We got so excited making the first Hollowmen video ("Need It Most"), we got into creating the second one right away. Eric Svenson, original Hollowmen bassist, wrote the instrumental "EGAD!" and titled it on the main chords used. "If only we could put something together with vintage race footage," he said--which blew my mind, as I had that exact thing, in color 16mm, from the first year of the Greenwood Roadway races in the summer of '63. I had them transferred in 2k at Video Conversion Experts in Arizona, which make the picture easy enough to crop to 16x9 without any loss of quality.
If you were part of the Iowa underground music scene in the 80's, watch closely for a dozen and a half or so references to people and bands from the scene.
If you're clamoring for this footage to be seen in a bigger context, I am working on making a short documentary or two using much more of the remaining film.
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