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Back before I knew anything about music, I thought Golden Earring was the band that played “Slow Ride”. But I based that upon the limited information provided to me by various Time-Life 1970s rock collections advertised as nauseam on late night 1990s television.
What my advanced and far more enlightened classmate Josh Oyer schooled me to was that the band Foghat had been the originators of the classic jam “Slow Ride”, and Golden Earring had given rise to the much weightier and more significant AOR rock classic “Radar Love”.
Well, excuse my podunk Upstate New York ass for not understanding what the hell a Slow Ride was, or how to interpret the meaning of Radar Love. But Twilight Zone? Oh, lawd. Ya speakin mah language dere.
Rod Serling grew up mere miles from where I did, on the shores of New York’s Cayuga Lake. So I don't have to reach far to imagine the terrible things he saw in the time he spent growing up there.
The imagination his childhood left him with inspired a generation of sci-fi fantasy television-- now known as “The Twilight Zone” -- while the rest of us were left to exist that area from which he drew all of his inspiration.
The circular baseline, funky guitar riff, and enigmatic lyrics are perfectly representative of a typical midnight trip through this area of upstate New York colloquially known as “The Twilight Zone”. So its perfect that I would never understand it before hearing it in LA told to me by a Dutch band for whom English is a second language.
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