Collaborating again, he wrote and directed Elton John's music video for Disney's The Lion King, "The Circle of Life".
In the mid-1990's, he was a pioneer of streaming video, and co-founded Intertainer, the first broadband video-on-demand program service in the U.S.
He is a long-time environmental activist, and founding board director of the LA Waterkeeper, and other private philanthropies.
Two years after Nashville was released, Baskin was the musical guest on the March 12, 1977, episode during the second season of Saturday Night Live with host Sissy Spacek.
[6] He was musical director and produced soundtracks for other films such as Honeysuckle Rose, starring Willie Nelson, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, directed by Colin Higgins.