The World Premier of the next Mark & Jim Music Video...

 

The work is done, I finished the final cut edits last night.  Please feel free to share this with friends and family.

Joan shot my parts of the video in downtown Rapid City at the "Art Alley," after we scouted locations.  Cindy (Mark's wife) shot his part in Mark's home studio.  Mark wrote the lyrics and did the music production after we each did tracks (from the Black Hills and Phoenix, Arizona) using the Spire Studio.  Mark's tracks: guitar, keyboards (piano and synth strings), bass, and drums; my tracks: guitar and vocals.  I did the video production and editing from the motorhome.

 Here's the lyrics (if you want to sing along)...

Vaccine

Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
Please go ahead and stick your needle in.
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
Only you can take us back to when.

Far too many have no clue
So we must all rely on you
Cause wearin’ masks is hard to do, vaccine.

We haven’t learned to stay away
Cause it’s more fun to drink and play.
We’re dying to get out and make the scene.

There’s some who’ll claim that you are flawed,
But we trust science, we’re in awe
Of all your lovely antigens, vaccine.

Maybe you’re M-R-N-A
Or made the old fashioned way,
You’re gonna kick that COVID it its genes.

Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
Please go ahead and stick your needle in.
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
Only you can take us back to when.

The race is on, we need you fast,
But your effect has got to last,
Or, there’s no point in taking you, vaccine.

We probably won’t be virus-free,
But maybe herd immunity
Will free us all from this quarantine.

So jam that needle in my arm.
Fauci says you’ll do no harm.
I’m all yours to immunize, vaccine.

Now, it could take an extra dose,
Like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
But, we’ll do anything it takes, vaccine.

Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
Please go ahead and stick your needle in.
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
Only you can take us back to when.

We hope that Dolly doesn’t mind,
We went ahead and changed her rhymes,
Cause your truth is hard to find, vaccine

And last, we thank the brilliant minds
Who work nonstop to save our kind,
Cause we’re running out of time, vaccine.

Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
Please go ahead and stick your needle in.
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
Only you can take us back to when.

Only you can take us back to when.

Please go ahead and stick your needle in.

Only you can take us back to when.

Only you can take us back to when.

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Another labor of love.  Mark and I first started playing together in bands in high school.  This is our second music video (the first one was "On The Road Again"), after a couple years of recording, covers and originals.

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