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Offline Tarantulas

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Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« on: September 15, 2006, 05:53:52 PM »
Riff-mods:

Did Mike do the intro music for Rifftrax (since he's musicaly inclined), or is it stock?

Thanks!


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2006, 08:45:43 AM »
None of the above.  After considering some songs with sweet riffs at the beginning, we decided to have our talented sound guy get some people he knows to record the music.  The sound they were told to strive for were a few songs by the Replacements. 


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2006, 08:49:12 AM »
Is there a longer cut of the song?  Or is any other incidental music they did that has not been released.

Would make a great "web exclusive bonus material" type thing.. or something.


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2006, 09:23:42 AM »
Tarantulas...seriously now.  I think the open music is fine and all, but if you really want to listen to the riffrax music outside of hearing it during the opening of a rifftrax, you might be taking it too seriously.


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2006, 10:00:47 AM »
Being the #1 Rifftrax fan in the world requires quite a bit of commitment. :)

A local theater chain sells the incidental music that plays during their companys logo in the lobby... scary, eh?


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2006, 09:53:48 PM »
What is up with that awful cheesy pop-rock intro to each rifftrax? The bass gliss on the upbeat makes me gag every time I hear it. Surely there must be some better alternatives. I don't know: Daft Punk? Tiffany? Doobie Bros? Thad Jones? Duke Ellington? Wolfgang Mozart? Josquin DuPrez? ANYTHING else...


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2006, 10:36:17 PM »
I don't mind it, but they need to cut it in half, time-wise. You start to wonder what's going on after a few seconds...


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2006, 01:58:10 AM »
That was probably the worst way to go about asking for a change in the intro music. You should figure out a better way to go about bringing up this issue you have and then post it in the feedback category rather than the general discussion category.

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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2006, 02:05:49 AM »
Eh.. I can deal with the whopping 20 seconds of music.


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2006, 04:57:02 AM »
Isn't it meant to be cheesy? I thought that was the whole point...


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2006, 05:03:58 AM »
It's called royalty-free music and it's a cheap way to use a song with your product without paying royalty fees or creating the music yourself.

Maybe they thought it was cheesy too?

Mike? J-Proof? Conor L? Disembaudio? Anyone care to chime in and explain?


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2006, 05:47:26 AM »
FFW works wonders for "issues" like this.


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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2006, 06:16:32 AM »
I asked this same question a week or two ago.

Turns out it was written by some staffer / friends of staffers at Legend.

Here's the thread: http://rifftrax.com/smf/index.php?topic=281.0

There is nothing wrong with the current music, canzona.  Stop being a dim bulb.
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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2006, 06:32:40 AM »
There is nothing wrong with the current music, canzona.  Stop being a dim bulb.

I'm not sure name calling is appropriate.  Then again, this is the internet.

Regardless, welcome to the forums, Canzona.
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Re: Rifftrax Musical Intro?
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2006, 06:36:08 AM »
Well when you use your 3rd post to the forum to insult the hard work of the Rifftrax folks, anything goes.

And dim bulb is less of an insult and more of a MST reference to "see the light". :)

Canzona, welcome to the forum.