I'm a bit biased here but cant we get some more shots of the drummer for cryin out loud! Sheesh!

great work guys! its cool to see the faces behind the nicks

Sheer brilliance :o)

This is VERY like Rush... if you don't mind me saying.

I like it.. love it.. It's GREAT!!!!! Awesome!! Woohooooo!!

(Hint hint, Raf should put a LIKE IT button on blogs dammit) :)

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!

Thanks guys.

Cory's issue is legit. He is the only one who actually played this live. Thats not him playing along. Its him playing. See his video above.

When I get my wind back, I'm going to do a new edit.

The Legendary Texan is much more Legendary in B&W (or is that sepia? - so artsy-fartsy) besides his screen-savers are makin me dizzy :)
3rd time watching and it's still OUTSTANDING!!!

Awesome job!

One suggestion....this is great advertising for Kompoz.com as it literally shows what we're doing here. Maybe you could put a little note at the beginning or end of the video like, "Brought together at Kompoz.com"? Of course, on YouTube you can do this without uploading a new video by using annotations.

Nah your cut is fine B.. Dont change a thing.

Playing live yeah. Don't know any different.

You're absolutely right JP. I'm going to add the actual logo in the next edit.

both you guys did a hell of a job.... I really like em both. Some sincere appreciation to both of you. So is there a concept evolving here where perhaps a song we do with the intention of video, the take we tape is the take we post. It would be cool to do a "live" version of a song like that.

Good idea Mike.

Thanks to all for the kind words about our song, to Cory and Brannon for their hard work on the video and the rest of the Virtual Unknowns for being a great group of musicians to play along with.

What an excellent video. nice job!

Wow, this is fantastic! I featured the blog post so that it appears on the main community tab. Love it! We need more like this. Great to see the faces of Kompoz ROCKIN' IT!

Absolutely fornicating BRILLIANT! I love it! I predict you will be virtually famous in no-time :)

we drummers are the only with enough guts to play live in a video....and the only ones obligated to,in case you want top reality in the image ;D

don't usually comment much but felt compelled to say: stunning work gentlemen!! brilliant song and great videos (both of them).

Nice work. Cory, is that your good side?

We have to do more stuff like this...it is too cool. Nicely done all and this was as inspiring to watch as Kresling's fabulous video of late.

I will need to start warming up my Vegas software and figure out how to use my webcam to shoot some stuff like this. Did you use sync tones on the video's sub-clip's audio tracks so that editing the video parts was easier? Just curious!

Nicely done...or did I say that already...can't say it enough...fabulous job.

DS

I've posted an edit, adding a mention of Kompoz.com at the end and a few other changes. Thanks for featuring the blog Raf.

@Spin -This was made with iMovie on a Mac. Syncing everything was quite a chore. iMovie is cool, but it wan't meant for making music videos. The process required a lot of work-arounds and compromises.

This is just SO good, I had to come back and post again. BRAVO !!!

Understood. I have Vegas on my machines and what I thought would work is to make sure when I shoot video I include the sync track and play the whole piece. Then you can sync up all of your raw video tracks before you cut them up into sub-clips for the various shots. Not as good as time code but a solution we here at Kompoz are familiar with. Since Vegas and Sound Forge are basicall they same audio engines you can easily sync up multiple video tracks using the sync tone and them blow away the extra audio tracks and substitute it with the mastered mix.

Gonna try this sooner or later!

I think that one video equivalent of a sync tone is the clapper.... (slate board?)

You have a visual and audio to line up.

I have teamed up with Sven-Martin to try to out-cute Brendon, and we believe we have a winner. We thought: some naked female beauty uually works.

Awwwww... we didn't get to the bit with the gun-sight appearing and the cat gets ....

OOPS... wrong forum. Carry on.

Yep. We are stealing Brennan's thunder with cuteness.

I am not really a cat person... unless you count my pneumatic cat-launcher project I have in progress.

Warning Agent Rock On has gone rogue or rouge, it's slightly unclear. Get the kitty DB, it's time to re-evil this thread.

anyone done a green screen shoot for something like this and put everyone in a common scene?

The problem is that not everyone has a green screen. In Texas, where Brandon lives, everything is brown.

Fantastic! I love it!!

Hey MDK, I didn't know their erl was brown down that way.

Erl is dark brown. Disregard what you've heard about black gold.

So MDK, is the Texas Tea a tall tale too?

Tea is brown, so it is logical to assume that tale has some truth to it. In any case, git away from there. Californy is the place you ought to be.

You guys rock man. Awesome playing by everyone

Whooooo doggie, thet MDK boy can cipher!

That is fantastic! great song, great playing, only one question Brannon, why didn't you do this for "The Bacon Song"?

In my next video I am going to be laying on a rug, cooing and swatting at a bacon toy. I will also clap gleefully when you call me Bwannon.

@Spin - I don't know anything about Vegas. I would assume it is more powerful than the software I used. A sync track would have done me no good. I can see how it could with the right software.

Just a little link that might be helpful to people doing video:

$30 File School

Excellent production! Actually seeing you guys jam on this song was a real thrill.

In particular it was very cool to finally watch Mike sing :)

Guys I dig it!!!

Most excellent!!!

That was terrific. Great tune, too--great chorus. Also liked the laser-light show behind Brannon done entirely with screen-savers.

@Matt - you would be proud if you saw the way I pushed the limits of iMovie.

@Mike, I've been meaning to ask...what's in the bottle?

my bottle is an important piece of equipment

In this case.... http://www.newoldlompoc.com/lompoc_beer.html

C-Note Imperial Pale Ale
To call C-Note very hoppy would be an understatement. It's brewed with the seven "C" hops (Crystal, Cluster, Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, Columbus and Challenger) and pushes the bitterness limit to 100 International Bitterness Units. 6.9% abv. 100 IBU

I'll feature a different selection on each video

And I thought it was the big pot of adhesive he used to stick the stapler to the desk, Sid.

Sid is the cousin of Adam Clayton (U2).

Mike has now conclusively demonstrated the correct approach to making a rock n roll video: beer. Learn from this, you youngsters!

For the next one, rumor has it that Sid will break out the Tequila...

Nice vid. This is the future of our music and the way to get it out there. Great solo Bill!

Great job Brannon!!

and now Mr. Peabody wants you to step into the WayBack Machine..

But Billy, that is sooo February 2008:) Brannon and his merry men are much more modern :)

Yes.. this is for historical reference only.. the pages are tattered and the print is fading fast.. we've come a long way, baby!

nothin' like lo-res video!

Very nice Bill, I see you did that video before the sex change!

Look. Billy made a video too!

Billy made videos when you were still in diapers, young man!

Jokes aside, it is obvious how much more professional your video looks and I think it is nice to see the development.

Mind you: we didn't have the luxury of having everyone on 110 volts and 60 Hz. Billy did some amazing phase-compensation on the flux capacitors and also had to work with at least 4 time zones. The count-in was 5 hours later for Marty, so he had to start playing already on the Wednesday.

We are just jealous because your video looks so much better :)

Rock On

B

Raf - with all this interest in video... Any chance we can get a special "video" track type for our Kompoz projects? Maybe we could even have the video as the featured project and have it run in the project image area?

Just a thought.

your vid kick as too billy! ;D

Cool..
I used to have a Resitol hat just like that.....way back in my bourbon cowboy days.

A little late to the conversation but...nicely done all around.

Thank you Mr. Robinson.. Never too late I really appreciate it.

Sid's back lighting is superb! A la MTV.

Yeah Sid won the lighting award BTW. :)Sid that was vicious bruda!

I am still laughing at the end of Brannons cut.. The air drumming King!!

The secret is that it is an effect that came as part of the software I used to edit my part the video. I'm really standing in front of a plain grey wall. I shall add Air Drumming King to my list of talents as soon as Raf adds that as a option.

WOW! Awesome video! We need more of this! How hard was it to pull this together guys?

WOW! Awesome video! We need more of this! How hard was it to pull this together guys?

Brannon is quite the film editor. Another legendary talent from the Legendary Texan.

Top stuff guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!