Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Mission Control
YouTube via worldsfair. KORG MS20
"'Mission Control,' the first video off The Dandy Warhols' sixth full-length, ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., epitomizes what the band and the album are: innovative and smart, self-aware and informed, and with a strong -- but never generic -- pop sensibility.
Shot in grainy sepia tones in the Dandys' own Odditorium, the video, directed by Mike Bruce, finds the band in space, playing their instruments as they float in zero gravity, frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor singing authoritatively, transmitting the band's message to the world down from the Moon. It's clever and fun, playing both on historical events and future occurrences, totally stuck-in-your-head catchy, the perfect depiction of what the Dandy Warhols are.
www.dandywarhols.com"
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Darker My Love is currently opening for them. Rob Barbato who sings and plays bass for DML is also in mus-ok. Their new video is pretty sweet too. Oh yeah, its damn cathy to boot!
ReplyDeleteThere's a Clav and a Avetone Top 6 in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sLMuZrmD8k
Wow, that was an amazing little PR blurb. I wish my band's PR guy was out submitting posts on tangentially relevant blogs like this. I'll have to speak to him about that.
ReplyDeleteActually, I just ran into the video on YouTube. No PR sent my way on this one. I've seen the Dandy's live and have a couple of their CDs. I know Zea has had that MS20 for ages. It was awesome seeing it in this video. I think it's pretty cool that she still has it and still shows it off. She could have had a lighter generic cheap MIDI controller for the video instead. Hopefully she will never get rid of it. It's basically become her signature synth imo. Zea without her MS20 would be a sad day indeed. You can see it along with a Voyager here. I swore I had some of their older videos up as well, but I'm not seeing them. I might have to do a Dandy run on YouTube and put any featuring synths up.
ReplyDeleteRegarding synths in videos, I will do my best to promote any band that promotes a given synth or two. Note that for a post you have to be able to see and/or ID the synth. I'm constantly surprised by how many videos where you'd expect to see synths, don't actualy showcase them.
Unfortunately, or fortunately this site is focused on synths only. Electronic keyboards and Organs are usually skipped unless there is something very specific about them that warrants a post like the recent Hammond L-103 video showing the internals. It's interesting because you can see what the internals of it look like compared to synths.
If any band wants me to post a video, link to their website, or other, all they need to do is showcase a synth either via good images, video or audio. But... again you have to ID the synth. Just saying their are some synth tracks won't cut it.
This video did a good job showing off the MS20. You don't see one floating around every day. :)
And... it of course got a Synth Babes tag.