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Dark tower deserves a lord of the rings quality adaptation

See that turtle, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin' Beam!

"When you reach the end, Do it Over again..." -Velcro Fly (ZZ Top)

To Eddie Dean, this is probably really surreal and weird. I couldn’t imagine recognizing the backbeat of a rock-n-roll song in some post-apocalyptic city playing out loud drowning out all other sounds. But to Roland, Jake, and Susannah, this shit probably just sounds scary as hell and intense.

VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD. VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK. VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK. VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK. VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD. YOU ARE KA-TET; ONE MADE FROM MANY. SO AM I. WHOSE KA-TET IS THE STRONGER IS SOMETHING WE MUST NOW PROVE.

I just imagine them getting closer to Lud, hearing this periodically and louder each time...no movie will ever do the feeling of this story justice.

SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR, AFTER A WHILE CROCODILE. DON'T FORGET TO WRITE

ZZ Top invented post apocalyptic industrial music without even realizing it. Leave it to some guys in Texas to come across such happy accidents.

I'm listening to this on repeat as I read through Lud. Great job, man. “Jesus Pumpkin-Pie Christ, don’t you get it? You’re killing each other over a piece of music that was never even released as a single!”

Killing each other over a track that was never released as a single!

Something I love about this take on the god drums is that it sounds a lot like train tracks. Blaine would be pleased

That's catchy as hell. Totally fits the fusion of post-apocalyptic with dipolar computers. One can imagine Blaine the Mono chugging madly along to the beat.

I swear using this drum beat in the way Stephen King did was absolute genius. I can't stop listening to it now.

For years I wondered what this would sound like. Thank you. It's so ominous.

Hey-ho, let's go! Bring on those wise fuckin elves!

I like that everyone who read the books knows this secret language now if do ya ken, and thankee sai

If I listen to this long enough, it listens back.

Blaine is a pain

I could imagine this version playing while Gasher is racing Jake through the subterranean corridors, and while Jake and Roland are following Blaine's metal sphere while all around them Lud is blowing up and its inhabitants are all killing themselves like some giant suicide cult.

The growing intensity makes for such perfect atmosphere as Roland races after Jake through subterranean Lud.

Finally decided to look up the isolated drums even though I've read this series multiple times. Holy shit this sets the scene.

A mad in a Cradle, a kid with a leper, blue is for girls and pink is for men, Grays and Pubes are fighting again.

This captures the crazy, chaotic energy of the whole Lud sequence perfectly

Who knew the god drums were so funky tbh

See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, come along the beam today.

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

Man, if you could make an hour-long version of this, it would be PERFECT for reading the Lud chapters.

Imagine living all your life with this pounding in your head at full volume. Creepy......

I'm glad this exists on YT. Dark Tower seemed unknown to others since my brother is the only who I've heard read the series. Again, glad to see I was wrong.

A soundtrack to a book. Of one of my favorite books of all time. Thank you so much.

"That's a rock and roll backbeat," Eddie said suddenly. "I know it is. Take away the guitars and that's what you've got left. In fact, it sounds quite a lot like ZZ Top." "ZZ who?" Susannah asked. Eddie grinned. "They didn't exist in your when," he said. "I mean, they probably did, but in '63 they would have just been just a bunch of kids in Texas." He listened . "I'll be goddamned if that doesn't sound just like the backbeat to something like, 'Sharp-Dressed Man' or 'Velcro Fly.'" "Velcro Fly?" Jake said. "That's a stupid name for a song." "Pretty funny, though." Eddie said. "You missed it by ten years or so, sport." "We'd better roll over," Roland said. "Morning comes early." "I can't sleep with that shit going on," Eddie said. - The Wastelands, Dark Tower Book III by Stephen King

A great relaxation beat. After a hard day's work, when your brain is all knotted up - put on headphones, slightly louder than comfortable, sit back, close your eyes and listen to this. After a few minutes, either you've gone insane or the drums beat all the knots out of your brain.

without the vocals and with these drums only this track really is scary.. scary how perfectly it fits into a book series as good as the dark tower.. i would ve gone mad..these truely are the god drums..

At some point it got so fast it sounded like I could hear Blaine the Mono chugging along through Mid-World in the background. But a gunslinger does not listen with just his ears. He who listens with his ears has forgotten the face of his father.

This would be terrifying if being blasted in a post-apocalyptic, abandoned city.

Stephen King’s Danse Macabre introduced me to Shirley Jackson, I almost died when I got to the subtle tribute he paid to her in his Dark Tower series The Waste Lands pg. 537 Certainly there had been an intelligence left in the ancient computers below the city, a single living organism which had long ago ceased to exist sanely under conditions that, within its merciless dipolar circuits, could only be absolute reality. It had held its increasingly alien logic within its of memory for eight hundred years and might have held them so for eight hundred more. The Haunting of Hill House pg. 1 No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane stood by itself against its hills holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.

As i listen this i can easily imagine Roland and Oy following Jake's trail through Lud.

Holy shit, dude. This is my new workout music. Hopefully I won't kill everyone else in the gym.

Gotta crank it to max volume for the full effect. Ready to make a sacrifice.

I'd go crazy too if this was all i heard.

I just finished this book (again), but have never heard "Velcro Fly" by ZZ Top. The song itself is pretty standard stuff, but stripped down to the drums as in the book it's terrifying. Thanks so much for this.

Lud leaves an impression. I couldn’t have picked a better piece of music to represent it.

I can actually picture music like this playing in several places during the entire sequence in Lud-when Roland is chasing Gasher and Jake, when Eddie and Susannah are chasing after the Pubes, and when Blaine is carrying them through the city as it self destructs.

Me if I lived in Lud: *drums start playing* My family: please don’t- *jams the fuck out*

I'm approaching the Lud chapters of my (I think) fifth readthrough of the series. Looking forward to listening to this while I read!

I've always wished for a stand alone story of Lud.

Have to listen to this every few days for fresh inspiration. My favorite segment of my favorite tale from my favorite author. And every time I listen, I keep praying for a movie. And dreading the thought that somebody'll give it the "Under the Dome" treatment and fuck it all up.

That scene in the Jack Nicholson / Michael Keaton Batman where the Joker's parade balloons spew out poison gas always reminds me of when Blaine gassed Lud on the way out of town.

See that turtle, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin' Beam! And if you want to run and play, Come along the Beam today, See them come a-runnin' just as fast as they can, 'Cos everybody's crazy 'bout the mighty fuckin' Beam!

See the Turtle, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin' Beam.

Honestly, mate, thank you for this. It truly realises Lud. I've been listening to this for years, but even so, when I close my eyes I can still see Roland and Oy running the gauntlet after Gasher and Jake, and Eddie and Suze on their way to the Cradle. Did a fantastic job, brother.

You have brought literature to life through music. I set my watch and warrant on it and say thank-ya.

See the Turtle. Ain't he keen? Even the God Drums served the beam? Lol

“Have you got any Z.Z. Top?” Eddie asked sourly. “YES INDEED,” Blaine said. “HOW ABOUT A LITTLE 'TUBE-SNAKE BOOGIE,' EDDIE OF NEW YORK?”

Now inspired to read series again with your brilliant music as backing. So glad I discovered it, even though so late in the day. Say thankee sai, thankee big big

ASK ME A QUESTION! AND MAKE IT A GOOD ONE!

this saga is AWESOME, but it's so bizzarre...

It was Spankers stone what come out of the hat, and we set him to dance.

I like to think that these are the drums that the Master (from Doctor Who) has heard all his life in his head.

Okay, while reading the wastelands I never actually heard Velcro Fly by ZZ Top but I found this soon after I heard it and I love how you've managed to make it sound menacing. I can almost hear the screams of violence and glass breaking in the background. If they ever start trying to put a dark tower film in production, you should totally try doing the soundtrack for it.

HOLY SHIT why didn't I discover this when I was reading! I'd dig the shit out of it, do ya ken!

hope my stone don't come out the hat, and they set me to dance

Never thought to look it up now until my second read thru of the dark tower on the wastelands adds so much actually hearing it and imagining this so incredibly loud you can hear it miles away as they approach lud

Awesome to see these kinds of videos being made for this series. A shame that the creator hasn't uploaded in years, these are masterpieces!

Well done! I wasn’t familiar with Velcro Fly, so had to stop the book to experience it. Luckily I found this! Awesome choice to use in the book. This isn’t just any beat - it’s so intense and complex! Funny how without context people revert so quickly to supernatural explanations for things. This would have been overwhelming and completely terrifying to the people who experience it in the book! Thanks again for creating this.

I need a version of this that goes on for hours.

Holy shit this is so good man. Im on book 4 Wizard and Glass right now. Such an amazing series

You think Frank Beard has ever read this book and been like, "WTF?"

I know this is internet-ancient, but I'm just now finding it. BadASS track, I'll have to check out the rest of the project.

Listenin to this on loop now Gnasher has Jake and Eddie and Susannah are going through the city ..... re reading the Dark tower series and loving it like this is the first time I am reading it .. gosh !!!

Now reading the third book... Can't wait to finally find The Dark Tower with Roland and the rest of my Ka-Tet friends

This is what it sounds like in your head when I take a bunch of hits of poppers.

Dear sweet Christ... That would actually be pretty terrifying to hear in the distance of some awful destroyed city like Lud... *shudder* it makes the Waste Lands that much more intense an experience

Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth... this is fucking badass, more or less how I imagined it.

Only King could think of a way to make life in post-apocalyptic hellscape worse. Oh, are you suffering in all the toxins, mutants, starvation, and brutality? Here's a fragment of cheesy 80's song randomly blasting from loudspeakers! It triggers a killing spree! Not only that, it's annoyingly catchy, so you'll hear it in your head fucking constantly. Imagine trying to find the source of it. You scour the toxic ruins of the old world for years, looking for that one damn computer that's still working. You find a working one and smash it up, the drums don't play for ages, you think, FINALLY it's gone for good. Then in the middle of the night, just as you're about to drift off: *dun-DUN DUN-DUN-DUN DUN-nuh-nuh*

This mix still slaps. Whenever I think of the books it autoplays in my head.

Fucking epic, dude. I just listened to this while reading the scene where Eddie breaks Blaine's brain and advances on him with the revolver to finish the job. Goddamn savage.

This is way more chilling and terrifying than I thought it sounded in my head. It's sounds so panicked, feverish, and insane, and unlike anything one would except to appear in Roland's world.

From the demented f*cking mind of Stephen King. Just finished DT2: The Wastelands. Wow. This could be a mini-series. Makes "The Walking Dead" look like pre-school.

Velcro fly by zz top. The drums in that .......perfect. Am I taking crazy pills here ?

@stellastey Thank you. It's great to hear that my music can live up to reader's expectations.

Never get tired of these

"What these people had apparently wanted to hear in the recorded drum-track was an invitation to commit ritual murder. And now, when the drums began to throb through these hundreds or thousands of speakers-a hammering back-beat which was only the percussion to a Z.Z. Top song called "Velcro Fly," if Eddie was right-it became their signal to unlimber the hangropes and run a few folks up the nearest speaker-posts. 'How many?' she wondered as Eddie rolled her along in her wheel-chair, its nicked and dented hard rubber tires crackling over broken glass and whispering through drifts of discarded paper. How many have been killed over the years because some electronic circuit under the city got the hiccups?" - The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands

Don't forget to check out the album: The Crimson King by Demons & Wizards (it's power metal).

I don't even see any complaining about the movie. I guess we all decided it's not worth it, so no one actually watched it yet.

Imagine the amounts of untold degeneracy that occurred in the darkest corners of Lud. What ever happened afterwards to the the inhabitants would've been mercy.

Lud man.

Love this. I think my favorite new pastime is reading the Lud part of The Wastelands with this on constant replay! :D

This is awesome! I can so picture the Ka-tet traveling through Lud. Thank you so much! :)

No one is commenting on the awesome job you did adding the other elements to the zz top loop. Great work. You have not forgotten the face of your father.

Best music to clean the house to :D

I can't stop listening this! and i'm very close to Blaine

I'm not quite sure how I ended up here, but this is legit good. An auditory treat. Thank you.

preparing to read the series, again. will help so much to hear the drums now. u do great work. Thankee sai.

Perfect. Just as I imagined they would sound.

@BggProductions That's why I love it so much! And why I will definitely listen to some more of your stuff... ;)

Thankee sai. Long days and pleasant nights.

I was JUST listening to Velcro Fly. I'm so glad that you did this. This is awesome. Thank you.