The United States Government is made up of three branches:   1. The executive branch (president and vice- president)   2. The judicial branch (Supreme Court)   3. â¦The legislative branch (Congress made up of the senate and house  of representatives) 1 person found this useful.
Short Ride in a Fast Machine was composed by 20th-century American composer John. Adams, who is still alive today. It was written for an American orchestra to play at a. big music festival called the âGreat Woods Festivalâ, and is also known as a fanfare. A fanfare is something that grabs peopleâs attention.
Sometimes they come right away, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth. We played 'Long Train Runnin'' for three years before it got recorded, and it got called several different names, and most of the time I would make up the words as we were playing the song.andy Bachman has implied that The Doobie Brothers lifted the guitar riff of this song from the Bachman-Turner Overdrive song  Let It Ride .. According to Bachman, in 1972 The Doobie Brothers were sharing a dressing room with BTO for a show at The Warehouse in New Orleans, which is when they wrote Let It Ride..