During our run on the "Hed To Head" tour with Mushroomhead and Hed P.E. we left Pittsburgh, PA and made an 8 hour journey home to Knoxville, TN to film our new video Taste of Ashes featuring Jamey Jasta (from Hatebreed). We had been trying to hook up with Jamey ever since our record came out to shoot a video for TOA. Luckily, Hatebreed was playing in our hometown when we had an opening, we planned so that we'd play their after party and shoot the video there.
The location for the video was The Cider House; a small venue that is connected to The Valarium which Hatebreed was playing that night. We, however arrived earlier in the day to meet the two Director's from our Raging Nation Team (Timur and Tom) who would be directing the video who flew in from New York. After everything was set up, SLS performed numerous times. Timur shot each band member individually capturing single performances while the whole band played together. Later, Jamey came over to the set to shoot his single shots. He was very polite, introducing himself to everyone on set, even our family and friends that were there. When Jamey performed his parts he was very calm and professional knowing exactly what to do, he even came back out during our live set to perform the song live with us and we really got to see him do what he does best - which is OWN the crowd.
To say the least we were exhausted!
What was great about doing this video besides having Jamey actually appear in the video was that we got to invite our families, friends, and fans to come hang out and be apart of the whole production, having them perform in the video also. This video is definitely one our most memorable ones to date because its raw gritty and in your face allowing no apologies. To me it is a very honest video, no glitz and glam to cover up what is really important...THE MUSIC! It's what you'll see when you come out to one of our shows.
I hope all who watch the video will enjoy it as much as we all did making it! -- Alexis Brown/Straight Line Stitch
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