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"Seal Rock" by RickWhite (http://bit.ly/1rDXRec)

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ERIC'S TRIP 1990-1996 We all get older and a lot of us still play music. We are not the same as we were when we were twenty, its hard to relate to the mind you once had even if you can maybe analyze it better now when looking back. Things seemed simpler, more dramatic, energetic and vital at that age. The music had a sheer power and emotional overload that can only really come from the late teens/early 20's. We were fresh out of highschool, skateboarding, hardcore bands, still living at home, no real incentive to have a band for any real reason than to make a racket with and for our best friends. I still love listening to old records and watching old footage of bands in their youthful prime. The who we once were is captured on there, immortal. It’s quite a thing. One problem i always have with the usual band documentarys, is that they are always filled up with new interviews of people reminiscing on old times with decades of hindsight, and the fact that they give you just short glimpses of classic footage that you'd love to see a lot more of. We could have done easily done that too but i believe that the truest form of the story is in the original music, photo, film and video footage itself. I've collected a lot of stuff from friends over the years and luckily, i personally bothered to lug 4 tracks machines, mics and old video cameras to the shows at the time. Talking friends into holding the camera or keeping an eye on the input levels. I'm really glad i kept all those VHS tapes and reels of super8 films safe. The boxes of cassettes stored at my folks house still play great after 20 years. In 2007 i started transferring all these tapes into digital form to put this movie together, dubbing old VHS tapes was the scariest thing as some of them would barely play but i eventually got them all. I was excited that with use of modern editing stuff, i could finally sync up old video with better sounding tapes recorded at the same show, or editing together footage i had with someone else’s camera angle of the same show that i got from them years later. I worked on this movie for four years with much love until i finally had what i thought was a good document of what Eric's Trip really was. The footage and the music is all in chronological order but also layed out in an intentional storyline. Some of these live concerts i have in their entirety, some just a rough piece. Though all the clips used, the song lyrics, the photos, everything together was chosen to tell the true story better than we ever could with modern reminiscing. There is no voice over, no type on screen, just the footage. I've edited it all together as clean as i could manage and really fussed over it. This is a much loved part of my history and i really wanted it to be meaningful and true. I listed out any facts and details about the footage on ericstripmovie.com, if you're curious of such things. Most all the footage was collected from VHS tapes which aren't very HD compared to modern video of course. I don't recommend blowing it up to full screen. The original footage is in 4:3 aspect at 640x480 pixels, and it varies in quality quite a bit. The photos are cleaned up, the music is all remastered and full stereo, and this final edit is just under two hours long. No permissions were gotten for any of the footage i've used that wasn't originally my own, and i really hope all will understand that this movie was made with no intention of profit to be made, and that the footage is very important to this documentative project. I'm really happy with how it all turned out and am glad i can finally share it with all of you that may care. Hope you dig the Eric's Trip show, thanks friends. Rick