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Dave Hunter and the Seven Hundred

This is the belated video for our single "It Made the Greatest Sound."  At several live shows I've been describing this song, just for kicks, as being "about the great West Virginia calliope disaster of 1893. Legend has it you could hear the sound in three states, and newspaper reports of the time declared that the glow from the fire could be seen all the way from Wheeling, WV, to Pittsburgh, PA." (Google it!) I was curious whether anyone would questioned it, but no one ever did.  In the mythological sense I still think of it as that, but more genuinely it's a metaphor for our times - how you can be seduced by something shiny, gaudy, bombastic, and seemingly euphonic, only to see it for the disaster it is when it eventually crashes and burns. We hope you get a chance to check it out, subscribe to our channel if you'd be so kind, and prime yourself for the release of our debut album on July 7, with the Album Release Show to follow at the Press Roo...

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