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What Are Your The Best Concerts You've Photographed? Part T
Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 10:10 AM on 09.09.08 |
->> "My all time favorites are Lisa Minnelli, Elvis Presley, Dizzy Gillespie, Elton John and George Clinton."
Arron Copeland was sublime, Tony Bennett was great and Rudy Vallee was hillarious but my favs would be the Sex Pistiols, the Ramones, Thin Lizzy and...
Spinal Tap (at CBGBs). |
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David Heasley, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Columbus | Oh | U.S.A | Posted: 11:18 AM on 09.09.08 |
->> I think I'm going to agree with Jeff and Adam(from round 1 of the thread) and say NIN.
Linkin Park at Projekt Revolution in Cleveland last summer was a good one.
Both Rock on the Ranges have been fun except for the 9000 photogs in the pit and only about 6 of them having a non p&s cameras or camera phones. |
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Dave Doonan, Photographer
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Kingston | TN | USA | Posted: 1:29 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> Alice Cooper last year at the Tennessee Theatre Got to meet him after the show for a story we were doing for the paper. Go the guy who we were doing the story on to snap one of him and me. It's blurry but I kept it. |
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Brian Jenkins, Photographer
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Burlington | VT | United States | Posted: 1:33 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> One Word... WEEN |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 3:37 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> Lou Reed! |
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Joe Cavaretta, Photographer
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Ft Lauderdale | FL | USA | Posted: 3:42 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> Tony Bennett at the rodeo in San Antonio. I think he messed up his shoes. |
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Bill Ross, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 3:46 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> Gosh, this thread is cool. I've never been credentialed for any of those "big" acts but I have a lot of fun shooting local talent for PR shots. |
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Patrick Meredith, Photographer, Assistant
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Austin | TX | USA | Posted: 4:30 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> Lucero (http://tinyurl.com/65a3zn) and Cory Branan (http://tinyurl.com/65qh65) are two of the best that I constantly get to photograph. I've shot several (as Bill put it) "big" acts before, but nothing compares to the authenticity of these two. |
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Courtney Adams, Photographer
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South Burlington | VT | United States | Posted: 4:48 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> The Wailers, what an amazing show. |
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Paul Quitoriano, Photographer
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Brooklyn | NY | USA | Posted: 7:28 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> Morrissey, the band uses a giant gong! |
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Mark Cornelison, Photographer
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Lexington | KY | U.S.A. | Posted: 11:00 PM on 09.09.08 |
| ->> The Jimmy Page/Robert Plant tour in 98 was amazing. I do a lot of work for John Mellencamp now and he is a great guy too, if you don't try to kiss his ass! |
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David M. Russell, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 11:08 PM on 09.09.08 |
->> U2, ZooTV Tour. Providence, RI
Bono took one of my cameras. Held it up and tried to take photos of himself. Unfortunately, I had just finished that roll. |
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Bradly J. Boner, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Jackson | WY | USA | Posted: 11:39 PM on 09.09.08 |
->> Willie Nelson.
Twice. |
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Derek Montgomery, Photographer
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Duluth | MN | USA | Posted: 11:50 PM on 09.09.08 |
->> Tom Petty...
While most artists restrict you after three songs or maybe a song or maybe the first 30 seconds of the first three songs, Petty let the photographers shoot every single song of his concert including the encore back at Summerfest in Milwaukee in 2005.
Not only was the concert great, but I had to slow down my shooting so I did not fill up all my cards. I've never seen this before from such a big name. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 12:00 AM on 09.10.08 |
| ->> wow. weird. several folks said tom petty. he was the WORST artist I ever had the displeasure to shoot in 35 years. he limited the media to the sound board at the concert I shot. and if my good friend and competitor at that time (now my boss) scott sharpe had not loaned me a 400mm lens combined with my extender I wouldn't have made the almost full frame body shots of petty. all the other GWC's with their 50mm and 180mm lens were hosed. I have since heard that was a period petty hated the media and this was our "punishment". but then again he went into a serious tailspin after that album which he has never critically recovered from. (meaning come on he's never made another hit since then) he has since relied on the hits from the past. and maybe he realized being an ass to the media was counter productive. but I am so glad he's changed his ways. I love his older stuff. |
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Rodrigo Gaya, Student/Intern, Photo Editor
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Miami/Ann Arbor | FL/MI | | Posted: 12:43 AM on 09.10.08 |
->> My first concert... Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
3 songs that felt like 3 months. I was standing in front of the guitarist's amps and coulnt hear myself think. Also, I was almost spat on by the bass player Flea.
It was AWESOME! |
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Keith Mokris, Student/Intern
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St. Louis | MO | USA | Posted: 12:58 AM on 09.10.08 |
->> I got to photograph Linkin Park last week. They put on one HECK of a lightshow. Such energy.
Slipknot stopped in St. Louis for Metal Mayhem and they were SO INTENSE. They wear masks for all their shows and it makes it one "hell" of an experience....no pun intended! |
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Rick Davis, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 2:28 AM on 09.10.08 |
| ->> Chris LeDoux. Many times. A class act. Allowed me to shoot from anywhere on the stage. |
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Mike Janes, Photographer
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Attica | NY | USA | Posted: 3:28 AM on 09.10.08 |
| ->> Dropkick Murphys on the Gang's All Here tour at a dive in the middle of nowhere. Fans overtook the stage and pretty much everywhere, if you didn't leave bloody doused in sweat and beer you weren't there! Shot a lot of there shows but that was the best. |
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Rob Dicker, Photographer
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Lake Villa | IL | USA | Posted: 7:28 AM on 09.10.08 |
| ->> Jimmy Buffett, Fruitcakes tour, Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, IL (no longer there, sigh) - fun fans and fun to shoot. One word -Parrotheads. |
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James Broome, Photographer
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Tampa | FL | US | Posted: 7:38 AM on 09.10.08 |
->> Nine Inch Nails - Gainesville, 1990 - My second NIN show (I didn't photograph the first one in Miami) and it was outstanding. They were breaking new ground back then.
Jane's Addiction - Miami, 1986 - Great show at the Cameo Theater. |
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Rob Ganzeveld, Photographer
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Sexsmith | Ab | Canada | Posted: 10:33 AM on 09.10.08 |
| ->> Alice Cooper without a doubt. He is a performer |
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Aaron Rhoads, Photographer
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McComb | MS | USA | Posted: 11:02 AM on 09.10.08 |
| ->> Dr. Jim Brock and his One More Time Band at the I55 Mississippi welcome center. Stale popcorn and watered down Coca Cola. Muaaa. |
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Greg Foster, Photographer
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Atlanta | GA | | Posted: 12:12 PM on 09.10.08 |
->> Honeyboy Edwards, in his room at the Chesire Motor Inn hotel in Atlanta, where he was staying while playing a couple of dates in town in 2000. It was just the two of us in the room; I was there to do his portrait, and while I was shooting he was playing his guitar and singing, and talking about his days of hanging out in Mississippi with Robert Johnson, including the night Johnson died. After we finished the pictures, we went to Fat Matt's Rib Shack (a local blues and BBQ place) and got a bunch of ribs. He walked over to the wall and looked at the photos of all the old blues greats, and started naming off all his old friends.
Mississippi Delta bluesman Mr. Johnnie Billington, at the River Mount Lounge in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1992.
Another Mississippi Delta bluesman, Lonnie Pitchford, and some of his local musician friends, in somebody's backyard in Pickens, Mississippi in 1995, after shooting his portrait there. I had recently started playing guitar and, along with shooting pictures, got to sit in and play for a few hours.
Otha Turner's Labor Day goat barbecue and picnic in Gravel Springs, Mississippi in 2001, with Otha Turner on the fife, and other music by members of the North Mississippi Allstars, the Burnsides, and other local musicians; one of the most incredible musical events I've ever been to.
Also, standing behind the speakers on stage with REM at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta back in the mid 80's was fun. |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 12:27 PM on 09.10.08 |
->> Doobies, October, 2006 in Fresno.
Grand Funk, August, 1970 in Raleigh. (Lost the negatives; WAAAH!) |
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T.J. Hamilton, Photographer
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Grand Rapids | MI | USA | Posted: 12:42 PM on 09.10.08 |
->> u2, joshua tree tour.
Red hot chili peppers 2001 |
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David Seelig, Photographer
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Hailey | ID | USA | Posted: 2:55 PM on 09.10.08 |
| ->> My agent the late Virginia Lohle of Starfile use to say about U2 I liked U2 when they sang about god not when they thought they were God. To me this ended with the unforgettable fire tour that was a great show, after that the egos got to them. |
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Rodrigo Pena, Photographer
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Palm Desert | CA | USA | Posted: 5:42 PM on 09.10.08 |
->> In April, 2008, I photographed Roger Waters from Pink Floyd. Talk about an incredible show! This group really knows how to create eye candy for the audience. If you ever get a chance to see a Pink Floyd concert, DO NOT pass it up. The best part was when Roger introduced this giant, two-story-tall, inflatable pig. It was supposed to cruise over the crowd, pop and drop small ballots supporting Obama for Prez. Before the pig could drop the ballots, the giant pig suddenly started to drift east. Roger Waters said to the crowd, "There goes my pig." The tether holding the pig came loose and the pig disappeared into the night sky. The promoter offered $10,000 for the return of the pig. Two days later, two separate groups of people found the remains of the pig and claimed the prize. They split the ten grand and received four free lifetime passes each to all future Coachella Valley Music & Arts festivals.
As many of you know, "Coachella" is known for its alternative music but has been bringing in large acts too. I've photographed lots and lots of bands, (too many to list) but one that sticks out in my mind was a super crowd favorite: Gogol Bordello. Those guys had so much fun with the audience. I thought they were gonna start a riot! |
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Bryan Rinnert, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Northeast | Ohio | United States | Posted: 8:14 PM on 09.10.08 |
| ->> 6 Years of Bonnaroo have been fun. Favorites...prob Flaming Lips and Radiohead. |
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Tim Snow, Photographer
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Montreal | Qc | Canada | Posted: 12:27 AM on 09.12.08 |
->> 14 years of shooting punk rock shows has given me thousands of amazing memories...to name a few:
My first show that I photographed: Ten Yard Fight during the Back On Track tour (1997 or 8 I think) using a Yashica MG-1...not one shot came our properly exposed...
Circle Jerks at Montreal's legendary Foufounes Electriques (the Electric...uh...arse) and having a stagediver kick a flash off the top of my camera (accidentally, so I let him live...)
Good nod again to the Dropkick Murphys, this time opening for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones back in 1995, I knew they would eventually become great...
Springsteen...'cause he's Springsteen...
Portrait shoot with Ian MacKaye from Minor Threat and Fugazi...the most down to earth amazing person I have ever photographed...
The first time I saw/shot Sick Of It All, I have now seen them over 20 times and still get shivers up my spine...
Shooting Throwdown at the Warped Tour and ending up on my back in the photo pit with a fisheye pointed straight up below a crowd surfer being held up by security...
Anti-Flag playing at the Medley. It was the birthday of one of the guys in Against Me!, so as a treat, Anti-Flag came out to play their encore...completely in the buff. All of 'em. I have some interesting shots from that night I tells 'ya...
Shooting Murphy's Law for the first time and almost being kidnapped by singer Jimmy Gestapo who kept insisting that we party after our portrait shoot. After explaining numerous times that I don't drink, he gave me a hug, told me he loved me and walked away in search of a beer...
I never shot a show at CBGB's, but I was allowed to stroll around one day while they were closed and shoot some stills in there (http://www.timsnowphotography.com under the CBGB'c heading on the right)
Anytime I got to shoot AFI before they became big. They are still super humble, and shooting them has always been amazing. Especially at 242 Main in Burlington back in 97 or so, the club held around 125 people, there must have been 300 in there...
I could go on for hours. |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 1:05 AM on 09.12.08 |
->> Bruce
Bruce
Bruce
...Springsteen
after that, in no particular order:
Coldplay-Chris Martin left the stage and payed to people ALL over.
Melissa Etheridge
Antigone Rising
Pink
The Rolling Stones-never liked them til I photographed them
Evanescence
Neil Diamond
Natasha Bedingfield-shot her this past summer and all I can say is WOW WOW WOW. So underrated. She has the looks, the voice, the songs and the stage presence |
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Mark Dolejs, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 1:17 AM on 09.12.08 |
->> My favorite band to shoot is Project 86. They are an Orange County, CA band, and I usually only get to see them once a year or so when they come to NC for a show. I hung out with them on the road for a couple of days back in `99 and really enjoy reconnecting with them each time they do a show nearby.
Other favorites include Jethro Tull and pretty much any of the Lollapalooza's from the early 90's. My favorite was with Green Day, when the band called for the lawn seat ticket holders to rush down to the stage where there weren't too many gold circle ticket holders. The band was miffed because most of the people there (they were one of the early afternoon bands) were way out on the lawn area of the amphitheater. Needless to say this caused quite a problem for the security guys and the ticket handlers. They stopped the show and made the band get off the stage until everyone went back to where they were supposed to be. I made some nice pictures at that show. |
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David Manning, Photographer
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Athens | GA | | Posted: 9:41 AM on 09.12.08 |
| ->> Heh... The Murphys made this list three times. |
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Christopher Assaf, Photographer
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Baltimore | MD | USA | Posted: 11:22 AM on 09.12.08 |
| ->> Favorite concert photo is from 1993 of John Prine kissing Bonnie Raitt on the side of her head. Favorite bands: The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Who. And who cannot love photographing Frank Sinatra? |
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Jim Wells, Photographer
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Calgary | AB | Canada | Posted: 11:16 PM on 06.17.10 |
| ->> Van Morrison and Garth Brooks...lotsa Terri Clark-did a huge project long ago when she and management allowed me virtually unlimited access for the better part of a tour-no private moments, all the shows, back stage before, during and after, on the bus etc....she gave me the nickname "Shadow" |
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Jamey Price, Photographer, Assistant
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Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 11:27 PM on 06.17.10 |
| ->> Matt Nathanson. He was quite witty and was really working the crowd in a very racy kind of way. Fun concert though! |
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Dave Prelosky, Photographer
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Lower Burrell | Pa | US | Posted: 11:59 PM on 06.17.10 |
| ->> Just curious... after lying dormant for 18 months what brought this thread back to the surface? |
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Eugene P. Tanner, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Honolulu | HI | USA | Posted: 1:15 AM on 06.18.10 |
| ->> The Tubes!!! |
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Jann Hendry, Photographer
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Thousand Oaks | CA | USA | Posted: 1:35 AM on 06.18.10 |
| ->> Prince 1984 Purple Rain Tour Miami Baseball Stadium ,Genesis Mama Tour 1985 and Live Aid in Philadelphia |
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Garry Bryant, Photographer
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Farmington | Ut | USA | Posted: 3:14 AM on 06.18.10 |
->> Any concert back in the mid 70s before the artists got big heads or their managers. Use to attend any venue in Austin, Texas and photo away the entire show. Of course this was before the stupid light and smoke shows to wow the crowd, just music to get off on!
Best show was an evening with Willie Nelson, Rusty Wier, Steve Fromholz, B.W. Stevenson where they all performed together and individually for four hours. This was early summer of 76.
Hate to do any concerts now, and haven't for some 20 years. First three songs: what a joke! Fist song has smoke that makes shooting impossible till the third song, then its blue lights. Ugh!!! |
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Monty Rand, Photographer
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Bangor | ME | USA | Posted: 6:02 AM on 06.18.10 |
| ->> I don't photograph any concerts really, but I just saw Styx, Kansas and Foreigner at Bike week in Laconia. Great show!! |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 9:25 AM on 06.18.10 |
->> "...but I just saw Styx, Kansas and Foreigner..."
You poor bastard. |
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Alex Menendez, Photographer
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Orlando | FL | USA | Posted: 9:31 AM on 06.18.10 |
->> Jim,
I just spit out my drink reading that last post of yours!
Gonna be a good day..........
alex:) |
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Robert Caplin, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 9:53 AM on 06.18.10 |
->> Jay-Z and Alicia Keys premiering Empire State of Mind at the 2009 World Series to open game two. I was out on second base and even got to talk to them both as they waited to walk onto stage. Probably one for the coolest experiences of my career thus far.
http://bit.ly/JayZKeys |
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Ron Hawkes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Rockland | ME | USA | Posted: 10:15 AM on 06.18.10 |
->> I have shot the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, Maine many times.
Dave Sherman and the Nightcrawlers, Bubba Mac Blues Band, Blind Mississippi Morris and Brad Webb, Shirley King, Larry Garner, Nappy Brown, Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets Featuring Sam Myers, Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Blue Steel Express, David Hole, Tab Benoit, Shemekia Copeland, Marcia Ball, Susan Tedeschi, Little Charlie And The Nightcats, Lucky Peterson, James Cotton, Jimmie Vaughan, Carey Bell, Deborah Coleman, Bo Diddley, Dawn Tyler Blues Project, Curtis Salgado, Tommy Castro, Charlie Musselwhite, Shemekia Copeland, Ana Popovic, Sugar Blue, Lurrie Bell, Ruthie Foster, Walter Trout, Janiva Magness, Rod Piazza, Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, and Kenny Neal to name a few that have come through over the years. This year will be 16th year of the festival.
Have never had a band or musician tell me I had to stop shooting. Front and back stage access, easy interviews, great time every year. |
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Robby Gallagher, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Brookings | SD | USA | Posted: 1:16 AM on 06.19.10 |
| ->> okgo |
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Andrea Ranalli, Photographer
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Rome | RM | Italy | Posted: 2:37 AM on 06.19.10 |
| ->> One of my favourite show was Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminal, and the reunion of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band |
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Chris Pietsch, Photographer
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Eugene | OR | USA | Posted: 11:07 AM on 06.19.10 |
| ->> When I was a freshman at college, 1975, the student entertainment department, run by fellow students, went crazy and booked three different shows months apart during the year. Doobie Brothers, Edger Winter and a 3 bill show with Pure Prairie League, New Riders of the Purple Sage and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. All the other student newspaper photographers wanted to party, so I got the assignment for every show. I had the run of the place, no restrictions whatsoever. Predictably, but unfortunately, the program department went broke putting on all those ambitious shows, there was a big inquisition and nothing on that scale ever happened again. Those were the days . . . . |
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Dianna Russell, Photographer
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Springfield | MO | USA | Posted: 2:15 PM on 06.19.10 |
->> Toby Keith - as a photographer.
Rolling Stones, Emerson Lake & Palmer and Little Texas, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, John Michael Montgomery, Sawyer Brown, Chris LeDoux and others (Country Thunder in Queen Creek AZ) as a fan. |
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Steve Russell, Photographer
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Toronto | ON | Canada | Posted: 8:55 PM on 06.19.10 |
->> My favourite has to be the Red Hot Chili Peppers as well.
The concert was a free and held on an intersection of Yonge Street in Toronto in front of a music store. The street was jammed with people from building to building must have been a few thousand people crammed in there.
People were climbing poles and trees.
I had a great vantage point on the top of the three story record store!
I was one of those rare concerts where you could shoot the entire concert, but the fans made all the pictures! |
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