Okay, so starting today I start putting up my Sundance shots. I probably have 4 or 5 galleries of this stuff and then we will be close to caught up with everything.

Other than The Boxmasters stuff I posted already I saw quite a few bands/artists at Sundance. In this set I posted photos of David Archuleta from American Idol sound checking (I left before he actually played), Computer from Three Six Mafia doing stand up (What?!), Reeve Carney, Broadway singer/songwriter Stew, and female singer being presented in live 3D!

Okay, let me explain some of that. Computer from Three Six Mafia showed up at this art gallery. I was told it was going to be the whole band, but when the day came around it was just him. The poster said “Computer from” in small letters and “Three Six Mafia” in huge letters with a picture of the whole group. He came out doing stand up which was the most awkward thing I have ever heard. The sound was so bad and everyone was talking over him. His jokes could not have been worse. It was the most sublimely surreal thing I have ever seen. I just felt like I could not be enjoying anything more ironically. The girl I brought with me was losing her mind, I kept telling her how great it was. I only remember one of his jokes. “So who here is from Salt Lake City? Oh, no one? I guess I will tell this anyway. In SLC there is a store called “Top Shop”. That is a little to close to “Top Cop” for me. I don’t like cops.” Seriously, I am not making that up. After that they played an iPod for 20 minutes and he came back on and did one of the worst live performances I have ever seen or heard in my life. I couldn’t make it through one song. You can probably blame the bad sound system for some of it, but the emotionless delivery of horrible music did not help either. Let’s just hope he does not have a Google Alert for his name and decides he wants hurt me in some way.

The night before at the same art gallery they had a woman singing, I unfortunately did not catch her name, while being filmed in 3D. The gallery was promoting 3D Television, so this old man was filming her with a 3D camera and it was showing up on a giant TV in live 3D. Only about 10 people had 3D glasses on, but I am sure you can get the idea, since you are in fact seeing her live in front of you already. I shot several photos of the contraption that was filming her and the excited old man running around touching gizmos.

The two enjoyable performances were Reeve Carney and Stew. Reeve played at the after party for Ashton Kucher’s new movie Spread. I guess he has music on the sound track and he did a solo performance after a toast by Ashton. It was pretty great, everyone was into it. Demi Moore was filming the whole thing and Alan Cummings sort of fell in love I think. I talked to Reeve after the show and he was pretty upset because his guitar had some feed back issues, but I thought it actually added to the sound. The next night I saw this guy Stew and his band play. Stew had a musical on Broadway called Passing Strange that Spike Lee retold for film. The movie was at Sundance and Stew gave a performance at the after party for the Sundance 25th Anniversary dinner. Stew was pretty hilarious and everyone in the audience was really digging it. I talked to Elizabeth Reaser from Twilight and she told me she had seen Passing Strange on Broadway and loved it. Kevin Bacon and Peter Gallager were hanging out in the back and left as soon as he was off stage so you have to imagine they were fans too.

Okay, that was a pretty long blog for some pretty uninspired band shots, but you can see that for yourself if you click here.

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