Bayside, Less Than Jake, Army of Freshmen…

Hey Everyone, I’ve been a little busy with dustbusting some movies at work, but I finally have a free minute to report on a few shows I’ve been to…check out the photos, let me know what you think…peace out!

Chris Casella and Rebuilding America

Hey Everyone,
I very rarely post up stuff about other photographers, but when I found out about Chris Casella and his music photos, I found a new bar to aspire to. If you ever want to see how concert photos are supposed to look, take a peek at http://www.chriscasella.com/

Anyway I tell you that to tell you this…Chris has entered a photograpy contest where you give them your perfect assignment, everyone votes, and the one with the most votes wins…I saw some of the other entries, and I think Chris’s is one of the best and needs to get a higher rank…I could only imagine the photos he would shoot on this assignment…

So go to the link and vote, it takes 2 minutes and it will make a world of difference to us (besides, he’d vote for you if you entered)

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/ChrisCasella/rebuilding-america/

Thanks a ton guys!

Chelsea Girls

I’ve never been a fan of cover bands, but there have been two such cover bands that have surprised me in the past. One is Powerserge, whom I caught at a Suburban Legends show. The other were these girls.  A side project of Allison from The Donnas (and the reason my interest was piqued), they’re a hard-nosed babe quintet who not only rocked hard, put actually put on a show that was fun to watch.  Throw in their special guests (including one of the guys from Ratt…I’m not a fan so if anyone could let me know who he is I’d appreciate it) and it made for a fun night…check the photos yo!

btw – Allison’s lips were not retouched…they are hardcore pink in real life…

btbtw – johnny bonham if you are reading this email me I have the funniest picture of you

Taste of Chaos 2009 and Aperture

Thanks to my good friends at Warped Tour, Earshot Media, and the lovely fellows of Four Year Strong, I got the chance to cover the Taste of Chaos in hollywood…as far as the bands were concerned, I went in as a FYS fan and found them to be my personal favorite…I also enjoyed Thursday as their sound was just a little bit easier on my ears than the other acts…all in all a good time was had by me all …check out the photos, let me know what you think…

Side Note – this is the first show I’ve processed the photos from using Apple Aperture and I HIGHLY reccomend using it…I used to copy my photos to a hard drive, open in bridge, label in bridge, open each individually in PS, adjust and save, apply watermarks with an action, and export to web with an action…now I do all the above right in Aperture, plus include my photo metadata automatically and export to facebook and flickr (when appropriate)…five stars from me, ballin!!

Streetlight Manifesto (and the story of “Tomas and a thousand shoes”)

Ok funny story…accompanied by photos…I was shooting photos with my friend Amanda when suddenly I heard Tomas, the lead singer from Streetlight Manifesto, challenge the audience to hit him with a shoe…then it began, a berage of shoes left and right, littering the stage, and none coming particularly close to Mr. Kalnoky…and then, one lone “shoeman” aimed and fired and, well, look at the photos below:

What an amazing shot…where was this ska kid when bush was giving his speech in the middle east?  Anyway, click on one of the above photos for hi res versions of all the photos (over 150 total) from Streetlight Manifesto and Reel Big Fish…

(btw hi res of the shoe hit are on the bottom of pg3/top of pg4)