b'Bands Look Backagain, they preceded MTV. Green screen hadOne on One Left to right: John just become available, and there was a guy whoapocalyptic New York set, all these extras with tornOates, video director was a friend of my sister, and her son was a filmclothes and crazy shit, and we just went along for theJohn Charles Jopson, student, and he presented us with the idea thatride. But as we were doing it, we were thinking, this isBob Lampel, Daryl Hall. he could put us in any environment we wantedreally stupid. Thats one of the dumbest things weveThis may be the only using that green screen. So we shot those, andever done. existing image from that giant wine bottle. And the giant boomHow about Out of Touch and Method ofthe first 1983 version box, which was the hip thing of the moment,Modern Love with director Jeff Stein? of Say it Isnt So, the gave us the idea of, why not shoot it like we areThat was the baroque era, the rococo era ofone that was rejected. performing in a giant boom box? Here again,music videos. It was filmed on the that was pretty adventurous for the time. Rococo? same day as Jingle Bell What do you remember from shooting theThats a French word meaning a very fancy andRock. Daryl and John Private Eyes-era videos with Jay Dubin? elaborate painting. Thats when we were spendingwere playing soap We had been rehearsing for our tour at SIRway too much money for no reason at all, and Jeff wasopera-like characters studios in New York. We rehearsed long intogreat, but he was trippy and wanted to do somethingand were in old age the night. We took a break around midnight,outrageous. He had just come off doing the Tom Pettymake-up.and Jay Dubin and the guys came in. Our tourDont Come Around Here No More video, and we bus was literally parked in front of SIR, idlingall knew where he was coming from, some trippyYork TV commercials. He really was on top of his game. I thought it would beand ready to go, and the guys were packingkind of deal. He came up with all the ideas like theinteresting to see use a director who was more a commercial director than a music up our equipment. Jay Dubin and these guysdrum rolling over us and peeling us off the floor, andvideo director. Bob was at the peak of his powers directing TV commercials in Newcame in with a pipe setup and a black curtainthe last shot in that video was Daryl and me in thatYork. He was great to work with, a real pro.It was first class. We had the silks suits. To to drape over it, and we were literally saying,giant bass drum, and they had to seal us into it. It wasme, I saw it as a New York street-corner doo-wop thing, and we tried to create that All right, lets just do this and get out of here.3 oclock in the morning, and it was super hot andatmosphere. It was freezing cold, and we had the oil cans burning like the homelessSomeone had rented trench coats and fedoras,clammy and stale, it felt like there was no air insideguys under the bridge. Bob was at the peak of his powers directing TV commercials in and we put them on over the clothes we werethis bass drum. We were in there for what seemedNew York. He was great to work with, a real pro.wearing. They set up the cameras, and we justlike hours, and it was just the weirdest thing. We jumped around. T-Bone Wolk [longtime Hall &which was bolted to the floor with a collarwere looking at each other between takes saying, So Oates bassist] had just started with the band,that was invisible so that he couldnt eat us.this is what its all come to! We are at the top of the and hed never been in a music video before.The panther got loose during the shoot andpop music world, and here we are at 3 oclock in the He asked me, What do I do? I said, Dont dojumped up into the rafters. We had to clearmorning in a warehouse in Queens, sealed inside a anything. Stand in one place, and every oncethe building for an hour while the trainersbass drum.Poetic justice. I guess we were trapped in a while, turn your head. If you look at thetried to bring him back down. It was prettyinside our own fame in some weird way. video closely, youll see that he actually doesntcrazy. The panther had spots, which wasYou were front and center for PossessionBigger Thando anything except turn his head to the sidehard to see of course because its black, butObsession, directed by Bob Giraldi. Bob said he once in a while.And Daryl and I, we jumpedI was standing next to it and realized, wow,remembers it being extremely cold that day whenThe BoTh of Us:around like lunatics, and then got out of therethis thing has spots! you shot at the bridge.as quickly as we could. quality is better in L.A. You had access toThe Family Man video was very cool,I chose Bob Giraldi because I loved his non-h&o projecTsbig time film studios, so it was just better. What about the videos directed by MickI thought those videos were really good.because it was a cartoon. But it was obviouscommercials. At the time, Bob was the king of New Haggerty and CD Taylor, such as Maneater,Mick Haggerty was a real visionary. Hethat it was a cartoon. In some of the others Family Man, and One on One? was a great graphic artist. I think thelike Method of Modern Love or Private They were all shot in L.A., and I think theManeater one is cool, with the panther,Eyes, we were being cartoonish. If the video was a cartoon, I could be a cartoonPossession Obsessioncharacter, and that made sense. Mick Haggerty said that he thought of One on One as an Al Green type of song. Yes, I think Mick Haggerty got us. That one was natural, a little cinema verit.You did two videos for the additional songs added to your greatest hits collection. You have been vocal aboutHall had a solo hit withHall wrote & producedyour dislike for Adult Education withRunaway Swept Away for Diana Rossdirector Tim Pope?Big mistake. That was a mistake from the beginning. That was stupid. He was an English director, he wanted to make some sort of post-apocalyptic New York we had nothing to do with that video. Quite honestly, we were so busy traveling and touring and they were demanding a video, so we kind of let that one slide, saying, We dont have any time to think about this. We did have input with our other videos, but on this one, we had absolutely no input. They picked this director based on some other videos he had done, and they said to us,Oates co-wrote Oates produced,We got it all together, dont worry aboutElectric Blue for performed & sang withit, it will be wild and amazing, and we went,Icehouse The Parachute ClubAll right, whatever. Then we showed up at the shoot and saw this enormous post-"Private Eyes"16MVTMISSUE #1 ISSUE #1MVTM17'