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Frank Hart Videos

From Various Projects

St Francis — One day I turned on a video camera and let the tape roll while I wrote and played whatever instruments I had laying around. It’s all one take, all on the fly. I just kept layering it, then I used the prayer attributed to St Francis for the lyrics. My friend Zach Meeks mixed it.

Justice — From For Madmen Only.

It was a big deal when we got to make our first music video. Some of it was shot in west Texas in Big Bend Park, some across the Rio Grande in Mexico, and some in an abandoned warehouse in Dallas. It was played on MTV about 20 times, so we felt like legit rock stars!
Kemper Crabb plays the shaman who is making all the injustice and weird fever dreams happen.

Joyride — From For Madmen Only.

This was our 2nd music video. For this one, I came up with a bunch of bizarre images (seems to be a theme) to illustrate the ways that sin keeps us from living in the moment. Unfortunately, our record company went out of business before the video was finished, so some of the effects are placeholders (and it was never aired).
There are lots of friends in the video: Kemper returns as the shaman, Thadd Grimm, Allison Smythe, Allie Velasco, Blake Norris, Josh Godard, Charity Whitworth, and others.

Jesus Give Us Love — From Living Creatures Project.

My good friend Elizabeth Linder agreed to help with this time-lapse music video. I gave her a list of a bunch of illustrations to bring the lyrics alive and she slowly painted them one by one—over the course of about 10 hours. By the end, the oil paint was so thick on the canvas that when she swirled it all together it made a black vortex that barely kept from dripping onto the floor. I asked her to sign it, and it hangs in my living room. The two young girls were supposed to represent Elizabeth when she was different ages (not sure that comes through). The older girl is my daughter Von Behr (who was taking art lessons from Elizabeth). The younger girl was the daughter of a friend. Thanks to Rob Camper for helping with the video cameras and lights.

Christ Before Me — From Living Creatures Project.

Some of the guys who played on the album agreed to play in a music video. Alan Doss on drums, David Wallace on bass, Scott Bushel on keys, and Nick Taylor on guitar. Rob Camper helped with cameras and lights.

Jesus Has Overcome the World — from Living Creature Project.
Performed by Frank Hart & Max Dyer

It was 2020 and this was just about the only way to play music with people—the nice thing is we had time to do these kinds of experiments. Playing with friends who are a thousand miles away was a nice treat.

Atomic Opera For Madmen Only 20 Years Later Concert (Original Lineup).

I asked Jonathan Marshall, Jonas Velasco, and Mark Poindexter to play a concert celebrating the twenty year anniversary of FMO’s release. Mark came back to Texas from Louisiana to rehearse a few times (we went to his place once). It was pretty special—none of our kids had ever seen Atomic Opera play. We did the show in the same rock club where we were signed to the record deal—Zelda’s (Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s—both are gone now).

Atomic Opera Live in New Orleans opening for Dio in 1994.

We did this set many, many times. Touring was a lot of fun—I miss those days. Bonus, the food was amazing at Tipitinas.

Atomic Opera Acoustic Set for a radio station while on tour in 1994.

One of our superpowers was that Jonas could switch to guitar and I could play cello to recreate really cool versions of our songs. Plus, the four part harmonies always surprised people. Thadd Grimm managed to get this one on video for us.

Atomic Opera — “Achilles’ Heel” from For Madmen Only live in 1995.

Atomic Opera music video for “Hammer” (The song that never made an album).

After we lost the record deal, we made a few demos trying to get something going. A bunch of our Houston friends showed up to stand in line in a cemetary and do weird things for the camera (Many Marshalls: David, Marlyn, Frank, Seth, Ethan, Jonathan. Ben, Maggie, Micah, and Shane Huggins, Dave Hartung, Allison Smythe, Ryan Birsinger, Allie and Jonas Velasco, and others) My wife, Kim, shot the band footage. We climbed the fence and shot it in an abandoned warehouse (got finished before we were kicked out!)

Atomic Opera music video for “God of Hate.” (Demo version)

Another demo. A different version of this song was included on Penguin Dust. Kim is the videographer again—this time on the beach in Galveston. Fun fact: Jonathan’s “fight” in the video is with his girlfriend, Yanika, that he will marry. The young boys are Ethan and Seth Marshall. The baby in the trash is Jonas and Allie’s daughter Charis. The child bride and groom are Abby and Jackson Hime.

Love in Grey (Frank’s band before Atomic Opera)
Live at Backstage Club in 1989.

Eric Hancock on guitar, Jeff Alan on drums.

Atomic Opera on tour in Japan (TV interview and concert footage) 1999.

Frank Hart Living Creatures Project CD release concert in 2014.

Living Creatures: Jonathan Marshall (Acoustic Guitar), Alan Doss (Drums), David Wallace (Bass), Scott Bushel (Keys), Nick Taylor (Electric Guitar), Rob Camper (Percussion/Street Preacher). Special performances by Maddie Grimm (Poetry Girl), and the Salvation Army Harbor Light Choir. Shot at CrossPoint church in Katy, Texas. Mixed by David Hartung.

Frank Hart plays “Love is as Strong as Death” (From Gospel Cola)
with friends in 2014.
(Josh Adams, David Wallace, Nick Taylor, Scott Bushel, Alan Doss)

Hark The Herald Angels — Live from the Fantastical Amazingly Jesus Christmas concert in 2012.

VoxCon Talk. I gave a presentation on how to use humor in preaching and teaching. How to find humor in serious subjects and how to use those funny parts to make the hearers more open and receptive to what you have to say. It might even have some funny parts.

This is a playlist of what I call my “Must Watch Messages” from NewChurch. Basically, these are the ones that people said, “Dude, that’s my new favorite!”