https://youtu.be/304oyNOcLvg
 
As I said in in my other post I will be attempting to make videos from now on. I have a lot of songs and ground to cover. Trouble with making videos out of songs is the zillion's of way's you could make them interesting so that people will be drawn in to watch and mostly- listen. 
 
I could sit down in a chair and record a video of me performing the song--boring- .. Then you can shoot your self at a live gig,, little more interesting but you need like 3 cameras and people to man them,,I'd love to be able to make animated cartoons,, but that seems like a lot of work.. then you can take the easy way out and just stick still pictures together and hope for something interesting to come about. . But Hey, how about mixing all of these ideas together.. So I will now take video recording stuff to gigs and find a way to shoot better quality footage of myself performing.
 
This is not by any means good quality video, but it was just a trail run to see if it was even feasible. 
 
Technical details. 
I always put this song out via Soundcloud every year at Christmas, that version was titled "Johnny got run over by a Mule Deer" to avoid copyright laws. 
I was asked to play this song years ago and found a free download midi file. I did my usual fixing up and added real Bass. 
So I already had a good bed track recorded to Sonar. I upgraded it with some better VST's and stuff and then I laid down a new vocal track using my live performance vocal set up. This includes my TC Voice live Acoustic. That's the out of tune harmonies you hear.. I though they fit the song nicely... 
The live recording was pretty bad so next time I will also use my Tascam DR 40 and capture the Vocals and guitars. 

Nice one Johnny. Merry Christmas! :)

Hey Johnny - I'll listen to the song in a minute, but I just wanted to mention that cheap point-and-shoot still cameras in the hundred dollar range can shoot pretty decent HD video. Three of those in fixed positions around you at a gig can make videos of high enough definition that you can pan and zoom in editing to simulate cameras with human operators. I shot this one all by myself from one bar stool with one stationary camera in one take (Please note this was just a test of the camera. I had no setup time, no separate  audio and the band didn't even know I was there.). Three cams would have been a luxury.
And you are absolutely right: In this day and age, people will not listen to a song if there's nothing for them to watch on the screen (present company excepted).

EDITED TO ADD:
Nice job on the playing, singing and all, but this is one of a very few Christmas songs banned in my house.
 
SECOND EDIT:
Of course you'll be a stickler for audio and that's fine, but in my neighborhood your video is already way better than it needs to be to get gigs. Recording to the DR-40 will make it better, but add another layer of post production for you and probably not be noticed by your prospective clients. (My opinion.)

Hi Johnny,
 
First time I've ever heard this fun Christmas song + nice video.
 
Thanks for sharing.
 
Good Job!
 
paul

Thanks Larry- Yes the song has it's fan club and also may people are insulted by it. I guess Red Neck American humour takes a certain mindset. I was originally asked to learn it buy clients and I slowly learned to like it as it's fun to play and sing. My version has different lyrics where it's Johnny that gets killed and not some little old lady. And he Smoked his Medication...
 
Anyhow thanks for the input on shooting video. I do have a few good cameras kicking around that see little use these day's due to Cell phoon cameras. 

Nice one Johnny!  This is one of my favourite comedic Christmas songs.  It falls into that genre of great comedy or unusual country songs, such as "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line" (Buck Owens), "Dead Skunk" (Loudon Wainwright III), and "Phantom 309" (Red Sovine). 
 
Well done and Merry Christmas!

Never heard this one before. Well done for putting yourself on camera and uploading to YouTube. Only thing I would say about the video is to make it more landscape, as there's blank space to the right of the shot.

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Never heard this one before. Well done for putting yourself on camera and uploading to YouTube. Only thing I would say about the video is to make it more landscape, as there's blank space to the right of the shot.

 
Well your right about that as I'm not only new to using Vegas but I'm still learning how to use the Screen capture software OBS as well as configure the cameras. 
I have never in my life delved into video other than shooting a few family shorts on our camera or cell phones. 
I used 2 laptops, the main shot is a newer Acer  and has a built in web cam. It is also my reduntant back up for my backing tracks. It was sitting on a tray at waist level  and I could monitor what was being recorded.  The other one was my old Sony laptop that I use for my lyrics using Power point and a footpedal. I hooked up this very old MS Life Cam and stuck it on top of one of the speakers. It moved after I had it set. I could not monitor that one as It was hidden behind the power point show. 
 
I'm going to try a dry run where I open 3 instances of OBS and hook up 2 remote web cams. I should be able to capter 3 cameras using the one laptop. Then I will try using at least one of my digital camera's on a tripod. As well I realized I can also probably record audio to the same Acer using my audio interface. It will be a matter of streaming good quailty audio to the screen capture software. If not I can always record to one of my Wave editors or even Cakewalk. 

Right on, good job, a fine start, and you clearly aren't plagued with epilepsy or else your lighting might have triggered it.  I liked the "Grandma on the ground" sweater!
 
You have made a novelty hit off of a novelty hit! That's tough to pull off! Merry Xmas!
 
-Tom
 
 

Johnny - I've done several music videos in Vegas 12 using three cameras, flying in audio from a DR-40.  Multicam editing in Vegas is not well documented. Let me know if I can help.