My role on the video was that I was a producer, grip & gaffer on the shoot & I edited the video.
The following comment is purely my own speculative opinion & it is based really on any first hand information at all so take it as you like.
I've never really understood the whole MTV refusal to show it. It seemed as much a political decision as an "artistic" one. If I remember correctly it was supposed to premiere one Sunday night on "120 Minutes" but it never happened.
In the video there is the implication that Katharine is going to burn this house down in reference to the line "I think it's time we torch this place" but, she doesn't. The band doesn't really "trash" the house. They just take a few selected items. It's all goofy Zipperesque fun.
I think MTV's refusal to show it possibly stemmed from the fact that the Zippers weren't "successful" at the time in the sense that they weren't in the KROQ rotation or getting a lot of big radio station airplay. They weren't selling the amount of CD's required for them to be a "legitimate" alternative band worthy of MTV's precious broadcast time.
If the video had followed the "Hell" video, which really launched the band into mainstream awareness, it probably would have gotten shown, at least once or twice.
They did remake the video in a completely different storyline, which I actually have never seen, but I think it got shown a few times.
So, I don't think that the only reason the video didn't get shown was because of the reference to the house getting burned down. Take that Radiohead video where they actually light the car on fire with the person in it or that other video & I can't remember the band, with the person running in slow motion on fire (directed by Spike Jones) or even the Wallflowers enormously overplayed "One Headlight" where he says he'd "like to see it burn."
Anyway, anyway, the video is on the new CD-ROM & you will finally get to see it. I'm sure you'll think it's pretty tame.
For the production I used a Sony VX-1000 digital video camera, a Nikon FE2 with 55/1.2 lens still camera & a Tascam DAT machine.
For post-production I used a Mac 9500/180 MP Media 100 editing systemwith 4.5 software & all Sony hardware.
All design work done by myself & Jon Stemp was done in Photoshop 4.0, After Effects 3.1, Illustrator 7.0, Director 6.5/5.01 & Sound Edit 16 v2.
That is going to remain a mystery for a while longer. There is a way
to unlock those blocks but I am not saying right now. I have to talk to
Shorty first about it.
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