Video Premiere: Tinted Windows' "Back With You"

When supergroup Tinted Windows hit the road last month, guitarist James Iha brought along his Flipcam and shot the footage of Taylor Hanson, Adam Schlesinger and Bun E. Carlos that became their new video for "Back With You." "Yes, I shot the video, we had a budget of $400,000," he jokes. "We just shot all this cheesy fun road footage. I always think of that Journey video for 'Faithfully' where he's shaving off his moustache and Neal Schon is on the private jet playing guitar with headphones ... this is what we aspire to. I don't think we scaled those heights, though."

To say the shoot was low-fi is an understatement. "I had a playback of the song on my iPhone," Iha says. "I turned the volume all the way up and would follow Taylor around and shoot him in the alley outside the show and in the hotel lobby."

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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