{"id":6603,"date":"2016-10-14T15:56:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T20:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:37:32","slug":"behind-the-video-moving-to-boise-zombie-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/behind-the-video-moving-to-boise-zombie-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Video: &#8220;Moving to Boise (Zombie Free)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It really did start with a trip to Boise. Last year I went to Idaho to gather with a group of other songwriters at a retreat. Me and my pal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/glennmacpherson\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn MacPherson<\/a> flew out a day early with a stopover in Boise. We left San Jose, landed in Boise, and were nicely struck by how quiet it was and polite the people were. One attendant even walked Glenn&#8217;s full-size guitar out to him, so it &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t get damaged on the conveyor belt&#8221;. I said, &#8220;Dude, people here are really nice.&#8221; Glenn said, &#8220;Yeah. I feel like we&#8217;re regrouping with the remains of humanity up in the mountains after some horrible disaster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F1bmCI31CBU\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>I said &#8211; because this is where my mind goes &#8211; &#8220;Yeah, like the zombie apocalypse&#8221;. That night, we wrote &#8220;Moving to Boise&#8221;. (When you get an obvious bit of inspiration like that, you run with it.) We wrote the lyrics together, and Glenn played it as a traditional blues tune with a bottleneck slide. I kept playing it long after the retreat and eventually moved the song to my banjo &#8211; also with a slide. It&#8217;s a weird, fun song. This just made it weirder and funner.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recorded the song as a solo piece for my new record, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hey Karma&#8221;<\/a>. The record should drop in January, but I wanted to finish this as a preview track, especially with Halloween just a few weeks away. The song needed sound effects (&#8220;zombie footsteps&#8221;), and as I was walking around recording my shuffling boots at a nearby property, I saw this old shed and thought&#8230;wait&#8230;video!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/zombie-cast.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/zombie-cast-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"zombie-cast\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I immediately snapped and sent photos of the place to my pal Richard Newman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmanmediaworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newman Video Works<\/a>. He&#8217;s done several pieces for me, including my <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JCL2sFyUNCo\">&#8220;Highway 17&#8221; video<\/a>. Richard loved the location, the song, and we quickly discovered I have many friends that love to play zombies. They play them VERY well, almost too well, in fact. When the zombie apocalypse does hit, I&#8217;m leaving town.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the song about? You tell me. The story is about zombies. It&#8217;s also a metaphor for leaving a bad place behind. If you watch the video closely, however, it&#8217;s just a lesson that zombies hate banjos.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fbehind-the-video-moving-to-boise-zombie-free%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really did start with a trip to Boise. 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