For those of you who didn't see the brief promo for this music video during the Denver Broncos' ass whuppin' in Super Bowl XLVIII, just thought I'd post the video here. This is such an awesome song... Didn't mind dealing with iTunes' stupid password system to download "Invisible" after it officially became available online earlier this month.
By the way, I pointed out in my previous Blog entry that I was going to mention the first gig that Nancy and I worked on together for this year. Well— This music video is it! Under extremely tight security, U2 performed this song in front of 1,500 extras over a 3-day period from January 8-10...inside an aircraft hangar at Santa Monica Airport in Southern California. Every time Bono appeared on set to shoot a take, the crowd broke out in applause and cheers—rightfully so—since he was a total badass as he strutted onto the stage. When the cameras weren't rolling, the assistant directors were very strict in having us not turn on those flashlights that you see being waved towards the end of the music video...since there were only so many spare batteries to hand out for 1,000-plus background actors in attendance. But as you can see from the music video, everything turned out all right—though I'm wondering if I could've actually spotted myself had the footage not been in black and white!
In regards to Nancy, we both worked on the first two days of the video shoot. The most memorable moments between us took place on this gig...since everyone's cellphones had to be left behind in our cars at crew parking, which meant that background actors (surprise, surprise) actually had to socialize with each other to kill time! In my case with Nancy, it meant playing card games back in holding and um, flirting while we were on set. ("Your shoes are hurting your feet, Nancy? Here— Let me massage 'em for ya...") Oh, and the paycheck that I got in the mail for this video a few weeks later was not too shabby, either.
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