I must admit that I’ve spent the last several weeks obsessed with John Lee Hooker. There is something about this song/performance/video that has captured my imagination and won’t let go:

Yeah.
There is so much in that video that could be analyzed. Picked apart, etc. But the bottom line is that it’s brilliant. A brilliant artists interpretation of a average song captured by someone who really “got it.” Maybe it was the limitations of the technology of the time that makes one think that the ones who captured this really “got it” … who knows? The fact is that this video is the perfect visual representation of this song. And it makes you wonder if this had already been done, how the hell could this abomination could have come to be?

So much is wrong here. At least as much as was right in the first video. I suspect that the filmmakers succumbed to the temptations of the unlimited (or at least too large) budget. This video is so lifeless, so divorced from it’s content that it’s hard to imagine exactly what what going on in their heads. For example: what made them think that kids belonged in a video for a song that’s title included such blatant references to booze? Why was it necessary to cut every 2.5 seconds and not always to the music? How much expensive film stock was wasted on take after god forsaken take of this horrible piece of shit? How many hours did John Lee Hooker have to abide a moron of a director?

I dunno. Hard to tell. But I think you get my point.