Here’s a fun fact about me: I was in a music video once. My friend, Laura, had a band called Tender Prey and she had me and some other scrawny guys show up at a gym to work out while she danced around us. Sort of a take on the muscleman trope of 1980s music videos.
Thanks to the tank top I’m wearing in the video, you can see a love bite on my shoulder given to me by my wife the night before. Ah, the days before children…
Anyhoo, being a part of the experience gave me an insight into how low-budget music videos are made. In our case, the “crew” consisted of a guy with a camera who had no plan and his girlfriend, who helped move lights around. They set up a speaker in the middle of room and blared Laura’s song over and over until we had enough footage to make a music video.
This new video from Amyl and The Sniffers reminded me of that experience, though, it’s clear, though it appears more planning has gone into this video than the one I’m in. As evidenced by the fact it’s done in one take.
Watching it initially, I thought perhaps they, too, might have used a large speaker blaring from the car or motorbike that is carrying the cameraman. I felt that would explain why it seems at times that lead singer Amy Talylor (just as there is no Hootie in Hootie and The Blowfish, there is no Amyl in Amyl and The Sniffers) can’t hear the track to be able to sing along.
At the very end of the video, however, you can see a small battery pack on her back with a wire running up to her right ear. I guess that set-up wouldn’t have been much better. This video shoot would have been a very noisy environment: three choppers and a brat style bike moving at relative speed. Wind noise and engine noise galore.
Cool video, though.
Other things to observe:
- This video is a 3-minute demonstration of why no one wants to ride on the back of a chopped bike
- The rider handling Amy Taylor’s bike looks like Natasha Lyonne in Poker Face.
- I also respect that rider’s choice of footwear.
- I also dig her gloves.
- Actually, I like pretty much everything about that woman.
- Amy Taylor doesn’t appear to be terribly comfortable with motorcycles. I get the sense this is one of those, “Seemed like a good idea before we did it,” things.
- I have strange admiration for the fact that the passenger on the brat bike is so dedicated to smoking.
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