"The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. Things are going to start happening to me now!" --- Steve Martin in "The Jerk"
I don't exactly know what I was thinking was going to happen, but that wasn't stopping me.
They'd just announced that they'd be shooting scenes for a new music video during the next song. So I was going to be in it.
Fortunately, it was 1993, I was young, the crowd was young, and pushing your way toward the front wasn't a faux pas at a Lemonheads club show, in the same way it might be at, say, Symphony Hall.
We were in Atlanta for a Redd Kross/Lemonheads double-bill, and I was determined to have my presence recorded. I wormed my way as far forward as I could, right in front of Evan Dando and hoped for the best.
And I waited.
Well, I mean, I jumped around up front for that song, then retreated back to where my friends were and enjoyed the rest of the night out in Atlanta. Then I went home and kept my eye on MTV.
I used to watch "120 Minutes" religiously. I'd tape it even, if I thought I was going to miss it. But I definitely taped it when I heard that The Lemonheads label was finally getting around to releasing "Great Big No" as a single.
So here's the thing . . . I am in the video, but you really need a good pause button to find me. You can't really do it on Youtube.
Right around the 1:22 mark, there's a shot where the camera looks over Evan Dando's shoulders, into the crowd. I'm there! I swear I am.
Surprisingly, my phone did not ring. No agent called because they had "discovered" me in a crowd shot that lasts for 2/10ths of a second in a video shown after midnight on a Sunday night by a band releasing its fourth single off a record.
Despite Navin's promise, things did not start happening to me.
But it's still pretty cool. Look Ma, I'm on the internet!
See the video on Youtube.
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