On the Ground Video

More of a place marker than anything, but part off this video was recorded in our old Little Canada house.Through a weird combination of NPR and motorcycles, Andrew Melby included me on an email asking for an "abandoned house" that he could use as a backdrop for a Heireuspecs video. We were in the process of selling our home and moving to Red Wing, so while our place wasn't "abandoned," it wasn't being lived in at the time and I volunteered it for the project. 

Our house is scattered all over this video. In order of appearance: the guitar player, Josh Peterson, is situated in my wife's old art studio, in the basement. The keyboard player, DeVon "DVRG" Gray, is sitting in front of our bedroom closet. Bass player, Sean "Twinkie Jiggles" McPherson (a fellow McNally Smith College instructor, is standing in front of a paneled bookshelf I'd built in the living room. Lead rapper, Midway Felix, is sitting in that same bedroom closet and, then, magically moves into the living room for that knotty pine paneling look near our bay window and down to the basement (where my bass trap comes into even better view). The drummer, Peter Leggett, is sitting under the stairwell in the basement, where I had installed a really terrific 5.1 entertainment system. You can even see the edge of one of my built-in bass traps at the far left of the camera. 

I do not know the location of the decimated warehouse where the dancer is doing her bit, but that was NOT our home. ;-) I really don't where Chastity Brown is pictured singing her parts, either. 

For us, this was a really nice ending to our 18 years in that home. When we moved there, in 1997, the place was a wreak. The previous owner had pretty much trashed the property, inside and out, and we wanted to live by a "lake" so badly that we took on far more of a project than we'd imagined. Our grandson grew up in that house and along the shores of that lake. 2 1/2 dogs and a half-dozen cats spent their lives in that home. Dozens of wonderful friends enjoyed fireworks on Little Canada Days in our backyard, starting with our oldest daughter's wedding reception and continuing until the last August we lived there, 2013. The yard was home to parties and a graduation ceremony for a summer Production class at McNally Smith College when the school decided to be too cheap to bother with a graduation ceremony for the first time in its history. 

This was one of the official videos for Heiruspecs' album "Night Falls."