New Here, Free Sample: Highway 605 South

[GaryTang]

Hi Members,

Highway 605 South is a story-ballad about a girl, a boy and a highway that goes terribly wrong.  I wrote this back in the 80s but recently redid it:  the technology finally caught up to where I can play heavy metal guitar on a sampler with Amplitube.  The version I did back then had a smokin' guitarist but a cheesy drum machine TR??:  just wasn't quite right.  In the new version, I am playing all the instruments, mixing, singing, everything, but the guitar solos were improvised by Dickie Ueda that I transcribed off the original recording.

It's free for you to check out and enjoy!

Regards,
Gary Tang

[Mr. Mom]

Cool song Gary, it definitely has it's own sound.
Kinda a cross between The Cars, The Wiggles, and Devo - talk about a weird pairing of bands. LOL

Here would be an updated chorus line for today:
Lost on Highway 605 - blame my GPS

[GaryTang]

John,

LOL, I shoudl make a GPS comment, the wife and daughter say I'm a GPS cripple, can't go anywhere (even places I know well) without programming it in!  And the GPS always disagrees with the wife (guess who wins?).

Regards,

Gary

[Mr. Mom]

  I don't know which is scarier when it comes to directions - putting total trust in a GPS or in my wife's terrible sense of direction.

You just KNOW there is a ton of potential for "GPS" songs that people can relate to. Just look at these titles right off the top of my head:

Bury me with my GPS... so I have no chance of finding HELL!

From L.A. sun to Alaska crude... halfway there GPS said I'm SCREWED

Left at the alter from a GPS falter

Grandma got run over by a reindeer... just cause Santa trusts his GPS... you may say there's no such thing as Santa... but as for me and Grandpa we're a mess...

[snowdoguk]

What used to worry me when I was hurtling down the autobahn at scary kilometres an hour was when the lady in the navigation box would politely say "If possible, make a U-turn" 

[Mr. Mom]

  LMAO - you didn't actually follow that advice, did you Mike?

[NickT]

Thanks for posting. Cool tune. I didn't check the run time, but felt it was a little long.

Nice job!

Nick

[CosmicDolphin]

Good Effort, would be interesting to hear the 80's version !

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