VJing for Electric Touch, Maple Mars and the Crayons

11/7/08

A 12 hour VJ session started off with another live show on WEQX featuring Austin's Electric Touch. Several people remarked that live they sounded exactly like the CD. It was true. Maybe it's because these guys recorded the disc before they ever played out live. Or maybe it's because they brought their own sound man and sound board. They sounded great.

I grabbed images off their website and of course made some of my own sticking with their black, white, and red color scheme. The band seemed impressed and appreciative.

DJs Willobee, Amber, Donna Frank and Darwin all took part in MCing and interviewing the band.




A few hours later LA's Maple Mars was ready to go on. I knew they liked the visuals because they were posing for photos in front of my screens. I had done a Vegas sign style image for them based on their first CD cover.


Rick took a pic of it and showed it to me saying "Thanks this will be my next CD cover." As I chatted with the band imagine my surprise when the drummer, Ron, recognized me from the streets of LA. We didn't know each other but he worked at a studio on Sunset just 1 block from my apartment. He had seen me around. Once he said it I could visualize him hanging outside the studio. Too weird.


The Crayons were fun too but I felt a bit bad during "Allison Fell of her Bike". It's such a beautiful song and I had to go use clips like this and this. Seemed inappropriate.
At the end of the night KC was full of compliments for my work on Maples Mars and his band. Guitarist Joe Freeman did ask "Was there Jesus on the screen at one point?" I said yes but it was during the song "God hates me". He laughed.