1-4 Herbie (Robert Harsch) - "Night Driving w/ Canon FS200"
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Night-time footage shot while driving, using hand-held Canon FS200 Camcorder.
Beginning with a left turn from N. 5th W., we travel down Main Street of Riverton, WY, making another left on Federal Blvd.
Two edits & eighteen wheels later, we go through the tunnels of the Wind River Canyon between Shoshoni & Thermopolis, WY.
Next, past the Cenex Oil Refinery in Laurel MT, which burns & melts into a convenience store back on Federal Blvd. in Riverton. ... When I start a 600-mile drive at 3am, I MUST have coffee!
The oil refinery clip had been taken a few days earlier at dusk, coming off I-90, on my way to get more coffee.
The Canon "MOD" files went through some extra processing for this video: first through Nero Vision to convert to MPEG-2 files, then through Windows Movie Maker for double-speed effect, coming out as WMV files. Then back to Nero Vision for assembly of original Canon MOD (spoken intro) and high-speed WMV files, plus special effects, text & transitions..
The music is "1-4 Herbie" - a little jam I threw together 1992-ish on my 88-key Korg T-1 Music Workstation [8-track sequencer, 16-note polyphony], mostly to play with the phasing effect. This was recorded from the stereo ouputs of the keyboard.
I started with the 4-bar Drum pattern, added a 4-bar Bass riff, then improvised the Piano & Sitar tracks in one pass each. I used a LOT of modulation & pitch bend expression on the Sitar patch, purposely trying NOT to have it sound like a sitar. At times it sounds like steel drums - fitting for the oil refinery.
The title was added later, as an homage to Herbie Hancock, a fabulous keyboard wizard who has influenced me on conscious and subconscious levels. I detect his influence in this little jam from "Chameleon" and "Earth Beat". It is fitting that this song accompany a drive down Riverton's Main Street, since - "Back In The Day" - one of the few 8-track cartridges I had to play while "dragging Main" in my hand-me-down 1969 Lincoln Continental was "Herbie Hancock's Greatest Hits" (Columbia). Yep. Skinny bespectacled white kid in Riverton, WY, rollin' down the street crankin' "Chameleon" from a '69 Continental.
An MP3 of "1-4 Herbie" is available from my SnoCap storefront at
http://www.MySpace.com/HarschS oundsMusic
~R
Beginning with a left turn from N. 5th W., we travel down Main Street of Riverton, WY, making another left on Federal Blvd.
Two edits & eighteen wheels later, we go through the tunnels of the Wind River Canyon between Shoshoni & Thermopolis, WY.
Next, past the Cenex Oil Refinery in Laurel MT, which burns & melts into a convenience store back on Federal Blvd. in Riverton. ... When I start a 600-mile drive at 3am, I MUST have coffee!
The oil refinery clip had been taken a few days earlier at dusk, coming off I-90, on my way to get more coffee.
The Canon "MOD" files went through some extra processing for this video: first through Nero Vision to convert to MPEG-2 files, then through Windows Movie Maker for double-speed effect, coming out as WMV files. Then back to Nero Vision for assembly of original Canon MOD (spoken intro) and high-speed WMV files, plus special effects, text & transitions..
The music is "1-4 Herbie" - a little jam I threw together 1992-ish on my 88-key Korg T-1 Music Workstation [8-track sequencer, 16-note polyphony], mostly to play with the phasing effect. This was recorded from the stereo ouputs of the keyboard.
I started with the 4-bar Drum pattern, added a 4-bar Bass riff, then improvised the Piano & Sitar tracks in one pass each. I used a LOT of modulation & pitch bend expression on the Sitar patch, purposely trying NOT to have it sound like a sitar. At times it sounds like steel drums - fitting for the oil refinery.
The title was added later, as an homage to Herbie Hancock, a fabulous keyboard wizard who has influenced me on conscious and subconscious levels. I detect his influence in this little jam from "Chameleon" and "Earth Beat". It is fitting that this song accompany a drive down Riverton's Main Street, since - "Back In The Day" - one of the few 8-track cartridges I had to play while "dragging Main" in my hand-me-down 1969 Lincoln Continental was "Herbie Hancock's Greatest Hits" (Columbia). Yep. Skinny bespectacled white kid in Riverton, WY, rollin' down the street crankin' "Chameleon" from a '69 Continental.
An MP3 of "1-4 Herbie" is available from my SnoCap storefront at
http://www.MySpace.com/HarschS oundsMusic
~R
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Thanks for the comments! I really like your version of goodbye blue sky. A bass favorite!
Cool acoustic bass, too.
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