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The View "Mention No Names" - leave a comment

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WORLD PREMIERE! Choose "watch in high quality". The View was a New Wave power pop rock group from 1981. They were the house band downstairs at Madame Wong's West where I was the DJ, MC, and light show guy. We became friends and I directed 2 funny, quirky, creative music videos for them. The other one was known as my "masterpiece" because of all the little subtleties and wacky special effects. FX weren't that prevalent on low budget productions back then, but we figured out how to do it. But I like this music video just as much as "Good News". It's fun and trippy, like The Monkees movie "Head". We shot it in one day at my friend Daryl Williams' mom's house in Baldwin Hills on a cliff overlooking LA. There was no plan or script. We improvised and used a Fellini-/Dali-/Beatl-/Godley Creme-/Monty Python-esque approach to angles and shots, which fits the song's surrealistic lyrics and peppy-poppy sound. GARY EATON- Leader, main songwriter, guitarist, lead singer. SEVERO JORNACION, JR.- bass, vocals JEFF JONES- keyboards, vocals SHEVLIN SMITH- drums JANET THOMPSON- hard-working manager/band rep MARC FRIEDLANDER- video director Carol Everson did a GREAT job as my Assistant Director, even though I almost killed her in a car crash the morning of the shoot! Actors in Video- MICHELLE MEENA, KAREN MEENA, CAROL EVERSON, MARC FRIEDLANDER (ME). Check out my other View video, the highly entertaining masterpiece "Good News": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOkNvsB_ls