A silver lining of the pandemic was my discovery of making music videos.

It started with a stop-motion video for the song APORIA (feat. Ninja Academy), which was made possible by a collection of magazine faces that I have kept since the late 90’s.

The video-making continued with the public-domain footage editing fest that was I WANT TO FUNK! Inspired by Christine Mills’ use of public domain footage for our Moby Dick album trailer, I collected some incredible weirdness for this funky number.

After that video, Evangenitals steel guitar player Cody Farwell asked me to make a video for his song “Hideout” from his Sunland EP. This was my first “live action” video, and I got my kid to star in it. There may have been some mild bribery involved.

SPAM! was my next video, combining live action (myself, doing a quasi con-man, former president, Drumf-ish impersonation), green screen, and public domain footage. This video even has an Evangenitals hotline that is a REAL phone number you can call ANYTIME and (often) speak with a real, live EVANGENITAL!

With some decent editing experience under my belt, I finally got around to editing all the photos and footage that the various band members, friends, and family shot aboard the Melissa Etheridge Cruise to make a highlights video for our song “Fine Day to Die”. This video warms my heart and takes me right back to that magical adventure on the open sea, before global pandemics postponed the next Etheridge Cruise. Hopefully it gives you a taste of the beauty and fun that was had on this spectacular journey.

In the meantime, I created a sad, sultry character for a cover series I performed for Susan Hayden’s “Library Girl” series that kicked off with a minimalist cover of the song “Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl.”

I went on to revive the character for an upright-bass only rendition of Nina Simone’s “My Baby Just Cares for Me”, recorded in the bathroom.

For the next cover, The Band’s “Up on Cripple Creek,” I opted for a NOT minimalist cover and brought in some of the Evangenitals to fill out the band, man. Thanks to Robert Shaffer and his GoPros, we were able to get some great footage of our socially-distanced, driveway recording session to compliment my bathtub antics.

The Evangenitals also took on Louisville Lou, a special request from our dear friends Eliot and Jain Sekuler, created to honor them as Lummis Day Noisemaker recipients. The video was also featured in the Library Girl series.

More videos are coming soon, as I’m working on videos for two of our new (unreleased) songs, “Off The F@ck!ng Rails” (finally finished!) and “No Faces” (coming sooooooon!)