1812 Overture With Naval Gunfire

Capitol Fourth on PBS, 2009. The sound of the saluting batteries were weak, so I added the sounds of my ship firing in NAM. USS Newport News, 'Mighty Thunder' Lives on. Video from WUNC. Sound Re-Edited by Dexter Goad.

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[VictorVonFox]

my left ear just got raped

[ASSEMblerEX]

RIP Headphone users.

[p51mustang19]

they should bring a modern battleship and fire blanks instead of normal cannons

[p51mustang19]

i wonder how much all of those fire works must cost every year...

[CairnTerrier69]

Can only imagine how many windows rattled and car alarms were set off that night in D.C.!!!

[MattTheBandKid]

@TheTubadude03 Sousa was a great composer. I'm not ignorant enough to compare him to Les Six or the Russian Five; but he is a staple of american music. There is a reason he is known as "The March King". And wasn't George Gershin an American?

[TheTubadude03]

@MattTheBandKid You have got to be kidding me kid. Sousa was a great march writer, that hardly makes him one of the greatest composers of all time. There is no way on God's green earth that he is even in remotely the same league as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and those are just the Russians. If you want to talk about American composers you should be speaking of Aaron Copland at the very least, and perhaps Charles Ives.

[ricvilchis]

My left ear!!

[DJSolidify]

@MattTheBandKid Yes, granted Sousa and bernstein, but compared to say the Russians, who had tchaikovsky, mussorgsky, balakirev, etc.

[MattTheBandKid]

@DJSolidify Now what about John Philip Sousa??? No amazing classical composers? And jazz barley has African roots. Jazz started in Louisiana when someone would die they'd have a funeral march and on the way back they would play the same piece with an up tempo that's how jazz basically came to be. From military marches one could even say. Oh and John Philip Sousa, one of the greatest composers of all time. He was a marine, he was in our navy. I'm not trying to sound like an A-hole.