I captured the video that our team took of The Kamens IRI talent show performance and you can grab it here. Be warned: it’s a 120MB file.
As has already been mentioned, it was an awesome performance! These guys have a lot of talent, and hopefully this isn’t the last time they make an appearance at a FIRST event!
Here within the next few days (probably tonight) I’ll try to digitize the encore that they did. It’s only 2 songs, so it shouldnt be as big of a file.
The encore from our our camera is up now too. Link (77MB file this time).
I’m downloading the encore now, but the first video was the pimpest of the pimp.
We’ve got to be talking a record deal.
My dad has video of another angle, yet to be digitized … and I’m sure there are others.
Someone should take them all and make a multi-angle music video.
Wow, it even takes a long time to dl even with cable. Oh well, Ill give my opinion on the video of the amazing performance once its done.
If someone wants to take on this project, then just PM me and I can digitize the footage I have of the performance and then send it to you. I was pretty high in the bleaches, but I did get some good footage.
Thank you Dave Flowerday for digitizing and uploading the show.
Watched the videos, definately better in person, but still great. And I found something to rag Andy about! He messed up the lyrics in Enter Sandman by metallica. Its “free from sin”, not(as he said), “safe from sin”. Okay, that doesnt matter at all, but hey, I had to find something wrong with the show, Im a lavery after all 
. If I can get enough different camera angles(like 4 or so), Ill do a “music video”. I cant promise incredible speed or results, but hey, I can try. Also, does anyone have a view with a shot of the judges cards, that would add more thouch to the video.
Please tell me these videos will be up for a few months…if I try to download from here at home, it’ll take me a year! Well, maybe not quite…but if they remain up till I get back to school in September, I’ll be very happy.
Kev
They should still be there. If for some reason they’re not, just contact me.
If anyone knows of a good program to shrink these down to make a more limited-bandwidth-friendly version, let me know. Desktop video isn’t something I’ve spent any time with. Or alternately, if someone has a way to shrink them (hopefully without ruining the sound too much), I can post them for others to download…
::anxiously awaiting tour dates::
That video is awesome!! I wish we were there!! How about performing at a few regionals next year? Or a record contract?
Dean Simmons and The Kamens ROCK!!
Let me know when the CD comes out.
They are too awesome!!! They have fun with it, they’re not so serious when it comes to performing. I really liked that video, it was awesome! I wish we had that stuff at the off-season competitions around here. 
–d0ri
I will post these on my server at http://mike-site.us Under movies - misc first stuff or something like that. It’ll be there until my server dies 
Also great show guys. Its awesome! I was at the casino in Michigan city, I think I shoulda gone to IRI instead…
The performance was definitely awesome. The video is pretty good, and shows it well.
But Dave, did you really have to videotape the mosh pit? It shows Paul and me getting beat back pretty handily by Big Mike. 
Heh… I wish I could take credit for it. One of our students actually did the taping, I just digitized it.
I thought it was pretty funny though how she zoomed in on Big Mike bouncing people around…
ok… i just saw the BEST THING EVER!!! Robotics kids Moshing… that was just awsome… if i was there… it would have been a diffrent story =P but ya… that was just awsome to see kids listening to good muisic (metal, slayer, slipknot, etc, some metalica (older stuff)) but ya lol…
Awsome job andy and the rest of the crew there… great job… im hoping for some Nu Metal in next years act!?! =D
i think they should perform at nationals next year during like the after party or something =D
He didn’t bounce me around - I’d call it a stalemate. Alas, this grand struggle was never captured on camera - the last you see is me pointing at Mike telling him to bring it. He probably did kick JVN’s butt, though - that wuss! I was too busy targeting my Team 48 students to notice… Kudos to Paul Copi-oil for making an appearance and absorbing some damage as well.
Thanks to 447 for making me a coveted Dean Simmons & The Kamens tee shirt! It’s complete with a picture of the group along with a lovely strip of duct tape with the band name on it. Very cool shirt! I will wear it with pride!
Good job, DS & K! You guys MADE the talent show!!
You know… this makes perfect sense. I remember a big debate a while back (after the Mandy Moore appearance at the Championship Event) about what band would be most suited to perform at the end of a Championship Event. The bickering went on and almost everyone agreed that no matter what band played, some people would always be unhappy. Now, I’m thinking, what more acceptable band than a group of our own fellow mentors? Heh, I’m not looking to tie people down further, but muahahahaha.
We should definately make more t-shirts. But actually make real ones this time, not duct taped ones overnight. The front can beasically be the same, a picture, the name, and world tour '04. But the back would have all the tour dates for the world tour '04, Lawrence North High School 7/11(hey, cool date!). That would be sooooo cool.