On My Way, the video

We've finally completed the music video for our new single On My Way. This song is very special to us. Well, all our songs are special to us. It's like having babies. You love them all equally, sure, but sometimes, there's a kid who comes along who shows a tiny bit more promise then the others, or has a special gift that sets him apart from his siblings. Ever since its "birth" in January 2006, we've had an especially strong connection to this song. It best encompasses our message and ambition for deSoL. It's a song of hope and its undertone of spiritual development has been inspiring audiences since we started performing it last year.

Now, the video that we've been working on for the past few months is ready to share with the world. We're super excited about it and want as many people as possible to enjoy it with us.

You can view it on our deSoLTv channel on YouTube

We're proud to say we created this thing ourselves from top to bottom. We had the germ of an idea in October of last year while we were on tour and started bouncing ideas around like "wouldn't be cool if we could do this," or "how great would it be if we could try that..." Then, in January, we started the ball rolling and before we knew it, we had a real production on our hands. Everyone pitched in. Andy & me being the default video guys, took on directing the thing and we designed the treatment with input from the band. Jessica assembled the costumes from her mom's theater costume shop and her sister acted as wardrobe mistress.

In late February, we were ready to begin shooting. We set aside 3 days for Prep, Shoot and Strike just before we left for tour in March The set was constructed by our good friends Warren and Bob with donated construction materials from their jobs and assistance from James, Doc & Daniel. We shot the studio scenes in Asbury Park in the rehearsal studio of our friends Status Green. They're a great bunch of guys and a good band, to boot. Doc operated the camera, Daniel ran the music, Jessica flashed the lights and 12 hours later we were done with phase 1.

We hit the road a few days later and drove to Austin,TX for the South By Southwest Music Convention. We played a great show on Thursday night and hit 6th street on Saturday to film the band marching through the middle of the convention for the climax of the video. The details of that we'll discuss in another post. Then we drove to El Paso for a show with The Salvador Santana Band and shot for 3 days in the desert of Tornillo and Fabens. Finally, we continued on to Sante Fe and Southern Colorado for 2 more days of shooting and we were done. All in all, it took us 9 solid, long, dusty, tiring days to get all the footage we wanted.

Then, Andy and I spent the rest of March and April editing it all together in the bus between shows. A lot of work, but we are more than satisfied with the result. The rest of the band will be posting about their experiences in the days and weeks to come.

Again, hope you enjoy the video and watch it multiple times. You catch something new each time you see it.

C6