While
doing the cover shoot for the Suitable for Framing album,
Danny, Chuck and Cory all had molds made of their faces and
latex masks, created from the molds. They then altered the
masks slightly, and wore them for the cover shot. Later, we
used them in an unsuccessful attempt at a bit of visual
magic in our show when we played at the Anaheim Convention
Center. It involved having a stage/platform behind us, that
was specially built for 3DN. Without explaining it, the
object was to have the three singers walk up into this thing
at the end of the show, and by using lighting techniques,
they would appear to have their heads spin around, bodies
rotate in mid air, etc. Three dummies were used (pun
intended) with the latex masks on each of them. The result
was so bad that the audience didn't even realize what was
happening, thank God. It was a great idea, but you kind of
had to be there to understand the concept. Danny was also
searching out live concert concepts that involved 3 camera
projection, that would create a hologram above the audience
of anyone in the band. A live, moving object that you could
reach out and put your hand through, hanging right over your
head as you sat in the audience. It was a great idea, but
the technology just wasn't there at that time. I don't
believe it's been done yet. Danny was always digging hard
for obscure, cutting edge things we could do on stage. Flash
pods were either brand new or weren't even being used yet.
To make a long story short, these "dummies" and latex masks
were still at the American Recording Studio when we started
recording the Cyan album. When not recording, Jimmy started
messing with the dummies. Of course, I couldn't resist and
soon Richie was involved, too. It started by placing the
dummies in all kinds of compromising positions, then evolved
into standing them up, as if to do some vocals. As usual,
Danny, Chuck and Cory took our "poking fun" all in stride,
and just shrugged their shoulders acknowledging our ignorant
attempts at humor. Here, take a look.
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