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Here is a video of one of the new songs for this year.

YouTube - 2008 Sindy Skinless and the Decomposers

I took video of all three new songs, but they all came out like this one, with all the faces washed out!!!

The crew will be set up again and singing on Halloween night. I will try and get new video of all the songs then and hopefully I won't have these lighting issues.

This will give you an idea anyway. This was shot in the Music Room inside the castle. Just out the door behind them and slightly to the left is the master staircase. This room was the waiting room where people came in from the line out on the veranda just before going through the walkthrough.

I'll post the rest after I get new video on Halloween night.

Very cool.

Issue diverted.... THANKS CaptnJackSparrow... Now on to the routines for me....
Hey Jack, your gonna post us some video of your setup in action when its done right????

Ahoy HB,

I jus' looked back thru th' thread (all th' way from pg 1), I was running inta trouble with too much clean-up nessessary on each channel ta remove music-triggered servo event, then rememberin' yer post ref: making a .wav track, sung to th' song ya want ta' use...

Bein' th' doofus pirate I am, when I moved me scallywags from th' workbench, to outside on the ship, I neglected ta keep them in th' same order, so ye can imagine wha' havoc ensued when I plugged 'em in and powered them up fer a test... Aye, head's be swivelin' round like Linda Blair's, noddin' like th' lil dog in a car window an' jaws lookin' like these guys danced on rusty nails.. so I 'ad to pretty much re-do ALL th' routines I had made... BUT...

THIS time, I did it th' smart way... ya know, yer way, 'mate... I stuck me iPod buds in me ears, cued up Goldwave v5.0, hit th' play button on me iPod, th' Record button on Goldwave and sang me lil 'eart out.. repeatedly, ta each track I needed. Fortunately I fly better than I sing, bu' no worries tho, it nigh be put on th' speakers.. Clean, no music, no extra sounds, saved in .wav format. Tomorrow they get loaded inta VSA, and onta th' jaw track fer each character.. Wish I 'ad done it tha' way ta begin with..

Yer quartet be lookin' proper ta my eyes, 'mate! Good show! How did ye stand up yer Bucky's? I can not tell what you made yer stands out of..

Capt. Jack

Capt. Jack... You can see the stands better in these new pictures. They are just a metal post up the middle with a hole in the top. I made small aluminum dics that fit in the hole at the end of the pipe and get secured by 2 set screws. The aluminum discs (about an inch lond and also about an inch in diameter) are tapped in the center so that the main spine rod of the bucky threds right into them.

The meteal posts and secured into small plywood stands at the bottom.

Here is a setup of what it all looked like at the Woodstock Inn Halloween night.



It was a fun night at the Woodstock Inn. A couple thousand people came through the doors last night and the streets were full of costumed trick or treaters. This town does things right!

My quartet sang continuously using the macro program I wrote and even played spooky intrumental music inbetween performances. I wasn't able to get up and get pictures until late in the night, so I missed all the big crowds that gathered to watch, but here is a small one at about 9:30PM. There was about 5 minutes between performances. It took an hour before it repeated a song.



I did take new video and will post some as soon as I get it mixed down.

Anyway, we also did a walkthrough in the basement of the hotel. You had to go down this staircase to get to it.



I had my lightning flashing in through the windows from outside and a speaker behind the people at the top of the stairs for the thunder effect.

Here is a the line of people waiting to go through the walkthrough:



It was pretty much solid like this from 6:00 until 9:30PM.

And... In case you were wondering how I transport the quartet around....

Can I say I love it.. I bet you got quite a few double takes driving through town!
Cant wait to see the video.

Holy Hell that is funny with them in the car...LoL!

I bet that was a lot of fun...

Ok I just found a good deal on ebay for rod ends if you are building for next year. Unfortunately there are only 7 left, and it ends within 5 hours.
eBay Motors: 5/16 x 5/16-24 Male Heim Joint Rod End Bearing (item 110303134449 end time Nov-01-08 21:12:31 PDT)

HB, looks like an absolutely georgious hotel...Looks like you had a blast! Congrats on all your success!

That is GREAT you did a fantastic job again. Now all that is needed is get the one with the head to wave at people while you drive past them. I bet you have made a lot of people wonder if they saw what they saw. Again FANTASTIC job.