-CAROLINE BLUE is one of several bands that have been named as being included on the “Fallen Angels” movie soundtrack. For more on the “Fallen Angels” movie, please click HERE.
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9/30/2010-SOUNDTRACK-CAROLINE BLUE Announced To Be On “Fallen Angels” Movie Soundtrack
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9/15/2010-MILESTONE-CAROLINE BLUE Nominated In The 2010 USIA Awards-Please Vote!
-CAROLINE BLUE has been nominated in the Rock & Roll Original Band category for the 2010 Upper State Independent Awards (USIA) in Syracuse, NY. Please cast your vote for CAROLINE BLUE! Click HERE to vote. Voting ends on October 31 and the awards will be presented on November 6.
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Tagged 2010 Upper State Independent Awards, caroline blue, Milestone, ny, Rock & Roll Original Band, syracuse, USIA, wayne w johnson, wwj
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9/5/2010-MILESTONE-WWJ Represents CAROLINE BLUE At MDA Telethon
-At this year’s MDA Telethon, WWJ & CNY band Stix & Stonz were on a small segment that was filmed via the local Syracuse MDA Chapter. Pics & recap from this can be seen on the CAROLINE BLUE MY SPACE PAGE and the CAROLINE BLUE FACEBOOK PAGE. To make a donation online, please click HERE.
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8/30/2010-MILESTONE-CAROLINE BLUE In The Third Round-People’s Choice Awards
-CAROLINE BLUE is in the 3rd round-which ends Wednesday. Please help us get to the next one! Click HERE to vote. You can vote once per day-thank you!
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8/22/2013-MUSIC VIDEO-CAROLINE BLUE Music Used In Casting Call Video By Hewitt Films
–HEWITT FILMS just released a casting call video for it’s upcoming movie ‘Transformation.” The CAROLINE BLUE song “Deny” is played thru out the video. Click HERE to see it.
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Tagged Brian Hewitt, caroline blue, Casting Call, Deny, Hewitt Films, music video, Transformation, wayne w johnson, wwj
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8/21/2010-MILESTONE-CAROLINE BLUE Now In Second Round Of People’s Choice Awards
-CAROLINE BLUE has advanced to the 2nd Round in the People’s Choice nomination at The Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMY’s). Thank you all so very much for your votes. Click HERE to vote. Remember-you can vote once per day. Please keep voting & sharing this everyone-it’s most appreciated!
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8/12/2010-WRITE UP-WWJ Interviewed By Mark Bialczak For The Post Standard
-Following on the heels of the video shoot of “Stay” Monday, I also-on the same day-did an interview with Mark Bialczak, music editor for The Post Standard. Click HERE to read it.
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8/9/2010-MUSIC VIDEO-“Stay” Live At The Post Standard Building-Syracuse, NY
-On Monday, 8/9/2010, I went down to The Post Standard Building in Syracuse, NY with Azriel Mordecai (ZADOC…& THE NIGHTMARE). I was interviewed by Mark Bialczak-the music editor of The Post Standard-and me & Az did an acoustic version of “Stay.” Also included was guest drummer “Chachi.” 🙂 Click on the link below to watch the video. Under that is my recap of the day’s events.
STAY PERFORMED AT THE POST STANDARD
8/9/2010-“Stay” Live @ The Post Standard Building-Syracuse,NY
Current mood: busy
Category: Music
Music Notes Performance: Caroline Blue
-This started off in an interesting way. On Facebook I was looking at the Status Updates and saw Mark Bialczak-music writer for The Post Standard (newspaper in Syracuse, NY) & Syracuse.com-had posted an update on a band performing on his “Music Notes Performance” series. While I did have an interest in having CB in this series, I also contacted Mark because I wanted to know if I could rent out the white room he was having the bands perform in-that is needed for a planned music video shoot I have.
(BTW-if anyone knows and/or has access to such a place and it can be rented on the cheap-please let me know).
-Anyway, I contacted Mark and he told me all the details involved in this. A small interview and then 1 song performed acoustically. Out of all the CB songs, “Stay” lends itself to that the most-although I did toy around with doing another song-just for something different. In the end, we ended up w/ “Stay” with a slightly different take than the studio version. There’s a different intro, I sing it softer (and IMHO better) and there’s no solo. Without a 2nd guitar or the use of distortion, there was too much of a dropout when I went from rhythm to lead.
-Anyways, I asked Azriel Mordecai (Zadoc…& the Nightmare) to join me on this one. He brought along a “special guest” drummer-Grover-who I nicknamed “Chachi” for this performance. I took a 1/2 day off from work, got ready and drove down to The Post Standard building. After trying to get into the visitor’s parking lot a few times , we all got together and went inside.
-As we were getting ready, Mark asked some questions for the interview. Between me and Az, bad jokes were running amok in here 🙂 I think we scared the videographer, Ellen, numerous times. (HA). All in good fun though.
-We ran thru it once and it came out great except for one thing-my vocal wasn’t loud enough per say. We weren’t mic’d like in a live performance-everything was being captured by the camera’s mic. So we did it again, with me working to increase the volume-which I did-but it didn’t come out as good as the 1st take. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t as “sweet” (Ellen’s words) than the 1st take. Also, I believe Az’s bass was louder in the 1st take. “Chachi’s” performance was constant thru out 🙂 We also found out something interesting about him at the end of the song 🙂
-After listening to the play back, we decided to go w/ the 1st one. In addition, we did a bit part at the end and the 1st time it was good but the 2nd time it was kinda flat. It didn’t have the spontaneity . So it’s the 1st one. In both takes I had issues w/ my hair wanting to cover up my face while playing.
-Then a photographer-Michelle-was brought in and took several shots of me & Azriel. We were told that there would be a pic in Thursday’s Weekend (comes with the Thurs. Ed. of The Post Standard) and the video would be up by that time as well. In addition to Mark’s site, there will be an embedding code so we can put it anywhere.
-I want to say thanks to Azriel for playing on this and Tracy Mordecai for taking pics of this-as well as getting “Chachi” primed for this :). Thanks also to Mark, Ellen & Michelle for all of this-we had a great time & we hope you guys did too 🙂
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Tagged Azriel Mordecai, caroline blue, Chachi, Grover, Mark Bialczak, music video, ny, stay, syracuse, The Post Standard, wayne w johnson, wwj, Zadoc...& The Nightmare
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8/2/2010-MILESTONE-CAROLINE BLUE Nominated For People’s Choice Award (SAMMY’s)
-CAROLINE BLUE has been nominated for the People’s Choice award at The Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMY’S) site. Voting goes on till 10/6/10 and you can vote once per day. Go to HERE to vote. Thanks to all who have already voted-it’s most appreciated!
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7/1/2010-PHOTOS-Pics From “Stay (Paid The Electric Bill Mix)” Music Video Shoot Now Available For Viewing
-Those of you who enjoyed the “Pain” music video might be interested to know that more videos based on the songs from “Not For The Innocent” are being filmed. The next one to be released will be “Stay (Paid The Electric Bill Mix)”-which was filmed at various locations in CNY on 3/15-5/30-6/27/2010. Check them out on the CAROLINE BLUE FACEBOOK PAGE and the CAROLINE BLUE MY SPACE PAGE. We will let you know as soon as the video is fully edited and available for viewing. Below is my recap of the filming…
-I was originally going to have this one done towards the end of the group of music videos we’re doing, but things change so you have to go with it. Once again I teamed up w/ Ron Bonk from SRS CINEMA LLC-he made our last video “Pain” and will be on board for several more videos currently in pre-production. Also in this video is my girlfriend Jennifer Gall.
-The story line basically goes like this. I’m outside wandering around-lost in thought about a past love. Suddenly, it’s like I see her all around me, yet whenever I get closer, she’s gone. I keep wandering till I get to a place-her place. I look inside & see her & I smile. That quickly fades when her new love enters the room. I’m crushed and walk away.
-The 1st shoot took place on Monday 3/15/2010 in an area behind Patty Trombino ‘s place. Originally I’d envisioned snow on the ground when coming up w/ this video and a week before the shoot it was still snowing off & on. Various reasons for delay prevented shooting earlier in the year. But that weekend before the shoot, the weather started to warm up rapidly-to the point that, on Monday, most of the snow that was around had melted. The area we shot the video looked kinda like a dead forest so we worked with what we had.
-For the most part, things ran smoothly-at least till the end. One funny moment-which did get caught on Ron’s camera-was when I was walking towards Jen and I tripped & fell! We’ll have to get that on a blooper reel or something. At the end, part of the story involved a photo catching on fire. I didn’t have any lighter fluid so I brought rubbing alcohol-which didn’t help much. I don’t know how many attempts were made to set them on fire. Good thing I brought a lot of extra pics! As you can see from the pics, I did have some fun moments while Jen was trying to light the photo on fire (HA!).
-Probably the most memorable part of the shoot was walking around in the mud-our boots were soaked! I still have residue mud on my boots. We were actually going to shoot a lot more than we did, but we ran out of time.
-The 2nd shoot was done on Sunday 5/30/2010 (see how long these can take?) Scheduling & stuff you know….This was at Ron’s place. This was the part where I see Jen with her new guy. An interesting twist is that the new guy is a more “domesticated” version of me! It’s actually something I’ve had an issue with in the past w/ certain people-almost like a “domesticated WWJ” vs. the “rocker WWJ.” thing. Just a little bit of symbolism in there…..
-This went by fairly quickly. BTW-the book Jen is reading is the Karma Sutra (Woo Hoo-HA!). Ron’s puppies were a surprise addition in the shoot. Course, to have continuity, I had to wear a heavy leather jacket and a hoody like in the last shoot-only this was now the end of May. It wasn’t as hot as I’d anticipated. Like a knucklehead, I forgot to bring my jacket so I had to borrow Ron’s. I got to do some acting with the faces I made & I hope I pulled it off.
-The 3rd shoot took place on Sunday 6/27/10 in a park at 7 AM. That’s right-7 AM. This was more just some filler scenes and things went by pretty quick. Both me & Ron commented that we have a lot of footage for a 3 minute song. We might have to make a couple of different versions of it 🙂
-No real complications here-except that at times it was hard to hear the boom box and I got 4 mosquito bites-including one on my forehead while we were still filming! Nice huh?
-So the filming is done and now comes the editing. Once that’s done and paid off, we’ll show it off. Big thanks to Patty Trombino for letting us film in her back yard; to Ron Bonk for all his work & expertise and to Jennifer Gall for her patience & performance in all this.
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