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Wow, so this community is rarely updated, even though there is much buzz about Switzerland....oh well.
So yesterday was the video shoot for "I Buy the Drugs." I was there as an extra. What follows is a fairly ridiculously detailed play-by-play. They were going for a frat-party kind of feel for it.
Outside of the Frat House (it was actually a frat house for Wayne State University in Detroit) was a set up of moniters and that sort of thing. We parked the van, and walked up. And stood on the lawn waiting. We heard them do a take inside the house. They were definitely using canned music, but I know P.World was actually drumming. I'm not sure as to the other guys, they had all of the equiptment, but I couldn't tell whether the amps were on or not.
Then they asked for twelve guys. They needed them to remove their shirts. Each guy was painted with a letter from "Electric Six." One guy was the space with a lightning bolt painted on his chest. A good portion of these guys actually lived in the house. My boyfriend was the "I" in "Six." Then they asked for all the ladies to come inside. We were in a typical Frat living room, with all the furniture shoved to the sides. The band was set up towards the back. They had all of us mingle in with the band. I was right next to the Colonel's microphone, and he warned us that he might need to use it. Okay. Dick Valentine was wearing a gray suit and horn-rimmed glasses. They told us to each grab a balloon and throw them at the beginning and keep them moving during the shoot. They had a single camera that kind of moved around. They also had five or six girls dressed kind of like cheerleaders, with modified periwinkle Electric Six shirts, black skirts, Converse high tops, and they carried little purple pom-poms. They kind of had a routine around Dick. During the take, one of the cheerleader's skirt came off. Oh well. We then all went back outside.
Then they filmed the Frat guys passing a keg around. At some point, Dick changed into blue plaid shorts, a white t-shirt, and burgundy sweater-vest. Very high fashion...
Next, I think, they brought out a huge beer bong. Two stories tall (long?.) The cheerleaders and Dequindre and Na$hinal stood on the balcony to man the beer bong. P. World went first. They only poured, I think, one or two beers into it. It was mostly foam (ick.) Then Tait went, and ended up spilling beer all over himself (probably partially to cool off, it was hot yesterday.) Then Dick went. I seem to remember that we all stood in front of him chanting "Dick! Dick! Dick!" at this point, but I can't be sure whether that came later. Anyway, he did the beer bong, and sprayed it at the audience. The crowd goes wild.
They did a take or two of the band on the porch of the frat. Then they had the extras line up on either side of the lawn, and had us go across in small groups. Not sure how that turned out. It was kind of strange. Did three or four takes of that, at least. Then they had the extras dance around in the middle of the lawn a bit, while the frat guys held Dick Valentine aloft. A couple takes of that.
At some point, they shot The Colonel doing a keg stand, lol. That was damn funny to watch.
They then shot a big group scene on the lawn. They told us that it was a wrap for everyone except Dick. I saw them moving in a green screen, so I am curious as to what that will be like. In total, the shoot took about 3.5 hours and was a lot of fun. A lot of waiting around in the heat, but a lot of fun. Of course, on set, the crew was using the guys' real names.
I'm eager to know when the video will be released. It was really cool to have a video with all of the band members, not just Dick. I can't wait to see how it turns out! (Good, I hope...) Even if I don't actually make it into the video, the experience alone was well worth it.
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