Mike Rock "Mary" live.

Check out Mike Rock's "Mary" performed live at Lucy's Lounge in Pleasantville, New York.

 

Performed on January 12th, 2012 - one of the great nights of music at Lucy's when so many musicians showed up that they had to cut the number of songs from the normal 3 per person down to 2.  We hope to be finishing a few more clips from the the night if time allows.  Many more projects are coming up and we are having a great time trying to pull this all off.  It has been a great workout, both physically and technically as we try to jam all this into our schedule.  

As I look back at the blog and the flymusicman project to date, I get this strange feeling that it is the most important thing I have ever done -- very cool.  

 For some behind the scenes info on the production of "Mary", check out FLYfx Tutorials' post on it. 

Stay tuned for more local music! 

Back to back nights o' fun.

Wow have we had some fun!  Check out our facebook page to see all the photos and HD frame grabs from some of the music going on here in Westchester.

And we are just getting started!

We are loving the Canon 60D - it is really making some gorgeous images.  And with the announcement of the Canon 5D MIII a few days ago, buying the low cost 60D to get started was a great idea - big shout out to the fine folks at Able Cine for helping us make the right choice.

Oh what a night!

Wow.  I don't know what it was but Lucy's Lounge was full-tilt boogie this last Monday night at Open Mic.  We were lucky enough to be there with our cameras and it was magical.  Our new Canon 60D HD footage really looks incredible.  Some of the people had been there before but many were new to us - and the pressure was on for these musicians as our cameras were suddenly crawling all over them.  The team posted much of the raw-footage on private youtube links for approval and we hope to be posting at least a few videos from the night soon.

Tonight, while we waited for the high-sign, we took a trip over to the Duck Inn, in Mamaroneck NY to hang out with Dave and the jammers - a tasty set of Zeppelin ended the night.  I gotta say, it rocked - very hard.  Big hug to my new friend Maria.  Here are a few stills from the Duck Inn from the 60D.

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Buried In Blue Promo Clip

Check out the latest clip from FlyMusicMan and FLYfx.  Tom Dowd's band, "Buried In Blue" is a local favorite around here and this clip is a snippet from a magical night at Pete's Salloon in Elmsford, NY here in Westchester - or as we like to call it, Freshchester.  Enjoy this tasty sampling of Buried In Blue!

This clip was cut exclusively from footage shot with our new Canon 60D with a 50mm 1.4 lens.  We had two other cameras rolling, our old friends the Canon Vixia and the trusty GoPro2 but decided to go with a "film style" (one camera) type of edit to create this montage using just the 60D - because the 60D footage just looks so darn good.

A great website for Musicians.

Hey y'all,

Check out this website:  http://www.musicthinktank.com/ - I subscribed to their daily email updates and I gotta say, they are jam packed with useful tips for the working musician.  I highly recommend it - I love the daily email.  Check it out!

And if you want to linger on the site you can find literally hundreds of things to read and learn.  Tips on everything from using social media to recording tips to legal issues.  Enjoy!

The response has been incredible!

We just wanted to give a shout out to all the local musicians that have been so incredibly enthusiastic about what we are doing.  It is quite frankly surprising how interested and excited everybody has been about  the raw footage clips and selected HD stills we have brought back to the venues where they were captured.  We look forward to finding out where this journey will take us and could not be more excited about the response!  We are truly grateful and we feel very blessed to have been accepted so openly.  Thank you all so much!

Here's a handful of stills from our HD video cam, a Canon VIXIA HFG10.

SEE YOU SOON!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Chris Fox & Mojo Monde - New Video!

Hey Everybody!

Here is the latest contribution from flymusicman - a new video for Chris Fox & Mojo Monde featuring Mike Bram on drums.  We had a hard time letting this one go - it was too fun and we wanted to keep tweaking but Monday morning was approaching fast and we had to get back to the real world.  We hope you enjoy watching this as much as we enjoyed making it.

Special thanks to Lucy's Lounge in Pleasantville, NY for letting us shoot there and to our good friend Artesia for letting us use her camera - and extra special thanks to ALP Productions for bringing in their big cameras to round out our 6 camera shoot of this amazing night of music.

Stay tuned for more videos, tips and behind the scenes stories as we continue our journey here at the flymusicman blog.