Dogtown Days (official video - long version)

This beautiful full length “film short” version - featuring an extended prologue and an evocative, three dimensional sound design not found in the standard version - makes its debut exclusively on The Jayhawks digital properties.

VIDEO CREDITS
Philip Harder: Director
starring Em Prozinksi and Nora Brandenberg-Harder
Dan Prozinski: Producer / Props
Damian Kussian: Camera
Dale Nord: Drone
Isabelle Harder :Wardrobe
Mike Lane: AMC Gremlin
Tom Lecher: Sound
Rick Fuller, Philip Harder, Rick Lawrence: 1985 Jayhawks footage
Vintage mid 80s audio featuring Hettie Lynne Hurtes

Director's statement
The Jayhawks video was filmed during Covid-19 in May 2020 using social distancing techniques. Editing began the day our hometown of Minneapolis erupted in protest. The "Reagan Hates Me" t-shirt coincidentally seems fitting- not that anything like that could be fitting during this tumultuous time.

The story- Rick Fuller, Rick Lawrence and I (Harder-Fuller Films) filmed The Jayhawks sound checking for New Band Night, 1985 at the 7th St Entry, Minneapolis. 35 years later I wove this rare outtake footage and mic check banter into a fictional story about two friends on a road trip, filming 8mm and selling merch for a young band called The Jayhawks.

Actors Em Prozinski and my son Otto Harder are best friends. They were filmed separately by their parents. (Em is also singer/drummer Tim O'Reagan's niece). Em's father Dan shot her driving and inside the club. Dan also designed the fictional Jayhawks' merch and staged all the vintage props in the car and club. We sterilized the car and aired out the club and I filmed our son Otto as his mother Isabelle drove. We took notes on actions and reactions and Em and Otto portrayed being together. When Otto gets pushed, his mother's arm with bracelets is the hand double.

The exterior shots by Damian Kussian were distant or long lensed to make Em and Otto appear closer. There were a few scenes that were split-screened in edit to allow Otto and Em to appear a foot apart. The drone shots were by Dale Nord with Em's dad riding shotgun in a long curly wig. Tom Lecher's creative sound design pulled it all together.

My son Otto is 23, the age I was when we shot the Jayhawks in '85. Em wears the same home made "Reagan Hates Me" T-shirt that many of us wore at that time. And the star of the video is a bright green 1972 AMC Gremlin, donated for our shoot by Mike Lane. We added fake rust to make it seem like a beater that a young woman would have driven in '85.

Enjoy!
Philip Harder, Director

[steviiiii]

SO INCREDIBLE..!! OH MY - this is superb -- ilicious - amend..!!

[rothblack]

Idk what to say about the Jayhawks. Drummer really nails the vibe & vocals...sunny soundin

[jeffreyabrams]

Great Video, Awesome song. Love the vintage 7th street Entry video. Love the hard driving beat. Makes me want to get in the car and “pedal to the metal”

[johanesmuylargo]

What a great thing has been done here.

[metrodraft]

Wow, the video actually adds a ton to the song. Most videos are useless these days. This one is great and brought back my childhood too. Next door neighbor had a Gremlin. Loved that car!

[paulelliott]

Excellent video and very cool editing
The song is another great Jayhawks composition
Awesome

[damiankussian]

So great. Freaking love this track! The video captures the song perfectly

[titomartinez]

Bonito muy bonito 😅 y el camino ? Hay mucho por delante .grandes jayhawks😊😊

[jamesk.dofton]

Great video, took me back to my high school days! Really looking forward to the new album...

[bldallas]

I love it! Great song. The kind of song you like 10 seconds into your first listen. Very happy, poppy feel and, yes, a solid Big Star vibe. Can’t wait for the LP; already bought this and the other two songs currently on iTunes. Fan for over 30 years; thanks for everything you do!

[Dembeleeee]

OMG!!! TODAY IM MORE HAPPY! Regards from Spain!

[johncoker]

great video !!! loved all the 80's references, Walter Mondel, Black Flag, etc etc ….. no Mark ??? ( I dig it ) AWESOME !!! come to NY asap . much love !!!

[juanrobles]

La foto, en la portada del disco, es de SYLVIE VARTAN; cantante francesa de inmenso éxito.Fue tomada en los inicios de su carrera 1962

[bonfireballads]

"72 miles to you...I can't undo the damage without you" ---sounds familiar, Tim!

[davidhidayat]

Debuted in my weekly personal chart on June 7, 2020 edition :)

[robmyjob]

I love the song and all the 80s period details! The only thing that places it not in the 80s is her nose ring and tattoo.

[peacefullysublime]

Can you please come to Virginia !!! Or somewhere close on the east coast ! Would love to come and take my momma

[giovannirolla]

Wait! It's The Jayhwaks or Big Star?

[ladykfilmartproductions]

Shouldn't the time period have been set in 1997 instead of 1985? The Bunkhouse was basically Olson's album, and it's odd that he appears on the vinyl on the Merch table ( which is accurate ), but then he is cut out of the cassette picture, and the poster on the wall is morphed with the 1997 line up inside the 1985 Bunkhouse frame. The stage shows Tim and Karen when they weren't even in the band in 1985. Am I the only one who finds this odd? The inaccuracies have to be noticeable to any person who has followed the band since then (?) Are we supposed to have a Hollywood fiction type of imagination and pretend that in the Jayhawks world of 1985, Olson didn't really exist? I mean I completely understand why he shouldn't be in the video....and I'm sure he would want no part of being in it....but to make it 1985 and pretend that then is now shows disregard for him founding this band in the first place, does it not? Thoughts?

[alessandrocaldarella]

It's a beautiful song, it seems, however, to listen to Tom Petty's first compositions: rhythm, voice and guitars.