The film grossed less than $8 million at the U.S. box office. In 2002, Quentin Tarantino listed it as the 10th best film of all time in a Sight and Sound poll. It also ranked third on Entertainment Weekly magazine's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. The magazine also ranked it 10th on their "Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years" list.
"Dazed and Confused" is a song written and performed by Jake Holmes. It was covered by the Yardbirds, and later reworked by Led Zeppelin, who hold a separate copyright on the song.
Jake Holmes
Singer-songwriter Jake Holmes wrote and recorded "Dazed and Confused" for his debut solo album "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes, released in June 1967. Like the other tracks on the album, the song does not include any drums. It was recorded entirely with the trio of Holmes on guitar, keyboard and vocals, Ted Irwin on guitar and Rick Randle on bass. The song has been incorrectly labelled as a tale about a bad acid trip. Holmes himself has confirmed that this is not the case. In 2001 he gave an interview to Shindig! magazine and said this about "Dazed and Confused":
In August 1967, Holmes opened for The Yardbirds at a Greenwich Village gig in New York. According to Holmes, "That was the infamous moment of my life when Dazed and Confused fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page." When "Dazed and Confused" appeared in Led Zeppelin's album in 1969, he was aware of it but didn't follow up on it at that time. Holmes said: "In the early 1980s, I did write them a letter and I said basically: 'I understand it's a collaborative effort, but I think you should give me credit at least and some remuneration.' But they never contacted me."
Moonlight towers or moontowers are lighting structures designed to illuminate areas of a city at night.
The towers were popular in the late 19th century in cities across the United States and Europe; they were most common in the 1880s and 1890s. In some places they were used when standard street-lighting, using smaller, shorter, and more numerous lamps, were impractically expensive. In other places they were used in addition to gas street lighting. The towers were designed to illuminate areas often of several blocks at once. Arc lamps, known for their exceptionally bright and harsh light, were the most common method of illumination. As incandescent electric street lighting became common, the prevalence of towers began to wane.
Moonlight towers in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas is the only city in the world known still to have moonlight towers. They are 165 feet (50m) tall with foundations 15 feet (4.6m) wide. The towers were manufactured in Indiana by Fort Wayne Electric Company and assembled onsite. In 1894, the City of Austin purchased 31 used towers from Detroit. A single tower cast light from six carbon arc lamps, illuminating a 1,500 feet (460m) radius circle brightly enough to read a watch.
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I'm dizzy walkin outta larry's army wear used With some black leather shoes and desert BDU's Many boxes of ammo, i got the camo face paint Barricaded the tower doors, safe this place ain't Up to the top, i can see the whole planet it would seem The sun is beatin on my head as i'm livin my horror dream Up-chucked a couple times then i finally took aim A man is chattin on his cell phone, i spattered his brain A lovely couple started runnin, all the sudden she tripped He kept right the fuck without her, like he never missed a step I snapped one to his head, he fell dead to his knees Then his wife was right there to retrieve the car keys Not many notice at first, although some do start to scatter Pluggin iron in they back, who they are it doesn't matter There's a psychopathic, way up in the tower somewhere And when they think they outta range [gunshot] poof they hair [chorus] And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower) So fuckin high (shooting from the tower) And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower) So fuckin high I shot the lady in the ass and the kid on the grass And the daddy on the swing through the lens in his glasses First cop on the scene will be commended for his services For now he holds his throat and scream "i didn't deserve this" The tower too high, i'm bringin shot from above Cuz my head's a battle royale of serpents, snails, and bugs I'm quadarpolar, though my snipers scope i see the enemy The world ain't never been my friend and never pretended to be I fought in two wars, my country left me poor and sick Leg missin, agent orange and an un-useable dick So as i reload, my trigger finger's frozen cold From squeezing so hard my reason is no control Warped soul, look at that, pap-pap-krack Three frat college boys flat, dead on they back And they lady tryin to hide behind the dead fat guy Just got one plucked in her eye [chorus] And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower) So fuckin hot (shooting from the tower) And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower) So fuckin hot... I'm finally at war again, only i ain't takin orders 200 yards below, i'm taggin targets, small as quarters Marksman, sniper, military precision Spotlight on the tower, tryna nullify my vision My eyeballs keep rollin in the back of my head Practicing for any minute when i'm actually dead They put the tape up, these people think they outta my view But still, i'm steady pluggin sleepin pills off into them too I see in strobe light vision and i'm way beyond a panic My only skill is murder and i'm stuck on automatic Sweatin profusely, bleedin outta my ears Their shots are missing by fragments, bullets shavin my hairs And yet my aim is remarkable, i'm peggin these duck One by one, jumpin out of those SWAT team trucks I see the major activity, i'm caughing a chao Mad... my life went out with a flash [chorus] And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower) So fuckin hot (shooting from the tower) And it was hot that day (someone's in the tower) So fuckin hot... And it was hot that day, so fuckin hot It shouldn't get that hot, humid and hot Beatin down on us, so fuckin hot Too fuckin hot that day, just too fuckin hot How can it get that hot, how can it be that hot?