A couple weeks ago I shot my first concert with a digital camera (I sold out) at Velour Live Music Gallery in Provo. It was the send off show for a local band heading out across the country for over a month. The Band Of Annuals are a great band from Salt Lake and have caught the attention of a few across the country. They are opening for the Minus 5 in Seattle. The Minus 5 includes REM's guitarist Peter Buck who has always fueled interesting guitar work. The BOA opened up for the Mother Hips earlier this year at the Urban Lounge. I invited a friend along for the show that night and found him respond with instant amazement at the sound coming from the stage. He looked puzzled at how good they sounded and had to move a few feet to see where the other voice of vocalist Jeremi Hanson was hiding behind her keyboards. Jay Henderson could be considered the main singer but when the two sing together its something else. Like Peanut butter and jelly, Simon and Garfunkle, (with no similarities to either) the mix of two voices, male and female, along with the subtle yet overwhelming sounds that wrap around the listener like the softest of blankets. It comforts and inspires. Anyways, its indescribable when the night is right and the sound system translates the bands greatest potential to the audience. Its no wonder they've found some far distant fans from their main stay, Kilby Court.
Check my link to flickr for more from this show.
3 comments:
I'll have to watch and see if they come to Chapel Hill. Your photo looks sharp - sell out or not. (C'mon Jared, we didn't sell out when we learned the art of the Mac back in high school did we? There's a place for digital technology in art.)
Maybe not a sell out but if anything its taking all my money at the moment. I signed up for 4 years of graphic arts plus my senior year as a teachers aid which meant first and last period in the classroom. I even got credit one term when I was suppose to be in seminary and I still couldn't run the off set press. I could do everything it took to get the film and screens burned in attempts to make t-shirts but no press work. Played some frisbee with old Jed Bird (we TA Harmon's final class period of his career) with out shoes and shirts the weeks before I graduated. I think every crazed out freak in the school passed through the class room. Plus Harmon's voice that Mark does to the T about it not being a dairy and watching the unlucky student get a nipple twisted black and blue. That classroom was a movie all its own. Did that really happen, High School?
The camera is holding up pretty well, I'll try to get the fall colors I took on monday up pretty soon. At least just the one tree I found, a silver maple that looked more like Phil Lesh's tie dies.
I did the 4+ years of Harmon's Funland as well. I also could pretty much only get things from the Mac to the silk screen press and stayed the hell away from all of the rest of the equipment and presses.
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