Adam Bernstein
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- This Adam Bernstein should not be confused with the Adam Bernstein that plays bass for The Laurie Berkner Band. To add extra confusion, that Adam Bernstein has a solo album on which Dan Miller and Marty Beller were guest artists.
Adam Bernstein on the set of "They'll Need A Crane"
Adam Bernstein is a film and music video director. Some of his first film works were music videos for They Might Be Giants, and he was the director of many of their music videos from 1986 to 1992, including:
- Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head (1986)
- Don't Let's Start (1986)
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective (1986)
- Ana Ng (1989)
- They'll Need A Crane (1989)
- Birdhouse In Your Soul (1990)
- The Statue Got Me High (1992)
Adam first met the band after seeing them perform at Darinka at the suggestion of Mark Boyer, a college friend of Adam's and a high-school friend of the Johns. In 1997, Adam recalled meeting the band[1]:
[Mark Boyer] went to high school with They Might Be Giants, and he suggested that I go check them out. So I went to a club called Darinka on the Lower East Side and approached them backstage because I just thought they were perfect.I approached John Flansburgh backstage and said 'Look, I got fifteen hundred bucks. Do you need to do a video?' Initially they were distrustful, but eventually they came around to the idea that they were getting a video for free.
In 1989, he secured the band a few spots on Nickelodeon's Nick Rocks, which the Nick Rocks ID was put together for. In 2002, he was interviewed for Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns) and recorded introductions for a few of TMBG's early music videos in the DVD's Special Features.
See also
- Myke Weiskopf Interviews Adam Bernstein - 1995 interview regarding Adam's work with TMBG
