Several months ago I started posting some of our Sandbar videos on YouTube– mostly clips from St. Patrick’s Day, but also some random other video footage shot by staff and customers. There’s a video of Drew getting his chest waxed- a good imitation of the scene from 40 Year Old Virgin, and there’s also a clip that a customer shot of himself getting cut off at the bar on Halloween.
A few days ago I re-visited YouTube to view a completely different video and decided to check in on the Sandbar videos. I was completely shocked to see that these clips have been viewed a lot. Our dance instruction video for "Proud Mary," one of the parade float dances this year, has been viewed over a thousand times! 1, 660 views as of right now. The other videos haven’t been viewed nearly as many times, but they’ve still been watched plenty.
One of the things I love about YouTube is that viewers can leave comments on the videos and rate them. Our "Proud Mary" dance video has a fun comment- during the filming of the bar dancers, Dave was goofing around behind the bar, dancing and sticking his head in the video. Someone left a comment about the funny man behind the bar. If only they knew.
Another person left a comment that I really appreciated- it’s on the clip from the parade as we were performing the "Bandstand Boogie"- they said
"Hmm, what a way for me to wake up this morning. I don’t even know how I found your videos but I love them. Brought a smile to my face."
How cool is that? Some random stranger who’s probably never heard of The Sandbar and probably never even been to Kansas- who knows where this person is even located- but they found our videos on YouTube and loved them. {This person also left a comment on a non-Sandbar related video that I posted- it’s a clip from a friend’s wedding of two other friends doing their version of interpretive dancing to "Kung Fu Fighting." It’s a very funny video, you can watch it here.}
I love when things from The Sandbar can make people happy, that’s what we’re all about. And I really like it when they leave comments to tell me that The Sandbar made them happy. Hint, hint.
The SB viseos don’t make me happy, they make me horny, baby.
We should make a sequel to Bandstand Boogie. We can call it “Bandstand Boogie Nights”.
camera’s ready whenever you are.