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The Sunset Strip Music Festival concluded with over 12 hours of live music on Saturday, August 28th. The final celebration featured over 100 bands performing throughout the day and evening, all within three blocks of the fabulous Sunset Strip. We were lucky enough to be part of the festivities by tagging along with our sponsored band, Audible Mainframe. Holy cow, what an experience!!!

The Viper Room Media Lounge

The morning started in the Viper Room Media Lounge where 98.7FM was putting on interviews with the likes of Slash, Neon Trees, Smashing Pumpkins, Travie McCoy, Nikki Six and Semi Precious Weapons.

Travie McCoy

Billy Corgan

Audible Mainframe had a radio segment interview & acoustic performance (which of course they killed), followed up by interviews from some of the top publications like Rock.com, Young Hollywood, Neon Tommy & LA Weekly, to name a few. They were looking so sharp rocking Fyasko gear. (Thanks guys for always being a huge support!)

98.7 Interview

Waking the crowd up at the Viper Room

Neon Tommy

LA Weekly

Rock.com

Next, we walked over to the West Stage to get a good spot for Slash, the 2010 Sunset Strip Music Festival honoree. His recent solo record has received fantastic reviews, and with good reason. It’s terrific and showcases a wide array of talent on vocals that range from Fergie to Ozzy Osbourne. Handling vocals for this live performance was Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge.

Sweet Child O' Mine

The King of the Festival, with signature top-hat, was nothing less than outstanding this evening. We heard a selection of Guns N’ Roses material, including “Night Train”, “Rocket Queen”, and “Sweet Child O’ Mine”. We also heard the Velvet Revolver tracks “Dirty Little Thing” and “Slither” as well as the lead single off Slash’s solo record, sung by Myles Kennedy, “Back From Cali.”

Fergie with Slash

Watching Slash play the solo to “Sweet Child O’ Mine” was surreal. He nailed it and the audience of thousands went wild. After this song and a short set break, Slash was joined by Fergie for the encore, where they closed with the quintessential GNR track “Paradise City”. Ridiculous performance, all around.

Sweet Guitar Solo

After a little homage to our headbanging years, we disappeared to a little VIP section (which was surprisingly undiscovered & a sanctuary from the crowd) where we sat to eat, drink and be very merry. The AMF crew even had a little adventure on the catering cart, when they set off onto Sunset Blvd to load up their equipment for the evening’s performance at The Roxy.

Walking to VIP

With a little help from my friends...

Equipment? Check!

Before Audible Mainframe went on, we ran over to see the Smashing Pumpkins close out the West Stage with a show that adequately covered the band’s extensive career. Well, Billy Corgan was on his best behavior this evening. There weren’t any tongue lashings towards anybody in the crowd that we could hear and they played a good show.

Smashing Pumpkins

Say what you want about Billy Corgan, but you cannot deny the fact that Smashing Pumpkins produced some timeless music throughout their career. Billy even gave a nice tribute to The Strip towards the end of the band’s set, and thanked everyone for coming and celebrating one of the greatest live music scenes in the world.

Expo getting hyped before the show

Dave doing work Backstage

After a massive cheer from the audience, we ran furiously to The Roxy so that the Band could set up and we could get our prime real estate for front row center. It wasn’t long before the club filled up and we were shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of Audible Mainframe’s fans.

A Die Hard Fan

AMF gave off a high energy performance with body-moving beats, intelligent lyrics and an incredible stage presence. Its obvious that there is an undeniable bond between the bandmates. They even received compliments from the headlining acts, Zen Robbi & Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds. Can we say collaboration??

Expo in the Ecstasy Tee

Brass

Repping Fyasko

A Special Blend

You want beats?

Show Time

My Jungle Love

After the band finished their set and was met with rowdy applause, we walked back out into the early morning with huge smiles on our faces. The Sunset Strip was already my favorite part of Los Angeles, but this festival made me love it even more. We defy anyone to name a better music scene, at least one that is condensed along just a few city blocks, like The Strip. Los Angeles gets a lot of flack, and sometimes for the right reasons, but they get huge points here. There really isn’t anyplace like the Sunset Strip in the entire world.

The Landmark Roxy Theater