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In 2005, I blundered into the wierd and wonderful virtual world of Second Life. Along the way I mutated into a dragon, met a host of extremely creative people and rediscovered myself as a musician. In all, a great experience that has opened a whole new chapter of my life.
After an initial year of misadventures, I started doing live music performances in Second Life. Starting out as a solo performer, my act has evolved to a virtual band and allowed me to experiment with stage design as well!
Not being particularly photogenic, I never kept much of a photographic record of my shows. The photos I have aren't all that great but give you an idea of the road I've traveled. And so, with no further ado, here is a brief pictorial history.
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My first Second Life show in May 2006 hosted by Slim Warrior at her music-themed sim, Menorca. She approached me to do a show in April 2006. It would be another month before I was ready and rehearsed to actually get out in front of an audience. At the time I hadn't played anything for a few years and was in a terrible trough of despondency. What followed turned my life around and got my mojo going again. Thank you Slim!
The sound quality was terrible as I was streaming the sound directly from my home to everyone in the audience. I had so much to learn about webcasting live music.
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Here's a photo of a show I did in November 2006 at my place at Serenity Woods, a region I helped to build in Second Life. At this point I was still perfoming on my own but that was soon to change.
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All change! I am joined by WallaSan Grommet on Bass and Wootjan-Oo on drums in 2007. They have become mainstays of the band and contributed immensely to improving our sound and material. We're photographed here on one of my early stages.
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WallaSan Grommet, our cosmonaut bassist joins us here on our Treehouse Stage in Eson, Second Life. Her melodic and moving technique have filled out our sound immensely.
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Say hello to our drummer, Wootjan-Oo, the bird with the beat! He's a bit of a trekkie and loves his music.
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Here I am weebling away on the keyboards during a rehearsal at our Treehouse Stage with my talons and horns casting a purple glow onto my surroundings.
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Wootjan-Oo, WallaSan and myself photographed during a rehearsal session at our Treehouse Stage.
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Here we are posing in front of our Ice Palace Stage. This marked an end of an era for us in Second Life we had half a sim from April 2007 until January 2008. So we rebuilt the adjacent sim as a fantasy Ice World and put on a spectacular show to bow out in style.
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WallaSan looking very imposing in her Wakemanesque Ice-Queen cape. She played brilliantly too!
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Wootjan-Oo seems to have a cloud of ice-mist around his head as he nails down the beat on his Ice Drums.
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Myself, Alazarin, strangling my Ice Guitar during one of the shows on our Ice Palace Stage.
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A night time view out across the Ice Palace Stage showing the Ice Towers in the distance.
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Playing a light-night show at Hexx & Jasmn's trippy Rastafairy Beach. Hexx Triskadekaphobia also had her own unique spacey dub reggae show and did many live performances in SL.
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Alazarin, Wootjan-Oo and WallaSan goofing around while posing for the album cover of alt.prog.rock.
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2008 saw us moving away from our home at Pony Bay and our final blow-out gig with the Ice Palace stage. Here we are with our new rotating music box stage.
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Wootjan-Oo riding around on the stage while making short work of his drumkit. He's the bird with the beat.... who never misses a beat.
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WallaSan looking very serious while playing her bass. She's a fun, wild critter but you'd never guess it.
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And somehow Alazarin seems to be staring off into the distance while remembembering what to play next.
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