{"id":26,"date":"2007-09-23T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2022-12-05T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T22:07:37","slug":"sundown-on-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/articles\/sundown-on-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundown on&nbsp;Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_802\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-26-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sundownonvenus.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sundownonvenus.mp3\">https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sundownonvenus.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sundownonvenus.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?powerpress_pinw=26-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sundownonvenus.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sundownonvenus.mp3\">Download<\/a> (5.0MB)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"section\"><span class=\"dc\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/span>e enters Venus through the darkness of time,<br \/>\nAlong the trail of blood, the danger signs.<br \/>\nHe must not fail where others have tried.<br \/>\nNo one has ever come back alive.<\/p>\n<p>He enters Venus through the darkness of space,<br \/>\nTo find out the hideout of the Mindless Gang.<br \/>\nA posted warning on the edge of town:<br \/>\nBe off this planet by sundown.<\/p>\n<p>Sundown on Venus<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a mean place to be now<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space and time<\/p>\n<p>Treading disaster he continues to ride,<br \/>\nTo the evil town they call Paradise.<br \/>\nUnearthly pleasures unfamiliar sounds.<br \/>\nTouching his holster he turns around.<\/p>\n<p>He finds himself standing face to face,<br \/>\nWith old Jim Dawson and the Mindless Gang.<br \/>\nHe says, \u201cBill Kelly you ain\u2019t too smart,\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou should have listened and been gone by dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sundown on Venus,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a mean place to be now.<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space.<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space.<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space and time.<\/p>\n<p>He enters Venus through the darkness of time,<br \/>\nAlong the trail of blood the danger signs.<br \/>\nHe must not fail where others have tried.<br \/>\nNo one has ever come back alive.<\/p>\n<p>Then enter Venus through the darkness of space,<br \/>\nTo find out the hideout of the Mindless Gang.<br \/>\nA posted warning on the edge of town:<br \/>\nBe off this planet by sundown.<\/p>\n<p>Sundown on Venus,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a mean place to be now.<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space.<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space.<br \/>\nThe lowdownest place in all of outer space and time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"section\"><span class=\"dc\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/span>f you liked the song then help support the band. Make a donation or buy their album (which contains songs other than \u201cSundown on Venus\u201d).<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_xclick\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"business\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"nelilly@greententacles.com\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"item_name\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"SpaceWesterns.com\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"item_number\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"DONA-ATOMICSWINDLERS\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"no_shipping\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"shipping\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"no_note\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"currency_code\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"USD\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"tax\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"lc\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"US\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"bn\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"PP-DonationsBF\" \/><br \/>\n<input alt=\"Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but21.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=spacewesterns-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B000BAUMRU&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr&amp;npa=1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Trainer wrote the Space Western inspired album <em>Sundown on Venus<\/em> in 1984. Here&rsquo;s the title track, unreleased anywhere else, performed by <em>The Atomic Swindlers<\/em>. &mdash; <em>ed. N.E. Lilly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14],"tags":[42,41,40],"media":[301],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}