Ever wonder?

lol, looks kinda funny holding a big condenser like that. Great song, mix sounds great over here too. Just great all around classic country. I grew up on this type of material, You make it look easy, which it's not.

Shades of Willy. But that acoustic is way to pretty.
Ah, there's the famous SG in action.
Fun stuff, Herb.
Yeah, video has a curve all its own. Try playing with some crossfades. A basic technique that I think you'll like, and easy to do. Hard cuts have their place, too, so mix and match.
And, yes, it is pretty cool to actually see you doing your thing.

Yeah I appreciate the comments... video is a whole different animal... fun, like I said and yeah, it takes time to learn.... heck it took quite a bit of time just to throw this "simple" video together......

I'm working on a second one with an older song.... right now just looking for the photo's I need. Such a pain with photo copyrights these days with the enforcement going on. Some company buys all the news outlets photo's and then hires people to scan the net looking for unlicensed photos, then they send you a huge honking bill with a threat of legal action..... $50k plus.... but they will settle for a few thousand... so it's hard to get the foto's I want but I'm finding them slowly..... do you know how hard it is to find someone who still admits to voting for Obama and has a car with an Obama bumper sticker these days? No that's not a political thing.... I'm working on my song Hope & Change which is a political POV song.... with a new video for it.

Hopefully coming soon to a YOU TUBE near you. I'll keep you informed, by golly!

Herb? You got a face for radio! LOL!

Pretty cool shot of you playing that Fender though?

Fender?  What Fender?

A face for radio and a voice for silent movies..... does that mean I'm almost famous?

Geno, I spent maybe 6 to 8 hours total on the video... (max). I'm a flaming noob on the video end, and it's really not my intention to become a video producer. I'd rather concentrate on the music, and have a simple video. That was the first video I have done with this particular software package. Honestech Video Editor 8.0 (inexpensive)

The music was definitely more involved. Not counting the time to write the song, record it the first time, rewrite it, record the vox again and tweeze the mix, easily two weeks over a period of many months.

Great job, Herb! It was cool to see some of that great guitar playing I just love!  :)

Thanks Janet, I'd be interested to know "our song" and "their song" .

Excellent, Herb!

I loved seeing the Rode as a hand-held mic. LOL.

Nice touch on that guitar solo too.

guitartrek

What do you think the percentage of time you spent on the video verses the audio?

From never opening a video app before, I spent about 2 weeks on and off learning and using Sony Vegas, It was fun and frustrating at the same time..

When all was said and done, I think just making our first vid, inspired us musically, more than anything we had done in a while.

and quite addictive!


Herb, wonderful song, very Willie!

Only thing i was a little disappointed in was seeing you obliviously reading the lyrics, maybe try to get em down pat for the next vid!

One Reason... yeah... guilty on reading the lyrics. 

What happened there was I had just finished a rewrite of that part... and every time I went to sing it, I was screwing something up.... singing the old lyrics or forgetting the next "new line" ...so yeah... lay the lyrics on the desk and sing it right.

You can tell by the shirt.. the first grey T-shirt was on day one of recording...... then the tan w/writing was after the rewrite and fixing some things in the old part at the end.

If the recording has an extra syllable in it, the video better match. So there were a few parts in the end that needed to be redone for accuracy. 

There are a number of "issues" with this video, but ...... it was the first one and perhaps on the next one I'll be able to do it so much better.... maybe not. BUt yeah, I'll try to be aware of so obviously reading the lyrics.

Thanks for the comments and insight.

Herb, I just listened to our 6 songs and I'm thinking it's either Nifty Fifty or September Nights, but I'm not sure. I wrote the DJ to see if he's got a play list.  That might help.

+1
 I enjoy seeing videos of the performance and in studio recording process.


you have a nice bright recording studio

I think that's awesome Herb.  Shades of Willie for sure.  Nice job.

Are you sure about that?  I know Mark and I did one for our 50 b'days, but I didn't think it was this one.  And it sounds like you on the 50 song.  If it's not, I want to give credit where credit is due.  I think we did these 6: 

Friends
Storm in Me
September Nights
Nifty Fifty
When I Met You
Rising Up