I recently attended a Cross Canadian Ragweed show with a lady friend of mine. I heard of the band once while I was on tour with EastonAshe in Indiana. We were at load in and a song came on talking about “folks in Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong.” The lyrics began to humor me and the rest of the song is a riot to boot.
I love doing shows with no moving lights on occasion. Nowadays it seems like such a rarity that I get to do this.
Hey everyone I'm back with a couple blogs this week. I'm going to be playing catch up on some stuff for awhile because a lot has been going on! For this week I'm leaving a two part blog to pay homage to everyone I've meet near and far along the way in my career so far that I owe a definite thanks to for being such great influences, family, friends, and mentors. Enjoy!
After my move from Maryland to Arizona with the boys is when things got really busy with me. Matt Brown of Guitar Center- Peoria Ave. got us on our feet with sound and light initially (before I knew about ClearWing and Four Wall). I first started going through Four Wall Entertainment getting my gels together from Roscoe special thanks to Nancy Tallman for her help at the time and pointing me in the right direction which led to ClearWing Lighting who have been my go to guys ever since Adam (LTP vs. HTP), Dave, Nick (Repair Extraordinaire), Tiffany, Ashley, Seth, Christian, and Jeff you all rock and have helped me learn so much technically and aesthetically much respect.
I ran out of guys to run shows last week. Again. I can see a legion of kids out there waving their hands “What about me, I’m sitting here looking for a gig”. But I don’t know all of you and cannot vouch one way or another for you until I do know ya. Been bitten on the ass for trying to have people I don’t know run one of my bands.
Well we just got done with the California tour and it’s our last night in town to hang loose. OK now before I walk out the door to do just that I’ll recap the California tour and a few loose ends from the other legs of the tour along the way. As soon as we got home for a few days to kick it after our Midwest tour it was to time to leave again for California. Fortunately for this leg it wasn’t too much of a hellacious drive as much as the others have been. It was roughly a 12-14 hour drive and we pulled into Livermore where we’d be staying for the week. Livermore is a great jump off point to hit big cities like San Francisco and Oakland. We’ll def. have to hit some more clubs in the cities next time we stop through for sure.
As we all know, a haze in the air certainly helps the light beams stand out. Unfortunately, many clients hate any kind of smoke, so we must sneak it onto the stage.
Every once in a while I get a call from a band looking for a new stage concept and or lighting design. Quite often my ideas will be submitted along with other designers and the act will choose one of us as thier new designer.
Since my stories are always progressing as I go along on my journey I wanted to share a couple of things that I have been wanting to share but I haven’t got the chance yet.
Dirty lenses. Need I say more?
A few years ago, a high school theatre student e-mailed me as part of a class assignment. The subject of his e-mail concerned the tremendous… Read More »Green Stages
I’m glad to finally see the snow gone. Not because I hate winter, but because I hate being stuck in airports. Something that’s been happening to me all too much this year.