Here’s a treat.
I recently found an old VHS copy of a video my band Happy Panic shot for one of our songs. I believe the intent was that we would enter a Conan O’Brien related college band contest by submitting this video. We did not win. Or if we did, no one in the band told me and I missed the trip to New York.
Everybody singing. That’s me on the right.
Instrumental break. That is still me on the right. It is really remarkable that I did not get more girls when I was in a rock band with fancy cornet moves like that.
Here’s the video, in its entirety, recorded live without a drummer in one of Northwestern University’s film studios. Watch for Vince to wing a tennis ball at the camera towards the beginning.
I’m Always Getting Hit in the Head [WMV, 3.9 MB]
Didn’t the tape never actually get sent to Conan?
Now that I think about it, they haven’t done their “College Band Search” contest in a few years. Now that Conan’s so popular, I guess, they don’t need to have unknown college bands on the show anymore.
That video is totally sweet. Vince might be my hero now.
Holy crap. That was awesome.
What happened to the drummer? Did he get held up by a bizarre gardening accident?
I guess now I know who I lent my VHS copy of that video to. I knew I shoulda put my name on anything I lend to Lucas!
If you had done it on treadmills you’d be famous today.