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I am the Nightrider!

"You should see the damage, bronze"

This is my fuel drenched love letter to the spirit of the most Australian, most aggressive, most electric bit of dialogue ever uttered in the history of film. Cult actor Vincent Gil nailed the true essence of nihilism in the intro of George Miller's 1979 classic Mad Max (forget that 2015 piece of crap).

Check this bit of dialogue out:

Max:

Much damage?

Nightrider:

[via radio] You should see the damage, bronze. Huh? metal damage, brain damage. Heheheh. You listen bronze. I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller! I'm the Nightrider, baby,
[unintelligible]

And we ain't never comin' back!

Forget anyhing that you thought was punk or rebellious. No band in history has ever delivered a line as utterly anarchic as "I'm a fuel injected suicide machine". I get excited just typing it.

I put this together years ago and decided to dust it off while I take an extended break from songs. Hopefully my choice of music does some justice to the venom spat out by Vincent Gil. The music is loud and saturated but it works given the subject matter. I like to think this is what the Nightrider would be listening to today had Max not driven him off the road back in 79.

For those of you who follow my music this is obviously not the norm, but I dig it.

Hope you enjoy!

The East Village Vampire