16,000 people braved the 98 degree weather to see Marilyn Manson, Bad Religion, the Offspring, Steve Aoki, Black Label Socity, De La Soul and a host of other bands. I was excited to finally do some work for my friend Dameon Guess who owns Jakprints, one the of the largest merchandising and printing companies in America. They were a sponsor of this years Sunset Music Festival and wanted to document the festival so asked me to make a video for them. I spent the day in the sun and had a great time, I got to snap some photos and video from the pit area and really enjoyed watching Wallpaper and our friends Street Drum Corps. throw down at the Roxy. I got to meet a lot of great people including the founder and Roxy owber Nick Adler and actor David Faustino from Married with Children who was there promoting his hip hop label. I got to see Nick and his legendary father Lou (who can often be seen sitting courtside at Lakers games next to Jack Nicholson) hanging out under the Roxy sign which was a quintessential LA moment.
The heat didn’t stop people from coming and having a good time and lucky we were able to escape some of the masses with VIP passes which was nice. Steve Aoki played a high energy set and they brought out a 300 pound birthday cake for him which he jumped into and Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker joined him for a few songs. By the time Marilyn Manson came onstage, I was beat from being on my feet all day filming, but the crowd was enthused but I felt like the performance the band gave was hollow and did not live up to some of the bands early shows that I got to see when I was much younger. I did enjoy the spectacle and had a great time editing the video. You can watch the video HERE. Jakprints is opening a West Coast branch so I am looking forward to shooting more events for them including Tarfest at the La Brea tarpits on Sept 22nd. Over and out!
