We made a concerted effort to take it easy on New Years Eve this year. So we rented a house in Palm Springs from some old dude named Darryl, who told us that it was under no circumstances to be a party house. At any rate, my point here is that, the day that we left Palm Springs was not the ideal day to go straight to a Jam Van shoot for myself, D. Bell, and The Perfect Hippie. Also, because we were filming at the Perfect Hippies house and we knew that he had a couch and cable.
This shoot it seems was full of rain checks from previous shoots. As our first two bands on the day had both missed prior sessions in the past and we owed them a solidβ¦. Band number one was The Far West, and this rain check dates back to the way back. The Far West through the eye of a phishβ¦. We lost the original Far West Session due to having a very unprofessional crew at the time. That caused us to lose a session or two due to either faulty camera work or faulty audio.
I seem to recall that this was a lost camera files situation. Clearly thinking about how awesome JITV is. So flash forward to β¦ er wait, it was ! When our legs needed a rest we were able to take repose in the living room and catch the football playoff games that were going on at the time.
The Perfect Hippie is a Dallas Cowboys fan. So is the Spud, who would turn out to be the imperfect Spud before the game was done. Dallas was playing the Detroit Lions in the first round of the playoffs. At some point it became evident that Spud was a jinx, a common occurrence in sports, the only remedy for which is to have the jinx leave the room.
He knew that service to his team could best be rendered by his non-viewing of the game. So he took the hit. So Spud took up his usual seat in front of The Van for our second make-up session of the day with Nocona. I drew a blank here. A quick google search reveals a band, a boot company, and a city in Texas. They seemed like they might be. As of now though, they live in Los Angeles.
