This is a work-in-progress, set to my recent surf tune "The Bends.' The footage was all shot at the Ripley's Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, SC in August 2004. I'll probably add some additional elements in the future, but I think it works well as a kind of relaxing "nature film" as it stands.

The Unprepared was a band we put together to play at a few parties over the course of about a year. This video was taped live in our basement at a party on February 22, 2003. It was our final performance as The Unprepared. Ellen was expecting (Nina was born less than 2 months later) and we weren't going to have time to play in a band for a while.

The Unprepared were:
Steve Dockery - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Marc Roulier - Guitar, Vocals
Allison Roulier - Keyboards, Vocals
Harry Stone - Bass
Ellen Dockery - Drums, Vocals

This is part of a recently discovered tape of our final performance on August 26, 1989. The quality is poor, as it comes from an old VHS tape.

*Batteries Not Included in 1989 were:
Steve Dockery - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Marc Roulier - Bass, Vocals
Jeff Ganis - Guitar, Vocals
Paul Bergen - Drums, Vocals

This is the only known video of Gangster Clairvoyants, recently discovered. The quality is poor, as it comes from an old VHS tape.

Gangster Clairvoyants were a band I played in briefly, after the dissolution of *Batteries Not Included, and when *BNI got together one last time in August, 1989 for their "Farewell/Reunion" show at the Corner Tavern, Gangster Clairvoyants were the opening act.

There appear to be four of us on stage, but the only two you can see clearly are myself and Joab Stieglitz (keyboards, vocals).

More GC information to come.

This short clip appeared in the VH-1 "Behind The Music" program on the band REM.

The Story:
In the spring of 1985, I'd been a DJ at WRSU-FM for 2 months. I dropped by the station on a Sunday, waiting for the ATM machine across the street to come back online, since I needed laundry money.
Sundays at WRSU-FM were ethnic programming, instead of the usual Alternative Rock, so the only people there were the Program Director, me, and the girl doing "Polish Hour".
Suddenly, an MTV Music News crew shows up. Apparently, somebody had been told they were coming, but didn't tell anyone else. Apparently, since REM was playing a colleges-only tour to support their album "Fables of the Reconstruction", MTV was interviewing college radio people, since they were the ones that got REM the exposure they needed to break into the business.
The crew taped me and the Program Director talking about REM. Then we went in and shot me queueing up an REM record (not the new album, either- it was "Chronic Town").So the folks listening to Polish hour got a dose of REM among their polkas.
My sister taped the resulting spot on MTV Music News, which I got to see once, and then she accidentally taped over it, and that was that- or so I thought.
Almost 15 years later, however, this piece of it turned up in the REM documentary.