Saturday was LMS6... The 6th installment of the Renegades's Loud Music Symposium. With our particular knack for bad timing, this performance happened to be right smack in the middle of when we were supposed to finish up our music cues for Death Ride. We managed to squeeze in enough rehearsal time during the previous week, and when Saturday came around we set the
picture aside for a day and cruised up to San Francisco for a Festival of Decibels.
Rain was threatening, so the drive up to SF under interesting-looking cloud formations was sort of inspiring. Mark and I arrived at the Herbst Theater in plenty of time for load in... Rich was there already, having to perform triple duty at LMS with not only MI, but Mini Corps and the Renegades. The Herbst Theater is a wonderful 900-plus seat venue with an immense stage (or at least more immense than we ever get)... And after a few moments spent checking the place out, we were allowed the stage and began setting up. Sound check proved a little stressful... More bass rig problems (but no where near the problems I had back at the Edge a while back) but once I got those ironed out, everything ran quite smoothly. LMS marked the first performance I was using Reason as opposed to my hardware samplers, so I was a bit leery of that... But everything worked just as it should. The big draw back for the evening was having to strike everything after soundcheck. As big as the stage was, it wasn't going to be big enough for our stuff AND all the acts that needed the stage that evening, so down our rigs came.
We had several hours before we were due to hit the stage (our slot in the lineup was first after the intermission), so it was off to Chevy's for dinner... Then back again to catch the opening of LMS6 - specifically the Phenomenauts. Sci-Fi Rocket Roll indeed. I spent the rest of the first half of the show back stage in our dressing room, basking in the luxury of actually having some time to warm up and prepare - as opposed to our normal routine of hastily setting up, playing the set, then feverishly tearing down. As intermission came upon us, we readied our gear, rolling things into place behind the big red curtain... making the appropriate connections, loading the appropriate samples, and testing the appropriate instruments. Curtain up... We rolled.
The set went off great - no major train wrecks, at least. Though I did catch a drumstick to the head during JPTN. We'll have some video and photos to post soon... So check back shortly.
Set List: Intercepted Entropy
Ghost Curve
Icarus Aspect (new)
Accidental LoFi
Jack Palance the Ninja
LMS 6 went off extremely well... we had a great time playing at such a great venue. We'll have a proper report and some video posted as soon as we get this Death Ride thing out of the way. Speaking of which... we should be wrapping up the last of the cues in the next couple days... I'll post some samples as well if time allows.
Or is this early morning? Friday is ONE of the deadlines for getting this Death Ride soundtrack thing... I have to Fed Ex out about 500MB worth of stereo audio files down to LA for the post-production audio guys. But first I have to copy it from my dinosaur music-MAC to my slightly less-dinosaurian pBook so I can burn the CDs. This of course takes forever when you're actually sitting around waiting for it... Which is why I find myself with a spare moment to type this little ditty up. Anyway, I finished up two more cues today, which leaves only a handful to get done over the weekend so I can send out another CD on Monday.
That's another weekend devoured by Death Ride. This past week I've been working on a few music cues for the movie, but as the final edit had not yet been completed, there was only so much I could do... I was just doing some rough placement of music here and there. Given that the final locked picture was supposed to be in our hands on the 10th... I knew things were going to get a little backed up. Said locked picture arrived on DVD in FedEx at 10am Saturday morning... And since then its been scoring, scoring, and more scoring. With, or course, the occasional break for lucky charms, church, and barbecued tri-tip. Lawyer Lee (who is also one of the producers on the movie) stopped by late Saturday night for a sneak peek (can one peek at music? Or is that a squeak?) and seemed to be genuinely impressed. Ultimately 18 cues comprising rouhly 25 minutes of music were uploaded for reveiw... Almost 30 more to go. This should be an interesting week. We have to somehow figure out how to finish this score AND squeeze in a couple rehearsals for Saturday's performance at LMS.
So the mysterious, unnamed project is no longer unnamed. For the past couple weeks we've been working on the musical score for an upcoming film... DEATH RIDE. Shooting wrapped up last week, and we have until late April to deliver all the music. No problem, right? Read on for the official press release.
