WBR AudioBlog

About 4:30AM traveling I-80 East Bound towards Park City and the Wasatch Back Relay Finish Line at City Park.

The Grey Effect's Drummer. They're a really cool local band- from Lehi, actually. You can check out one of their songs here: "Logan Upside Down."


And finally, Dave Peery on the...I think it's a slide guitar? Very cool stuff. Check out his music here: "Get What I Deserve." This is actually Peery Blues Project- but that's Dave on the guitar and vocals. Good stuff.

Wasatch Back Relay

Hey Everybody! It's been a while, but that's 'cause it's been a crazy summer. And now we're gearing up for the Wasatch Back Relay.

"What's the WBR," you ask? Well, not only is it one of the coolest events of the summer, but listen to this: It's a crazy 170 mile foot race from Logan to Park City to be ran in 24 hours! Teams of 12 runners each run and run and keep running. They started this morning (Friday) and will end sometime tomorrow (Saturday). Along the way there's music, stuff to buy, and other cool stuff like vans and reporters and runners and probably some snacks. Anyway, check out www.wasatchbackrelay.com for more info on the race--it's getting national attention and drawing runners from all over the country- and this is only it's second year. A very cool event.

In fact, maybe the coolest part is that you don't have to run in it to have fun. Come up to City Park in Park City (it's cooler up there) on Saturday and spend the day shopping, eating, and joining us at the finish line. The Grey Effect will be performing along with Dave Peery and we'll be doing the sound for 'em.

In fact, if you come see us at the sound booth, I've got a pair of tickets to The Flying Ace All-Stars Freestyle Big Air Show at Utah Olympic Park. Oh- and they're Pool Deck VIP passes. We'll be at the finish line from 6AM 'till 6PM, and the tickets will be first-come, first-serve.

The first runners should cross the finish line around 8am (keep in mind they started running on Friday), and the last around 5pm- Award ceremony will be at 6pm. Come say "Hi" if you make it up there!

We might even do an audio blog while we're running the board, so if you can't make it up to Park City, you might get to hear some of the music anyway- check back and we'll let you know.

Bravestock '05 and Country Weddins

When you combine the end of the school year with about 500 high school students, an outdoor stomp, and a couple of the best DJs in the Intermountain West, you pretty much get one of the highest-energy dances of the year-- and some ringing ears for the residents in the surrounding area. It was a beautiful sight. And sound.

Granted, it started out a little slow- it was still light when the dance started at 8. But once the sun went down, you couldn't keep a lid on the dance floor, (asphalt, parking lot...whatever you wanna call it) the rest of the night. I actually saw one guy trying to keep a lid on it, and it just didn't happen. I think he may have even suffered some minor injuries as a result. He got a goiter. And a newt. Very embarassing for all involved.

Nate posted the playlist down low, and I've finally gotten around to a few pictures and a blog entry. We really appreciate all of the support from the students all year and especially at their last stomp of the year. It was great to hear your compliments--and we hope the summer treats you as well as a fisherman treats his bait...or maybe as well as he'd treat his fishing rod or net or something. And as always, a big thank you to Amy Jones who's always supported us, and who's been an incredible asset to not only the student government, but also to the student body at BHS.

To round it all out we had two great weddings this week. A generous tip on the first, and a lucky garter at the second. Only time will tell which of those benifits is worth more.

Congratulations to Mark and Jaymie, and to McKenzie and Joe. We're real proud of you guys for loving someone and sticking to them...even if they are country music fans : ) Seriously though, we played over eight hours of pure country tunes for those weddings, just going to show you that we can make any event a PowerPlay event- that's right- even with country music involved. Some of you might know country tunes haven't always been our forte (pardon my French), but it was obvious from the folks at both of those weddings, the background and dancing at the receptions could not have gone better if Dolly had made an appearance herself. Those cowboys sure love to dance.

And no, we didn't play any Dolly Parton...but we did have a moment of silence just to show our respect for her and her courage (or misjudgement) to actually star in the movie "Straight Talk" back in '92. What a woman.