As promised last week, above you see the even-more-whacked-out music video for the song, “Hesitation,” by The Defectors.

This is a music video I made for the Defectors’ song “Hesitation.” The performance on the copy of the video I have was bedevilled by digital glitches, drop outs and time skips, but I also had the studio demo of the song (produced by Jack Griffith), so I leaned into the defects, and made a purposefully glitchy video for the song. I made two versions of the video, and you saw the more conservative one in last week’s new video RFC. This is the “super defective” version.  I went with the more conservative version in the show because this one was too distracting to roll the credits over.

Allow me to loosely quote from the YouTube description: “This was created using footage of the West Virginia band, The Defectors, performing at The Criel Mound in South Charleston, West Virginia, in June, 1983, as a bonus for episode 221 of Radio Free Charleston. This “Defective” version has way more on-purpose video glitches. The original footage was shot by Dana Grooms.

The Defectors were Lynne Sandy, John “Sham Voodoo” Estep, Chuck Biel and David Fields.”

We will be working on further restoration of the video and including interviews in an upcoming documentary about the late Lynne Sandy. If you knew Lynne and would like to participate in the documentary, contact me via Social Media at Facebook, BlueSky or Twitter. (I don’t know why some of the links in this blog have lines through them, but most of them still work)

I will tell you more about that project in the New Year.