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

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

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.

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

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.