The Music Video Exposed w/Russell Mulcahy

[joe]

Caught this last night on VH1 Classic. Anyone else see it?

Russell Mulcahy was the director of the Gypsy video. He talks about Gypsy and some of the other videos he did early on. Mick talked a little bit and Russell was reminiscing about the scene where Stevie runs out in the rain. They were actually on location at that very stop (not sure what street is was on in or near LA) and something to the effect that one of the rain machines swooping by almost decapitated Stevie.

They also had Bonnie Tyler on and I kinda missed what happened that made Russell tell Bonnie to "F off" in response to her asking him to direct her next video after Total Eclipse of the Heart. ???

[louielouie2000]

Something about Stevie twirling around in the rain in enchanted forests with children, while nearly having her head severed is tremendously entertaining for some reason! :laugh:

[vermicious knid]

Thanks for the info. It is on three times tomorrow starting in the very early hours. I set my DVR.

[michelej1]

Russell Mulcahy was the director of the Gypsy video. He talks about Gypsy and some of the other videos he did early on. Mick talked a little bit and Russell was reminiscing about the scene where Stevie runs out in the rain. They were actually on location at that very stop (not sure what street is was on in or near LA) and something to the effect that one of the rain machines swooping by almost decapitated Stevie.


Oh, this is why Fleetwood Mac should do audio commentary for their videos like Stevie did for CV. We got so much pleasure out of Stevie saying the horse tried to kill her. To hear her say how she was almost decapitated or almost died of the heat in Hold Me would be priceless. We would be quoting the commentary for DECADES to come. I'd almost rather have it than a new FM album, in many ways.

Thanks for posting. I will tape it.

Michele

[LukeA]

This was very interesting to watch.

Apparently (per Mulcahy) the scene was filmed near the intersection of Sunset & Hollywood. My best guess is that the video was filmed on/very near the old Monogram studios/lot (which is now KCET). Anyone else have info?

How ironic that it would be filmed right across the street from the location of the massive set built for DW Griffith's "Intolerance", of which the "Gypsy" video is a complete homage (the various settings, the costuming, even the editing)

[Macfanforever]

Whats the name of this show on VHI,also I'm surprized VHI is still dealing with music themed show still.

[SuiteShangriLa]

Whats the name of this show on VHI,also I'm surprized VHI is still dealing with music themed show still.

Music Videos Exposed.
its not on again til later tonight here

[LukeA]

Music Videos Exposed.
its not on again til later tonight here

The Wayne Isham episode is on tonight, yes. The Russell Mulcahy episode is currently not scheduled to be re-aired.

Steve Barron ("Hold Me") gets his own episode on February 26- I bet Fleetwood Mac gets a segment, especially since Mick was interviewed for Mulcahy/"Gypsy".

[Sahara]

Oh, this is why Fleetwood Mac should do audio commentary for their videos like Stevie did for CV. We got so much pleasure out of Stevie saying the horse tried to kill her. To hear her say how she was almost decapitated or almost died of the heat in Hold Me would be priceless. We would be quoting the commentary for DECADES to come. I'd almost rather have it than a new FM album, in many ways.

Thanks for posting. I will tape it.

Michele
Those videos deserve a proper quality DVD release, with or without commentaries! (Though of course with is preferable :) )

[SuiteShangriLa]

The Wayne Isham episode is on tonight, yes. The Russell Mulcahy episode is currently not scheduled to be re-aired.

Steve Barron ("Hold Me") gets his own episode on February 26- I bet Fleetwood Mac gets a segment, especially since Mick was interviewed for Mulcahy/"Gypsy".

oh ok, i didnt realize it was a different episode. i missed it anyway

[michelej1]

Those videos deserve a proper quality DVD release, with or without commentaries! (Though of course with is preferable :) )

Certainly, along with the Making of Gypsy and Big Love stuff that is out there.

Michele

[kokoro]

You can see the episode on the Vh1 site <a href="http://www.vh1.com/video/the-music-video-exposed/full-episodes/the-music-video-exposed-russell-mulcahy/1631819/playlist.jhtml"]http://www.vh1.com/video/the-music-video-exposed/full-episodes/the-music-video-exposed-russell-mulcahy/1631819/playlist.jhtml">here</a>. Gypsy starts at about the 13:00 minute mark.

Apparently, music videos of the 80s were not just awesomely plotless, nonsensical, and tacky, they were also threatening to the life spans of our favorite stars. How about an episode of "The Music Video Exposed: (Nearly) Fatal Bloopers?" Does it make me a sick person that I want to see the footage that must have been recorded during the Gypsy accident?

Coincidentally, didn't Stevie say she thought she was beheaded in a past life?

[LukeA]

Less than three weeks after the "Gypsy" shoot, the Twilight Zone Movie tragedy (helicopter crash that beheaded Vic Morrow & two child actors) happened across town. I'm sure that freaked Stevie out.

[michelej1]

Coincidentally, didn't Stevie say she thought she was beheaded in a past life?

Yeah. She says that's why she can't throw her head back without difficulty. Even though she's often been seen throwing her head back.

Michele

[vermicious knid]

An advertisement for the Steve Barron episode aired, and "Hold Me" wasn't one of the snippets shown.

[michelej1]

I know part of the I Want My MTV book excerpts about Hold Me have been posted, with John drunk and trying to punch the guy and Stevie not wanting to walk on the hot sand, but I do not think I have seen some of this before.

When asked about directing “Hold Me” for Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s I Want My MTV (where all the following quotes are taken from, and a book which you really, really need to buy if you have even the slightest interest in the first decade of MTV), Barron described the band as “not easy to work with” as a result of their “many relationship dynamics.” Almost all the band members couldn’t stand to be in the same room together for a long time. Christine McVie spent so long in makeup that she wasn’t ready to be shot until it was dark outside. “That wasn’t a good video, that one,” says Barron. I disagree.

Simon Fields, producer for the video, has a lot to say about the video shoot, “’Hold Me’ was a ****ing nightmare, a horrendous day in the desert. John McVie was drunk and tried to punch me. Stevie Nicks didn’t want to walk on the sand with her platforms. Christine McVie was fed up with all of them. Mick thought she was being a bitch, he wouldn’t talk to her. They were a fractious bunch.”

[jbrownsjr]

Great stuff! Thanks for posting.

[michelej1]

Great stuff! Thanks for posting.

I liked the part of Chris being fed up with all of them and make up taking so long.

[HomerMcvie]

I liked the part of Chris being fed up with a;l of them and make up taking so long.

The Stevie Lindsey dynamic would wear out Mother Theresa.

[bombaysaffires]

The Stevie Lindsey dynamic would wear out Mother Theresa.


except I don't see any comments he/they made specifically about Lindsey as they did about the others....:shrug:

[HomerMcvie]

except I don't see any comments he/they made specifically about Lindsey as they did about the others....:shrug:

I'm sure they all had difficult days. My ranking, from most difficult, to least...
Stevie
Lindsey
John- if he was drunk
Christine
Mick

[jbrownsjr]

I liked the part of Chris being fed up with all of them and make up taking so long.


Was Mick "not talking" to Christine, or Stevie?

[soul_drifter333]

He was merely too busy shoving a pile the size of Mount Everest up his nose.

Was Mick "not talking" to Christine, or Stevie?

[jbrownsjr]

He was merely too busy shoving a pile the size of Mount Everest up his nose.

Probably, just sand!

[michelej1]

Was Mick "not talking" to Christine, or Stevie?

Christine, which I thought was unusual.

[WalkAThinLine.]

except I don't see any comments he/they made specifically about Lindsey as they did about the others....:shrug:

Stevie was interviewed in that book and mentioned that "Lindsey Buckingham wasn't happy with me because I'd broken up with him six years before". This comment might be in relation to the "Hold Me" video as its the sentence right after her complaints about how hot the shooting was. However, she does go on a bit of a tangent about Mick's affair with her and later his relationship with Sara, so it's unclear if she meant that Lindsey was unhappy with her during the filming of "Hold Me" or just in general.

[jbrownsjr]

Christine, which I thought was unusual.

Sister and brother! :p