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Directed by Patrick McGuinn
Filmed in Hendersonville, TN and Live at
Elliston Square in Nashville in Black and White.
Live at The Exit/In 1986
Videographer: Jay Reinbold
Edited by Joe Blanton
It's All Changed 1987 A&M Records
Directed by Kevin Kerslake
The oriental girl/victrola scenes were filmed in
Percy Warner Park in the West End area of Nashville.
(Trivia) The model was nude and didn't want the band
to watch as she worked. We did anyway!
The performance scenes were shot at The
War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville. The scenes
were originally supposed to have a color treatment
applied to them but apparently the process was too
expensive and only a few treated scenes made the edit.
Half the Truth 1989 A&M Records
Directed by Sam Raimi
Produced by Bruce Campbell
The video was filmed an the historic Charlie Chaplin
soundstage on the A&M lot on LaBrea in Hollywood.
Sam and Bruce had produced "Cold Metal" for Iggy Pop
a few months earlier and The RCC watched Evil Dead 2
constantly so they were immediately our first choice. Sam
only directed 2 videos in his long and prosperous career
(Spiderman 1 & 2) and basically the whole crew was the
crew (and actors) of Evil Dead 1 & 2 including his brother
Ted Raimi. Cranes brought in several dozen wrecked cars
for the set and the headlights were rigged to flash with
the music. Steel grate platforms were constructed and
outfitted with underlighting. A 20 ft. tall Royal Court
dragon logo was painted on the back wall but you
never see it because of all of the smoke machines.
Sam used several of the same filming techniques from Evil
Dead including a swirling crane that cost 10 grand a day.
He also directed us to play to an ultra slow version of the
song so that when he sped it up the video would have a
tighter look similar to a Chinese martial arts film. All day long
the band had been shouting the "Who's Laughing Now?" line
from Evil Dead 2, to Bruce Campbell and pulling our hands
into our sleeves to simulate the famous scene where he cuts
his own arm off with a chainsaw. He got his payback when
he manned a huge fan capable of producing 60 mph winds.
During the last scenes Bruce dumped giant bags of styrofoam
popcorn into the wind machine while screaming, "Who's
Laughing Now!" The wind was so powerful that it knocked Drew
clean off the top of a car and the styrofoam felt like bullets.
Those scenes never made it to the edit unfortunately. Also
Sam had planned to animate a scene where the wind blew
the flesh off my body during the "skin and bones" line in the
song but the label didn't lay out the dough for it.