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Amazing gem of a show with great Cyriis commentary between songs and clear sound quality.

STEEL PROPHET "666 Is Everywhere (The Heavy Metal Blues)" (2013)

When Morphine was booked to play a benefit concert in the summer of 1997 for Central Park Summerstage, manager Deb Klein invited her friends filmmaker Karim Ek and Trona guitarist & singer Mary Ellen Leahy to tag along with the band to New York City to document the performance.

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They shot the video Ek describes below. He added the “Honey White” soundtrack much later for his reel, which he recently unearthed for us to share with you here.

"about the Honey White music video... that video was made for exactly 200 dollars... the cheapest video I ever made, shot on a Super8 camera I found in a dumpster in Biarritz while hitchhiking around France... I had a cheap video extender lense that I taped to the front of the Super 8 that made the frame extremely wide, almost fisheye, which negated the need to focus or stabilize while running handheld, chasing Mary Ellen through Central Park as my "B" roll. The band's performance was also captured on Super8 but with a different camera: a Cannon that had an internal dissolve function which allowed me to create mesmerizing double image sequences. Pushing the limits and creative potential of Super8 also allowed me to create many other in-camera effects like the staccato stop motion effect made by rapid fire finger pulling on the camera's trigger... I think in total I used just 4 or 5 rolls of film which were carefully tele-cined to 3/4 inch Umatic video tape, then edited A/B tape to tape in sync with the album studio track (no nonlinear computer system involved in the Editing)…

— Karim Ek

Kyuss singer John Garcia's band after Kyuss disintegrated.

Amazing band from NYC that is still active today! Singer Jennifer Charles sounds like Lana Del Rey and this video is from their debut album, "Bleed Your Cedar", a sultry mix of jazz, alternative/grunge, and goth.

John Garcia on vocals