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I watched the Songwriter Movie recently, starring Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, and saw in the credits:  “Bad TV:  Buddy Prewitt”.  I had to ask Buddy, Willie Nelson & Family’s lighting director, what that was all about, and he responded:

“BadTV was video that I/we shot in the early 80′s. Kinda like a video presentation of the Crew’s View.  I have hours (maybe 600?), all on VHS.

Rollin’ down the highway shooting the other busses moving thru weather, inside the bus shenanagins, set up scenes with loose scripts (like the the Miss Conceived Beauty Pageant), Scooter in a Bull Pen at the Colorado State Fair (Bad McFad), he also rode a small motorcycle through a wall of T-Shirt Boxes, Hotel Room hijinks.

What’s happening outside the bus in NYC while illegally parked, Grunt Golf Tourney, Fan interviews, etc, etc, etc. 

I shot behind the scenes (behind the Cameras, behind everyone’s back, poking fun at their/our jobs, my life as a Teamster, etc) on the Songwriter movie set.  

I showed it on Wednesday Nights in the hotel lounge where the cast & crew lived during the shooting of the movie. 

It was always the Bars biggest night (even better than Fri & Sat).  They used me in a scene on that movie.  Paid me $37.50 and rented my Camera for the scene for $175.00.

Those movie people didn’t know what to think………  until they saw it on Wednesdays.   Then everyone loved it, because it was so crude (both definitions).

Lots of it is long and boring, but there is some really great stuff sprinkled in.  It needs to be edited.

It all needs to be transferred before VHS becomes extinct.”

Buddy “Budrock” Prewitt
Willie Nelson and Family
The Illuminator
http://willienelson.com/ppp/  
http://www.budrock.com/

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