Never Mind The Camera Crew

It's now February and today is the 15th anniversary of the release of Plants And Birds And Rocks And Things by The Loud Family. At least the 15th anniversary of the album release show at the Great American Music Hall. Here's a video of the LF making the video for "Jimmy Still Comes Around".



This meta-video should be retitled "Jimmy Still Stands Around", because based on my experience at another LF video shoot, it takes an entire day of standing around to make one four minute clip.  And in the end, you just have to ask yourself if it's really worth it. They don't have the finished "Jimmy" video on youtube, but it's pretty standard band lip-synching in front of a screen stuff. That video didn't make anyone's life okay. But the album Plants & Birds & Rocks & Things made many people's lives okay, Scott Miller's welcome return in the age of grunge.

I can't find my CDR of the Plants release show, but it was a good one. It was raining, and I headed to the show after spending the entire afternoon listening to Phillipe Kahn expound on the wonders of Borland's new Paradox database for Microsoft Windows 3.0 (I've got the free coffee cup to prove it). The Loud Family were playing a high profile show at a big club (GAMH) for their brand new album, and literally tore the place up. Not "literally" literally, but you know what I mean. They played Roxy's "Re-Make/Re-Model" (which they used to play a lot) and ended with "Last Day That We're Young" from Lolita Nation. And I watched it all holding my free Paradox For Windows coffee cup.  

It was a good day, as we used to say back in the early 1990s. Here are some LF rarities from that era, including the demo of "Jimmy" from the Never Mind The Camera Crew tape, plus a few choice cover songs from those halcyon early days of the Loud Family.

The Loud Family
Jimmy Still Comes Around (demo) (S. Miller)
You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory (J. Thunders)
Horse With No Name (America)
Back Of A Car (Big Star)