Glock Guns

After my eventful show of breaking my finger, leaving me with a permanent 'giving the bird' it felt nice to be back in Las Vegas, which has began to feel like home for me since my boyfriend lives there. We had our next show luckily in Las Vegas. Yay! This actually turned into a 19 hour day, which was awful. But it turned out to be a pretty neat event.

Glock Guns hosted a dinner party for several high end clients. People were dressed to the T here. It was held in the Palazzo ballroom at The Venetian Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. a beautiful big room with chandeliers and high ceilings. There were a lot of tables set up and a few bars. There was a main stage for some music acts who we were hired to film. The first act was called Bella Strings. Four girls who played electric violins/bass instruments. Wow! I thought I was going to be bored, but they definitely put on a great opening act show. They played different remakes of songs from pop to old school rock.

The second act that performed was Party on the Moon.  These guys were phenomenal. They rocked the whole room and got everybody pumped! So glad I was able to see them. They also had special guest Andy Grammer for the "Honey I'm Good" song they did a remake to. They put on a great performance and I was loving being able to direct the show for them!

During the show Glock would take breaks to do giveaway prizes for some of the customers. They gave away Apple watches, Drones, a trip, a special engraved pistol, and even two Harley Davidson motorcycles! Apparently they know how to thank and take care of their customers!

Nothing too extreme happened during this show, oh except for these awesome pics. Haha their going to hate me!

 

Anyways the client was happy and the show was a success, unfortunately I didn't get to go home with a new gun, but there's always next time!

Monster Jam Louisville

Kentucky, the bluegrass state. Wrong. The grass is white, covered in snow! Louisville Kentucky is a very familiar place to me. As many of you know I use to live there when I was a young little nugget. Things have changed as I have gotten older but the southern feeling of the community definitely brings back some sweet sweet memories. Why am I here? Two words.

                                                                    MONSTER JAM! 

I was asked to direct a two day show in the Freedom Hall Arena in Louisville Kentucky on Jan 15th and 16th. I flew out there on the Tuesday before to set up. I had Luis (a fellow coworker) there to help me with the set up. 

It was freezing here! We had plenty of layers on as we worked through the days. Long days might I add! There were lots of changes for this show that made an easy 8 hour day turn into a 16. I have worked with FELD before (The company who owns Monster Jam/Supercross/Disney on Ice, etc.) so there were a few people I knew already but quite a few who I did not. So as most people would agree, not everybody can get along. 

Which leads me to my lovely story of Matt. Matt was hired for this particular show only. He was in charge of the Audio portion of the show (Speakers/Mics/Music). He is one of those guys with a bad attitude of he's the only guy there that matters, even though we all have to come together to make a show happen united. Anyways, I caught him trying to sneakily steal a roll of our Gaff Tape. Sounds lame, I know. But Gaff Tape is used to tape down cables so people don't trip and can actually be quite expensive. So I called him out. He threw it back at me with a bad attitude, knowing I just caught him, and it hit my finger wrong. SNAP. Broke it. Needless to say, I did not like Matt for the rest of the show or probably forever for that matter. 

The best the paramedics on site could do was this lovely stick and some tape. An interesting conversation starter to say the least. And boy was it difficult to work with this injury. Directing consist of using your fingers to press buttons. This made my life a whole lot harder, but I managed and pulled off two fantastic shows! 

It was a long trip, a lot of hours of work, no sleep, broken bones, sore body but it paid off in the end. 

On a side note, I was able to go visit Churchill Downs, where the Kentucky Derby is held as well as my old time favorite restaurant back east O'Charleys. Met a few good people on my 3 hour layover in North Carolina, and gained a lot of respect from some awesome people working for FELD. Overall the trip was a great success! Minus the broken finger. 

The Golden Boys

One beauty of my job is most undoubtedly the traveling aspect that comes with it. This past weekend I was asked to go to Laughlin, NV. One of my most worked/favorite weekend getaway places. A small little casino town located about an hour and a half South-East of Las Vegas. Definitely a old folk atmosphere, but none the less a great little town that also makes me feel like a hot and young rockstar. ;) The show that we filmed this weekend was called The Golden Boys. A 50's themed show with a few 50's era idols. I worked the show with three other coworkers (Gary, Ethan and Alyssa). I was asked to direct this show which I love doing so I was excited to work with this client. So when we arrived we began to set up the cameras and switching equipment. Because this is a smaller venue, we only used 2 cameras (operated by Gary and Ethan). Alyssa was sitting beside me line directing for me as well as rolling the videos that were provided by The Golden Boys manager.

I'm gonna try to make it a goal to come up with one funny/odd thing that happens at every show. So before the show was starting and the venue began to fill up with people I had to run to the bathroom. As I walked out the venue door towards the bathroom I passed an elderly gentleman (the Laughlin norm), looked at me and told me as well as the security guard that he was going to kidnap me when I left. Security guard did nothing. I looked at him and just said "oh wow". He looked back and me and told me he was offended I wasn't interested. EXCUSE ME?! I should be the one offended and scared for my life when I leave this place tonight! I brushed it off and went back to backstage where we wait before the show starts. 

Being born in the 90's, it's pretty obvious I'm not that up to date on the 50's music. Regardless I'm here to do a job and that's what I'm gonna do. The show began and The two acts went up on stage. The show was great and there were several songs I actually recognized. The infamous song 'Beauty School Dropout' off of the movie Grease was one of them. Frankie Avalon was one of the acts. And the age of 75 he is one great performer. At the end of the show he came off stage and took some pictures with several fans. After the fans died down he came and talked to Alyssa and I. He said he was shocked that we were running the show and noted how rare it is to find females in this field. We also got a picture with him. Definitely a confidence booster as well as a fantastic way to end the night. One of our smaller shows, but a great show packaged with a lot of compliments. I'm now writing this on the plane as I am flying to the next show. I'll give a hint of where it is. Louisville, KY. Any guesses of what show it is? Guess you'll just have to wait til the next one!

Beginning of 2016

I have been beyond grateful for what 2015 has given me.  In this past year I have had opportunities that I could only have dreamt of to come true. 

-Supercross in different States

-Monster Jam

-Fighter Pilot Test Ejections

-Several Championship Rodeos

-Went to Sema Show

-Went on a Cruise to the Caribbean

-Worked some Convention Shows

-Got to see Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan etc.

-Worked at several concerts (and enjoyed every second!)

-Went to NASCAR in Las Vegas

-Worked World of Outlaws Sprint Racing

-Worked at the National Hot Rod Drag Racing

-Went on a Cruise to Mexico

I have had one of the craziest years and I can't wait to see what 2016 has to offer me!

Stay tuned...