It burnt up because that beat was so fire. I don't think they made speakers in the '80s that could handle being that lit.
Escape From Pompeii
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They just need to replace all of the speakers in the ride. UPDATE:as of today the music in the last room has been fixed
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There's nothing really consistent. It seems to depend on crowds and weather.
IIRC it is closed down permanently at the start of HOS and they drain the water.
I feel like that depends on the year. I've definitely seen Pompeii open during hos. But I've also seen it closed and drained at the beginning of hos.
I can hum it for you. Haven't worked at that ride in 11 years but I still know every note of that soundtrack.
I’m pretty sure that music doesn’t actually play on the ride, just as atmospheric music around the Pompeii pathway. I believe the music on the ride is a custom score that isn’t availabke online due to copyright.
My understanding is that the music was composed by a third party and the park has extremely limited rights to use it, unlike the Apollo lift music and such. For example, the Pompeii music isn’t available anywhere on SWP&E’s iTunes account, and even the park’s official on-ride POV of Pompeii posted on YouTube has the original music edited out and overlaid with a generic song.
Contrary to your statement, I'm sure it was a thought. I'm sure they bought the rights to exclusively use on-ride only from the composer. The licensing agreement probably prohibits any other usage by either the park or the composer. I doubt the park was going to release an EFP "Greatest Hits" so they pay, knowing the music will not be heard any place but their attraction.
I don't disagree there, but what I meant was licensing coverage for use on digital platforms that didn't exist at the time such as on-ride video posted to a website.
My guess is the park never considered that sort of situation at the time; the most likely think they had to consider would have been any newsreel footage.
However, they could always deny access to the parts of the ride playing the music to any news crew so it would a non-issue.
They could potentially go back to whomever they obtained a licensure from to get more functionality than their current on-ride only situation, but my guess is that'd be way too expensive and time consuming for little to no gain.
You rarely see a park post a POV, especially a dark ride. They want people in the park to ride it, not watch on YouTube and ruin the surprise/suspense. So why buy a license for areas they don't really care or want to reach? Or, the opposite, the composer doesn't want it used outside the on-ride.
I think the point was that the park really wasn't thinking that the music would be heard outside the ride at all (keep in mind that the founder of GoPro was still a teenager when this ride opened), so agreeing to use a soundtrack that could only be heard while on the ride was fine with them and that revisiting that contract because you can now take a video on-ride and post it on Youtube seems like a waste of time and money.