Name: Keys To The Alley 2 by Wayne Tapia
Duration: 3 min 26 s
Description: All played/improvised in one shot. Testing out some new gear and thought this had a cool groove.

All played/improvised in one shot. Testing out some new gear and thought this had a cool groove.

Keys To The Alley 2

Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford and author of Sonic Wonderland, has discovered the world record for the ‘Longest Echo’. The 1970 Guinness Book of Records is the last claim for the ‘longest echo’, when the solid-bronze doors of the Hamilton Mausoleum in Scotland slammed shut, it took 15 seconds for the sound to die away to silence. In researching his new book Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound Trevor Cox discovered a place where the sound echoes around for a full minute longer, smashing the previous record.

Trevor Cox travelled to the oil storage complex at Inchindown, near Invergordon, Scotland. These reservoirs supplied the naval anchorage in the Cromarty Firth at the bottom of the hill. The tanks were constructed in great secrecy amid concerns about the strengthening of Germany’s armed forces during the 1930s and the threat posed by long-range bombers, which is why the tanks were dug deep into the hillside. The vast complex took three years to complete. His guide was Allan Kilpatrick, an archaeological investigator for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

Trevor had to enter the tank through one of the 18 inch diameter oil pipes because there are no doors. The tank could hold 25.5 million litres of fuel and has walls 45cm thick. The space is about twice the length of a football pitch, 9m wide and 13.5 metres high.

Allan fired a pistol loaded with blanks about a third of the way into the storage tank, and Trevor recorded the response picked up by the microphones about a third of the way from the far end. This is a standard technique used in concert hall acoustics; old black-and-white photographs show a gun being fired on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall when they tested the acoustics back in the 1950s.

Sonic Wonderland - World's Longest Echo

only half of the solo is done and only half of that is articulate, the tone sounds like dick and everything is out of place. shut up. shut you're damn mouth. at least im putting something up. if you get impatient skip to 2:45

Bigfatbabyfingers

(I Saw Mommy) Fisting Santa Claus

Recorded live at Obras Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 5, 1993 from the Smore/RockBeat Records release "Once Upon A Time In South America". http://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Time-South-America/dp/B00TKNQSHC

Once Upon A Time In South America

Pictures At An Exhibition (LIVE - April 5, 1993)

06 - The Rhythm Changes

Wrote this with Ashland a million years ago... and the words still ring true. Thanks to Chad McMurray for a ballsy vocal.

October Bleeds

A cover of me singing some Judas Priest just for the hell of it.

Written by: Rob Halford, K. K. Downing, Glenn Tipton

Electric Eye

Driftwood Orchestra live in Seattle at gallery 1412 on 11 15 18... 
Players for this set are.
Peter Keller
Amanda Prince
David Lee Drake
Casey Chittenden Jones

Live at Gallery 1412 Seattle WA 11 15 18

 Great for ruining parties and torturing anyone who's trying to sleep.

circa "Let Me Get This Off My Chest"

45 Minutes of Paul Stanley Stage Banter

Knocking around some debris inside a massive holding tank at an abandon paper mill. Demo

Paper Mill Reverb Tank Demo One

Producer, Audio Engineer, Multi-instrumentalist, Writer, Blogger, Father, Busy Bee...

Keys To The Alley 2

Wayne Tapia

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