The four days spent in LA were a mixture of days spent driving the city looking for architectural highlights (which were hard to find, but total gems when I did) and nights spent going from gig to gig with an up-and-coming LA pop rock band I was staying with called Skyrocket love.

Pop/Rock is certainly not my kind of music but it certainly gave me an interesting side of LA and by the end I was surprised that I even kind of liked their music (kind of). I hoped that the music industry still had some organic talent left that rose to the ranks but after seeing their approach to attacking the market its a business from start to finish. But I guess when you’re competing against 12 year old kids who already play like rockstars (we went to an all age gig in Pamona with a whole range of bands) you can understand why their approach has shifted from the music being the most important selling point.

If you really want to see what I’m talking about have a look at the clip or their Myspace linked below, but I can understand if you don’t.

http://www.myspace.com/skyrocketlove