Follow 2Jeds for New Utah Productions

In order for the local Utah music to develop its own sound and recognition nationally it is going to need to have audio and video productions that are interesting for music fans everywhere to hear, watch, and experience. This is why 2jeds Productions has pulled together a team of 5 partners along with almost 20 volunteers to cover the local events, shows, and festivals. With the professional quality audio alone 2Jeds could get some local bands some attention, but with all the media sourced 2Jeds have they can really get the local bands some material they can tour with around the country.

The event that 2jeds will do first to kick off the recently licensed company will be a website debut event that will feature several local bands, as well as having the website infrastructure organized and interesting to visit. This event will allow a few local bands to come into our mobile studio and play some music live over the website. The recordings will be done for free for this event and will be used for promotional purposes to help the business to obtain more music as well as show the world how quality our recordings are while taking pictures and a small amount of video for the lucky few bands we have picked.

All live recordings are being offered at a steal of a deal right now and shouldn’t go missed by any local bands who don’t have any live recordings made yet. We have been told our place in the local music scene is compared by none, and will be the source of getting local bands to be made national bands. All this has been a long time goal of mine, and 2Jeds Productions can finally work together to achieve this lofty goal. Any more information can be found at www.2Jeds.com or www.facebook.com/2jeds.

Always remember to support local music and art, unless you don’t like variety in your art both nationally and locally, because all national music started locally.

Local Festivals, Shows and 2Jeds.

Sundance Film Festival was the first big project 2Jeds has been a part of that has national interest. Now 2Jeds is looking to bring a national interest to the local talent through local festivals and events that are meant for a national scene to take a hold of like Desert Rocks and Uncle Uncanny’s. The next big project is going to be Desert Rocks music festival.

Desert Rocks has had five previous festivals including big names like Derek Trucks, Del The Funkee Homosapien, and The Alkoholiks. With these national bands being a part of the festival it has gotten national attention, but hasn’t been filmed or recorded to a point that has drawn the amount of attention it deserves. That is where 2Jeds Production is going to help this year, we are planning a full length DVD and full audio recordings of almost every band.

Uncle Uncanny’s is a festival that 2Jeds has been a part of in 2007, 2009, and will be a big part of this 2010 year. Last year we recorded a lot of the bands audio, and we have some pretty good film of a lot of local bands as well as a short story that hasn’t been produced yet. Before long 2Jeds will have a promo video for this year’s festival, as well as some mastered audio to be released within a couple months.

2Jeds is also covering a lot of local shows by recording audio and trying to get as many pictures and videos as possible. The recent recordings and some live bands will be broadcast on the website debut date May 1, 2010. If you can check the website www.2Jeds.com before then a couple small samples are up showing our past productions.

Utah's Own 2Jeds Production Company.

2Jeds Productions is a company who has just gotten their business license to be able to go out and record live local bands and broadcast a live feed of their show. Chaz Swanson, Rawb Maxfield, Tyson Costello, Jed Pearson, and I make up 2Jeds Productions and have seen a lot of great local talent that should not go unnoticed.

The goal of our company is to provide Utah local bands a way to get some recorded material to be able to show the public that has become aware of them. Throughout the years as a separated crew Jed Pearson and I have been out recording a lot of different bands at a lot of different events and venues throughout Utah. Tyson Costello and Rawb Maxfield have both been to quite a few of the same events helping us out. Some of these collaborative efforts have been local music festivals like Desert Rocks and Uncle Uncanny’s.

As time has gone on Chaz Swanson moved back from working in Mongolia and needed something to put his mind on besides work and family, so he thought he would see how he could help us out. Since then all five of us have joined to form the newest recording situation in Utah. Live local broadcasts online. We also are able to take quality photo’s and if sources are available video recording the live bands is also available. We have produced a couple short promo videos for the local festivals as well as recorded a huge portion of the music that has been performed at the festivals.

We are now looking to get some funding in order to do live video broadcasts in house and possibly on the web soon. This production company is hopefully Utah’s new way to enter the nationwide music scene through local means.

Marinading at The Hogwallow

Last weekend was another great event that showed how talented the Utah music scene is. At The Hogwallow on Friday a local band named Marinade was playing some blues, with a taste of jazz and reggae mixed in. The local scene was represented well as people kept showing up with a short line forming outside the door.

As the show began it was just the band themselves playing some of their own music, as well as a few cover songs mixed in. The crowd started off along the outskirts of the bar as they got drinks and pitchers of beer. As the night went on the crowd started to fill in the middle dance area and started to move a bit. It wasn’t until the trombone player from the band Groundation started to jam with the band that the crowd really started to dance and move with the tunes.

When the trombone was brought out by Groundation’s Kelsey Howard, then the crowd really got into the music and started getting down. The band was able to play a couple covers with Howard, but then even got into one their own original songs with a long enough jam session for Howard to learn the parts. This was an epic point of the night. After the first set I was excited that the show was being recorded so I could later go back and listen to it.

2Jeds Productions was there recording the show and were supposed to be broadcasting it online. The problem was The Hogwallow didn’t have a wireless router working so the internet was unavailable to the crew. These shows that are being recorded by the 2Jeds will one day help the music scene in the area become more and more recognizable to the rest of the country.

The second set was just about as good as the first, with just a couple more cover songs in it. I am sure the covers were better to have Howard come and join the jam whereas originals are harder to learn because usually special guests have never heard them before. This was one great way to spend the beginning of the weekend Marinading at The Hogwallow.

Spring Time Shows

The newest on the music scene has been a few shows over the last couple weekends. Wisebird out of Austin and The Naked Eyes from Ogden had one of their best shows ever downtown last weekend.

As the night drew near and very few people were setting up at an underground event center in downtown Salt Lake City, I was surprised to see that Wisebird was already sound checking almost three hours early. With the time being almost 7:00 pm I had stopped by to see what the situation was looking like. It was good to see the Desert Rocks crew together to setup a much smaller production that I knew was also going to be recorded and broadcast.

The fans and supporters started arriving at about 9:30 to see their local heroes come back home from Austin, Texas to play a show with Ogden’s original The Naked Eyes who have recently moved to Salt Lake City. As the small venue filled with people the music was beginning to pick up with Brian Thunder taking the stage for a solo performance as a singer songwriter. The end of Brian Thunders set was a good transition to let The Naked Eyes takeover for the next hour or so.

By the time The Naked Eyes finished their set the room was not only full of people, but almost half of them were dancing to the local indie rock. Now the event really seemed to be going off with everyone having a good time and good music being played. The Naked Eyes play some unique music with some new age sound mixed with an old school tone and interesting noises. Once they were done with their set it was almost midnight so Wisebird still had about two hours to play.

When Wisebird got their started the crowd was nice and ready to hear the band that started off in Salt Lake City and Moved to Austin. It has been a few months since they have played their home town and it was Will Webster’s birthday who is their guitarist. With Wisebird happy to be home and the crowd happy to see them back they played one of the best shows the home crowd has seen.

With bands like Wisebird and The Naked Eyes as well as solo artists like Brian Thunder who come from the Salt Lake City and Ogden areas, it makes for a good music scene.

February 19, 2010 at The Hotel 3 more bands played. This time when I walked into the room there were quite a few more people hanging around on the lower level. The next thing I noticed was that the crowd wasn’t just the regular Salt Lake City crowd, there were a bunch of people I recognized from Ogden and Park City too.

The first band to play was a Salt Lake band called Velvetones, the next band Ulysses had Ogden roots with Rick Gerber on keys, guitar, and vocals. The last band was Junior and Transportation how are from Park City and Ogden. Once all this became apparent I then could tell why the second floor of The Hotel was so much more interactive with the live artists and the lower floor was so much more packed than the first week.

Velvetones started things off with some bluesy rock which got some 12 bar blues going on for a bit. Ulysses followed , after the crowd established itself as a full flowing 2 story hotel party, they laid down some unforgettable tracks that were later heard from the recording engineers. The indie rock that Ulysses plays is dramatic and unique to the scene. Junior and Transportation finished off the night with almost everyone left standing and dancing to the southern jam rock.

Even I couldn’t help but move till the last note was played because of the quality performance from local talent. The local live scene presented at these local events are not to be compared to much else.

Whats been happening?

Local live music, aerialists on a silk cloth and trapeze hanging from the ceiling, and watching a painting or sculpture being created is what has made The Hotel the new place to spend your Friday nights. February 12, 2010 was the first of weekly live music events at the bar and nightclub The Hotel.

As I entered the nightclub I made sure to head up the stairs just to the left of the door, this was where the newly formatted live music events were said to be. Walking up the stairs was dark and mysterious as the sound of live music slowly grew in volume. A small charge was paid just before seeing who the music was coming from. At first glance was a crowded room of dancing people and slightly above the crowd was a trapeze with a woman dancing to the sounds of a band named Dirty Blonde. As I pushed through the crowd to the bar and get a drink, I noticed even the cost of drinks were lower than usual.

The event didn’t just stop at the bar, as I wondered the place even more there were a second set of stairs leading to a balcony overlooking the local band. This is a circus of live local art, music, and dancing Daniel Delano, a local music fan, said on the way up the stairs. On the balcony about half a dozen artists were setup and painting, sculpting, and drawing where the crowd could watch local art while listening to it also. These live music and art events are going on every Friday night starting at 9 p.m.