Motorbirds Video is a good example of futuristic thinking:
Motorbirds Video was done in 1981. Back then we didn’t have video rentals or much video sales as most people didn’t even have a VCR or a Colour TV. Net was a fishing term, Mobile Phone was two tin cans and a string, Computer was a pocket calculator... how did we survive? Those who weren’t around in 70s should watch the TV Series “That 70’s Show” to get a glimpse of the life back then...

Motorbirds was definitely the first Finnish full length album sales video ever. Probably the first in Scandinavia. I’m not even sure if there were any other similar heavy videos Internationally out back then (Judas Priest live video came out in 1983). All the longer videos were made for TV, not for Sales, like Motorbirds. So we were the true pioneers of the music video age.

In 70s and early 80s the music videos were prominently made by Television Companies for their (very few) music programmes. They usually had just the band playing and a few dance girls. There also were few Music Feature Films like Led Zeppelin: “Song Remains The Same”.

The story based videos were just starting to appear. Motorbirds has a “story” connecting all the songs together and individual songs have images supporting the lyrics. It was radical and innovative in those days :)

INSPIRATION IN 1980

I had been taking photographs professionally for years. I saw Jehtro Tull’s music video on TV. I thought right away that I want to make a story based sales video about the Motorbirds Album! It was as simple as that, the rest proved to be slightly more complex :)