BFT and me... our trip to a movie set!!

SO I like to search on Craigslist (pretty much every day) to look for freelance job opportunities or good deals, and I came across a post looking for musicinas to be extras in a movie... It is a film students thesis film... I responded to the post to inquire about what style of music they need people to mime and some other details... The response I got was 'Elvis style and some modern stuff' so I said 'Great, I'll bring my upright!!' I took BFT to Jerry's Nugget, a small locals casino on Las Vegas BLVD in North Las Vegas.... THe setting was the lounge, I was wearing black slacks and a white button-up shirt, they gave me a red bow-tie to wear and popped on the song, a boppin' birthday song in the style of Elvis (obvious licensing issues with using a real Elvis song) and it was really easy to learn (not that we needed to play the actual song, I'm just a bit of a perfectionist, I guess. Everybody was impressed with BFT, said that it was just what the shot needed and also that it was just pretty cool in general, so that is a good indicator of the general public's reaction (I leave BFT propped up in the middle of the stage when we are done playing, so anyone coming to the venue will see it and maybe they'll be interested enough to check us out that night...) so we played the song a bunch of times, about 4 different camera angles, multiple takes, but it was cool. then we got on our normal clothes for the other song, a modern singer-songwriter tune.... it goes along with the storyline somehow.. and jammed along with that track a bunch of times. It was a fun experience!

I also had the opportunity to talk to the lounge manager about my band, Nasty habits... I 'just happened' to have a packet with me and I approached her with it after I was done all of the shots the band was in... We went right back into her office and she popped the CD in, I wento over sets and song lists with her, so hopefully we can get some work out of that contact! It is a neat little lounge, very 'Old Vegas' style! We'll see!!!!