102.9 The HOG House Band Finale

Milwaukee’s leading rock radio station, 102.9 The HOG, sponsored its annual House Band contest where local bands compete against each other and attempt to become the broadcaster’s House Band for the year. This year’s finale was held upstairs at BBC G-Daddy’s (Milwaukee, Wis) on Friday night, October 22nd.

The four band set consisted of local acts The Black Saints, Rectifier, Disaster March, and Conniption. CenterStage Productions was on site to film the action as four original music bands went head-to-head well into Saturday morning. “Northern rock” band Rectifier was chosen by the crowd to be the most deserving band to represent the radio station in 2011 as The HOG House Band.

At this shoot, we faced some insurmountable onsite logistical hurdles that prevented us from filming this show in our typical manner – six to ten cameras with full multitracked outboard audio. Instead, we were limited to just two cameras and a stereo board feed of the house mix. Still, we believe the footage sufficiently demonstrates both the high quality of musicianship present at the event and our style of filming live music.

Here is a highlight edit representative of the material these bands were laying down upstairs at BBC…