my last name. Which is crazy because I don't have a big womanizer history. Spud was a drummer in a popular band on the Sunset Strip back in the day, so you can bet he's had this experience himself.
SHE GETS LOUD VIDEO
LEADERS IN THE CLUB HOUSE
The video for this song is very cleverly animated, who was responsible for that? Have you had much feedback to the video?
Our friend Ai Sawada-Goodwin here in San Diego did that. She's a really, really talented artist who moved here from Japan to marry a great singer we know. We wanted to make a few videos for this album & we had to divy up songs since we don't have big artist money in our coffers. The animated one we knew would be cheap but it also made sense to have "She Gets Loud" be the cartoon one.
That whole song walks the line of being inappropriate (and during mixing Spud came up with an alternate lyric for a line which really smartly brought us back on the right side of the line, we think). We just thought if we had a video with little cute bunnies that it would be a good head-fake away from being too sexual. Everybody loves it but now the hard thing is finding channels for videos, it's like a completely different promotional route than when getting the songs on the radio, etc.
Another song that had me giggling was the very last song on the album called LawnChairs…….Doomsday is approaching and instead of joining the maddening crowd and getting out of town you are going to get your lawnchairs out and party!!! I know you have made a video for this song, when is this going to be released and was it fun to make?
To be honest we're saving our biggest push for our "LawnChairs" video. It's an honest to goodness real, professional music video. Crew of 8-10 people, legit Hollywood professionals made this thing. We had to call in every favor I had in my pocket with TV/film production and editing folks whom I know. This thing looks like it was made for $200,000. We did not spend $200,000. We're chomping at the bit to get that out there, but we're gonna be smart and release it a little later in the Fall with proper promotion efforts. It's so frustrating and slow to try to do things right, but stay tuned!
We had a blast making it! I knew the director, cinematographer and editor ... but haven't really worked with them on a thing of mine/ours. Going into it, we were pretty stressed about details and everything that goes into it, which scared us into behaving really professionally, I believe. I think people who've never been around film or tv production don't have a clue how much goes into filming anything; and the friends who volunteered were expecting that we'd just have a friend with a camera and that's it. So it kinda turned into filmmaking fantasy camp for all of us amateurs. It was a really special day, the day of the main shoot. And we got so many surprises: hot girls munching Velveeta cheese, my brother can actually act!, putting the band on film, Spud telling the story on camera, cutaway scenes of a news reporter losing his mind, and somehow more scenes than you would think turned out to be about food.
I know everybody out there says "click Like", "follow us", "this album is great", etc. but I really think we put together something that is so far above our pay grade with the video - and doesn't hurt that we're proud of that song, too. As an independent, self-everything band we'd obviously love this to be a calling card to get more people to listen to our music. But first and foremost, I'm proud to not be embarrassed about our video & we had a great time doing it. I guess we're jaded about recording in music studios & playing onstage whereas civilians are fascinated by that experience ... but the filmmaking is still new to us so it was really, really exciting.
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