Videos

[LadyLazarus]

Great vids, but I wanted to be closer! I can't wait to get my 14x optical zoom in there for London.

[pelleasetmelisande]

Dean, thought you might go to the Ghent show, what happened, weren't you planning to?

Kind of looked like an interesting festival -- I'm actually really curious as to how Nick Nicely was... love all his old songs so much. Wonder if he played those or new stuff and how it came off.

[dean]

I had hoped to, but I've been out of the Netherlands for family reasons for quite a lot of the year. I have had friends look after my cats, so I'm wary of asking again.... although I know they would be fine... the other reason was that I'd be going alone, which would have sucked. If I was meeting up with someone then that would have been cool, but going to a festival on my own would have not been cool.

[pelleasetmelisande]

Gotcha. You're gonna be at Scala, though, right?

[LadyLazarus]

Here is a link to my youtube videos. I have to apologise for the quality here, but in my defense I was getting totally thrashed at the front of the stage and knocked into the PAs a few times. My legs are nicely bruised for my efforts! Also I was waaaay too excited to just stand there and take videos. I hope you can feel the energy at least from watching these. I know it gives me chills and makes me want to scream and pogo all over again rewatching them.
http://www.youtube.com/user/RedGown77/videos

[pelleasetmelisande]

Monumental. These, out of any others I've seen, really captures what being at a really great John Maus show must be like. I do not, DO NOT know how he does it.

[AppTrans]

I just love this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ttT17w0kx0

[pelleasetmelisande]

AppTrans: I hadn't seen that one, that was amazing!!!

I just stumbled upon live vid of the first song he played at the FYF Fest in L.A.! It's great. I still wince every time he knocks himself in the head, though. EVERY time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWIdPfB ... r_embedded

[LadyLazarus]

Thank you guys for these. These clips are helping to assuage my intense urge for more live shows. I found another video of a "Quantum Leap" performance from last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jnKXXew0z8 (prepare to wince again, P&M!). I bet he wonders why the right legs of his jeans always get holes in.

[AppTrans]

AppTrans: I hadn't seen that one, that was amazing!!!

I just stumbled upon live vid of the first song he played at the FYF Fest in L.A.! It's great. I still wince every time he knocks himself in the head, though. EVERY time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWIdPfB ... r_embedded

I can hardly hear him!

[ricky]

Yeah, I was there and his vocals weren't high enough.

[pelleasetmelisande]

Two new vids from FYF Fest:

Do Your Best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUBDXbqit_U

Believer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DXOCQmtg8

I can hear the vocals pretty okay on "Do Your Best." I like it when he plays with the delay/distortion on certain parts of songs, live, especially "Do Your Best" and "Believer," because the distortion pitches it down a notch and adds a whole new eerie ambience.

[pelleasetmelisande]

Oh, and LadyL, I hadn't seen that particular live "Quantum Leap" as yet! Yowza, really good. I wonder how many black eyes he's given himself??

[Eugenia]

My camera was going way too much in and out of focus as John moves a lot on the stage, so I only shot two small clips and then I gave up. I had a good seat, a bit further from the stage, but at the same height with the stage, without anyone directly in front of me.

Shot in 1080/24p HD (film frame rate) with a Canon SX230 HS. It's the best small-ish digicam with enough zoom (14x), good low light and most importantly: some video manual control that prove important for live performances (lock focus, flat colors, lock exposure if desired). So if you're going to be shooting a lot of live videos, that's your best bang for the buck at that size and abilities. The jumping-focus problem I mentioned can be fixed by "locking" focus after you have zoomed in at the desired level, but I was just too lazy to do this that night, I preferred to just enjoy the show rather than fiddling with it in the dark. Great stereo audio quality for such a small camera btw, most other small cameras have crackling sound at the loudness of a live performance.

"Pure Rockets", in San Francisco, 3rd Sept 2012. Change quality to 1080p if your computer can handle it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrZziMX99PE&hd=1

[pelleasetmelisande]

Eugenia, even this little bit of footage shows that you are (of course) even an amazing videographer!! It's so CLEAR! Thanks so much for this. Again, you are such a talented lady. I really REALLY like your collage-work so very much and am thrilled that you have received some interest in it from others than us dorks here, haha