Dan Barrett: "OK, so this is the first time Iʼve ever been able to talk about this, due to the extensive non-disclosure agreements I was forced to sign, but: I was briefly cast as Ryan Goslingʼs replacement in the upcoming film Drive II: The Drivening. Simultaneously, I was also asked to score the film in a manner similar to the first. Initially, I was really excited, since I loved the first film, but we got off to a rocky start almost immediately. First off, Ry-ry (thatʼs what I call Ryan now), once he heard I was involved with the franchise (which was being billed in industry press as “The Next Great Autisic Action Franchise”), suddenly wanted back into the film. We tried doing the movie as a kind of buddy flick - think Rain Man meets Rush Hour - but all of the scenes we shot with each other had almost no dialogue and test audiences hated it. “What the hell is going on?”, one person yelled after a 10-minute scene in which Ry-ry cleaned a gun and I tried over and over to tie my shoes. Anyway, I decided, for the good of the film (and my now-close personal friendship with Ry-ry) to be the bigger man and step down. Meanwhile, the scoring process wasnʼt going so great. Iʼm not used to only using digital instruments, and my work wasnʼt going over so great with the producers. “It sounds exactly like the last soundtrack, except with less parts and everything sounds the same,” one Producer said. “Do you only know one drum part?”, asked another. “Why is every song apparently about Congolese mineral extraction?” panned yet another lifeless suit with no artistic vision. That was the final straw. I left the project, and am just now getting the rights to release my work. So, here you go: my failed attempt at film scoring. You may notice several musical references back to the original Drive film: for example, I donʼt say much during the whole thing. Hope you enjoy it." <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dan+Barrett+and+the+Cruisers">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.