Dave Knudsen from Minus the Bear jams on a Verellen custom tube amp in my MTV.com video "Tube Addiction".

A few months ago I made a couple of cool little videos for a MTV.com as part of their upcoming series, $5 Cover: Seattle, directed by Lynn Shelton.  They were looking for filmmakers to do some fun, documentary-style videos on some topic around the Seattle music scene.

My videos were about Verellen Amps – a shop in Seattle that builds custom tube amplifier that’s run by and for musicians.  It has a sweet guitar performance by Dave Knudsen of Minus the Bear.  That one’s called “Tube Addiction.”  The other one is “Seattle’s Vortex,” about a rehearsal space crammed into an industrial park in Seattle’s North End that serves as an practice space/second home/band incubator for a lot of talented emerging bands like Three Chord Killer, Underdose, The Mercury Rising, and Achilles Fall.

The project just hit the Seattle Times.  Here’s an excerpt:

PARK CITY, Utah — Seattle filmmakers have created a love letter to the city’s music scene — an MTV series called “$5 Cover: Seattle.” They’re sharing it with the world via the network’s Web site this spring, but gave audiences an early look at the Sundance Film Festival this week.

“$5 Cover: Seattle” is a sprawling project melding film and music and delivered via the Internet. At its heart are a dozen short movies, directed by Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton, featuring area bands like The Moondoggies and The Maldives.

And then way down at the end of the article, they mention:

Shelton’s films make up one leg of the three-part project: Seattle moviemaker John Jeffcoat (“Outsourced”) created short documentaries introducing the bands. And local director Sue Corcoran organized the “B-sides,” 22 shorts made by 18 local documentarians that give tastes of Seattle’s diverse cultural scene — from sculpture to burlesque dancing.

Hey, that’s me! Apparently, I’m a “local documentarian” because I made two of those “B-Sides.”  Now, does anyone know what a “B-Side” is?  Does it go beside the main show?  Or is it like the single on the flip-side of the vinyl record where the lamer (or once in a while much cooler) song resides?  And if there’s this documentary from John Jeffcoat, wouldn’t that make these little videos “C-Sides”?

Anyway, it was a fun shoot.  Just me and Mark Simon.  Don’t ask me the air-date.  They don’t tell me anything important like that.  Once it drops, I’ll post it here.  The videos will be on MTV.com, but I’ll have them here in HD.