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“I bought my first bass at age 18 for $99 at a pawn shop,” says singer/songwriter Scott Wilson. “It was a piece of crap, but it was a good thing to learn to play with and to realize that it was worth investing in better equipment.”
Wilson cites his main musical influences as the Beatles (“seventh chords”), Nirvana (“grooves”), and Yes (“harmonies”), but nowadays the founding member of the Gandhi Method -- and former bassist for Cathryn Beeks -- would just as soon plug into a video-editing board as an amp. He’s worked on music videos, concert films, and documentaries.
This filmmaking savvy served Wilson well when it came time to shoot his "Coffeehouse 101" Video , from his 2005 CD Kaleidoscope's End. “We ended up with around 50 performers in [my] video, many of them local, each one lip-synching a different line from the song,” says Wilson.
Footage was shot at Lestat's, Twiggs, the Hot Monkey Love Café, and other local spots. Cameo appearances include Gregory Page, Dave Howard, Bart Mendoza (the Shambles), Mark DeCerbo (Rockola, the Steely Damned), and a who’s who of local talent that even the most plugged-in of scenesters would be hard pressed to fully identify. “I couldn’t time it right to get the Locust in there,” says Wilson, “but I [taped] most everybody else I sought out.”
“Some people -- for instance, Robin Henkel and Carlos Olmeda -- were very comfortable with the camera. Some weren’t, and I include myself in that bunch. Everyone brings their own personalities to the table, and people relate to the camera in such different ways that it becomes sort of a sociological experiment in overcoming embarrassment.”
Wilson’s earliest recordings, with AOR glam band VFX, are being sought for reissue by Retrospect Records in Las Vegas. “I walked away from this style of music in 1994 and never looked back,” says Wilson. “That’s Album Oriented Rock, not Aging Old Rockers,” says Wilson. “Nobody was more surprised than me that people still listened to that type of music…I had no idea anybody remembered a CD I released 20 years ago.”
Wilson says VFX was one of many bands knocked out by Grunge. “When our second CD was released in 1993, Nirvana was going strong. That wiped out what one record executive once told me was all those W bands, [like] Warrant, Winger, and Whitesnake.” That album, The Next Step, hit number one on the Imports Chart in England’s Kerrang Magazine, as Wilson toured Europe with the band in late 1993/early 1994.
“I’ve been busy rummaging through my storage room looking for old masters and forgotten videos,” says Wilson, who moved to San Diego in 1997 and pursued acoustic balladeering. “It’s been a strange experience.” Some of the vintage spandex and cosmetic-heavy VFX videos have been uploaded to Wilson’s YouTube channel, Metapunker. “They’re possibly [worth] a good laugh. I don’t regret doing the music that I did, or dressing up in strange costumes. Some of the pain and embarrassment has faded away, and now only laughter remains.”
“I haven’t decided if I’m going to let them release the CDs yet,” says Wilson. “When I started digging through the storage room and talking to some of the former band members, it brought up a lot of buried issues and feelings that I assumed I had let go of. Which, of course, I hadn’t. So I’m deciding whether I really want to reissue those CDs again, or let them stay part of the past.”
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34 YEARS AGO TODAY – LED ZEPPELIN IN
(Led Zep's San Diego bootleg)
3-10-75 – Led Zeppelin at San Diego Sports Arena: On tour behind their Physical Graffiti album, the mighty Zep played a 14-song set at the Sports Arena, with no opening band.
Doors for the sold-out concert opened at 3:00 p.m., and seating was unreserved, with no chairs on the floor. A ten-foot balloon imprinted with "1975 World Tour" was bounced around the audience, until the band finally took the stage at 9:00 p.m., an hour later than scheduled.
As captured on the bootleg album Symphony in a Thousand Parts, after the opening medley of "Rock and Roll" and "Sick Again," Robert Plant implored the unruly crowd to "shut right up" and "step back," as patrons pressed toward the stage.
The drum solo in "Moby Dick" ran just under a half hour in length, and female attendees reportedly showered the stage with underwear during the opening strains of "Stairway to Heaven." The bootleg album does not include the final encore, "Heartbreaker."
Two weeks after this show, Zeppelin became the first band in history with six albums on the charts simultaneously.
Top 50 San Diego Concerts Ever
LOCAL MUSIC HISTORIAN'S NEW FACEBOOK TREE
“I’m working on a new Facebook page called 1980s San Diego Metal Bands Tree Project,” says longtime local musician Gavin O’Hara. “I thought it’d be fun to do, since I’ve already reconnected with a number of musicians I used to play with back in those days through Facebook and MySpace.”
The online tree project is a modernized version of Peter Frame’s early 1990s books Complete Rock Family Trees and More Rock Family Trees. “What I did was create a genealogy tree template, and I re-use it for every version of a band. In other words, for every time a band member left or joined a band, a new pedigree chart or page is created, to reflect the final or current line-ups.”
Facebook users can provide additions or corrections to ongoing tree charts. “Eventually,” says O’Hara, “I’d like to hyperlink all the pages together, making it even more interactive.”
Over the last eight months, the number of American adults who have updated their online status via Facebook and other social networking sites has nearly doubled, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The number rose to eleven percent in December 2008, up from six percent the previous May.
O’Hara began playing locally in 1980, with bands like Noizy Toyz, Sabotage, Black Diamond, Street Liegel, and others regularly seen at long-gone venues like My Rich Uncle’s, Lakeside’s Rockin’ Hall, Rio’s in Point Loma, Club Mirage in Mission Valley, and the old Spirit club (now Brick by Brick).
“I first saw Teazer with [future Ozzy Osbourne guitarist] Jake E. Lee in 1979,” says O’Hara, “and I’ve always been intrigued and inspired by San Diego’s early hard rock and heavy metal. Those bands had their own unique style, energy, sound, and culture. And, let’s face it, the outrageous stage attire was probably the most unique part of the scene.”
http://www.facebook.com/pages/1980s-San-Diego-Metal-Bands-Tree-Project/33950299354
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WHO'S ON LATE NIGHT TV THIS WEEK???
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, CBS
Mo 3/9: Russell Brand, Jack Hanna
Tu 3/10: Stupid Pet Tricks, Paul Rudd
We 3/11: Tom Brokaw, Razorlight
Th 3/12: Paul Teutul Sr., the Broadway cast of "West Side Story"
Fr 3/13: Will Ferrell, Cursive
Mo 3/16: Nicolas Cage, Rachel Maddow
Tu 3/17: Julia Roberts, Bell X1
We 3/18: Craig Ferguson, Modest Mouse
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO, NBC
Mo 3/9: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Demetri Martin, Rocco De Luca & The Burden
Tu 3/10: Whoopi Goldberg, Elle Fanning, Keyshia Cole
We 3/11: Ellen Degeneres, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Raul Malo
Th 3/12: Dwayne Johnson, Heather Headley
Fr 3/13: Kara Dioguardi, Randy Travis
Mo 3/16: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Norton, Randy Rogers Band
Tu 3/17: Portia de Rossi, D.L. Hughley, Soundtrack of our Lives
We 3/18: Reese Witherspoon, Keith Olbermann, Naturally 7
Th 3/19: Teri Hatcher, John Cena, Kelly Clarkson
Fr 3/20: Seth Rogan, Guy Fieri, Chris Cornell
LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON, CBS
Mo 3/9: Jason Segel, Dave Attell
Tu 3/10: Rosario Dawson, Gordon Ramsay
We 3/11: Tim Daly, Dr. Kara Cooney
Th 3/12: Jim Parsons, Sara Bareilles
Fr 3/13: Christina Ricci, Mike Birbiglia
Mo 3/16: Regis Philbin, the Upper Crust
Tu 3/17: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dropkick Murphys
We 3/18: Steven Wright, Rashida Jones
LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON, NBC
Mo 3/9: Amanda Peet, Rose Byrne, Joshua Topolsky
Tu 3/10: Emily Blunt, Michael Stipe, Pussycat Dolls
We 3/11: Russell Brand, Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht, the Virgins
Th 3/12: Tracy Morgan, Malin Akerman, Glen Hansard
Fr 3/13: Jarod Miller, Trace Adkins
Mo 3/16: Gary Sinise, Colin Hanks, Public Enemy
Tu 3/17: Bill Paxton, the Ting Tings
We 3/18: Clive Owen, Paul Teutul Sr., Vampire Weekend
Th 3/19: Jaime Pressly, Steven Ward, Eric Church
Fr 3/20: Jason Segel
LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY, NBC
Mo 3/9: Daniel Suarez, Jeff Dunham, Razorlight
Tu 3/10: Robin Thicke
We 3/11: Patton Oswalt, M83
Th 3/12: Ken Jeong, Delta Spirit
Fr 3/13: TBA
Mo 3/16: T.I., Sam Sparro (R 2/9/09)
Tu 3/17: Josh Flitter
We 3/18: Kid Cudi
Th 3/19: TBA
Fr 3/20: Masi Oka, the Duke Spirit
Mo 3/23: Adele (R 2/10/09)
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, Comedy Central
Mo 3/9: Nathaniel Frank
Tu 3/10: Craig Mullaney
We 3/11: Paul Rudd
Th 3/12: Tom Zoellner
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, ABC
Mo 3/9: The Jonas Brothers, Jimmie Johnson, Darius Rucker (R 2/23/09)
Tu 3/10: Heidi Klum, Bryan Cranston, Chris Cornell
We 3/11: Jaime Pressly, animal trainer Kirstin McMillan, the Pretenders
Th 3/12: David Hasselhoff, Eliza Dushku, Pendulum
Fr 3/13: Kristin Stewart, Dwayne Johnson, the Dream
Mo 3/16: Don Rickles, a special appearance by Regis Philbin, Ben Sollee (R 2/24/09)
Tu 3/17: The latest "Dancing with the Stars" castoff, Chandra Wilson, Young Dubliners
We 3/18: Andy Samberg, Ashley Scott, MSTRKRFT
Th 3/19: Megan Mullally, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, the Duke Spirit
Fr 3/20: Portia de Rossi, John Cena
MICHAEL PAGE GOES 3D
Though best known for his stint with Iggy Pop (1979 to 1984), bassist Michael Page has also performed and recorded with David Bowie, Chubby Checker, Jerry Lee Lewis, and New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, with whom he formed the band Criminals.
“Iggy introduced me to Johnny Depp around ‘92,” says the Kearny High graduate (1968), “and Johnny put me in charge of throwing a band together with him, the Vipers. However, that project ended up clashing with his movie shooting, so that’s when I bailed on live road gigs, in favor of working at home, scoring for films.”
Page – who grew up in North Park - lives near Banker’s Hill and works for a local visual production firm, PassmoreLab, where he converts standard photos, film, and video into 3D.
A horror-themed music video was just shot in 3D for the song “Magnetic Baby” by Semi Precious Weapons, featuring “taxidermy and glam ghouls spewing metallic body fluids,” according to Page.
“We chose the east coast-underground band Semi Precious Weapons because the frontman Justin is so full of energy and so animated that it just screams 3D. Top that off with some of the best music out there today, and there you have it. They seemed to muster up an artistic concoction that had similar tastes and sensibilities as my old cronies the New York Dolls, sprinkled with a bit of Iggy Pop flavoring,” Page says of the group. “We seek out unique and unusual subject matter to explore and document…the band was awesome and ripe for 3D.”
“PassmoreLab feels that visual stimulation and excitement is necessary and foremost, with an ability to display artistic originality and creative aesthetics that are outside the norm. Simply put, the wilder the better, and you just instinctively know it when you see it.”
“Magnetic Baby” was shot in San Diego, in both 3D and 2D format.
PassmoreLab paid the costs to make the Semi Precious Weapons vid. “Including the champagne and gallon of gold body paint, it ran about $30,000. We shot the entire project in one long day but spent a considerably longer time building the sets and even longer time cleaning up afterwards. The cost for a 3D production is significantly more than 2D, partially due to the complex editing processes.”
So why would PassmoreLab foot the entire bill? Page says that - because of the production - "[Two big L.A. film companies] came down from L.A. to meet with us...Yup, right here in sleepy lil Dago, they came to us. We're all about the art, about being a futuristic cutting-edge experimental lab, not a production company.
"We don't need no stinkin' badges. Or motives. Just like the Reader!"
Company founder Greg Passmore elaborates. “PassmoreLab co-owns the resulting 3D video. PassmoreLab is in the business of producing films and as part of this function finances and performs production services in exchange for back-end revenue off the resulting content. Several 3D films are currently in production, ranging from educational content to the purely entertaining. Semi Precious Weapons seemed like a winner to us.”
"One of the really great things about the 3D conversion we're doing," says Passmore, "is that a lot of content that otherwise may be seldom seen is now getting a new and fresh look. It also creates a more immersive experience for the viewer.”
As for where the finished video will screen, Michael Page says “We are interested in releasing the 3D version in Japan, where they have been successfully broadcasting 3D television for a while now. Bands also appear on the PassmoreLab 3D demo-reels which are shown to the heaviest hitters in the entire industry worldwide. MTV shot Passmorelab filming the Semi Precious Weapons video for an episode of their Made series. Other than that, the band's record companies dictate when and where the videos appear.”
Page says the company is also involved with photographic 3D projects.
“We teamed up with rock photographer Bob Gruen, to convert his well-known iconic images to a format that can be viewed on stereoscopic displays.” Gruen was the personal photographer for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and served as tour photographer for the Clash and Kiss. His extensive photo archive includes the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, the Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, Patti Smith, Bo Diddley, Blondie, Bob Marley, and the Sex Pistols.
Page prefers his local 3D gig to the rock and roll lifestyle. “It’s a lot less dangerous than dodging bottles with Iggy Pop,” he says.
(Blurt interview with Jen Hilbert of PassmoreLab) www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/jun/25/blurt4
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"Just Sing the Hits and the Crowd is Happy - When Bands (Barely)Reunite" - San Diego has seen its share of former hitmakers who come to town with few - if any - original members. And it doesn't help when brainless local promotors can't even spell the band name right ("Orginnal Sugarhill Gang," anyone? No? I didn't think so.....)
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/oct/21/just-sing-the-hits-when-bands-barely-reunite
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"How I Snuck Into Around 100 Local Concerts" - Not that we advocate lawbreaking, mind you, but it was a long time ago, and most of the places are long gone, so here's what I did and how I did it....
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/oct/30/how-i-snuck-into-around-100-local-concerts
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"Ratt Doesn't Want You to Read This Blog" - Beyond Behind the Music, here's a comprehensive account of how much these guys hated each other, through all the lawsuits and insults, until the money to "reunite" piled up too high to ignore. That is, if you consider the current partially-original lineup a "reunion"....
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/oct/23/ratt-doesnt-want-you-to-read-this-blog
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"Battle of the Blues Lovers" - Two local blues organizations with a history of battling, plus former Bluestime host Dan Pothier reveals how he was fired from local KPBS and forbidden to take the mic for his final show, and more...
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/nov/04/battle-of-the-local-blues-lovers/
"Buffy Staked After Ken Cinema Screening" - The musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had its final audience participation event at the Ken, before being shut down over copyright issues... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/nov/04/battle-of-the-local-blues-lovers
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AND THE NEW Famous Former Neighbors
MY PERSONAL HOTPICK FOR TONIGHT...
“I bought my first bass at age 18 for $99 at a pawn shop,” says singer/songwriter Scott Wilson. “It was a piece of crap, but it was a good thing to learn to play with and to realize that it was worth investing in better equipment.”
Wilson cites his main musical influences as the Beatles (“seventh chords”), Nirvana (“grooves”), and Yes (“harmonies”), but nowadays the founding member of the Gandhi Method -- and former bassist for Cathryn Beeks -- would just as soon plug into a video-editing board as an amp. He’s worked on music videos, concert films, and documentaries.
This filmmaking savvy served Wilson well when it came time to shoot his "Coffeehouse 101" Video , from his 2005 CD Kaleidoscope's End. “We ended up with around 50 performers in [my] video, many of them local, each one lip-synching a different line from the song,” says Wilson.
Footage was shot at Lestat's, Twiggs, the Hot Monkey Love Café, and other local spots. Cameo appearances include Gregory Page, Dave Howard, Bart Mendoza (the Shambles), Mark DeCerbo (Rockola, the Steely Damned), and a who’s who of local talent that even the most plugged-in of scenesters would be hard pressed to fully identify. “I couldn’t time it right to get the Locust in there,” says Wilson, “but I [taped] most everybody else I sought out.”
“Some people -- for instance, Robin Henkel and Carlos Olmeda -- were very comfortable with the camera. Some weren’t, and I include myself in that bunch. Everyone brings their own personalities to the table, and people relate to the camera in such different ways that it becomes sort of a sociological experiment in overcoming embarrassment.”
Wilson’s earliest recordings, with AOR glam band VFX, are being sought for reissue by Retrospect Records in Las Vegas. “I walked away from this style of music in 1994 and never looked back,” says Wilson. “That’s Album Oriented Rock, not Aging Old Rockers,” says Wilson. “Nobody was more surprised than me that people still listened to that type of music…I had no idea anybody remembered a CD I released 20 years ago.”
Wilson says VFX was one of many bands knocked out by Grunge. “When our second CD was released in 1993, Nirvana was going strong. That wiped out what one record executive once told me was all those W bands, [like] Warrant, Winger, and Whitesnake.” That album, The Next Step, hit number one on the Imports Chart in England’s Kerrang Magazine, as Wilson toured Europe with the band in late 1993/early 1994.
“I’ve been busy rummaging through my storage room looking for old masters and forgotten videos,” says Wilson, who moved to San Diego in 1997 and pursued acoustic balladeering. “It’s been a strange experience.” Some of the vintage spandex and cosmetic-heavy VFX videos have been uploaded to Wilson’s YouTube channel, Metapunker. “They’re possibly [worth] a good laugh. I don’t regret doing the music that I did, or dressing up in strange costumes. Some of the pain and embarrassment has faded away, and now only laughter remains.”
“I haven’t decided if I’m going to let them release the CDs yet,” says Wilson. “When I started digging through the storage room and talking to some of the former band members, it brought up a lot of buried issues and feelings that I assumed I had let go of. Which, of course, I hadn’t. So I’m deciding whether I really want to reissue those CDs again, or let them stay part of the past.”
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34 YEARS AGO TODAY – LED ZEPPELIN IN
(Led Zep's San Diego bootleg)
3-10-75 – Led Zeppelin at San Diego Sports Arena: On tour behind their Physical Graffiti album, the mighty Zep played a 14-song set at the Sports Arena, with no opening band.
Doors for the sold-out concert opened at 3:00 p.m., and seating was unreserved, with no chairs on the floor. A ten-foot balloon imprinted with "1975 World Tour" was bounced around the audience, until the band finally took the stage at 9:00 p.m., an hour later than scheduled.
As captured on the bootleg album Symphony in a Thousand Parts, after the opening medley of "Rock and Roll" and "Sick Again," Robert Plant implored the unruly crowd to "shut right up" and "step back," as patrons pressed toward the stage.
The drum solo in "Moby Dick" ran just under a half hour in length, and female attendees reportedly showered the stage with underwear during the opening strains of "Stairway to Heaven." The bootleg album does not include the final encore, "Heartbreaker."
Two weeks after this show, Zeppelin became the first band in history with six albums on the charts simultaneously.
Top 50 San Diego Concerts Ever
LOCAL MUSIC HISTORIAN'S NEW FACEBOOK TREE
“I’m working on a new Facebook page called 1980s San Diego Metal Bands Tree Project,” says longtime local musician Gavin O’Hara. “I thought it’d be fun to do, since I’ve already reconnected with a number of musicians I used to play with back in those days through Facebook and MySpace.”
The online tree project is a modernized version of Peter Frame’s early 1990s books Complete Rock Family Trees and More Rock Family Trees. “What I did was create a genealogy tree template, and I re-use it for every version of a band. In other words, for every time a band member left or joined a band, a new pedigree chart or page is created, to reflect the final or current line-ups.”
Facebook users can provide additions or corrections to ongoing tree charts. “Eventually,” says O’Hara, “I’d like to hyperlink all the pages together, making it even more interactive.”
Over the last eight months, the number of American adults who have updated their online status via Facebook and other social networking sites has nearly doubled, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The number rose to eleven percent in December 2008, up from six percent the previous May.
O’Hara began playing locally in 1980, with bands like Noizy Toyz, Sabotage, Black Diamond, Street Liegel, and others regularly seen at long-gone venues like My Rich Uncle’s, Lakeside’s Rockin’ Hall, Rio’s in Point Loma, Club Mirage in Mission Valley, and the old Spirit club (now Brick by Brick).
“I first saw Teazer with [future Ozzy Osbourne guitarist] Jake E. Lee in 1979,” says O’Hara, “and I’ve always been intrigued and inspired by San Diego’s early hard rock and heavy metal. Those bands had their own unique style, energy, sound, and culture. And, let’s face it, the outrageous stage attire was probably the most unique part of the scene.”
http://www.facebook.com/pages/1980s-San-Diego-Metal-Bands-Tree-Project/33950299354
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The READER wants info about RECORD RELEASES AND UPCOMING RECORD RELEASE EVENTS! And we want to INTERVIEW the performers - rather than just print the when/where/how-much-will-it-cost-me, our new column includes quotes from the band at hand, why Reader readers should checkitout, what yer up to, and maybe we'll ask a stupid question that gets a great answer - been known to happen! Have you READ our paper????
So SEND ME ANY AND ALL info about upcoming record releases (and about the upcoming record, 'natch), here or at [email protected], and I'll get back to you with a query or three. The writeups run in both the print edition and online, and all are eligible for the daily spotlights, etc --
JAS
WHO'S ON LATE NIGHT TV THIS WEEK???
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, CBS
Mo 3/9: Russell Brand, Jack Hanna
Tu 3/10: Stupid Pet Tricks, Paul Rudd
We 3/11: Tom Brokaw, Razorlight
Th 3/12: Paul Teutul Sr., the Broadway cast of "West Side Story"
Fr 3/13: Will Ferrell, Cursive
Mo 3/16: Nicolas Cage, Rachel Maddow
Tu 3/17: Julia Roberts, Bell X1
We 3/18: Craig Ferguson, Modest Mouse
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO, NBC
Mo 3/9: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Demetri Martin, Rocco De Luca & The Burden
Tu 3/10: Whoopi Goldberg, Elle Fanning, Keyshia Cole
We 3/11: Ellen Degeneres, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Raul Malo
Th 3/12: Dwayne Johnson, Heather Headley
Fr 3/13: Kara Dioguardi, Randy Travis
Mo 3/16: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Norton, Randy Rogers Band
Tu 3/17: Portia de Rossi, D.L. Hughley, Soundtrack of our Lives
We 3/18: Reese Witherspoon, Keith Olbermann, Naturally 7
Th 3/19: Teri Hatcher, John Cena, Kelly Clarkson
Fr 3/20: Seth Rogan, Guy Fieri, Chris Cornell
LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON, CBS
Mo 3/9: Jason Segel, Dave Attell
Tu 3/10: Rosario Dawson, Gordon Ramsay
We 3/11: Tim Daly, Dr. Kara Cooney
Th 3/12: Jim Parsons, Sara Bareilles
Fr 3/13: Christina Ricci, Mike Birbiglia
Mo 3/16: Regis Philbin, the Upper Crust
Tu 3/17: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dropkick Murphys
We 3/18: Steven Wright, Rashida Jones
LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON, NBC
Mo 3/9: Amanda Peet, Rose Byrne, Joshua Topolsky
Tu 3/10: Emily Blunt, Michael Stipe, Pussycat Dolls
We 3/11: Russell Brand, Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht, the Virgins
Th 3/12: Tracy Morgan, Malin Akerman, Glen Hansard
Fr 3/13: Jarod Miller, Trace Adkins
Mo 3/16: Gary Sinise, Colin Hanks, Public Enemy
Tu 3/17: Bill Paxton, the Ting Tings
We 3/18: Clive Owen, Paul Teutul Sr., Vampire Weekend
Th 3/19: Jaime Pressly, Steven Ward, Eric Church
Fr 3/20: Jason Segel
LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY, NBC
Mo 3/9: Daniel Suarez, Jeff Dunham, Razorlight
Tu 3/10: Robin Thicke
We 3/11: Patton Oswalt, M83
Th 3/12: Ken Jeong, Delta Spirit
Fr 3/13: TBA
Mo 3/16: T.I., Sam Sparro (R 2/9/09)
Tu 3/17: Josh Flitter
We 3/18: Kid Cudi
Th 3/19: TBA
Fr 3/20: Masi Oka, the Duke Spirit
Mo 3/23: Adele (R 2/10/09)
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, Comedy Central
Mo 3/9: Nathaniel Frank
Tu 3/10: Craig Mullaney
We 3/11: Paul Rudd
Th 3/12: Tom Zoellner
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, ABC
Mo 3/9: The Jonas Brothers, Jimmie Johnson, Darius Rucker (R 2/23/09)
Tu 3/10: Heidi Klum, Bryan Cranston, Chris Cornell
We 3/11: Jaime Pressly, animal trainer Kirstin McMillan, the Pretenders
Th 3/12: David Hasselhoff, Eliza Dushku, Pendulum
Fr 3/13: Kristin Stewart, Dwayne Johnson, the Dream
Mo 3/16: Don Rickles, a special appearance by Regis Philbin, Ben Sollee (R 2/24/09)
Tu 3/17: The latest "Dancing with the Stars" castoff, Chandra Wilson, Young Dubliners
We 3/18: Andy Samberg, Ashley Scott, MSTRKRFT
Th 3/19: Megan Mullally, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, the Duke Spirit
Fr 3/20: Portia de Rossi, John Cena
MICHAEL PAGE GOES 3D
Though best known for his stint with Iggy Pop (1979 to 1984), bassist Michael Page has also performed and recorded with David Bowie, Chubby Checker, Jerry Lee Lewis, and New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, with whom he formed the band Criminals.
“Iggy introduced me to Johnny Depp around ‘92,” says the Kearny High graduate (1968), “and Johnny put me in charge of throwing a band together with him, the Vipers. However, that project ended up clashing with his movie shooting, so that’s when I bailed on live road gigs, in favor of working at home, scoring for films.”
Page – who grew up in North Park - lives near Banker’s Hill and works for a local visual production firm, PassmoreLab, where he converts standard photos, film, and video into 3D.
A horror-themed music video was just shot in 3D for the song “Magnetic Baby” by Semi Precious Weapons, featuring “taxidermy and glam ghouls spewing metallic body fluids,” according to Page.
“We chose the east coast-underground band Semi Precious Weapons because the frontman Justin is so full of energy and so animated that it just screams 3D. Top that off with some of the best music out there today, and there you have it. They seemed to muster up an artistic concoction that had similar tastes and sensibilities as my old cronies the New York Dolls, sprinkled with a bit of Iggy Pop flavoring,” Page says of the group. “We seek out unique and unusual subject matter to explore and document…the band was awesome and ripe for 3D.”
“PassmoreLab feels that visual stimulation and excitement is necessary and foremost, with an ability to display artistic originality and creative aesthetics that are outside the norm. Simply put, the wilder the better, and you just instinctively know it when you see it.”
“Magnetic Baby” was shot in San Diego, in both 3D and 2D format.
PassmoreLab paid the costs to make the Semi Precious Weapons vid. “Including the champagne and gallon of gold body paint, it ran about $30,000. We shot the entire project in one long day but spent a considerably longer time building the sets and even longer time cleaning up afterwards. The cost for a 3D production is significantly more than 2D, partially due to the complex editing processes.”
So why would PassmoreLab foot the entire bill? Page says that - because of the production - "[Two big L.A. film companies] came down from L.A. to meet with us...Yup, right here in sleepy lil Dago, they came to us. We're all about the art, about being a futuristic cutting-edge experimental lab, not a production company.
"We don't need no stinkin' badges. Or motives. Just like the Reader!"
Company founder Greg Passmore elaborates. “PassmoreLab co-owns the resulting 3D video. PassmoreLab is in the business of producing films and as part of this function finances and performs production services in exchange for back-end revenue off the resulting content. Several 3D films are currently in production, ranging from educational content to the purely entertaining. Semi Precious Weapons seemed like a winner to us.”
"One of the really great things about the 3D conversion we're doing," says Passmore, "is that a lot of content that otherwise may be seldom seen is now getting a new and fresh look. It also creates a more immersive experience for the viewer.”
As for where the finished video will screen, Michael Page says “We are interested in releasing the 3D version in Japan, where they have been successfully broadcasting 3D television for a while now. Bands also appear on the PassmoreLab 3D demo-reels which are shown to the heaviest hitters in the entire industry worldwide. MTV shot Passmorelab filming the Semi Precious Weapons video for an episode of their Made series. Other than that, the band's record companies dictate when and where the videos appear.”
Page says the company is also involved with photographic 3D projects.
“We teamed up with rock photographer Bob Gruen, to convert his well-known iconic images to a format that can be viewed on stereoscopic displays.” Gruen was the personal photographer for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and served as tour photographer for the Clash and Kiss. His extensive photo archive includes the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, the Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, Patti Smith, Bo Diddley, Blondie, Bob Marley, and the Sex Pistols.
Page prefers his local 3D gig to the rock and roll lifestyle. “It’s a lot less dangerous than dodging bottles with Iggy Pop,” he says.
(Blurt interview with Jen Hilbert of PassmoreLab) www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/jun/25/blurt4
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"Just Sing the Hits and the Crowd is Happy - When Bands (Barely)Reunite" - San Diego has seen its share of former hitmakers who come to town with few - if any - original members. And it doesn't help when brainless local promotors can't even spell the band name right ("Orginnal Sugarhill Gang," anyone? No? I didn't think so.....)
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/oct/21/just-sing-the-hits-when-bands-barely-reunite
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"How I Snuck Into Around 100 Local Concerts" - Not that we advocate lawbreaking, mind you, but it was a long time ago, and most of the places are long gone, so here's what I did and how I did it....
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/oct/30/how-i-snuck-into-around-100-local-concerts
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"Ratt Doesn't Want You to Read This Blog" - Beyond Behind the Music, here's a comprehensive account of how much these guys hated each other, through all the lawsuits and insults, until the money to "reunite" piled up too high to ignore. That is, if you consider the current partially-original lineup a "reunion"....
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/oct/23/ratt-doesnt-want-you-to-read-this-blog
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"Battle of the Blues Lovers" - Two local blues organizations with a history of battling, plus former Bluestime host Dan Pothier reveals how he was fired from local KPBS and forbidden to take the mic for his final show, and more...
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/nov/04/battle-of-the-local-blues-lovers/
"Buffy Staked After Ken Cinema Screening" - The musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had its final audience participation event at the Ken, before being shut down over copyright issues... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/nov/04/battle-of-the-local-blues-lovers
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