BlowUpBlow videos

Paul Zanzler has assembled 2 videos of our band BlowUpBlow* (2003-2008) compiled from photographs, video and artwork.

One is for It's Time; a song that was often a live show closer/favorite. We did a great recording of at The Compound studio in Long Beach, CA. Unfortunately it was never finally mixed, mastered nor released...



The 2nd video features an audio track that for a song we were laboring over off and on for a long time during the twilight of the band's run. It may sound trebly, but, hey, it was just a practice recording, quite possibly on cassette...Visually, this is a pretty good nostalgic overview slide show. Personally, I felt that we were creating music better than that of each our previous bands.




*If you're new, I was the drummer in this band, and did the artwork for the releases, merch, flyers, etc.

CalProg, Part 3: It Bites videos

CalProg 2009, Part 1

I went to CalProg last weekend.

Once again, most of my photos were out of focus, and not worth uploading.
But I got some good video of Karmakanic and It Bites.

The opening band Touch Stone did not win me over.

Although I was a little disappointed in the Agents of Mercy album in light of the players and concept, I thoroughly enjoyed their live set. And, although Karmakanic was exactly the same personnel as Agents of Mercy, they played a set that was equally very emotional, and totally shredding, as any good prog show should be.

One of my favorite drummers Nick D'Virgilio sat in with Agents of Mercy/Karmakanic, and did an amazing job. Especially considering his only actual practice with the band was several hours the day before. There was only 1 moment out of the 4 hours or so that he was onstage where I sensed that they might have made a mistake & been slightly off.

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Here are some videos I shot of Karmakanic. I will be uploading It Bites videos later...

"I can feel your anger..."

".... It gives you focus, makes you stronger."

My Boy Knows How To Chill.

Truck fire video

The following video was filmed last week on my cell phone from my car.

No, I'm not admitting to using my cell phone while driving. It could have been someone else driving, and/or someone else using the phone. Or I could be filming while someone else....

Anyway, It's not a great video, it was pretty scary in real life:



Apparently, YouTube does not retain the sound from .3g2 format videos. :-(

AMM4 video segment

Well, the Art of Musical Maintenance 4 show has come to a close. But the people at Pirate Satellite TV have put together a video promo segment, which I've embedded below...

CalProg 2007

On May 19th, I went to CalProg in Whittier. I have some video, mostly of the Rudess-Morgenstein Project.
I'm having trouble posting this entry with embedded content, so the following will link you to each videos on YouTube:

The Rudess/Morgenstein Project:
(Jordan Rudess & Rod Morgenstein)

Pt.1
Pt.2
Pt.3
Pt.4
Pt.5
Pt.6
Pt.7
Pt.8
Pt.9
Pt.10

And here are links to some clips of Spiraling's performance:

Pt.1
Pt.2
Pt.3

Fifth StoryTenants Video

Here it is: Glamour on MySpace by the Fifth Story Tenants
Directed by Eric Dunn. Artwork by Paul Sharar

Spot my cameo appearance as a "Sith"-wannabe/Star Wars Nerd...
and, yes, I actually own that lightsaber... :-)

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