Rock ‘N Roll Fantasy Camp – New York

After our wonderful trip to beautiful New Brunswick, Canada, where everything is green, and the Sabian Factory positioned right on a river, Bill and I fly into NYC! What a change!

So, neither of us had been to NY before and we definitely were overwhelmed at first. We stayed at the Marriott Marquis right in the heart of Times Square! Talk about, right in the middle of it all! That was the 29th when we arrived from Canada, in the morning. We had the rest of the day to venture a little, until we found out our rooms weren’t even ready until late afternoon. So, we napped in the lobby.

Later that day, a new addition to our team arrived into town, Skyler. He is based out of our Salt Lake office. We all went to eat.

The 30th began the venture of Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy Camp, which turned out to be quite the adventure in and of itself! Bill and I had video cameras, and Skyler had the digital still camera and we went to town! We covered a little of the progress of each of the bands, and more importantly, we were able to get a nice handful of interviews with the camp counselors. Here is a list of the counselors at the Camp in NY:

Spike Edney
Corky Laing
Alan White
Mark Hudson
Sandy Gennaro
Glenn Hughes
Simon Kirke
Larry Oakes
Gary Burr
Jane Wiedlin

In addition, we had some guests pass though:

Paul Stanley
Leslie West
Mark Farner
Paul Shaffer
Max Weinberg
Scott Ian
Bruce Kulick
David Letterman Horn Section

This made for a great place to be last weekend! Shuffling between 3 practice studios, thankfully, all within walking distance, and lugging our gear around, we got a lot done.

On the last night we did a full 3-camera shoot with full audio of the final concert at BB Kings, where each band played 12-mintes, usually 3 songs. At the end, the counselors all got up and played through a nice set of tunes! That video will be available soon!

In the meantime, enjoy the photo colliage of the camp! There are 6 galleryies posted here! Go through them! Enjoy them! You can click on the gallery to take you to the photo site where you can see them all a little easier, if you wish.

We should thank David Fishof, Producer of the event, and the lovely Camp Host, Elizabeth Vargas.

Enjoy the rest of the blog!

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DAY 1

DAY 2

DAY 3

DAY 4

DAY 5

DAY 6 (our day off in NY)