A quick, made for YouTube clip by Dan. He explained on his page, "Another comedy gem from The Out Of Bodies. Dan Ban busy trying to record his music while his buddy Donald Jeff calls him on the phone. Jerry our favorite dummy makes a guest appearance too. There is a long audio version of the song from this video which is actually me (Dan) doing Billy Swans "I Can Help" ( Classic hit from 1974 ). It's a great studio cover version I did."

Donald recalls, "Sometimes when we'd hang out together we'd bring with us this little super 8 film camera - for little to no apparent reason, other than we knew we'd probably be shooting something artsy fartsy that day, wherever we ended up going. Where we ended up that day was Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The "Life Upon A Stream" clip was originally backed with another song - but Dan's "Stream" seemed to fit better with what we shot, so I changed it a little bit. I also remember that day we shot some hilarious footage of us doing some really corny over-acting - like a serious drama or something that somehow results in us doing suicide jumps from the Pavilion towers. I think Joe's got that footage somewhere."

"By the way Joe is a really, really big fan of the New York World's Fair and those near sacred grounds that once held great promise, but now stand neglected, crumbling and silent. He can tell you all sorts of things about it."

This song was originally intended for an animated film Donald was working on, which was never completed. He got just about as far as the pencil test before the project was shelved indefinitely. "I asked Dan if he can come up with a tune similar to the Beatles "Nowhere Man", which he did - and after hearing his demo for a while we both recorded this version in his room - which I believe may have been the very first time I went out to visit him when he lived in this old Bronx home. It's the house you see in his "Dead End Delivery" film."

"This little home-made music video uses an even earlier film that Lloyd and I worked on, when little Jzero was featured as a Sesame Street Grover puppet. His ship was this big cardboard box that my parents refridgerator came in, painted white with wings attached - and I'm pretty sure that was Lloyd inside of it running down the street. I don't recall there being any holes in it so he could see where he was going. But that was Lloyd - always willing to risk life and limb for a film project."

Always a big Laurel and Hardy fan, and an admirer of all Hal Roach's film works - this is perhaps Dan's best film. It features Dan and his friend Glenn, who was a real undiscovered natural when it came to pulling those "Little Rascals" type of facial expressions.

Dan recalls, "This film was totally planned out by storyboard pics. It's my best film but was hell to make. For some reason if you go the Steven Spielberg way of shooting and planning every detail you'll come out with a beautifully shot and edited film like "Fish Funk" but you come out a nervous wreck because you constantly have to worry about detail and actors hitting their mark. I'm proud of the film and it's my best but I much prefer shooting in a wild spontaneous way like the "The 3 Kooges". It fits my mentality better and I'm more calm and relaxed because of my spontaneous nature. Just ask Donald and Joe when we create songs this way. It's much easier."

Donald used to live just a few blocks away from College Point's MacNeil Park - which was just water's edge with a nice big field area to run around in - which is exactly what Dan, Joe, Lloyd and he did one blaring hot summer day while creating this little music video for "I Wonder". Lloyd pretty much stays behind the camera throughout, while Dan, Joe and Donald prance around and eventually get attacked by a marauding ventriloquist dummy. Donald recalls, "Most of the videos done back then were all accomplished by what's called "in-camera edits" - which basically means what you see is what we shot, in the order we shot it. We would usually shoot some alternate footage which would replace some of the original takes - but it was all very crude. As you can see by the multiple video glitches and picture drop outs - there was no such thing as camera stabilization in those days either! Somehow it just seems to add to the horror depicted in the video. The fainting and stumbling at the end of the video were all real. We weren't really acting - it was really hot that day."

The song is another pure Dan gem - subject matter, unidentified flying objects, UFOs. "...Flying with metallic ships is all I see and all I do - I wonder, wonder, wonder very well..."

This song was a live jam between Dan, Donald and Lloyd, recorded in Donald's bedroom. You can hear Dan losing it, not to mention his timing - when Donald and Lloyd make him laugh towards the end of the song. The tune is sort of an improvised jazz-like take on a childhood song they'd sing, "Pray for the dead and the dead will pray for you - it's simply because they have nothing else to do."

The video portion is taken from one of Donald and Joe's favorite horror flicks "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" (the bald ghoul in the video would make them jump out of their skins!) a little bit of the infamous on-camera 1987 kiss-off of Pennsylvania politician gone bad, Budd Dwyer, and some dancing skeletons courtesy of Walt Disney. For some reason this clip gets the most hits out of all the OOB videos on YouTube. Probably due to ole' Budd. He's a regular internet draw.

Another made for YouTube video of Dan's. Dan explained "Great song I wrote and recorded with my band and great friends Joe Vento , Donald Jefferes & Mark Degross back in the 1990's. This is a semi-live version 2nd version that is sung by all members together. There is a first studio version that was done by me which is totally different. It's also a great version. All the pics are hilarious and taken when the song was done around that same year."

Donald added "If you listen closely this is actually a quite different mix than the 2nd version Dan refers to. Somehow he managed to mix it in a way where it sounds like a third! I dunno, took ME by surprise!"

Waiting for Dan to arrive before the shooting of the "I Wonder" video, Donald and Lloyd shot this - Lloyd's rendition of a Joe song called "Dear Dan" - he recorded his own version and changed it over to "Dear Donald". Confused?

This odd little music video is the first time Dan and Donald decided to go out on their own and take a video camera along. The song is a rarity in that Dan usually doesn't dwell on such somber thoughts when writing his music, and he actually felt compelled later to do a totally revamped uptempo version of this song called "Time Mind." This version, however, is surrounded by much mystery. One belief at one time was that it was a song about the passing of Dan's family dog. Dan never did elaborate.

For the video Donald began by filming Dan in MacNeil Park again, but then they jumped in the car and headed out towards the picturesque cemeteries of Middle Village, Queens. Donald recalls, "We just drove around it and Dan held the camera out of the window. The camera was one of those big bulky things that would attach separately to an even bigger, bulkier VHS recorder. It was amazing we could be mobile at all with that kind of set-up! It reminded me of how I used to see my Uncle Nolo record family movies - with this enormous get-up. The sleeping guy in the truck who looked like he was dead was just dumb luck! Little does he know he's been immortalized on tape."

By the way, here's the aforementioned happier version of the "Death" song, "Time Mind"...

Another quick YouTube clip by Dan. He explained "Short comedy segment from an Out Of Bodies jam session back in the 1990's. Joe Vento & Mark Degross doing vocal sketch from Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin Chesterfields commercial back in the 1950's, Hilarious!!!"

An early film project by Lloyd and Donald - A guy going for a stroll in the wilderness literally wakes the dead when he stumbles upon an unmarked grave.

A fun, yet problem riddled attempt at making a primarily improvised horror film in Alley Pond Park, Queens. Donald played the poor, shell-shocked victim who stumbles upon (and is endlessly chased by) the living dead - played by Lloyd. Joe played the friendly camper who comes to Donald's assistance and tries to make him all comfortable - but ends up stealing the show in the second reel with one of the greatest spitting up of chocolate syrup scenes ever committed to film.

Donald recalls, "Looking back at this film now I find it pretty amazing that we all got through it without serving jail time. I mean, we literally bury Lloyd in the park up to his neck - we light a roaring camp fire - that's got to be illegal! Then poor Lloyd almost gets stuck in the muddy bottom of the pond and it's a scene we barely use. We almost scared some old lady to death who was walking her dog - and Joe, after that blood scene with the chocolate syrup, those bees wouldn't leave him alone! Ah, those were fun times!"

Everything looks more dramatic in slow motion. This is a little music video Donald compiled in his basement, working without sound and then picking the Out Of Bodie's version of "Hey Jude" and adding it later. "All the bits used were randomly strung together, so nothing was made to sync up or anything" recalls Donald, "In parts they actually do though, it's all by accident."

The song was recorded almost entirely by Dan on his own, doing all the instruments himself - a monumental task. He brought it over to Don's on his 4-track recorder where Joe and Donald added their vocals. Joe sings lead. There's a flub in there towards the end where Joe lost his place and sang a wrong verse - but you'd have to listen carefully to catch it. Only seasoned Beatles aficionados would notice.

Another of Dan's Hal Roach, Laurel & Hardy inspired films, about a couple of lackey delivery guys ordered to transport a corpse from funeral home to cemetery. Hilariously enough they attempt the feat on foot! This is the first time Dan used his friend Glenn to play off of - a method he would repeat later.

Dan recalls, "It was my first film and even though there was a little planning it was mostly spontaneous and made up as we went along shooting. I think this film is more powerful and universal than the others because it's silent. The actors had to exaggerate more to get the point across which made it more funny. Throughout the years I use to like the film but I didn't think it was better than "Fish Funk'. Now that I look at it recently, this kind of silent filmmaking has great potential to be the best way to go to influence audiences globally. The music soundtrack is key to making it funny. Donald's version put a different song mix midway through the film which was better than my music. It worked."

Not exactly a film... but still funny, no?

One of Dan's early School Of Visual Arts films, a spoof on the Three Stooges.

Dan recalls, "This was the wildest film I made because of the miraculous way it was made. No story plot, no set dates on when or where to shoot and no expectations for any of the actors to be there! All the actors in the film were my friends including Joe Vento at the School of Visual Arts. If Donald would have been around at that time in S.V.A. I would have gotten him to be in the film too."

"When I needed to do a scene, I'd just bump into one of the friends in the school and told them do this scene. Sometimes it was easy while other times it required a lot of coaxing and patience, even though they originally said they wanted to do my film."

"It was amazing how the film was done. My other films were planned out but not this one. I feel all films should be shot this way. As a director though you'll need to be calm during the whole situation and go with the flow. It's not my best film but it's my greatest achievement on getting a project done so quickly and miraculously."

Just playing around with a super 8 film camera again, this time at Dan's. The song used as it's soundtrack is one of Dan's spontaneous, un-named 4-track demo recordings.

A very early film by Lloyd and Donald about a father and son trip to the beach, filmed on location at Jones Beach, LI.

According to some notes found in an old drawing book, the idea for this movie was concieved on a bus while on route to Jones Beach. Not being prepared to shoot a movie featuring a shark the two actually used a shell that sort of "looked" like a shark's fin briefly, and then returned on a second visit with a more suitable cardboard fin. Lloyd played the part of the idiot son who meets up with the shark, and Donald played the part of the dad who often calls him a schmuck.

Filmed on silent super 8 film, when premiered at the School Of Visual Arts Rotunda Gallery, Donald and Lloyd actually narrated the movie live, and played the accompanying music on a boom box - to thunderous applause and laughs!