November 9, 2007

Dance With Me video

Hello Friends,

Our "Dance WIth Me" video began in Chicago earlier this year when we performed there at Joe's on Weed St.  We had the afternoon free and spent it there rehearsing and enjoying the great Chicago vibes of the neighborhood.  The even light of the overcast day made for some beautiful photos of Jack in the street in front of Joe's and Will out in the garden.  Our friend, Paul Nadkin, a Chicago photographer who has been shooting Jack and me in our various incarnations for decades happened to pop into our dressing room and was nice enough to get right into the spirit of the interpretive dance that seems to naturally inhabit the many frames of this video which was made almost entirely of sing frame photos shot on a Canon 5D digital SLR and edited on iMovie HD on my laptop.

Jason Powell shot us during our rehearsal (and pretty much any time you see me in the frame!) and that's guitar tech Greg Mandelke who who steps in at one point.  You may recognize Greg from touring with STYX.

The NYC scenes were shot on 5th Ave the afternoon before our most recent Howard Stern Show appearance.  Jack had just walked down from his friend's apartment uptown and I intercepted him at the corner nearest our hotel and Jason started shooting us in and out of the street as we waited for traffic to stop at the block just up from us. You may notice that practically nobody pays us any mind at all.  I LOVE NEW YORK!

Finally the northern California shots the day before our first show of this tour in Petaluma, California.  By now the guys are getting used to the ever present 5D and the fact that there is rarely any warning when they'll be on camera which makes for the great  relaxed vibe--no make-up or time to get self-conscious as is usually the case when you put folks like us who are more comfortable on a mic than in front of a camera.  Will is an excellent subject with the frame by frame animation which requires more physical output, willingness and patience than the natural movements and I suspect we haven't seen the last of this kind of fun on video for him!

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Enjoy!

TS