I believe that everyone had a great time last night at The Big Mess video shoot! I’m still buzzing from it and I can’t wait to see the footage. Kyle is going to edit it. Ahhhhhhh, that’s why he spent all that time in film school… for this very moment.
I just added an event’s calendar and a lot of new pictures in the gallery. Take a peek.
We are kinda sorta maybe as ready as we can be for tonight’s video shoot. A few weeks ago, at an official Marty/VoxMan Kyle business meeting, the VoxMan stated that we should do a video shoot. After an obligatory protest, I very quickly agreed that it was precisely what we should do. Both of us wanted Tash Baycroft to shoot it and he’s a busy guy. So tonight is when we were all able to fit it in.
Much thanks to Kyle and Heather for baking brownies… and to the Acme Food Co. for letting us shoot there. I’m into this, even though Kyle will NOT let me eat a brownie!!
This Friday (in two days), Kyle and I are going to perform on the beach in Parksville, BC. Well, that is a tiny exaggeration. We’re playing from 4 til 8 at the Beach Club Resort, and it’s outdoors, just a step or two from the boardwalk on the downtown Parksville beach.
I really have a very rough time trying to play trumpet for FOUR hours. Trumpet players aren’t supposed to do that. Anything that Kyle does to give me a break helps enormously!
We’re kinda hoping that we can start to use Ableton Live 8 for this job. Kyle’s got this very cool outboard controller for the program, the Akai APC 40, that makes it possible to change things on the fly while we are performing. The way I/we have previously done it is to use my computer-generated backing stuff, which sounds great, but is identical each time. The Ableton Live 8 way is the direction we’re shooting for: more fun & more creative.
It’s all so exciting and/but it’s all so new. We need more time to get ready! My grandest hope for this Friday would be to do 3 songs in this new way. Two of them are made of audio loops: In the Groove and Big Funky Mess… The other one is our brand new version of Tequila.
Should be very interesting and hopefully very fun.
Recently, I’ve been pushing the panic button over and over about trying to get prepared for both Friday in Parksville and our “official” debut gig at the Acme Food Co. on July 24rd and 25th. When we were having coffee this morning, Kyle said that the idea of being in a panic zone is totally counterproductive to getting things done. That was quite helpful for me to hear! I totally agree with him. We will get done what we can get done and we won’t get done what we don’t get done. It will be fine.
Have I ever mentioned how wise Kyle can (sometimes) be?
I have always known
That at last I would
Take this road, but yesterday
I did not know that it would be today.
Narihira 9th century
Yesterday I indirectly knew that maybe perhaps I might possibly be writing my very first blog entry today, but I doubted it. And I’m hoping that you can delete blog entrys (and I seriously assume that you can…), because my only intention is to show Mr. Kyle that we do have something happening blogwise.
Hello Kyle, and welcome Our Blog.