Ground Zero Nevada
Channel: Robert Battaile
Date: 2021-04-25

"Ground Zero Nevada" was featured in the 2001 musical "PLANET VEGA$" produced by Napa Valley Community Theater and CALEXAS, Robert's Video Production Company. Show was a spoof on the underbelly of Las Vegas and included the atomic bomb fascination/industry just outside the city.

The 9/11 bombings happened in the middle of a 3-week run in Napa and St. Helena. The "Ground Zero" performance was freaking people out, so we cut it from the show. We staged it again after the last Sunday matinee so we could make this video. Song was renamed "Ground Zero Nevada."

Robert Battaile wrote three songs and appears as "Lucky." Shauna Marshall and RJ Snead deliver the backing vocals. Dancers are Melissa Barnett, Bonnie Zimmermann, Carolyn Sanders and Cynthia Langlois. Bonnie wrote and Directed. Actors at start are Al Miluso, Reece Baswell and Debra Todd.

RB's other two "PLANET VEGA$" songs "PLANET VEGA$ DIGS YA" and the infamous "Dollar Buffet" are also on YouTube. RB also does a version of "PLANET VEGA$ DIGS YA" on his Robert B+ "zymphonix" cd.

Use the Closed Captions to view the lyrics.

Thanks to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the nuclear footage they've been recovering and publishing for Creative Commons copyright use. Check out RB's coloring book "Doodle TherapyX2" and his interactive graphic novel "TELE-SANTA" on Amazon.