated what would be otherwise jarring changes in texture and instrumentation, and then in the reprise in the end credits, building up to that glorious single bent guitar note. This was a FUN piece of music and they don't make anything like it now, and quite frankly no one else made anything like it then either.
I guess I have to confess a guilty pleasure that I like _The Rockford Files_. I used to sit up late with my Mom and watch his often ill-fated adventures. I've always felt an odd solidarity with the guy, often roped into doing the "right" thing, against his better judgement and then, mor...e often than not, getting his ass kicked for it.
And now, it's cool to look back at that time, and realise that I've always felt that *that's* what cars are *really* supposed to look like. I LOVED our family's 74 Plymouth Duster.
But that's not what I *really* wanted to share.
Dammit, I LOVE that theme music!
On the one hand, it has alot of typical "70's era TV"-ness to it, which, I could give or take, but whoever wrote it didn't just settle for that. The main melody line is this funky synthesiser patch, and then it gives way to horns, and then a blues harmonica, and then hard driving guitar variations, back to horns, and on and off---- it was just so out there, so all over the place, and so FLUID as it navigated what would be otherwise jarring changes in texture and instrumentation, and then in the reprise in the end credits, building up to that glorious single bent guitar note. This was a FUN piece of music and they don't make anything like it now, and quite frankly no one else made anything like it then either.
