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Golden Earring – Twilight Zone

An evening pause: Performed live 1984.

Hat tip Judd Clark.

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8 comments

  • You may be running Radar Love, but When the Bullet Hits the Bone, you are in The Twilight Zone.

  • judd

    Blair Ivey:

    i ran radar love for the eight years after i met the girl who would become my first wife, and again for last 35 years after i met the woman who would become my third wife, but i’ve never had the bullet hit the bone, although it was a close run thing when i was divorcing my second wife and i was in the twilight zone.

  • Sayomara

    This song always makes me think of coast to coast AM

  • Alex Andrite

    I don’t get it.
    I was working then, attempting to raise a family and feed them.

    As far as bullet/bone stuff,.
    I left that behind, or tried, with my ’72 discharge.

  • pzatchok

    This is the first video that has ever given me the feeling of sea sickness.

    I think it could have been some form of early image stabilization. I noticed the effect only happened when the human head was stable and the rest of the frame moved around or jiggled.

    I have just never seen that specific effect in any other video.

  • wayne

    pzatchok-
    ya’ know…. I never noticed that (what you describe) until you pointed it out.
    Steadicams & related tech were definitely a thing in 1984. (introduced in ’75)
    Looks to be a mixture of intentional effects and probably some artifacts of film->video->mp4.
    Let me watch it again… (and, as noted way down in the comments, “When I listen to Twilight Zone, so do my neighbors…”

  • wayne

    Jeff–
    The brain-wave visualizer folks, as always trust-but-verify. Not my specialty but what i do know is you can make the colors do anything you want them to.
    (Reminds me of the false color pictures from the JWST.)

    The “Big 5 personality traits,” is an actual thing and it’s fairly valid.
    Personally however, I have a big problem with applying it to people who are no longer with us.

    Apparently, (almost) the whole ‘Back Home Concert’ at the Groenoordhallen in Leiden, June 23rd 1984, is available at Youtube, but it’s chopped into individual songs and similar quality to above.

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