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Box 2739, Littleton, CO 80161 Colorado Music Buzz Magazine is published monthly by Colorado Music Buzz Magazine LLC (Publisher) and distributed to over 650 locations throughout greater Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, and surrounding areas. 6 July 2012 | ColoradoMusicBuzz.com Carol.” The hardcover is worth the buy, as it explains the importance behind using videos. “When includes artwork from Willie Matthews, Emmy you put someone on video, that’s when fans can winner, Greg Carr, and a few photos. It will be watch it. They feel closer to the person just being available exclusively at Twist and Shout and able to see them. It’s almost like you can know that Albums on the Hill in Boulder on July 7. If person through the video.” you want to access it online, it will be available on iTunes the same day, (if you buy the entire Besides music videos, Blurred Pictures has worked CD online, it will include the five bonus tracks.) on many promo videos for companies such as Beta There will be a free track on Chrisdaniels.com Nightclub, Regency Student Housing, and most on July 7, along with the CD release party at recently UFC’s Ring of Fire. Dodge explains how Swallow Hill in Denver; tickets are $15 or $13 they captivate a person on camera so clearly. “It’s for Swallow Hill members. It will be an incredible not so much trying to force a relationship that’s not show including some of the musicians that The Brains Behind there,” he says. “It’s more like we have a relationship Chris Daniels Releases played on the album. Tickets are available at with these people in some way, shape, or form Second Solo Album http://bit.ly/Chris-BetterDays byBlurred Steffanie Giesler already, and that’s why we want to work with them. By Torch [email protected] It’s kind of a natural progression already.” [email protected] Friends who joined Daniels in the studio include: Ernie Martinez (Dakota Blonde), Sam Bush Just north of downtown Denver sits an abandoned With many short videos completed, Blurred Chris Daniels is releasing his second solo Pictures took their first step toward film. This spring album of his 40-year music career, the first (as in the amazing), Jake Schroeder (Opie building. Multi-colored graffiti has marked the walls Gone Bad), Hazel Miller, Freddi Gowdy, with tag lines and spray-painted pictures. Broken they shot their first short movie, titled Sink, a thriller being The Juggler, from 1982, and now Better about a guy who wins the lottery and isolates himself Days. The album is more of an effort of a circle Bradley Kopp, Christian Teele, Greg pieces of wood and other neglected materials cover Garrison (Left Over Salmon and the Punch the ground. Some may label this area as a waste of by buying a hotel to deal with his own emotions and of friends joining Daniels on an unexpected psyche about winning. The goal of this film is to adventure in music. Better Days honors a Brothers), Kenny Passarelli (Elton John) space, but directors Christopher Dodge and Rosco Guerrero have just discovered a location for a music create a character piece amidst the thriller aspect so nostalgic past with songs like “El Dorado John Magnie (Subdudes), Molly O’Brien, it’s more than a genre piece. “We’re more interested Canyon” and “Better Days,” and drives through Lloyd Maines (Dixie Chicks and much more), video. in characters’ motivations,” says Guerrero. “What times of worry, with the heart wrenching “Sister Sean McGowan, Richie Furay (Buffalo makes someone do what they’re doing.” Delores,” when Daniels fought with leukemia, Springfield, Poco), Mary Huckins (Dakota Dodge and Guerrero, with the help of Daniel and all while holding on to his sense of humor Blonde), Tim Irvin (Flash Cadillac), Bill, Eric, Alvarez and Fredo Jones make up Blurred Sink was shot at a hotel in Estes Park during the through hospital hell with his campy jaunt, Kevin and John (Queen City Jazz Band), Pictures, a Denver-based production company off-season. A Kickstarter was used to raise enough “Medical Marijuana.” This album includes bits Clay Kirkland, and more! quickly becoming just as known for their creative money to shoot the film on a Red Epic camera, used of jazz (“Therapy”), bluegrass (“Old Man Das”), cinematography as for the emotionally driven videos in films such as Spider Man and the Hobbit. Along they produce. Blurred Pictures formed in 2010 country waltz (“Rose Colored Glasses”), and The fun continues from there, as Daniels and with all the learning curves of working on a film for yes, rock-n-roll with the fiery song “Wild Cat.” when Guerrero approached Dodge for help on a the first time, shooting became extra adventurous his son, Cedar Daniels, are making a video for local music video, Input’s song “Left for Dead.” In the song “Medical Marijuana” through Cedar’s because the hotel was being renovated at the time. The album has 15 tracks, and there are the last year and a half, they have produced music “Water mains would break and ceilings would just company Starrtree Productions. Look for it on videos for local artists including Input and Caleb five more songs on the bonus CD that is inside Youtube! be dumping water while we’re shooting” laughs the CD book. It includes four recordings from Slade, Della, Take to the Oars and Ape 9. Guerrero. “They’re having a catastrophe and we’re the extraordinary 1985 Bluegrass Festival having a brilliant moment.” in Telluride, with New Grass Revival friends Read CMB’s Interview with Chris Getting involved in the music scene came easily for John Cowan, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, and Pat Daniels on page 10 these two. “We relate to the music scene a great The trailer will be out early Fall, with the film to be Flynn, as well as one Christmas song, “Ila’s deal in our company already,” explains Dodge. “That debuted in October. Sink will hopefully hit the film sort of ambition, that sort of passion for the actual art festival circuit after that with Sundance in January, “The Blues-Rock Warrior” Warren Haynes or “The itself. If you go somewhere else it’s about something and South by Southwest in March. Extremist” Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. else. It’s about cliques, or about money or whatever.” The crew wants to follow up their August 2011 nine- This belief is apparent in the videos they’ve so far Keep an eye out for these gentlemen, as they have song freshman release, Secret Wars, which had the compiled. While each captures the talent of the many projects in the works, and a music video for stellar songs “Synesthesia” and “Paragon” (check project being filmed, there’s a compelling emotional Denver-darling Rob Drabkin. out the video Tyson put together on YouTube) with a element to each: Frustration, betrayal, loss that new album, and get the two new members on some really captures the story behind the song. Guererro Online:­­­ blurredpicturesstudios.com tracks. “We have a new album worth of material ready to present it to the public, so they jumped already compiled,” relays Cooley. “I think we’re on a few shows, not quite knowing what to Gang Forward ready to move it into the studio.” expect. Old Curtis Street gave the ladies their by Charlie Sullivan first show, opening for Number Station. They [email protected] Cooley has been handling most of the song writing received good reaction, had fun, and haven’t duties with Stindt and Furuya stepping up to the looked back since. “We realized that we just Wow, talk about an up-and-coming local act with an in- plate recently with their contributions.