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Produced in 1986 and 1987 with help from Frank Fairweather on Video Editing and Gary Geller on Music Recording. Staring Harry Rosenfeld = Camel Tender, Liza Pharow = Female Lead, Peter Rosen = Male Lead, Gary Geller = Dancer. I recorded the track, my first MIDI production over the course of 1986 and the video was shot on a trip to the Integratron in Landers California. The video was composited with frame by frame animation I produced on Frank Fairweather's Amiga computer using Digi Paint and was in some cases (the dancing camels) recorded live as I attached the camel caravan to the mouse (as a brush) against a color cycling sky. The computer graphic and video editing session took 40 hours with nary a break. I post this as my way of honoring those who helped make the movie and to thanking Frank Fairweather [famed star of the LA-Final Cut User's group] posthumously as he has changed his address. This was the very first music video I produced with a lot of help from friends. I recently uncovered the VHS copy of 3/4" edit. I wrote the song in 1975, my first year in California after driving a cab in NYC for the last 5. It was also my first MIDI project with this mix produced at Santa Monica College with the help of then video engineer, Gary Geller. I played all instruments and sang the off key delivery of the lyric, written in 20 minutes, at Fidelity Studios waiting room. I was there because Jimmy Calvert and Norman Marzano were laying some tracks. After the 8 track mix was made (I still have the 1 inch tape), Gary, Liza Pharow, my first cyber pal met via a BBS and many years later, in person and myself headed to Joshua Tree - to the Integratron, in my beloved Dodge white tradesman van that served as home on wheels for 12 years. After recording the footage of us playing around without a storyboard (and with the stuffed banana we found by the side of the road). Production: Special (posthumus) thanks go to Ralph Fairweather without whom, this video would not have been made. He is survived by his son, whom he left after a sudden passing at the time he was KING OF FINAL CUT users groups in LA. He'd brought his Amiga Computer to the video edit suite so I could make and animate the Computer Graphics. He did the tape op and editing, some of the recording of cgi was live (the camel's dancing) most other was frame by frame recording onto 3/4 inch. Unfortunately the VHS copy is full of chroma aberration and drop out. I have yet to stumble upon the 3/4 inch edit master. 03/10/11

• Release Date

  Mar 22, 2011

• Runtime

  07:06