"Home Sweet Home" , Bobby Conn & The Glass Gypsies (July 24, 2004 Chicago)
Available on Bobby Conn: Live Classics, Vol. 1 as a movie file. (Thrill Jockey)
"Home Sweet Home" is live footage from the album recording session, edited by Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi, who is making a documentary about his return to Baghdad last year after 20 years living in the U.S. He also directed the "Angels" video from The Golden Age (Thrill 084). The absurdity of the event is perfectly captured in this footage. We are utterly unaware of how sterile and stilted the atmosphere is in the room. It's not the typical rock show. The small audience is slightly uncomfortable being filmed in a brightly lit room as I float like a silver feather among them singing passionately about paranoia. But when the band kicks in, we are glory triumphant.-Bobby Conn
DV; color; 7:30 min. (February 2005)
videography by Andrew Dryer
post-production/edit by Usama Alshaibi