Love is the Drug Car
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What is the car setting off at the beginning of Roxy Music's "Love is the Drug"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU
I have no idea, but I remember reading one of those "Celebrity Drive" interviews with Bryan Ferry in the original 'Top Gear' magazine in about 1993 when he said he had a C4 Corvette. I thought his choice of car was incredibly well suited to the louche style adopted during his later Roxy and solo career.
Vanin said:
Not sure that a Spitfire or MGB or any farty four could generate that amount of wheelspin!
My first car was an Austin A40 Farina with a mighty 1098cc four pumping a mighty 48hp.It could spin the rear 5.20 x 13 crossplies quite easily and often did - not having any tread helped... granted it struggled with the later 165/70's (gasp at the sporty forty...)
I agree that there seem to be two cars and my mistake was thinking that there was wheelspin in second gear whereas it is obviously the second car taking off.
Ferry had an old Studebaker when he was younger
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bryan+ferry+cars...
and there is a photo of him with a DB4
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bryan+ferry+cars...
Also here he talks about his prized Corvette
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/my-first-...
But it does not sound like any of these in the song. I will say now that it is two four cylinders probably a Triumph Spitfire taking off followed by an MGB
Amazing with the wealth of knowledge here and on google that we have not found an answer.
somebody must know as it is such an iconic song
Ferry had an old Studebaker when he was younger
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bryan+ferry+cars...
and there is a photo of him with a DB4
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bryan+ferry+cars...
Also here he talks about his prized Corvette
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/my-first-...
But it does not sound like any of these in the song. I will say now that it is two four cylinders probably a Triumph Spitfire taking off followed by an MGB
Amazing with the wealth of knowledge here and on google that we have not found an answer.
somebody must know as it is such an iconic song
No idea what car/eng that is.
However, made me think if there are other records with the sound of a car engine/starting included.
Masses of records over many, many years have been influenced by cars and driving, but engine sounds on record apart from Love is the Drug?
Can't think of any at all, that is apart from this. About 10 secs in the ignition is turned...
Hard of hearing may have to strain to hear it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDkPVguTOuU
However, made me think if there are other records with the sound of a car engine/starting included.
Masses of records over many, many years have been influenced by cars and driving, but engine sounds on record apart from Love is the Drug?
Can't think of any at all, that is apart from this. About 10 secs in the ignition is turned...
Hard of hearing may have to strain to hear it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDkPVguTOuU
You can hear the Love Is The Drug car sound on its own if you now anyone with a Mellotron M4000D.
Get them to insert Sound Card 02 (if they have it), then go to 'M400 Roxy FX1', and hit the highest note on the keyboard.
Without the rest of the record to distract you, you will notice that the first car to start just idles, but the second one pulls away with what I would call a very 'early-60s-small-British-sports-car' rasp to the exhaust.
(In the 70s Roxy Music loaded all their sound effects onto a Mellotron so that they could reproduce them on stage. The two sets on the 02 card include some really weird ones such as ghostly voices, single notes from a Minimoog (so that it could be played polyphonically), and an entire section of a RM song, which was sounded by playing a chromatic scale up the keyboard. I think Eddie Jobson played it.)
Get them to insert Sound Card 02 (if they have it), then go to 'M400 Roxy FX1', and hit the highest note on the keyboard.
Without the rest of the record to distract you, you will notice that the first car to start just idles, but the second one pulls away with what I would call a very 'early-60s-small-British-sports-car' rasp to the exhaust.
(In the 70s Roxy Music loaded all their sound effects onto a Mellotron so that they could reproduce them on stage. The two sets on the 02 card include some really weird ones such as ghostly voices, single notes from a Minimoog (so that it could be played polyphonically), and an entire section of a RM song, which was sounded by playing a chromatic scale up the keyboard. I think Eddie Jobson played it.)
Despite his louche image, Mr Ferry was very practically minded and thrifty in the 1970s.
He once told me over a game of Computer Battleships that the car was in fact a Bedford HA Van.
It became an economical way to transport Eno's Minimoogs during the day and with a couple of ex-Scout sleeping bags in the back (that he'd picked up from a car-boot sale in Durham), it transformed into a 4-wheeled palace of passion sans gig should Mr Ferry have struck lucky with a lady over a Babycham or two.
He once told me over a game of Computer Battleships that the car was in fact a Bedford HA Van.
It became an economical way to transport Eno's Minimoogs during the day and with a couple of ex-Scout sleeping bags in the back (that he'd picked up from a car-boot sale in Durham), it transformed into a 4-wheeled palace of passion sans gig should Mr Ferry have struck lucky with a lady over a Babycham or two.
Vanin said:
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