Pecos Hank | DEVILS TOWER Lightning Fantasia @PecosHank | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Lightning storm over Devils Tower / Bear Lodge Wyoming & other dramatic lightning storms over the Northern Great Plains. Plus why the peak is called Devils Tower.
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DEVILS TOWER FACTS
Devils Tower is an igneous monolith rising 1267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River and rising 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. Established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, It was the first United States national monument.
DEVILS TOWER NAME HISTORY
The volcanic monolith is sacred to dozens of Native American tribes throughout the region.
For perhaps thousands of years, the Lakota and Cheyenne have called the peak “Bear Lodge.” The Crow call it "Bear’s House" or "Bear’s Lair" and the Arapaho, "Bear’s Tipi."
In the Lakota language, “Black bear” is translated to “wahanksica.”
This sounds very similar to “wakansica” which translates to “bad god or Evil spirit.”
It seems that In 1876, a popular book "The Black Hills" published by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, mistranslated “BLACK BEAR” for “BAD GOD." He labeled the monolith “Devils Tower” And the blunder stuck. For some reason there’s controversy over returning Devils Tower back to a rightful name, Bear Lodge.
THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO
I shot most of this footage in 2013 and uploaded a similar creepy storyline to YouTube. The blue lightning storm time lapse over Devils Tower had a striking resemblance to the Devil / Chernabog scene in the Disney film "Fantasia" (which happens to be one of my all time favorite scenes) My edit had to contain Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" composition. A couple years later, my video was flagged and taken down by YouTube for using that song. With supplementary 4k storm footage shot in 2020, I decided to re-edit this story. Without, Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" the scene just does not work, and so I recorded my own version. In my version I'm playing guitar, bass guitar, piano and trumpet. The sliding snaky section was tracked with a guitar and Ebow. Also accompanying the storm video is Rachmaninov's "Prelude in C# Minor" the best I can play it and something influenced by Danzig's "Pain in the World" as well as other sound design did bits and scoring.
The flute was performed by fellow YouTuber Jungle Jay. Thanks again dude!
The time it takes to score and track all these compositions isn't really financial practical, but it's a helluva lotta fun! Again, I'd like to send an extra super-duper burrito supreme thanks to all my patrons for enabling me to sit in this studio, having the time of my life creating these time consuming videos. I hope you guys enjoy this.
Lightning storm over Devils Tower / Bear Lodge Wyoming & other dramatic lightning storms over the Northern Great Plains. Plus why the peak is called Devils Tower.
SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL:
patreon.com/pecoshank
DEVILS TOWER FACTS
Devils Tower is an igneous monolith rising 1267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River and rising 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. Established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, It was the first United States national monument.
DEVILS TOWER NAME HISTORY
The volcanic monolith is sacred to dozens of Native American tribes throughout the region.
For perhaps thousands of years, the Lakota and Cheyenne have called the peak “Bear Lodge.” The Crow call it "Bear’s House" or "Bear’s Lair" and the Arapaho, "Bear’s Tipi."
In the Lakota language, “Black bear” is translated to “wahanksica.”
This sounds very similar to “wakansica” which translates to “bad god or Evil spirit.”
It seems that In 1876, a popular book "The Black Hills" published by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, mistranslated “BLACK BEAR” for “BAD GOD." He labeled the monolith “Devils Tower” And the blunder stuck. For some reason there’s controversy over returning Devils Tower back to a rightful name, Bear Lodge.
THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO
I shot most of this footage in 2013 and uploaded a similar creepy storyline to YouTube. The blue lightning storm time lapse over Devils Tower had a striking resemblance to the Devil / Chernabog scene in the Disney film "Fantasia" (which happens to be one of my all time favorite scenes) My edit had to contain Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" composition. A couple years later, my video was flagged and taken down by YouTube for using that song. With supplementary 4k storm footage shot in 2020, I decided to re-edit this story. Without, Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" the scene just does not work, and so I recorded my own version. In my version I'm playing guitar, bass guitar, piano and trumpet. The sliding snaky section was tracked with a guitar and Ebow. Also accompanying the storm video is Rachmaninov's "Prelude in C# Minor" the best I can play it and something influenced by Danzig's "Pain in the World" as well as other sound design did bits and scoring.
The flute was performed by fellow YouTuber Jungle Jay. Thanks again dude!
The time it takes to score and track all these compositions isn't really financial practical, but it's a helluva lotta fun! Again, I'd like to send an extra super-duper burrito supreme thanks to all my patrons for enabling me to sit in this studio, having the time of my life creating these time consuming videos. I hope you guys enjoy this.
