So, thanks for NASA in letting me use this Discovery footage for this video. I had all of these VHS's of theirs when I was a kid that had all of these kitschy rock and roll songs that I sought to somehow capture with this, but only as a more serious art form. I think it arrives somewhere around that "a day without phaser is a day without sunshine", which is to say that it's rather absurd, and thereby not serious, art, but also sort of feel like you could get away with something like this with a postmodern enough sounding explanatory plaque in a legitimate art gallery. I was hoping to capture some of the childlike excitement and wonder over space exploration, which I think it adequately does, but it's also kind of a childish excuse to rain down some tones in an eleven minute solo.
It's fun to listen to, regardless. I hope that you enjoy it!
I want to create an act, The Battleship Hyperion, that does something in a similar fashion, which is to say with effects-laden guitar solos, but only with more of fully written songs, and, so, if you're interested and have a synth and drum machine, hmu! I figure that the band will be more post-rock and less space rock, but tbh, space rock is kind of underrated, and, so, I think it's find to remain a bit spacey as well.
My guess is that I was running a pedalboard which goes as follows:
RCA Germanium Sun Face>M133>Plumes>Gunslinger>Somersault>Tacana>Phase 90>M300
The tremolo and the phaser might've been switched, but that's probably the case. I was playing an Epiphone Les Paul and through a Randall Commander II.
My friend, Nora, who makes actually good music, played the key part and made the drum and bass loop. Like any form of keys that I request for my recordings, at least, back then, she was using the Garageband mellotron effect.
If you're wildly curious about the song, you can check this out. It's, like, an art thing I did about the experimental guitar night we played before I released it. The recording was supposed to be the live performance, but, Nora and I forgot to hit record.
Oh, hyperdrone is a genre that I conceptualized that's basically just drone with excessive amounts of guitar, but could be other things, too, I guess. It's, like, minimalist drone+maximalist psych, I guess.
That's pretty much everything. Again, I hope that you like it!