Hank's song 'Demolition Derby' (2009)
project history · status: last documented in 2009 · last event: milestone (2009-09-01)
Demolition Derby is a song Hank wrote with Nerdfighters on Etherpad and first performed in August 2009. A week later he had recorded a studio version.
About: Demolition Derby (song), Demolition derby (concept)
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-26 | launched | Hank introduces and performs his Demolition Derby song, written collaboratively with Nerdfighters on Etherpad. | DEMOLITION DERBY! 00:00:28 |
| 2009-09-01 | milestone | Hank has recorded a studio version of his Demolition Derby song. | I AM COMPUTER MAN!!! 00:00:47 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-08-26 · DEMOLITION DERBY! — Hank says commenters on his county-fair video thought demolition derbies were fictional, so he wants to introduce people to them with today's song. — 00:00:00
- 2009-08-26 · DEMOLITION DERBY! — Hank says the heyday of demolition derbies is long gone and there will never again be a real professional demolition derby circuit. — 00:00:28
- 2009-08-26 · DEMOLITION DERBY! — Hank: In the song Hank says the demolition derby, with its mangled metal and flaming exhaust, is the reason he goes to the county fair. (playful) — 00:00:57
- 2009-08-26 · DEMOLITION DERBY! — Hank: The song jokes that old cars shouldn't let a 'death panel' choose how they die; Cash for Clunkers pays four thousand bucks, but the demolition derby is a more exciting way to ditch them. (joke) — 00:01:23
- 2009-08-26 · DEMOLITION DERBY! — Hank says he wrote the song collaboratively on Etherpad, where Nerdfighters filled in lines, so several lines are from Nerdfighters. — 00:03:18
- 2009-09-01 · I AM COMPUTER MAN!!! — Hank also recorded 'Mules Are So Half-Ass' and a studio version of the Demolition Derby song, and plays the former in the background. — 00:00:47