HORSELL COMMON AND THE HEAT RAY
Jeff Wayne
INTRO (00:29)
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PART 1 (01:09-01:55)
Gtr 1 w/riff A
JOURNALIST: Next morning a crowd gathered on the common, hypnotised by the unscrewing of
cylinder. 2 feet of shining screw projected when suddenly, the lid fell off.
Gtr 2: (w/wah wah)
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Fill 1....................................................................|
Gtr 1 w/riff A
Gtr 2 w/fill 1
JOURNALIST: Two luminous, disc-like eyes appeared above the rim. A huge rounded bulk,
than a bear, rose up slowly, glistening like wet leather, its lipless mouth quivered and
and snakelike tentacles writhed as the clumsy body heaved and pulsated.
PART 2 (01:55-03:15)
Gtr 2(wah wah off): (w/dist)
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Riff B...................|Riff C...|
PART 2a (03:15-03:33)
Vcl : A few young men crept closer to the pit. A tall funnel rose,
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Vcl : then an invisble ray of heat leapt from man to man and there was a
Gtr2: Riff B
Vcl : bright glare as each was instantly turned to fire. Every tree and bush
Gtr2: Riff B
Vcl :became a mass of flames at the touch of the savage, unearthly heat ray.
Gtr2:Riff C Riff B
PART 3 (03:33-05:26)
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Riff D...............................................................(x4).|
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Gtr 2: (w/dist)
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PART 4 (05:26-05:47)
w/riff B
Vcl:People clawed their way off te common, and I ran too. I felt I was being toyed with,
that when I was on the verge of safety this mysterious death would leap after me and
me down. At last I reached Maybury hill, and in the dim coolness of my home, I wrote an
for my newspaper before I sank into a restless, haunted sleep.
PART 5 (05:47-06:47)
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PART 6 (06:47-07:55)
Vcl : I woke to alien sounds of hammering from the pit, and turned to the railway
to buy the paper.
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Around me, the daily routine of life, working, eating, sleeping, was continuing serenely
it had for countless years.
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On Horsell Common, the martians continued hammering and stirring, sleepless,
at work on the machines they were making. Now and again a light, like the beam of a warships'
swept the common, and the heat ray was ready to follow.
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PART 7 (07:55-09:12)
Gtr 3 w/riff D (see P3)
SOLO (behind riff D)
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w/bar.....|
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w/bar.......|
PART 8 (09:12-09:15)
Gtr 2:(w/dist)
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Part 9 (09:51-10:50)
Vcl : In the afternoon, a company of soldiers came through and deployed along the edge
the common, to form a cordon,
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That evening there was a violent crash, and I realised with horror that my home was now
range of the martians heat ray.
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At dawn, a falling star with a trail of green mist, landed with a flash like summer
This was the second cylinder.
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PART 10 (Outro)
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Fade
Legend:
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b = bend
r = release bend
= = hold bend
% = repeat section
~ = vibrato
/ = slide up
\ = slide down (multiple mean long slides)
h = hammer on
p = pull off
TP = tremolo picking
{n} = natural harmonic
[n] = artificial harmonic (pinch)
w/bar = wammy dive
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