Just back from the Beautiful state of Oregon (I think our season of "fall" was invented there) and another design took place to reach the screens of our rock and roll friends!
Basically 20 bands will compete for a million dollar recording contract as well as many other prizes, and this stage represented the set for the new show called "The Chronicles of Rock". Three judges including "Enigma", you may notice his tattoo's and um..horns..definitely "Google image" him for sure, West coast "Sinaz" and Jamey Jasta of rock band "Hatebreed". The host is "Mistress Julia" from Fuse TV, as well as a model recently featured in Maxim Magazine, and yours truly designed and built the entire set in three days and three nights. The theme went from an elegant "Victorian" side where the judges sat and then slowly faded to an "Apocalyptic" hardcore scene where the bands stood under the flying death angles and grim reapers, armed to the teeth with enough 50 caliber rounds to level the playing field to just one band standing.
Supplies for the set were derived from old antique shops, fabric stores, local lumber mills, and much help from local musicians donating there instruments for me to...well burn, paint, step on, throw and attach to the walls as if they were being blown up and out from behind our host "Julia". She was not burned in the process though, lesson learned from the set of Michael Jackson. The bands were torn apart, then praised and basically told with strong, educated opinions that they sucked or were going to stick around and watch a cool million creep and crawl there way. Those who were touched by the black angels left the stage through a Gothic-like door and walked down a long, rainy, narrow brick alleyway to board their buses and vans and continue touring and keep..well bangin' heads.
Thanks to the School of Rock in Corvallis, Oregon for allowing the space to be taken over and owned by a bunch of mutants for a few days, we enjoyed pillaging and thrashing, while listening to the jam sessions of four to seventeen year olds jamming deep into the nights.
For a slide show, check out the link below the "Grim" picture and tell us what you think about a "dark, hardcore, psycho set" made specifically for a bunch of heavy metal heads. Perhaps this "Victorian" theme belongs in your living room and the rest of the set in your teenagers room upstairs? It's all loaded and ready for delivery! When would like me to show up?
Stay tuned for the next Epic Space!
Todd Davis
