Longlost Music Video: Indio "Hard Sun" 1989 Gordon Peterson

Longlost 1989 music video for the track "Hard Sun" by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Peterson, AKA Indio, filmed on Ward's Island, East River NYC and directed by Matt Mahurin ("Orange Crush: by REM, etc). The song reached number 10 on the Canadian music charts in September 1989, and Eddie Vedder covered it for the soundtrack of Sean Penn's 2007 movie Into the Wild. Shortly after releasing his sole Indio album, Peterson essentially quit the music biz, not resurfacing again until the early 2000s.

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from the early 1980s into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online.

Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area. This upload features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. To be used for research and archive purposes only, no commercial reproduction allowed.