The Singing Bass
I bought a Singing Billy Bass one night on the road from a bargain bin at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant. The manager was so glad to get rid the last Singing Bass that she threw in the batteries. The Singing Bass craze was well over, if it ever existed in the first place, so I had a Bass and batteries for $5. I found it fascinating. It was an amazingly stupid technological marvel.
Eventually I wrote a monologue piece utilizing the Singing Bass as the centerpiece. I asked my friend Jim Lewis to perform the piece and assembled an all-star crew with Joe Heyen as Producer, Gene Ertel as Cinema Photographer, Tony Ladish as Editor, and the great Patrick Hazel performing the sound track. We designed a streamlined production process to make shooting and post as simple as possible. It was a one-day shoot and a long weekend edit. Enough said. Watch the video!
I bought a Singing Billy Bass one night on the road from a bargain bin at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant. The manager was so glad to get rid the last Singing Bass that she threw in the batteries. The Singing Bass craze was well over, if it ever existed in the first place, so I had a Bass and batteries for $5. I found it fascinating. It was an amazingly stupid technological marvel.
Eventually I wrote a monologue piece utilizing the Singing Bass as the centerpiece. I asked my friend Jim Lewis to perform the piece and assembled an all-star crew with Joe Heyen as Producer, Gene Ertel as Cinema Photographer, Tony Ladish as Editor, and the great Patrick Hazel performing the sound track. We designed a streamlined production process to make shooting and post as simple as possible. It was a one-day shoot and a long weekend edit. Enough said. Watch the video!