Okay, firstly these are WW2 dogfighting 'fan-vids' made from footage taken from 'Dark Blue World', 'Pearl Harbor' and the documentary 'The Fighting Lady'...
...if any of you remember my trollishly annoying 'me262/Some Girls' video (hey, anyone see Crank 2: High Voltage? That was a cool movie!) then you may be unsurprised to find these videos again feature 'punky/noisy' rock music, but not applied so randomly flippantly as that earlier Aces High II effort.
In order of battle, and in musical chronology...
Glenn Branca - Bad Smell (excerpt) - from 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm6TxDAY5U4The footage is mainly from the Czech film 'Dark Blue World' with a little of the Battle of Britain bits of Michael Bay's misjudged movie, obviously there are slight spoilers for these films, but I was just using clips of the planes not the actors, so they're not too blatant spoilers.
Zeni Geva - On Suicide - from 1990, a Japanese noise band covering an old Weill/Brecht 'musical poem', weird!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5P3OJSzwBEThe attack on Pearl Harbor from that Bay movie is the footage, with Ben Affleck removed thankfully. It seems to work pretty well.
Unsane - 455 - from 1993, and old-schoolish 'grunge/noise' instrumental featuring dragster racing samples...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Um_XYHCzwI wanted to put that song in a video for a while, and I also wanted to edit the gun-cam footage from 'The Fighting Lady', so two birds...
...it's kind of mismatched and kind of not, reminds me of those old clip-shows of nascar crashes, but with zeros and hellcats and stuff instead. It's actually like a 'normal' Unsane video pretty much!
Lastly, sad news, my dad, who played Aces High (and Air Warrior, and microsoft flight sim) died earlier this year from asbestos cancer. I myself have only been flying online from home for the last few years, so before then, since last century I was flying on his account as we often took turns when I was over his house, his username was '60gordon' (and years ago on AW3 we were 'Zim'), I made a tribute video from a replay I had saved...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPpuKEcOdS8It's kind of sad so be warned, the camera just stays stuck with him as he flies with the horde (and me) and I dubbed on some opera music that he loved - there's some cool radio chatter, 60gordon enjoyed all that very much and was just happy to fly. RIP.
Well that's me ('drewbaby' lol) out, see you in the skies!
drew
