Maybe I am out of the loop, but this flew under my radar until recently.

I was doing a search and smiled when I caught a glimpse of John's name on the Google Search Results Preview. A little digging around finally got me to the appropriate page:

http://www.venturi-power.de/index.php?cat=c47_John-Holgate-J...

And the Google English translation.

Heck... there's even a kite dedication :o :

Quote:

We thank John for the song "Shoot the Breeze", which the NASA STAR-2- Kite is dedicated!

ATB,
Sam

Thanks Sam!

I originally bought a 4m Nasa Star 2 from Steffen at Born-kite and made a bit of a video review of it which I sent to Steffen along with an order for the rest of the sizes. Meanwhile, Steffen had been looking at some of my videos and my Soundclick site - which is where I keep all my music - and asked me if I would be able to write a song dedicated to the Nasa Star 2.

I had been toying with the idea of writing a song about kite buggying for a little while but hadn't got very far with it but this was now a bit of a challenge to myself to see if I could do it. It is sometimes, quite easy for me to write a song if I get really worked up about something, but it's very, very difficult for me to 'plan' a song about something. Took me quite some time to eventually come up with some lyrics - music is a little easier for me sometimes - and I came up with 'Shoot the Breeze'. Which was my kiting analogy for 'Shooting the rapids'.

First draft got reworked just a little bit to refine some lyrics and after that I decided I wanted to try and make a music video - which I had never done.

I'm not sure whether it's lame, embarrassing, funny or good! I'm just real glad no-one was on the beach the day I filmed it!!

for those that haven't seen it - it's here:
Shoot the Breeze


So that's how I ended up on Steffen's site. Since then, he has used a few more of my tracks to go with his videos.

That was fantastic! :cool2:

I love the ending !!!!

Wow!
That was great John. You are extremely talented
That is a really catchy tune.

Thanks,
Chris C1

John:

ThanS-P-A-M-L-I-N-K-s for providing the very interesting back story. Always love the additional insight as to what transpired behind the scenes.

ATB,
Sam

I'm not sure how I let this one slip by me. Truly exceptional John!

Amazing video John!

Very talented individual.

Kinda reminds me of the old Eric Johnson sound!

Love that ending scene!!

Nice!

Thanks guys! It was nice to be able to combine my favorite things...