The Goons’ Theme

This is the music that plays while Teddy and his cronies are hanging out in a park waiting for Dude to show up for the rumble. The two goons are getting drunk while spinning themselves on the park merry-go-round. The goons make for great comic relief to Teddy’s intensity. With that in mind I didn’t want the music to be too menacing but more humorous (almost). Quinten Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” hadn’t come out yet and we’d not been privy to any of the scenes from that movie so I had no idea there would be a twist-dancing scene in his film, even though Roadracers and Pulp Fiction had the same music director. I timed the tempo to more or less match the speed of the spinning merry-go-round. This scene has some great camera work by Robert Rodriguez of close ups of the goons while they are spinning and getting bombed. Johnny Reno’s saxophone work here is really great, right out of Fort Worth native, King Curtis’ playbook but also hinting at the greasy sound of a mobster night club on the Vegas Strip (or FW’s Jacksb