Hot tip: The former Alameda Naval Air Station doesn’t take kindly to vigilante filming without the proper city-issued filming permits and necessary one day insurance policy...even if you do try to bribe the security guard with a crisp $100 bill (dude would.not.budge). Who knew? I mean...we thought it would be no biggee for the five us + film crew + one actress AND our life-sized Bunny to frolic around a tiny borrowed camper, “The Scamp”, lit up with a bunch of Xmas lights (plugged in all willy nilly to a car's cigarette lighter) and blaring our tune loudly over and over again on that otherwise abandoned military base on a very cold, windy and rainy night. Nonetheless, Felsen prevailed and we managed to quickly get one shot done outside the huge empty jet hangar just before the law arrived, scattering us into a ragtag fugitive fleet of 5 cars + one SUV pulling the scamp, promptly proceeding to get completely lost, majorly discombobulated (kinda creepy out there at night BTW) and causing us to nearly throw in the towel (twice), but then somehow miraculously finding an alternate location not on the old navy base (thankyouverymuch) where we parked the Scamp and quickly decorated the interior with approximately 1.7 miles of Xmas lights, 14 pineapples, 37 oranges, 9 antique lamps, 2 empty wine bottles, 4 electric guitars, 2 amplifiers, one set of souvenir Puerto Vallarta muy autentico maracas, one Shaboombox by Sick Luggage inc (cranked to full volume), one reluctantly-loaned children’s drum set, one femme fatale and of course, our own heavily-caffeinated life-sized bunny wearing L.E.D. disco gloves. "What could go wrong?", we thought while plugging in all the electrical stuff into a motley scrum of power strips and extension cables patched MacGyver style into a car's cigarette lighter. At times like that, you just put on your matching red track suits and hope for the best. You hit play on the old Shaboombox, scream “Action!”, dance, lip synch and act like total lunatics and then break it down real quick and pack it up before the light drizzle turns into a violent downpour of thunderbolts and lightning and Felsen and company are all electrocuted (don’t try this at home.) But once again, dear old Felsen prevailed and the results are pretty freakin amazing. We hope you enjoy it and will help us by shamelessly sharing the hell out of this timeless classic and vigilante-made video. Rock on amigos.
PS. In love with the tune and want to purchase a copy of the MP3 for a mere $1?
