The Orchid Highway - "All The Same"

[PhotoCaptureLB]

Fun song =)

[eyelovemoocows]

who's the gorgeous dog?

[tbrown55]

Meh. Inside / outside. No difference? What are you blind?

[scottling]

Not at all. Rather, striving to see beyond simplistic structuralist dichotomies that reduce the complexity of life to black and white absolutes. Shades of grey are all around, mr. brown.

[revol85]

wanna go to India?

[drmidix]

Definitely super! Keep on...

[j0eX]

groovy!

[fairyyy1234]

Loved the song, the video, and your style..

now your song is stuck in my head :)

[charmainec]

love the song :) very beatle-esque!

amazing style, keep it up

[AnimeCanuck]

Some parts are very reminiscent of 80's videos. I really like the use of the fish-eye lens... and the "Yeah" from the phone booths. Great music. ^^

[EdMuirton]

Great video. Very clever.

[dollarandra]

Really good!!!

[annarak]

Great stuff!

[bambi1058]

too bad there is no legitmate lsd around any more, huh?

jeez, i miss the good old days.

peace and love.

[eplouie]

Cool music and fun video! Was that Stig O'Hara I saw doing a cameo?

[blackturtleus]

Cool video. I'll have to keep an eye on this band.

[TheGreatTyrant]

Oh i looooooove it!! I must subscribe NOW.

[MelleStar]

Great video and a wondeful song!

[trevorroper]

takes me back

trevor sizzle

[30framessec]

thanks for the invite. your genre is my fav. I think you guys have the spirit to keep it alive and open it to a new generation. keep on rockin~

[KennyWrites]

Very cool! I love 60s music! Check out GarageRockRadioDOTcom if you like this stuff. I'm subscribing, thanks guys!

[bj70117]

I find this similar to some of the Kula Shakur sounds. Good Brit Pop for sure.

[iluvaon]

i've seen your tags it looks like 60s. i'm wrong sorry...

[iluvaon]

theorchidhighway, i'm asian fan and interested in psychedelic style. could you please advice me some songs or some bands that you know about this kind of music. mostly, i feel like i'm fond of bands from UK or Canada more than from US. especially, bands in 70s-80s such as 10cc or moody blues. btw, your video is so unique and looks like from 70s. good job! thank you in advance for your answer.

[filmvideofan]

this video is so much better than the other one... there are running visual themes that run throughout th video...

the repeated use of the fisheye in the other video makes it look like there was less time/work involved in shooting the other one.

shot on 16? nice... anyway, keep creating guys...

[GooseHinson]

I'm sure you are awesome at your genre, by the looks of the responses here. But I'm just not a fan of this genre. I'm more of a Metallica, metal kind of person. This is just not me.

[FrameJunkee]

Great sound, excellent message, keep it real.

[Gold3n3y3]

Wow. I like the old school sound here. Very 60's rockish. Me likes!

[breezymtnz]

good stuff guys:)

[higgypopuk]

Good stuff dude!

[waynenagy]

Cool stuff. How you walk the fence sideways with out falling off? Do you do any Yard Birds "Over Under Sideways Down?

[TheOrchidHighway]

Ah.. the magic of stop motion animation. True fact: Derek's arm swelled to TWICE it's normal size and remained grotesquely swollen for MANY days!

[dommynicius]

Cool song and video, thanks for adding me :)

Some of the video reminds me of Peter Gabriels' "Sledgehammer"

How did you get the London Bobbies to pose with that "YEAH"?

[TheOrchidHighway]

EVERYWHERE WE WENT. EVERY SINGLE SHOOT, we had problems with the police shutting us down.

It had become the routine wrap to every days filming. One of our last shoots was in trafalgar square- rival football fans. The two bobbies were standing there, and we asked them to be on camera. go figure... i guess if you ask politely, legal issues and red tape become flexible and noodle-like. no-one was more suprised by that than us.

[domdeltorto]

ooooohh - love those thick 60's harmonies and macca-esque revolver bass line - awesome

[TheOrchidHighway]

yes. revolver was THE album. hats off to geoff emerick!

[domdeltorto]

geoff is genius. what did you shoot the promo on?

looks like super 8

[TheOrchidHighway]

16 mm - with lots of old school tricks. tied the camera to a hockey stick and swung it from a tree i remember. (and yes, geoff is genius).

[chrisswuk]

Im not sure why you invited me to become your friend coz I don't think I know you. Anyway I like your music and the Video is really good.

[TheOrchidHighway]

Thanks. we invited you because we thought you'd like our music and think the video was really good! We want to get these songs heard, rather than keep them selfishly to ourselves!

[generakl]

Good very good thanks for the invite!

[JOROCKS43]

fab 4 all over wow i like it johnnieo

[monchavo]

Good job Peter Lewis. Smart editing and a good result. Song is pleasant. Video outshines it though, sorry guys.

[TheOrchidHighway]

Peter did a fantastic job- last we heard he was teaching at a UK film school. Made an incredible doc of an old council flat being torn down. Great guy- and talented certainly.

All the Same is still a live favourite- i think the song still holds up. The recording, and the performance betray some humble beginnings- like a family photo album surf our myspace site to hear how the band has developed as writers, and performers.

[WatchingTheWheels]

its also reminds me a bit of the music video for strawberry fields forever

[TheOrchidHighway]

yeah. saw that some time ago, and it looks like that film was either shot at regent's park aswell. or maybe hampton's heath...

[animaguspadfoot]

AWESOME

[trichoone]

Thats not bad Boy's certainly fit well in the sixties .

[IamIronMan07]

yeh its not bad, does that that british beatles feel to it, also very physo-del-ic-al-al-al-al-al-al­-al

[TheOrchidHighway]

The full psychedelic strobe effect doesn't quite translate in lower res you tube video. But this will make our lawyers happy - as it has been known to cause epileptic fits in the past.

[ultramitra]

yes i like iT!

[nhazean]

nice! fisheye lens rocks!

[KrisShred]

Great music, reminds me much of Kula Shaker ;)

[TheOrchidHighway]

Yeah- They were a great band- probably had the best rythym section in the UK at that time.

[jadester3]

Nice! I used to live in London UK to and loved it. Didn't want to come back but c'est la vie as the french say. Love the music!

[beatlesholic]

That's awesome! ... 'tis indeed a psychedelic video. And a great song, too!

[londonpenda]

Now that is my cup of tea.Very Beatleish,it reminded my of one of their songs,can't remember what it was called but it had."Float down stream." in the lyrics and sea gulls in the distance.

[WatchingTheWheels]

the beatles song is called tomorrow never knows. thats what i thought of when i heard this too.. its a good song tho!

[londonpenda]

That's the one,thanks WTW.I've been singing the song all afternoon but never got to the title.Thanks again. ;o)

[TheOrchidHighway]

Not a bad song to evoke at all... i always thought it had echoes of RAIN... and a sort of 66 Stones groove in the reprise. Or Something. Still a live favourite... evidently there's a camera-phone video of this as a show opener from earlier this year. maybe we'll track that down and post it here.

[scottling]

Funny thing, one of my fave Lennon tracks is on the same side of Revolver as that song, with the line "float up stream". That John was back and forth on which direction the stream was going, but he sure knew how to float.

Anyway, good video, the sheer fun really shines through most of all. Great London antics.

[markdcarter]

Aw, c'mon lads: really! Yes, _Revolver_ is the quintessential Orchid Highway Beatles album: no question. The song most evoked here, though, is surely "She Said She Said". That snaky modal electric guitar slithered through Syd Barrett's strings to slime Robyn Hitchcock's fretboard (listen to Robyn's "Beautiful Queen" for serpentine evidence). I love this song and video!! Bob Dylan's cue cards are a nice touch. You guys rock!! =BD