I made a discovery this week.
Anyone who knows anything about my past writing knows my dedication to the Good Book, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
Little did I know that the story had a connection to that fabled band, The Eagles.
To think that Arthur and Ford are dancing around the universe to the strums of Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey while Don Henley keeps the rhythm is shocking. To know that Linda Ronstadt’s backup band, a band my father loved, doesn’t panic and might just know where their towels are…well…
I’m sure there are more learned Hitchhiker fans that I that are rolling their eyes at this. Of course they knew.
It’s fun discovering things late, though.
Annoys others that knew it, sure…but it’s like finding five dollars in an old coat pocket.
It is like, and I’ll make this one up, finding out Toto did the soundtrack for David Lynch’s Dune.
Oh…wait a tick.
Sometimes I forget how I used to focus so much more on the music than the film or TV show.
Likely the only reason I ever watched Miami Vice…again, please see Glenn Frey on that one.
So back to “Journey of the Sorcerer”…it was used as theme music to the BBC radio dramatization of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and then, as a nod to those, used again in the 2005 film.
Being there is, allegedly, a new Hitchhiker’s TV series in the works, maybe we’ll hear it again yet. One thing most fans of the story appear to like is random acts of nostalgia (easter eggs?) looking at the older versions, so who knows.
In closing, I would like to offer one further piece of music that, though most of you likely know the tune, I doubt you know this version.
This tune brings in the nostalgia of Fantasia (no, not the notorious Toronto strip club of the 90s) and Alan Parsons (yeah, he’s still around…but what has he done since the 1980s?), and connects it to the superband, Genesis, through the original guitar player, Steve Hackett.
Okay, not like we’re connecting it to Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins…but still.
There really is no point to this piece…just sharing some shit that I like. Something I have missed doing.
