In the summer of 1990, Kim Mitchell and video director Don Allan stopped to visit with MuchMusic’s Dan Gallagher to ask fans for help. Kim’s first solo live album, I Am A Wild Party, was burning up the charts and tape decks nation wide! All he needed was a music video.
Mitchell is always a card and this segment is no exception.
Kim and Don Allan wanted footage of your “wild party” or your “air bands”; anything really to go with that “Rah! Rah! Olé!” chorus. I also included a few snips of my own footage that I filmed specifically with a rented camera for the video! Ultimately though, Mitchell and Allan abandoned the fan video concept, and made a straight live/studio clip for “I Am A Wild Party”.
This is historically interesting to Kim fans since the video as originally conceived never came to be.*
Enjoy some goofy Kim on Much!
*EDIT: Mike from Facebook was the winner chosen for the “I Am A Wild Party” video and says this!
I was the one that won that contest, and in MM’s defence they made a “limited edition play version” with about 10 seconds from our submission video that was cut off in the final version. But thanks for finding this… Rah Rah Ole!
mikeladano.com 
Hope it wasn’t your footage that inspired them to abandon the idea!
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Sadly, it might be. :-)
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Nooooo!!
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I take no blame! I noticed they mentioned people were sending in footage for the wrong song. That could be why! I would love to know the reason.
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Mike from Facebook has answered this question!
“I was the one that won that contest, and in MM’s defence they made a “limited edition play version” with about 10 seconds from our submission video that was cut off in the final version. But thanks for finding this… Rah Rah Ole!”
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RAH RAH OLE!
Never seen this interview either. It looks like Schenker running around with that flying V
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Yep he was visiting that summer.
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Very interesting, but a bit of deja vu is happening here.
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I can’t say I know too many postal codes these days – but I will forever remember M5V 2Z5 from much music contests/daily rsvp/combat des clips!
Nice work on the flying V!
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Thanks man! It wasn’t my first attempt at making a music video as you know, but it was the first with the flying V!
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