I’m a geek bearing gifts. Two Longhorn Rocks Videos and Theme Song.
I was talking to Jon again earlier tonight about how it would be really cool if Microsoft (or yours truly) did a cover video using Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington’s rendition of “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” as a theme. The video would basically be a spoof of Apple’s wonderfully plain yet “cool” ads. Much like their new videos showing off Panther. But this video would simply go from Windows 95 to Longhorn with the beginning of It Don’t Mean a Thing as a backdrop.
Shortly after that we had another one of our ESP moments and both started playing Thurrott’s PDC Longhorn Aero Rocks video. He asked me “what does the screen say at 00:20?”. Remembering that I had recorded some video from the event I popped in the Microdrive and checked, it says “Welcome to Windows”.
Well of course since I found that I just had to ask what the background tune was. Jon didn’t know and neither did I. But I did know it sounded really similar to Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and I could’ve swore I heard it before on this Mitsubishi Endeavor advert. Low and behold I was right, after a quick Google search for the Mitsu ad I found out it was buy a guy named Rob Overseer from his new album titled Wreckage. The song title, Horndog, is of course perfectly suited for Longhorn, I’ve just gotta ask who came up with this one…
Now that I know this guys awesome stuff I could swear I’ve heard it elsewhere before this and judging from his lists of spots I’m sure I have. Besides the Mitsubishi ad, his music was used in Gran Turismo 3, Alias, Snatch, Any Given Sunday, and Tomb Raider 2 among many others. I’ve listened to all of his clips and I’m definitely going to be getting this album. It rocks!
So anyway those gifts I promised…
I finally converted the only two videos I managed to take of the PDC Longhorn Aero Rocks video to WMV so you can download part 1 here and part 2 here. As for that special little treat for your ears, here’s a nice link to Overseer’s Horndog as well as Armstrong and Ellington’s It Don’t Mean a Thing (maybe someone will like my original idea and do the Swing video 
).
Tags: Longhorn, Media, Music, PDC
