RESPECTABILITY TOUR 3 2007 unrestricted version (no music)
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The unrestricted version (no music) of Respectability Tour 3, 2007. Same archival Neistat Brothers footage released without the licensed music that restricted the original's availability. The music-free version ensures the content stays accessible regardless of licensing changes. For the archive purists.
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the music for this sequence is very good and Casey shot this efficiently handheld
and it's I find it so clever and just good fundamental filmmaking and of course it's the state of Colorado
what was the last thing Dan said to you before he left us alone tonight don't let Casey touch my bike why don't you think you want me to touch your bike
because there was a good chance that you might break it what have you done tonight all by yourself brake Vans bike bro I broke fans bike
and he's gonna be pissed we shot this on an HD cam bruh
but it's been this what you're watching has been ripped from a DVD so the quality is weird
but it looks kind of okay don't break Van's mini bike
like when he loans his kid up car out to his kid and he wrecks it uh the reason this whole thing is so
significant is because it couldn't have come at a worse time for relations between me and Van about two hours ago Casey and I were
coming up with ways Pharrell not that's me not to piss off van anymore he's been a little on edge I've just been trying smooth relations
and if there was a list of things not to do to piss him off number one on that list would have been just don't break his bike yeah
I feel like disrespected I'm I feel really bad about it so fix it
just doesn't run good anymore this is like the nicest thing I've ever had and now it's broken and crappy like everything else I have
I love you Rel is Ariel Shulman is one of the sweetest men I've ever met he's
now a big Hollywood director he directed with his directing partner Henry juice he directed secret headquarters with
Owen Wilson it's in theaters or it's on Paramount plus right now
so there's music under this I'm just explaining that I was able to fix it
but it was harder to start and didn't accelerate fast but I dismantled the governor the throttle governor and it
made the bike faster at top speed so and straightaways I was fast but slow
off the line like Bowser and Super Mario Kart and so Casey challenges me to erase
and I love racing because I suck at sports and I don't mind losing in a race
no I mind losing but I still have fun if I lose a race and also if you're a little bit crazy
racing it kind of helps a little bit in racing and so like when I'm street racing on
motorcycles you know I take bigger chances and thank God
you know I'm okay the hair is crashing into a snow bank and the damn thing
stall that and that jacket Cynthia rally made one for me and one for Casey for a fashion
show she did it was like an actual leather jacket and it was super cool it fit really well it's got an American flag on it with
pink stripes instead of red and then the pants I'm wearing tom sacks bought me for my first motorcycle trip
which was a lap around Austria probably two years before this
and Ariel Shulman shot this whole thing and boy he did a great job must have done a whole bunch of takes to
get all these to get all these um shots but I'm pretty sure we the result was actual like we didn't fake who won we just like
did the first take and the winner got to be the winner in the movie
in case he won of course oh there's music I should be talking darn so this is our last day in Aspen Casey's
reflecting on it and he said Pablo Picasso when he was our age said I'm always doing the things I
can't do that's how I get to do them and this is sort of the culmination of
all of our like little short films and this is where we really started learning how to tell kind of longer stories
and you notice in the very beginning Casey puts a conflict right at the beginning Rel broke the bike
and then as you see at the end the you know the motorcycle has big significance in this
video so now Casey's explaining that we have to go back to New York and edit 96 hours
of footage down into you know one hour and he says it takes two at it takes two
days of editing to edit one minute of final show and that's because of all of this
well it was because the equipment we were using we were using um iMovie and
a lot of that stop-motion stuff was super time consuming and now I'm explaining that we were broke by the time we got back to New
York so all we did was we ate lots and lots of hot dogs and then one night we got an invitation to our favorite
Italian restaurant bar PD and so I don't double I don't ride double anymore after this never again so we reenacted this with stop motion because that Spooner was broken and did not operate so we had to use stop motion and I think it really works
because we're doing a reenactment so we took a ride on to Church Street
and then a car cut us off we rented that SUV to reenact this hi hey um I just got
in a motorcycle accident oh yeah I'm fine but Casey is on the ground I've
called 911 so I was thrown from the bike and Casey's leg was sandwiched between
the scooter and the handlebars and the force from the truck snapped his femur and Casey made this little animation
here Casey's a high school dropout and this is his preschool graduation last commencement he ever had and the reason he's wearing that officer's cap is
because he's the only kid in the school who didn't get one of those styrofoam numbers
and I always felt so bad for him up there even when I was there he was really embarrassed he ended up
taking the bullet for the entire school which I wanted to burn down after this but at least they played Woody Guthrie
so I'm on the phone with my dad telling him that uh Casey was in an accident and Neve Yaniv Shulman of catfish Fame shot
this he just showed up in the middle of the night and just started shooting he's an excellent filmmaker and you can see
as you can see and I'm explaining that Casey said get
the camera start taking pictures while we were waiting for the ambulance and this is where live pictures taken at
the scene so they had to set his leg in the field without anesthetic and he was so tough I mean he just kind
of bit his lip and that was it and then they put them on the um ambulance drove them to St Vincent's I
believe I followed on my bicycle I might have taken a cab and that's Saint Vincent's hospital it's
no longer there it's also where we set up a Corral for ambulances on September 11 2001.
broken here here which you can't see tomorrow they're cutting me open and replacing my femur with the titanium rod
for now they had to drill through my entire Shin drill from here all the way through to here put a pin through and
attach this device tonight they're putting a 20 pound weight to the end of that string to pull my leg tight for the rest of the night
at that 40 milligrams of morphine so far this evening it hasn't touched the pain no mess
so Casey was fine you know he was out of commission for a while but two months after this he summited Kilimanjaro we all summited
Kilimanjaro and then I explained that I sold the the best piece of art I had ever made
for 15 grand and it kind of saved us but I had to do the work of two people who do the work of three people each
while Casey was in the hospital and now that's me and Casey playing with the video camera in the back of the old
Volvo let's see I'm 13 he's seven and then there it is the old VHS camera and that was the uh prototype that led to the nystat brothers
HBO show you know it's a proof of concept and Tom Scott who paid for the paid for a lot of the
production of this you know he gave us a budget to make the next TV show which we ended up send selling to
HBO and Jordan gallon great job on the music Jordan and he got the gig for the HBO show too
Products & Tools Mentioned
- iMovie uses
- HBO mentions
- Paramount Plus mentions
- Volvo mentions
- VHS camera uses
People Referenced
Casey Neistat, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost, Yaniv (Nev) Schulman, Tom Sachs, Cynthia Rowley, Tom Scott, Jordan Gallon, Pablo Picasso, Owen Wilson, Dan