Have you seen Scramble Campbell slinging paint at Red Rocks?
Twenty-two years ago, Red Rocks was just an iconic venue that Campbell had seen on MTV, when U2 aired itsThen, in 2000, he traded Todd Nance, the drummer for Widespread Panic, a painting for a backstage pass to Panic's summer tour. With that pass in hand, he traveled over 37,000 miles, east to west, painting the band at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, all the way to the Beacon in New York. One of these stops was at Red Rocks, where Panic played a sold-out show.
“It was special coming out to a sold-out show at Red Rocks, never even having been through there, and going through the backstage and seeing all these pictures of all these musicians from throughout time," he recalls."And then you're walking out to a sold-out show, painting on one of the planters. It was surreal.
“We're starting to use QR codes, where you stick your phone right up to it and it brings you to the website or brings you to a video, bringing you into the experience,” says Campbell. “Normal tourists going through the exhibit aren’t going to know who String Cheese Incident is, but they can pop on this thing and watch a minute video. My wife and I had a video camera early on in the ’80s.
In some ways, he says, the exhibit provides a different way to see his work. While most people who see him paint at concerts won't see the finished project until the show, those who didn’t attend the concert are able to see the finished work first and then experience the music. These unique contexts have always driven Campbell’s career, whether that’s touring around with jam bands or painting at raves in the early ’90s.
Campbell had his crack at the formal art world, being a vice president at the Orlando Museum of Art. However, he prefers the expression of the music industry: “You know, the art world can be stuck up. I like the music business much better. It's more my peeps.”KEEP WESTWORD FREE..., it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Denver, and we'd like to keep it that way.
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