Category Archive: BS Daily Tune Up, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, FORD
BangShift Tune-Up: Ford Versus Pontiac And An Airplane Boneyard In Rev Theory’s “Hell Yeah”
Rev Theory’s “Hell Yeah” isn’t a technical song. It isn’t a particularly original layout, it doesn’t have stand-out lyrics. It is just an all-around basic rock...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Legs” By ZZ Top, Complete With The Eliminator Coupe
Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill have been cranking out tunes since 1969 as ZZ Top. Let me put that into perspective for you: the band is only four years younger than my mother. The...
BangShift Tune Up: “The Best Things” By Filter (1999)
It’s a Monday morning and it’s time to get motivated. Yours truly is either running around the garage trying to get things accomplished on the car while the weather is tolerable, or is...
BS Tune Up: Godsmack “Speak”…Nothing Like A Little Rock Music With Cars To Get Us Going
Ok, maybe get myself going. Brian and Chad can wake up at the unholy crack of dawn and go until about ten or so at night. I’m one of those types that wakes up mentally about 9am if...
BangShift-Approved Music Video: Five Finger Death Punch “House Of The Rising Sun”
Five Finger Death Punch have been making waves in rock music for seven years now, with a ballsy, fast-paced heavy rock that caught on from the start. They formed from the ashes of W.A.S.P, Motograter...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “America The Beautiful” Ray Charles (2001)
Yankee Stadium, mere weeks after America was attacked in New York City. Nobody has ever sang this song better than Ray Charles, and this particular performance was something special. Click play to...
Have You Ever Heard A Song About Bracket Racing? Us Either, But This Rap Tune Is Cool.
“Knock the tree down, carry the thing with me. Can’t win if you’re no better than fifty.” is just one of the cool lyrics that you’ll here in the Rap titled Be Double O,...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Summer Is Not Over Yet! “Summertime Blues” by Alan Jackson
Today’s BangShift Daily Tune Up should be inspiration for you to go out and do something fun and car related this weekend like Allen Jackson and his boys in this awesome Summertime Blues music...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Fastest Girl In Town” Miranda Lambert, featuring Danica Patrick (2012)
If you like muscle cars, hot girls and hot music, this one is for you. Miranda Lambert’s 2012 hit “Fastest Girl In Town” has a great video featuring a car chase with a ’69...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Ignition” Brian Setzer ’68 Comeback Special (2001)
Brian Setzer is a bad ass. He always has been whether as the front man for the Stray Cats, Brian Setzer Orchestra, or on his own. The Brian Setzer ’68 Comeback Special along with Bernie Dresel...
BangShift Daily Tune Up Bonneville Edition: “Spirit Of America” The Beach Boys with Breedlove Video
If you are new to Bonneville and Land Speed Racing, you may not have heard of Craig Breedlove, but he was an American Icon in his Spirit Of America Land Speed Cars. He was the first man to average...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash
By the time most of you read this, I’ll be steaming west on a plane to hook up with Chad and then drive to the fabled Bonneville salt flats for our coverage of Speed Week. The funny part of...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Addicted To Bass” The Puretones. Aussie Car Greatness
There is certainly some Mad Maxness going on here, and we dig it. Similar cop cars to Mad Max, but in a much more hot rod Coupe version. John Tearle, one of our favorite Aussies sent this one in and...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Fun, Fun, Fun (Now That Daddy Took The T-Bird Away)” The Beach Boys (1964)
“Fun, Fun, Fun” is one of those songs that everyone knows, but who’s title is usually recited wrong. I think most people refer to it at “‘Til Daddy Took The T-Bird...