How The THX Noise Was Created

devilsbrigade writes "The blog MusicThing is running an interesting interview with Andy Moorer. Mr. Moorer is the man who created the sound called Deep Note, now heard in every THX-enabled movie theatre. The interview is originally from last year, but the tech-heavy discussion is still a timeless analysis of a great sound." From the article: "The score consists of a C program of about 20,000 lines of code. The output of this program is not the sound itself, but is the sequence of parameters that drives the oscillators on the ASP. That 20,000 lines of code produce about 250,000 lines of statements of the form "set frequency of oscillator X to Y Hertz. The oscillators were not simple - they had 1-pole smoothers on both amplitude and frequency. At the beginning, they form a cluster from 200 to 400 Hz. I randomly assigned and poked the frequencies so they drifted up and down in that range."

Now the art is

[Too many errors, bai]

to turn that sound into an onomatopoeia. Any takers? "Bhhwuhhhhhhhhhhoooooh"

Re:Now the art is

[im_thatoneguy]

"NEEEERRAAAOOOWWWWWUUUMMMMMMMMMM"

was how I was always told to spell it in Kindergarden.

er, um...

[hackwrench]

where exactly did you go to kindergarden?

Re:er, um...

[Dirtside]

Probably at the Death Star's day care center. [daycaresdontcare.org]

(I couldn't find the original link at The Onion, alas.)

Re:Now the art is

[VValdo]

"NEEEERRAAAOOOWWWWWUUUMMMMMMMMMM"

No, no. You're confused. That's the old Current Affair [ustacould.com] sound...

W

Obligatory Grandpa Quote

[Robber Baron]

"Turn it up!
Turn it uup!"

Re:Obligatory Grandpa Quote

[ZeroExistenZ]

turn it up! [pocketmovies.net]

Re:Now the art is

[GundamFan]

A comment modded funny that actualy made me laugh... Wow this moderation thing may actualy work.

Re:Now the art is

[jrockway]

AUM as in AUM Shinrikyo [wikipedia.org]!?

pfft ... 20k lines of C

[Anonymous Coward]

could've done it in 5 lines of perl

Re:pfft ... 20k lines of C

[dgatwood]

Could've done it on 5 lines of C... and a very large data file, of course....

Re:pfft ... 20k lines of C

[gkwok]

That sounds about right.

use MPEG::MP3Play;
my $mp3 = new MPEG::MP3Play;
$mp3->open('deepnote.mp3');
$mp3- >play;
$mp3->close;

Super Mario World's keyhole sound

[tepples]

deepnote.mp3: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

I would plug in Super Mario World (either on cartridge or on an emulator), head to Donut Plains, grab the cape, fly up near the end of the stage, and stick the key in the hole. This causes the game to play a humorous sped up version of "Deep Note" [ytmnd.com].

Re:pfft ... 20k lines of C

[Ossifer]

I wonder how many lines of C it takes to THX-encode an entire 2-hour movie...

I didn't realize Hollywood enployed so many coders...

Re:pfft ... 20k lines of C

[Ossifer]

It's called "humor", Gavin...

Blasphemey

[iamlucky13]

I'm pretty sure you're supposed to be obsessed with Ruby on Rails this week. You're like 4 coding fads too late (perl, php, python...).

Now I'm just going to sit back and wait for somebody to tell me I'm wrong and it could be done in 3 lines with AJAX

Re:OMG! Welcome to CompSci101: Intro to Algorithms

[Viking Coder]

First off, if you RTFA, this guy worked at Stanford in Artificial Intelligence. You don't get to do that, if you're as dumb as you imply he is.

You also have no idea how many lines of the 20,000 are data tables. Note the part where he says "the frequencies of the big chord (which had been typed in by hand - based on a 150-Hz root)..."

I'll tell you what: I'll give you 4 days to write your 5 lines of Perl. When it executes, it should algorithmically create (not download off the internet, or some bullshit) a wav file which 8 out of 10 people can't distinguish from 'Deep Note' based on a side-by-side sound test. If you succeed, I'll send you $300 through PayPal.

Until then, STFU. Some of us are trying to enjoy the show.

I always thought it was

[Orrin Bloquy]

THEEEWWWWAANNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG

You know, a slowed down version of the sound of what happens after George Lucas unzips his fly.

Re:I always thought it was

[eclectro]

THEEEWWWWAANNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG

George Lucas is filing papers against you for copyright infringement for using the THX(tm) sound in your post.

He's doing it using the loose change that dropped out as he was unzipping his fly.

Re:I always thought it was

[Jester998]

Would that be the spare change from his left pocket or right pocket? One containts cash he deserves as a technical director, and the other cash he deserves as a scriptwriter/producer. If it's the latter, we have nothing to worry about. I don't think lawyers work for $0.00.

Re:I always thought it was

[pipingguy]

Nah, that's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Scream [wikipedia.org]

This Is Very Old

[Anonymous Coward]

This was posted a long time ago...what's next? Bell makes phone call?

Re:This Is Very Old

[nurd666]

Ug Make Fire! Story next on RockDot.org

They created it by

[geekoid]

recording the sound inside my head when my former wife talks.

Re:They created it by

[rinkjustice]

Best. Post. Ever.

Some tangential "Deep Note" trivia

[doesitmakeitsick]

This always amused me: http://www.benedict.com/Audio/dre/dre.aspx [benedict.com] When the Napster maelstrom hit the recording industry, Dr. Dre, along with Metallica, was one of the first to hurl accusations of copyright infringement at the popular file sharing site.

Dr. Dre is furious that people are using Napster to download his song "Lolo" without permission or license - an obvious "copyright infringement". The irony is that the prominent feature of that song is a sound that Dr. Dre appropriated without permission or license - an obvious "copyright infringement"?

Re:Some tangential "Deep Note" trivia

[iamdrscience]

More irony: That page includes clips of both the Dr. Dre song and Deepnote - an obvious "copyright infringement".

Re:Some tangential "Deep Note" trivia

[dynamo52]

When the Napster maelstrom hit the recording industry, Dr. Dre, along with Metallica, was one of the first to hurl accusations of copyright infringement at the popular file sharing site

Slightly offtopic but a friend of mine is a producer who at one time worked at the Plant, a famous studio Metallica has used to record albums. Lars was visiting my friends private studio one day where he showed Lars this great new program that you could use to download free music and software. Lars was fascinated. We all

Yeah but...

[jlramirez]

how much of them lines are gotos?

He was a Gentoo fan...

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

how much of them lines are gotos?

None of them. Not a single one. I'd guess that there probably isn't any branching or looping logic in the entire program...

Talk about -funroll-loops!

Could you add one more line of code

[Unknown Poltroon]

to please for the love of god turn the damn thing DOWN A NOTCH?!?!?!

Re:Could you add one more line of code

[acroyear]

gee, i thought it was just me...and my wife...and brother. and mom and dad. grandmother. nextdoor neighbor. my cousin in atlanta. my ex-boss now living in seatle. the headington morris men in the uk.

one dvd and you wouldn't believe the # of phone calls I got telling me to turn that damn thing down.

Re:Could you add one more line of code

[R2.0]

The first time I heard the sound was the first run of "Die Hard" in a brand new theater. they started with closing the curtain, and sloooowly opening it accompanied by the sound. In the awed silence thast followed, I said loudly and distinctly "Big deal!".

My date was mortified; still got laid, though.

Re:Could you add one more line of code

[Firehed]

Hmm.... almost like when my friend ripped a huge fart just prior to an on-screen explosion. Well, I'm guessing the entire back two rows of the theater didn't crack up when you did that.

Re:Could you add one more line of code

[animaal]

My date was mortified; still got laid, though.

Do you know for sure that she got laid? She might only have told you she did out of spite ;)

Re:Could you add one more line of code

[jleq]

still got laid, though.

You don't belong here. Move along.

Re:Could you add one more line of code

[geobeck]

Turn it uuuup! Turn it uuuuuup!
--Abe Simpson

I like the THX signature sound so much...

[E-Lad]

That depending on the movie that follows it, that sound is the best part of the sitting.

Blasting Speaker Noise

[zippthorne]

Their stated goal was to demonstrate the clarity or depth or somesuch without being overpowering..

However every theater I've been in with THX has for some odd reason put the audio level up to 11 to "enhance" the effect. So instead of a nice clean silly-sound followed by a clear and rich sound, I am treated to the sharp buzz of overmod followed by the grating pops of briefly exceeding the specifications of the speakers during the exciting parts of the films.

Fortunately, home theaters are cheap and it is quite easy to peg the audio at a level that doesn't stress the speakers. But it's a sad commentary when $60 walmart home theater has better sound than the real thing simply because some undertrained lacky failed to properly adjust the sound levels.

Re:Blasting Speaker Noise

[Quikah]

Submit a complaint to THX, if they get enough they will check the theater and revoke their certification if things are not up to snuff.

http://www.thx.com/mod/cinema/survey.html [thx.com]

Re:Blasting Speaker Noise

[Silver Gryphon]

If only mod points went to 11...

Volume has to be the most irritating problem in a movie theater. Granted, the 14 year old lackeys don't give a rat's ass what they set it at, but if enough people complain through the THX survey, those 14 year old lackeys will be the most educated in town on the definition of 'audiophile.' THX will work hard to preserve its reputation vs. DTS and competitors. They'll come down hard on theater management, who will have no choice but to train and weed out failing staff. With keeping a uniform or theater clean, or keeping food safety in mind, a theater's reputation spreads. So too does "that theater's too loud, let's go to the one across town."

I had no idea until now that THX had a public survey. I'll have to use it.

Re:Blasting Speaker Noise

[ToastyKen]

The theater is probably not THX-compliant, then, like the parent post says. One of the central purposes of THX is precisely to avoid overly loud sound systems that ruin clarity!

Re:Blasting Speaker Noise

[Suddenly_Dead]

Wow, thanks for that. If only I knew about it back when I went to see the first (crappy) Matrix sequel in a "THX certified theater". You literally couldn't hear what some people were saying over the cranked bass and low tones, not that I cared after the headache it gave me.

Re:Blasting Speaker Noise

[Locke2005]

Their stated goal was to demonstrate the clarity or depth or somesuch without being overpowering...

But there actual goal was to get everybody in the theater to SHUT THE FUCK UP and listen to the movie, which requires a burst of sound so loud that nobody can talk over it.

Re:Blasting Speaker Noise

[Hao Wu]

I have not fretted over any movie's sound since learning that Stanley Kubrick preferred mono for his films. To many great masters the message contains the inspiration, while the media is a distraction.

Re:Blasting Speaker Noise

[hunterx11]

I have not fretted over any movie's sound since learning that Stanley Kubrick preferred mono for his films. To many great masters the message contains the inspiration, while the media is a distraction.

This doesn't follow. He is complaining about how an unnecessary attempt to make something sound "better" made the media distract him from the film. If distractions are bad, shouldn't he dislike distractions?

Brown note...

[GillBates0]

I randomly assigned and poked the frequencies so they drifted up and down in that range."

No luck finding the Brown note, I presume? Somehow "poked" and the "brown note" bring colorful images to the mind.

MythBusters busts it

[tepples]

MythBusters confirms it: Brown note is dying [wikipedia.org]

And I always thought

[Rooked_One]

it was just the movy skreen starting up. Don't they run on 8 cylenders ?

Doing it the hard way.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why there as still so many fans of programs like c-sound, pure-data, jmax etc.
Nothing beats creating a sound from scratch.
It takes a lot longer than pressing a preset button on a synth. :(

An instrument like a guitar is simple in a way, but with practice, people get so many sounds from it. C-sound is a bit like that too, you start off just making beeps and then eventually it sounds a bit like music.

Re:Doing it the hard way.

[ScrewMaster]

Not as much fun as playing with knobs and patchcords on a modular analog synth.

They Didn't Sue FLA

[Black-Man]

Frontline Assembly either coped it or did a pretty darn close fascimile on the CD Live Wired. I would hope they wouldn't stoop that low. Hope I didn't just blow their cover.

Re:They Didn't Sue FLA

[tgd]

Listen to them side by side, I never thought they were that close... pitch is totally different, and its not as drawn out.

Wow! A one pole smoother...

[Weaselmancer]

Occasionally called a resistor and a capacitor.

Re:Wow! A one pole smoother...

[dmiller]

except when you are in the digital domain.

Re:Wow! A one pole smoother...

[mmkkbb]

Well, if it's a variable resistor and a variable capacitor (do they even make those?) it becomes quicker to say "one-pole smoother"

you know, like how an IDE is a compiler, linker, editor, and debugger, or something.

Re:Wow! A one pole smoother...

[belg4mit]

You still came across them, I had one in a radio teddy bear in the 80s.
Of course, at the time I thought it was potentiometer and couldn't figure
out why it worked in the radio but not for me.

Re:Wow! A one pole smoother...

[PenguiN42]

They exist, but i dunno how common they are these days

That's it. You've done it. I officially feel old now.

THX, DTS, etc.

[demonbug]

I was trying to remember the first time I heard the "Deep Note", but couldn't. The only thing I could think of was "The Digital Experience" intro at the beginning of Jurassic Park (I think the first or at least one of the first movies released using DTS), but I don't think that was quite the same thing. Really cool though, and it was a great opening for the bone-rattling bass in that movie. Anyone know what the first thing the "Deep Note" was attached to?

Re:THX, DTS, etc.

[blackraven14250]

Probably the THX logo.

Re:THX, DTS, etc.

[kaptron]

According to the link, Return of the Jedi was the first. Of course, I never made it that far in the theater myself, I got scared by a Friday the 13th trailer and went to see another movie [imdb.com] (this was the 1985 ROTJ re-release when I was almost 4 yrs old).

But I do distinctly remember the Jurassic Park DTS intro... it seems like around that time was when Dolby Digital, SDDS, etc, surround sound intros started becoming really prominent. I had always thought that the THX intro was a lot newer than 1983 myself,

So, in other words ...

[ScrewMaster]

I randomly assigned and poked the frequencies so they drifted up and down in that range.

He fiddled with it until it sounded nice.

Re:So, in other words ...

[colmore]

If you read the article, you'll know he means something more complicated than that.

Everyone here really should read this one, the guy mostly writes it himself. It's a really interesting peek at Lucasfilm Computer Division in the 80s -- a bit of movie technology I'd like to hear more about -- and the state of computer music right before everything went fully digital.

The saddest part:

>> "The ASP [LCD's crazy sounding mainframe-driven analog synth] was decommissioned in 1986 and later sold for scrap."

Re:So, in other words ...

[Yahweh Doesn't Exist]

woah woah woah. you can't say "trial and error". it's not PC. if you must, say "trial and feedback".

it can't be that complicated...

[ALpaca2500]

How'd you make this crunching noise, in this part of the song, here?

Well, it's, it's really a combination of... I used celery. I broke celery sticks, and then pitched it down, and I added lots of reverb. I guess I'm giving away some trade secrets here.

But nobody will ever really know exactly how much celery you used.

I also added corn starch, and then we went and crashed our van. And recorded that. And I mixed it in.

It sounds incredible.

Simpsons

[PoitNarf]

My favorite use of this sound was in a Simpsons episode. Video here:

http://media.putfile.com/The--Simpsons--THX--Parod y--DIVX [putfile.com]

Re:Simpsons

[PoitNarf]

Google video link, other one seems to be pretty slow:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-501554651 5578134968&q=thx&pl=true [google.com]

Links to the original THX sound

[theurge14]

Here's a good place to get them. Apparently there have been some variations over the years:

http://www.digital-audio.net/sounds_o.shtml [digital-audio.net]

Many Variations on a theme.

[LibertineR]

I've got a Home Theater Calibration DVD that contains all the recent variations of that THX sound. They made dozens of them. The coolest one? The one made for the movie Aliens, by far. I think they did a few for the Star Wars movies too, and other movies where sound quality was paramount. (no pun intended) It cost a ton of money to get my theater to the point where it sounded just like a cinema, but now it is sometimes the highlight of the movie watching experience. Which says a lot about the quality of movies these days. Only the overhead rumble of the first Star Wars movie matches that THX sound clip in its viceral sound impact, along with the opening segment of Top Gun with the subwoofer cranked up.

Re:Many Variations on a theme.

[0racle]

When I went to see Phantom Menace, there was a THX sound with a cow going, well, Moo. I've never heard it since and I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks for bringing that memory up. Now I have to find it.

Re:Many Variations on a theme.

[augustz]

Was funny the first time, but that moo can thing got old FAST for me :)

Re:Many Variations on a theme.

[justMichael]

Thanks for bringing that memory up. Now I have to find it.

It's on Monsters Inc. or at least one version of it is. I think I've seen more that one version of the cows.

Re:Many Variations on a theme.

[MustardMan]

My favorite is on the Terminator 2 DVD. There's a mirrored logo (cyberdyne maybe?) and you hear footsteps behind you, then see a reflection of Arnold with a shotgun. He blows the logo apart and lots of shattering noises surround you, then the pieces melt terminator-style, and the THX sound plays while the puddle morphs into a THX logo. They have used a similar one since then, but the T2 version rocked.

I bet he's a real party anmal

[Linker3000]

I can imagine Mr Moorer is a real chick-puller at parties:

"Hey, I invented this really really famous sound - it goes like...well..actually I have it here on my iPod, or you can come back to my place to hear it on my home theatre if you want? Here take this copy on CD, it's free..."

Think Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters!

Re:I bet he's a real party anmal

[Khaed]

Think Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters!

Yeah, but then when he gets them home he's screwed because he locked himself out...

Re:I bet he's a real party anmal

[Roofus]

Think Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters!

Actually, you apply that thought to pretty much any Rick Moranis movie!

TODO: log random number generator seed

[natophonic]

Some months after the piece was released (along with "Return of the Jedi") they lost the original recording. I recreated the piece for them, but they kept complaining that it didn't sound the same. Since my random-number generators were keyed on the time and date, I couldn't reproduce the score of the performance that they liked. I finally found the original version and everybody was happy.

Whew!

I was in a somewhat similar spot a few years back, where a script I'd written to generate random data for load testing a server, used date and time as a rand() seed. One set of data I generated uncovered a weird threading issue, and it was pretty reproducible with that dataset. Then a disk crash wiped the dataset. I still had the script, but couldn't seem to get another dataset that would repro the issue.

In addition to being better about backups, I now log whatever random seed is used to generate a dataset like that.

Talk about feeling left out...

[markhb]

The THX "Find a cinema" search function told me my ZIP Code didn't appear to be valid! I appear to live over 100 miles from the nearest theater that plays this supposedly "famous" sound.

Re:Talk about feeling left out...

[zCyl]

The THX "Find a cinema" search function told me my ZIP Code didn't appear to be valid! I appear to live over 100 miles from the nearest theater that plays this supposedly "famous" sound.

So take advantage of the newly evolved Netflix envelope [slashdot.org]... The THX sound is at the start of many rentals too.

Nothing beats the Boston Imax theatre Noise...

[technoextreme]

Leonard Nimoy saying ,"Who put the boop in the boopseboop?" Note: This is a song. I just don't know the corect line.

Found the right line....

[technoextreme]

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?

Re:Nothing beats the Boston Imax theatre Noise...

[jacksonj04]

Who put the ram in the rama-lama ding-dong?

I know what it really is.

[blair1q]

They put a lavalier (wireless microphone) on Lucas and followed him around for a day-in-the-life thing, and at one point he pulled out his wallet and opened it.

So they sampled that, air-balled it once, and patented it.

Cameo appearance in anime

[Megane]

Deep Note made a cameo appearance in the anime "RG Veda" as the sound made by somebody's big-ass sword. I remember laughing my ass off when I first saw that sequence.

I doubt Lucasfilm or THX authorized that usage.

Here's how it *really* went down

[popo]

George Lucas: How'd you make that sound Andy?

Andy Moorer: We electrocuted a sperm whale.

George Lucas: God damn that sounds great.

Andy Moorer: [Giggles} I *know*

George Lucas: Thing is... we need a story that's not going to bring those Greenpeace punks down on top of us.

Andy Moorer: I coded the sound with 20,000 lines of C?

George Lucas: Nice. Let's go with that.

Re:Here's how it *really* went down

[iamlucky13]

Funniest thing I've read in slashdot all week. Too bad I never remember these shorts people come up with. They would make fantastic sketches.

Re:Here's how it *really* went down

[Khyber]

I have mod points, but sadly, there is no +5 "I pissed myself laughing" mod. I'm not joking, I have this wee wet spot in my pants now from laughing so hard.. wait.. *sniff* nevermind, I spilled beer there.

Something cool to try...

[martinultima]

If you can find an MP3 (or Ogg Vorbis, or FLAC, or WAV, or...) copy of "Deep Note," try playing it backwards and/or at various different speeds. If it's played at around 14x the original speed it actually sounds sorta neat. And backwards it sounds like a nuclear reactor going down.

(Uh... not that I'd know what a nuclear reactor would sound like... yeah, uh, you can get back to dealing with Iran now...)

Nice guy

[josecanuc]

A few years ago my company was organizing a speech/audio engineers' conference (ICASSP) in Orlando. Mr. Moorer was one of the keynote speakers. His topic wasn't the THX sound, but he did talk about it. His story matches TFA, so I guess it's legit ;-)

I ended up playing his sound samples for his talk through the auditorium sound system. I didn't know he was involved with the THX sound, and when he mentioned it, I realized I now had an interesting (somewhat) story. "I ran sound effects for the guy who invented

I'm picturing the source code...

[KnightStalker]

#include <sounds.h>
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv;
{
SOUND_T *snd = create_sound();
/* 19,990 lines of "alter sound slightly" */
play_sound(snd);
free_sound(snd);
}

Yeah, and you know it's K&R style too.

Have a listen...

[lax-goalie]

For those who want to give it a listen, the trademarked THX sound is available on the USPTO's web site here [uspto.gov].

They have a whole bunch of others here [uspto.gov]. It's kind of a fun page to click around on.

Do we really need more advertising?

[AaronLawrence]

I'm getting pretty sick of the loud pretentious dolby ads at the front of movies. That's all they are, and they are mostly repeated, so it gets dull after a couple of times.
Imagine if every technology involved in movies got a 30 second ad at the start of the movie.

Strangely similar to an "Asia" intro

[SysKoll]

The "freaking orchestra" sound of THX is very, very much the same as the opening of Asia's "Countdown to Zero" song, part of the "Astra" album. I always wondered if the THX guys had bought the rights from them. I guess they wrote 20 klocs of C to reproduce a sound made with a couple of Moogs.

On Purpose? (Temporal Masking)

[slashbob22]

Much like some of the methods of lossy compression (Temporal Masking [wikipedia.org]). Maybe the point is to provide a loud sound such that your ears cant really distinguish the crappy audio afterwards -- I do realize that temporal masking is generally on the scale of milliseconds. But maybe they know something we don't.

Re:On Purpose? (Temporal Masking)

[doublebackslash]

Okay, I had to turn my speakers ALL the way up to get the full THX sound, it is *not that bad*. Look at the ociliscope or spectum analyzere that you video player of chice provides you with, it barely moves from zero. It is simply a side effect of the wide range of volue (nothing to something) over a decent amount of time and the complimentary combination of tones that makes it seem so loud. Yeesh.

Re:On Purpose? (Temporal Masking)

[dickens]

I feel the need to trot out my story of seeing the Smashing Pumpkins at the Wallace Civic Center in Fitchburg, MA (a small concrete & steel hockey rink) in the mid 90s. They started the show with the chase scene from the movie "Bullit" played at increasingly insane volumes with subharmonic enhancement. I had these aluminum labyrinth earplug things in and escaped without losing any of my hearing (as far as I could tell) but the sound was so intense that my insides were shaking. People's clothing was v

Re:Two words: Styx & Krakatoa

[colenski]

Five words: A Day In The Life

Sheesh, man, learn your rock history. Styx wasn't even close.

Re:Two words: Styx & Krakatoa

[Anonymous Coward]

please, both of you learn your history.. Iannis Xenakis in 1953 [furious.com]

Re:Two words: Styx & Krakatoa

[cnerd2025]

Wasn't it called an "orchestral freak out [wikipedia.org]". I actually thought of the same thing. Besides, it ends with the chord that sounds conspicuously like the Macintosh boot chime (I guess that's the source of the bitter fight between Apple Computer, Inc. and Apple Corp.) Now I read about this Xenakis guy. Fascinating...

I guess we could even bring up Johann Sebastian Bach, who is widely regarded as among the most brilliant (if not the most brilliant) composer of all time. Bach's works have been analyzed for mathemat

Re:Two words: Styx & Krakatoa

[AMoorer]

Actually, I thought I was ripping off the end of the Beatles' "Day in the Life". I never heard the Styx&Krakatoa version. I always say when you rip, rip from the best!