It was really exciting to be on the set of my first music video. It was like living 5 very active days in one 24 hr period. Next time I’m going to write a slow ballad so that the video doesn’t feel like a P-90 work out routine. My body was sore not to mention my vocal cords. Your supposed to mouth the words for the camera while the song plays on a speaker but I couldn’t find my groove so I yelled my own song into a mic that wasn’t plugged in in sync with myself on a cd playing very loudly on a PA until I had no voice. And then I had smoke bombs unleashed in my face until I literally almost died. No seriously, the thought I had while coughing so hard I couldn’t catch my breath was, “I should have checked the side effects of directly inhaling sulfur smoke to see if dying was one of them”.
By the end of shooting I had I played my guitar through burning fireworks, outside in the rain on top of a hill, running in the steet, and on a set in front of a crowd. At one point I was laying on the ground on my back on the pavement with guitar in hand. The part of the video that was shot in an old factory was shot with the help of our extras, our most loyal fans. We asked them to come and act like we were playing the show of a lifetime and they came and were very convincing! Their showing up was pure energy that can’t be created any other way and for that we are extremely proud and thankful.
Then the next day Steven and I find ourselves in the middle of a dead corn field with mud up to our ankles turning my black converse into a crackled brown. We walked then ran through the mud and broken corn stalks. At one point my legs almost gave out while at the same time I was tripping over the cornstalks and how I kept myself from falling face first I’ll never know, but it does look awesome on the video! Running Running Running. I guess that’s what we get when writing a song that’s 160 beats per minute like “Coming Down”.
We had a great time as painful and intense as it was. We saw a lot of the clips and they look amazing. It should be a real treat to watch us in pain! If you have any comments about this momentous occasion please leave them below and I will respond. The video will be released soon!
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