Grey videos including selections from Acoustic Grey (2007), Grey: The Music Videos, and the "Joyous Occasion" video from Liquid Wind.
About the Videos
Acoustic Grey (2007)
Click the player below to watch all of the Acoustic Grey videos:
Two videos (Peasant Town & Story Book Love) are now available as a free video podcast from Google Video, so download them and watch Grey on your iPod!
An acoustic history unfolds - Acoustic Grey is complete.
July 19, 2007- Post-production is now complete on the Screaming Butterfly Productions music video project Acoustic Grey, an acoustic history of an indie artist.
On November 8th, 2006 Grey, Jason Harbour, and Mikey Harbour assembled in a dimly lit room at Db Studios in Enid, OK to record an acoustic history of Grey, an indie rock artist whose 2002 music video collection won Best Music Video at the 2003 Bare Bones Film Festival. In the next four hours, they would record 15 songs. "The songs range from me playing and singing on my own to just Jason and I playing together, to Jason, Mikey, and I playing together, "says Grey.
The songs featured in Acoustic Grey span from the early years of Faded Colours to Words & Music, Grey's 2006 release, described as a mix of "gospel backings, lush arrangements with an all American sound," by P.D. Stanley of the UK indie magazine, The Plastic Ashtray.
D. Lang (Editor, Liquid Wind, The Hebrew Project) took the 1,500 mile journey from San Francisco to Enid to document the occasion in a 72 minute film for Screaming Butterfly Productions."The idea was to create a video that would show my songs in their infant stages," says Grey.
Grey teamed up with Dave Skinner, of the group 3 Legged Monkey, to record, mix, and master the music at Db Studios. Lang, who has previously featured the musician in her projects, spent the next several months perfecting the videos, and releasing individual videos to youtube.com, the most popular of which is "Story Book Love," from Grey's 2000 release, Colours. The video project also features audio commentary by Grey, explaining the history behind the featured songs. The audio commentary was recorded at Grey Havens Studios.
"In the end we were left with 15 songs that went well and represented a 20 year period of songwriting," said Grey.
All videos are currently available on youtube.com. The project is expected to hit the festival circuit in 2008.
Two videos from the project (Peasant Town & Story Book Love) are now available as a free video podcast from Google Video, so download them and watch Grey on your iPod!
To see additional videos from this and other video projects, or visit youtube.
Introducing Grey(2001)
In the summer of 2001, television producer, Timothy Eck, offered to record a half-hour television special on Grey, entitled "Introducing Grey" for television station, PEGASYS. Grey teamed up for the first time with Zane Davis (bass), Jason Harbour (guitar), and Mikey Harbour (drums)to record live versions of "Joyous Occasion," "It's You And I," and "In The Spring of Youth I Died" from the Colours album, along with three songs from the then upcoming album Rock & Pop, entitled "Dying in Denial," "Addiction," and "Stop the Car." The performance was also released as a CD, Live at Pegasys that is now out of print.
Grey: the Rock & Pop Sessions (2002)
Enjoying the success of the first television special, Grey allowed D. Lang into the studio for the filming of a television series "Grey: The Rock & Pop Sessions." The series premiered April 8th, 2002. What followed was the evolution of an album and the drama and humor involved during the original recording of the 2002 release Rock & Pop.
Grey: The Interviews (2002)
D. Lang recorded a series of interviews with Grey, Jason Harbour, and Jerry Patterson. These interviews then became the audio track for an experimental music documentary, featuring effects-laden footage from prior music video and studio footage. The project won first place for the Educational category at the 2003 PEGASYS Videofest.
Grey: The Interviews is a visual collage containing original band photos from the collections of D. Lang and Grey as well as excerpt footage from "Grey: The Rock & Pop Sessions" (2002), "Acoustic Grey" (2002) and "Introducing Grey" (2001), and behind the scenes footage from "All the Love in the World" and "This is the Time, This is the Place" music video shoots. Also includes a different version of the This is the Time, This is the Place music video featuring the old Enid drive-in theatre, and "A song about Jason."
Appearing in the film are Grey, Steve Harwood, Zane Davis, Jason Harbour, Mikey Harbour, Jerry Patterson, Timothy Lang, Diana Lang, "major tom," and "moustache."
In August 2007, the project was posted on youtube.com with a new dedication to the late Jerry Patterson.
Grey: The Music Videos (2002)
"This is the Time, This is the Place" premiered on the 3rd of August 2002, on KXOK, the sister television station to KUAL radio. The full video collection, featuring videos for "All the Love in the World," "This is the Time, This is the Place," "Addiction," and "Enough for me Tonight" later won Best Music Video at the 2003 Bare Bones International Film Festival, and aired on stations in New York City, Buffalo, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Hollywood, as well as PEGASYS.
Additional videos for "Stop the Car," "SPR" and "Walking Today" remain unreleased.
Acoustic Grey (2002)
The original video project and album entitled Acoustic Grey, featured the live acoustic recordings of Grey and Jason Harbour at the 2002 "A Fling at the Springs" Acoustic Music Festival at Government Springs Park. The performance also aired on October 14th on PEGASYS.
"Joyous Occasion" Video (2005)
"Joyous Occasion" was featured in Liquid Wind, a windsurfing and kiteboarding documentary, edited by D. Lang. The documentary, that aired thrice on OETA, was an official selection of the 2004 Bare Bones International Film Festival, Digital Independent Film Festival, and Dead Center Film Festival.