Blitzen Trapper - Evening Star (studio version/ Opera House live shots)

Here's one of a handful of projects I'm working on in a cinema verité style (meaning I guess candid unscripted documentary shots in this case shot entirely in chronological succession).  Essentially it's 31 still photos taken of Blitzen Trapper's equipment, a handful of members, the venue on the evening of Aug. 3.  All the stills were taken with a RIM Blackberry 9630 edited into a movie form using a fairly basic program and synced in this case to the audio of the studio version of Evening Star off of Blitzen Trapper's sprawling opus Destroyer Of The Void.

A setlist of that concert can be found on this site here.



And here is a particularly confident (as of course was Toronto's live rendition) of Evening Star from the El Ray Theater in LA about a month earlier (June 29, 2010).



You're a broken-hearted party girl
Your skirt's on fire, your hair's uncurled
Your dancing days are at an end
Yeah, you've got no one to call your friend
All you've got left is a silhouette,
An empty bed, and a cheap Corvette
You're a long way from your sweet sixteen
You need some stonewashed jeans
And a time machine

To take you back
To that railroad track
Where you first took flight
In the morning light
So take me back
To that first romance
Where you made your stand
You were hand in hand
With the black-eyed angel of the evening star

When you came to the city in your cheap perfume
And your ran through the room
But you grew up soon
Always dressed like a killer in the afternoon
Sipping warm champagne from a silver spoon
In the night you would travel in your lover's car
With your jewels so bright, like a shooting star
But your nightmares must have caught up with you
And all the pills and the prophets couldn't get you through

To take you back
To that railroad track
Where you first took flight
In the morning light
So take me back
To that first romance
Where you made your stand
You were hand in hand
With the black-eyed angel of the evening star


- lyrics by Eric Early