"Reach" - Martini Ranch
Taken from the YouTube info (and edited with additional info) :
In 1988, Actor Bill Paxton and vocalist/guitarist Andrew Todd Rosenthal formed a short-lived rock duo called Martini Ranch. They recorded and released just one album entitled "Holy Cow", which included inputs from Devo members Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Casale and Alan Myers (all of whom contributed to the album's hit "How Can the Labouring Man Find Time For Self-Culture?"), along with Cindy Wilson of the B-52's as a back-up vocalist and actor Judge Reinhold - credited as a whistler on "Reach". The video was directed by James Cameron and is remarkably the only music video he ever shot.
The video includes cameos from director (and Cameron's then-wife) Kathryn Bigelow, as well as ALIENS and TERMINATOR alumni Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Jenette Goldstein, Judge Reinhold, and Adrian Pasdar - currently of TV's HEROES and who had appeared in Bigelow's NEAR DARK with Paxton, Goldstein and Henriksen.
We believe ourselves, according to many of the actresses appearing in this video who mailed us, to be one of the last few owning a playable VHS of this video. Ours was duplicated by Bill Paxton himself back in the late 80's. Here it is for all those who starred in it and have junked their tape Bill made for them, and all those who never got to see it.
I still own martini Ranch's CD and "Reach" was one of my favourite tunes on the album. Admittedly, the song is a little dated now, but until today I never even knew that this video existed.
On a side-note: the only other reference I know of them is Bill Paxton's co-star Rick Rossovich is seen wearing a Martini Ranch t-shirt in the film "Navy SEALS".
-mDNA
In 1988, Actor Bill Paxton and vocalist/guitarist Andrew Todd Rosenthal formed a short-lived rock duo called Martini Ranch. They recorded and released just one album entitled "Holy Cow", which included inputs from Devo members Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Casale and Alan Myers (all of whom contributed to the album's hit "How Can the Labouring Man Find Time For Self-Culture?"), along with Cindy Wilson of the B-52's as a back-up vocalist and actor Judge Reinhold - credited as a whistler on "Reach". The video was directed by James Cameron and is remarkably the only music video he ever shot.
The video includes cameos from director (and Cameron's then-wife) Kathryn Bigelow, as well as ALIENS and TERMINATOR alumni Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Jenette Goldstein, Judge Reinhold, and Adrian Pasdar - currently of TV's HEROES and who had appeared in Bigelow's NEAR DARK with Paxton, Goldstein and Henriksen.
We believe ourselves, according to many of the actresses appearing in this video who mailed us, to be one of the last few owning a playable VHS of this video. Ours was duplicated by Bill Paxton himself back in the late 80's. Here it is for all those who starred in it and have junked their tape Bill made for them, and all those who never got to see it.
Click to viewI still own martini Ranch's CD and "Reach" was one of my favourite tunes on the album. Admittedly, the song is a little dated now, but until today I never even knew that this video existed.
On a side-note: the only other reference I know of them is Bill Paxton's co-star Rick Rossovich is seen wearing a Martini Ranch t-shirt in the film "Navy SEALS".
-mDNA