Just In Time For Halloween!
Ridley Bent offers LUCKY TO BE ALIVE, a post-apocalyptic living dead adventure invasion of East Vancouver. Zombies walk the streets tonight from Kitsilano to Commercial Drive. A Ridley Bent classic finally captured on record. Produced by Joby Baker.
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An East Van Zombie Apocalypse by Ridley Bent
Lyrics: Lucky To Be Alive
Vancouver BC late at night, The sky is clear and the moon is bright There are Zombies everywhere feeding on every human in sight If we zoom in on the Downtown east side we see a skater punk in the flight of his life Good thing he can skate well, because Chinatown looks like the gates of hell He comes across an abandoned police cruiser, figures he'd be a loser not to use her Blares the sirens, flashes the lights, zombies everywhere with an appetite for destruction And what's more, the road he was on was under construction He gets some serious air off a pile of dirt, Zombies underneath him with missing limbs and torn shirts He lands on a pile of them, steps on the gas and plows through em Gets some breathing room on commercial drive doing 95 and lucky to be alive Meanwhile, in Kitsalano, there's a goth chick underneath a grand piano looking a little bit like a creep herself but for her pretty eyes and here fashion style she grabs the keys to daddy's new Hum II, normally Taboo, but without it, she was screwed She backs out of the garage and onto the street, crushing zombies between her tires and the concrete Sidewalk and she doesn't stop until she muscles her way up to the next block Makes a left on broadway, which has its fair share of undead foot traffic today There's a semi in the middle of the street with its ramp down, no other way around She hits that ramp doing 75 zombies underneath her looking like flies She lands on a pile of them, steps on the gas and plows through em Gets some breathing room on commercial drive doing 95 and lucky to be alive Now a Necromancer controls the undead from an underground lair covered in spiderwebs he's surrounded by thirteen wraiths and a big snake and is busy summoning an earthquake So our skater is speeding south, and our goth chick is speeding north, its crazy The drive has been split by the quake between 1st Ave and Gravely So the goth chicks lookin' at a 20-foot wall, and the skater punks lookin' at a 20 ft freefall and the necromancer is watching it in a crystal ball, 50 feet beneath it all The skater reaches the edge first, no time to brake no time to reverse He launches off the ledge like it was the last day of summer And lands it hard Face to Face with the hummer They collide, and miraculously the girl is tossed from her truck and survives and the skater punk is saved by the superior safety feature in a government ride The hummer rolls into the chasm, and its impact causes a chain reaction which buries the necromancer and his brethren under a ton of earth in their underground cavern The police car is mangled but can still run, the goth chick gets in a rides shotgun But the undead lost their lust for blood and are burned to ash by the rising sun credits
released October 31, 2016
Produced by Joby Baker Mixed and Mastered by Jamie Sitar Recorded by Joby Baker at Baker Studios (Victoria, BC) Vocals : Ridley Bent Guitar: Adam Dobres Bass: Joby Baker Keyboards/Synth: Adrian Dolan Backing Vocals: Ruth Moody, Joby Baker Drums: Pat Steward Additional Track Recording: Ben Kaplan for Nimbus School of Recording and Media (Vancouver, BC) Graphic: Sean McKay for The INNERface Media