Music

New Greenfoot Gigposter – Signatures Night Club

Jeromey Balderrama

I know what you’re thinking (especially at 11pm on Friday night), if I was already going to break my daily blogging commitment.  Well fear not, faithful reader.  I was crafting a longer post regarding sports commentators, but I’ll make that Saturday’s post.  My wife and I left immediately after work to Copper Mountain, here for my brother-in-law’s wedding reception.

Aside from the travel and family time, here is what was keeping me from blogging this evening – a new Gig Poster for Greenfoot’s show at Signature’s Night Club next weekend:

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I decided to go with something that looked a little more simplistic, yet attempting to be eye catching.  The specs of black and white on Jake’s shirt and guitar are meant to be more abstract rather than me not coloring them in.

Yes, I realize that I’m not in the poster. Aside from my hesitance to have my face plastered across Denver, I thought that vectoring the drum set would have added too much noise to the poster.  I would definitely welcome any feedback!

Hey, if you’re in the Denver area and would like to spend an evening listening to great music, come out and check out my band on Saturday!  Get all of the details here.

Vegas Michael Jackson tributes

Jeromey Balderrama

One of the interesting things about traveling during tragedy is seeing the local reaction, especially in a tourist trap like Vegas.  You see a lot of people trying to use their resources to try to pay homage to Michael Jackson.  Two of which I captured and wanted to share.

Bethany and I went down to one of our favorite Vegas spots – Fremont Street – the night after Jackson died.  Freemont has these light/laser shows that they run across their room.  This evening’s show was simple, showing images of Michael Jackson’s album covers while playing “Gone Too Soon” from his Dangerous album.

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The second image that caught my eye was at the Venetian on Friday night.  When you travel up the moving walk ways, you got past a wax museum that has representations of many celebrities.  The museum folks put out their statue of Michael Jackson on the main display, which resulted in many people laying down flowers by the wax Jackson.

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I’m not sure what to make of that one, but definitely shows that everyone responds to grief in their own way.

Another day the music died

Jeromey Balderrama

My cousin put it best when she Twittered those words about Michael Jackson.  I just saw the news over Twitter when we took a rest on our Honeymoon in Vegas this afternoon.  We’re both in shock about this.

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I guess now we’re going to be subjected to this wall-to-wall coverage where the media is going to speculate – in some cases widely and inappropriately – on his death, but I’d much rather think about his life at this point.

This guy wrote the book on much of the modern music, especially with Pop and the way he danced.  Boy Bands like N’Sync and Backstreet Boys need to attribute all of their moves to him.  This afternoon the Wynn kept showing these commercials for Beyonce’s upcoming concert, and I couldn’t help but think about how many of those moves are influenced by Michael Jackson.

I think as we gain some distance from Jackson’s death and contemplate his life, many may end up seeing him the same way we see Vincent van Gogh: An artist that transcended his craft and likely is so talented that he became crazy.  Michael Jackson’s life may be seen as a Greek tragedy, a figure where you wonder if the people closest to him really cared about him – or simply saw him as a meal ticket.

How very sad.. I’m queuing up a Michael Jackson playlist on my iPod right now.