Our videos mostly fall under the category of music videos, in that they are images thoughtfully joined with the audio we've created, or they are images captured simultaneously with the live audio, as is the case with Better to Bend.
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GodSpeed JohnGlenn was first created as a sonic interlude/segue to give us a moment to we changed programs or guitars during our ongoing halfmoon festival concert series. It's an intensely visual piece of audio that begged for the images to accompany it. Digging through old video archives revealed a forgotten treasure of history that was sometimes capture by some of the best people and technology available at that time. We, as a collective people, had the audacity to think that we could do a seemingly impossible thing. So our sharpest minds, engineers and rocket scientists, did some very serious math and built an idea. We then found a man brave enough to ride that idea straight up and out into space.
We saw this guy at a street market in Thong Sala on Koh Phangan in the Gulf of Thailand. He had built himself a homemade interpretation of a "phin" which is 3 strings thai instrument from the north and from Laos. His consisted of an electric pick-up, and a fret board and 3 strings ingeniously mounted on a thick bamboo pole. He also had cymbals tied to his knees and was also using a tambourine mounted on a high hat stand which he played with his foot. Behind him, he had a programmed beat box and an amplifier. Beside him, he had a puppet that danced from nylon line that was attached to the bamboo pole (up/down motion), from a line attached to his foot (jiggle motion). The melody feels like traditional folk but we're not 100% sure.
It was a great show which drew a large appreciative crowd. We shot it on our little canon A10 and I was truly surprised by the sound quality on that little camera. Only in Thailand...
Slow To Wake is a jam of audio and and video. The music was mixed at the same time as the video was cut together from public domain video, mostly from the 1940's and 50's. Each move influencing the next...a jam back and forth between the two mediums.
On a stage beside the ocean on Koh Phangan, some serious magic happens in the Jam's version of Voodoo Child. Joey's guitar is under a seething Hendrix spell, and the band is blistering fantastic (moscow fish ted rockin' that bass), add a fire spinner on the beach who's right inside the song, and you've got a wicked full return.
