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Cause Dowels | Rough DVD Covers Pt II

Just another design for the DVD cover taken from both the band doc and the Vacuum video. I thought this capture was very apropos.

Cause Dowels DVD | Rough Covers

Started working on some rough designs for the Cause Dowels DVD sleeves. I decided the cover will use images captured from band film and videos. This first series of captures are from the music video from Fard. Great video soon to be on DVD with unused footage and raw footage. I'll be posting more sleeves over the next few weeks. If you see something you like, leave a comment.

SLEEVE 1

SLEEVE 2

DVD Web Exclusive -- 1991 PSU Talent Show Pt. II

I am finally starting to edit the footage I have been digitizing for the 15th Anniversary Edition of Cause Dowels. The first video I started on is the PSU Talent Show from 1991. I'm not sure why, but we video taped the whole show. You may remember when I posted on this topic a few months ago that we were not the winning act of this talent show. However, we were also not the only act to lose out the to fab rap stylings of State The Facts.

See previous posting to understand what I am talking about.

State The Facts

In fact, several other bands and acts also lost out this powerhouse. Who were they? Well take a look for yourself.

The first act was a band that you would find playing a college bar or frat house playing covers to drunks. (I'm not saying that is a bad thing. We've all been there.) What impresses me most about this act is:

a) They thought it was a good idea to cover the Ugly Kid Joe hit Everything About You. If you do not remember Ugly Kid Joe, consider yourself lucky. In fact, not only did they think it was a good idea to cover Ugly Kid Joe, they also thought it was a good idea to close with Ugly Kid Joe. As the lead singer makes clear to the audience at the start of the song, "We're gonna leave you now with a little Ugly Kid Joe!" Of course, the audience responds with great applause. This was what we were up against that year: audiences who loved Ugly Kid Joe.

b) You must watch (or skip to) the end where the lead singer jumps into the audience and tries to start a mosh pit, which turns into what I would describe as weird dancing (fighting) with one dude, who apparently is also an Ugly Kid Joe fan.

The second act was a sorority group who put on what can best be described as a skit / lip-sync routine to the horribly wrong song I'm Too Sexy.

The final act (and I should note there were more, but some acts have since been taped over at points) was another cover band, although this time they selected songs that would stand the test of time better than Ugly Kid Joe. For the Web Exclusive I have selected them doing Drain You by Nirvana, a song the audience could care less about. An interesting side note, at the start of the video you'll see the lead guitarist break a string and the singer asks if any of the other two rock acts wouldn't mind lending a guitar for them so they could finish their set. Being the good guys that we were, we stepped up and loaned them a backup guitar.

The Two Shirt Band Video Stills

I am back to digitizing videos for the release of the Cause Dowels 15th Anniversary DVD. I finally got around to dumping down the famous (or infamous) Two Shirt Band Video. This is probably the first video document of Bone Sauce, circa 1991. We had just started a few months before this was shot. It captures us practicing most of our early originals and also recording (on the four-track) new stuff, like The Immoralist. This is still the Does Cows, still a ways away from being Bone Sauce.

Anyway I thought I would post some images from the video shoot. I was going to post some video, but I am not sure what from this is going to make it onto the DVD. So until then, enjoy some classic BS rockouts and hair.

19 Year Old Bram wondering why we've stopped rockin'.

Justice's hair in all of it's feathered glory.

Bram rocking and me adding a note.

Me singing something.

Me singing something else.

Bram and me rockin' out.

Bram and me rockin' out again.

Full band; Justice and Bram doing the KISS tandem rock out.

Its the End of the Month! Time for Cocktail Fridays!

I know. I've been slacking on the blog. Since the DVD project is taking longer than expected I decided to post something else to keep you entertained.

The following is short video I created while testing out a new editing tool. It is a video remix I made using the rich audio soundscape that is Cocktail. Yes, the movie Cocktail. It was going to make a trailer for CockHouse, the awesome sequel to both Cocktail and Roadhouse, but then I took a different path. So welcome to the first of many "End of the Month Cocktail Fridays."

DVD Outtake Web Exclusive - R.I.P John Hughes

Without doubt the work of Hughes was appreciated by The Sauce, being Gen Xers and whatnot. So to pay our respects we present a short clip from the original Cause Dowels documentary. In this scene Bram does his best Ferris Bueller.

(I am only posting exclusive content, so this is the clip unedited.)

Sometimes Life Moves Pretty Fast from Bone Sauce on Vimeo.

Scene from The Cause Dowels documentary

DVD Outtake Web Exclusive -- CD Shopping with Bram and Goss

Besides taping band practices and live gigs, Bram and I also recorded a bunch of tape documenting what we did when weren't playing. A lot of that film ended up on the Cause Dowels documentary, but there's a lot that did not make the cut.

While going through the videos I found this little gem of Bram and I going tape and CD shopping at City Lights in State College, PA. Back in 1992, City Lights was one of the many record stores in town, but now it's the last and from what the owner is saying it may not be around next year.

Article on City Lights

I am probably going to add this clip to the DVD, but since what I am posting is supposed to be exclusive to the blog I am adding a few still frames and some director's commentary.

This clip features Bram and I going to City Lights to buy some music. In the footage I actually state why I am there: to pick up a used cassette of Live Skull Live, which I still own. Bram considers purchasing Ka BLOOM! by Flowerhead, who we saw open for the Pumpkins in Chicago just a few weeks earlier.

Since I wasn't sure whether I was allowed to record in the store, I am carrying the camera to my side, which is why it's somewhat blurry. Still it's a nice document of what record shopping was like back in 1992.

Here's the City Lights sign, which as of this writing is still there.

Sign on the front entrance lists what new albums were being released that week. We see some real sounds of the period, such as Phish (at the top of course), Brand New Heavies, Belly, Infectious Grooves, Sunscreem, Ultra Vivid Scene and a Chess Records compilation. There's not one band in the mix that I purchased.

Bram and me recording ourselves in a mirror at City Lights. We're flanked by a Fastbacks poster and an Otis Redding LP. There's also an LP of local favorites, Queen Bee and the Blue Hornet Band.

Curve was touring. Also a cool poster for the album The Sneetches 1985-1991: Sometimes That's All We Have.

A poster for Jesus Jones. I did not think they were around long enough to rate their own poster, but there you go.

Oh record stores, how I will miss you. Here's the full clip, complete with witty banter. (Anyone recognize the tune blaring in the background?)

Trip to City Lights - 1992 from Bone Sauce on Vimeo.

DVD Outtake Web Exclusive -- Original Mascot

Before there was Nappy. Before there was Stinky Pinky. There was Muzz, The Does Cows cow. I am finding that Muzz pops up a lot in our videos. Below are just two examples:

Here's Muzz captured hanging at Justice's place while we're practicing.

Still taken from the 1990 to 1992 Does Cows Video collection

The question Justice always asks is how did I end up with Muzz. This still shows that he somehow made it up to Gateway, where Bram and I lived during PSU.

Still taken from the Chocolate Bores Sessions

DVD Outtake Web Exclusive -- Who Came First?

Steve Justice copying Bret Michaels or Bret Michaels copying Steve Justice? You be the judge.

Screen capture from unreleased 101 DDY video, Goss and Justice side project.

DVD Web Exclusive -- 1991 PSU Talent Show

Just like most college rock bands, Bone Sauce got its first taste for performing live by entering a campus sponsored talent show. We actually entered two talent shows at PSU. We won the first show in 1990, which inspired us to try again the next year.

Now 1991 was kind of a strange period for music. We had just started to switch from playing garage inspired metal to punk inspired rock. We didn't have a name for it but by the end of the year we were being described as alternative.

Some still frames of us playing the show:

Me playing guitar. We were still going by The Does Cows, which is why I am wearing a tee with a cow on it. I am also sporting a backwards Vision skate ballcap.

Justice on bass. You can see that Justice has Does Cows written on his bass. He's also sporting a popular tee from that period, the Ren and Stimpy tee.

Bram on guitar and Baker playing drums. Baker had split to go to school in Texas, but we roped him back in to play this show.

In any case, we were the only alternarockers. The other acts were either hair metal left overs or hip-hop acts, both of which were more popular in 1991. In the end a hip-hop act with a Vanilla Ice type front man (Ice was popular at the time) and an awesome 1991 rhyme style won.

Since the DVD will feature BS stuff only, I figured I'd post a clip of the act that beat us. Here they are spitting, State The Facts. As they point out, their rhymes are "energetic, exquisite and poetic," but only "somewhat aesthetic." So just sit back, enjoy, and as they recommend, "don't sweat it."

State The Facts from Bone Sauce on Vimeo.