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Here is my blog posting from 11 months ago, when this whole concert photography thing got started... Exactly 11 months to the day later I had my Spin Magazine gig. Thank you Robin Slick! If it were not for the friendship that I developed with Robin after she made this initial comment my career as a concert photographer would never have begun. ____________________________ November 9, 2006 last night fortune smiled upon me again and i won tickets to a show at Slim's in San Francisco. it was a show i would have been happy to purchase a ticket to attend, but finances and the fact that i should have been in class last night urged my better sense to not indulge. thank you fates for changing the course of my life, yet again. seeing Adrian perform last night was a phenomenal experience. there was one person between me and him i was that close to the stage. oh, and i am done using my phone cam to document concerts that i attend when i could very well have been using my "real camera...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Museum : Calendar You can read more detail about the dedicated journey of 2/3's of the Power Trio's efforts to make it to this gig tonight here at Robin Slick's blog. Can anyone believe this weather they are experiencing back east and the fact that it is going to be sunny and in the 70's here in Cali this weekend?

Dearest Adrian, You must have looked at me the other night thinking, "Who is this guy. Doesn't he know who I am?" I am sorry if it seems that I blew you off when I shook your hand and then walked away. I got washed away in my own "self" that night and forgot that I was in the presence of someone extremely special to me. Someone that has done something that has stuck with me for more than half of my lifetime. You are Adrian Belew and not only do I love all of the music you have made, I love what you are and where you have come from. I love the people you know and what they have done and become. If people ask me to name writers that have influenced my life I'll give different answers from year to year. When asked what music I love, what music has changed my life, what music makes me feel alive, for 30 years straight I have said KING CRIMSON. And you Mr. Belew are the very first representative of KC that I have ever had the holy honor of being so close ...

I'm not sure how to start to delve into the story of what happened to me last night. Through my life becoming less private (through the simple act of blogging) my world has become larger. I was invited as a guest to photograph a concert last night! Bleeding hell! You all saw the shitty snapshots I posted from the show at Slim's (which the allowance of my attending that show is attributed to the graciousness of Leah and the management at Slim's. Honest to god they have given me free tickets to 5 different shows there!). And one lonely mother sitting at home the next morning was searching the internet for pictures of her dear children that performed the night before. One soul found another... I wasn't nervous in the least strangely enough. An hour before the doors opened I saw Julie Slick looking in the window of a music store next to The Catalyst. "Are you Julie?" I inquired. "Yeah." she said. -=Well, I've been talking to your mother on...

oh how pretentious, but compared to the usual uninspirational life i live, tonight should be great! since i posted those pics of Adrian and The Power Trio from Thursday night's show i have met two fantastic people that have given me great encouragement; Robin Slick and Burton Lo. Robin is the mother of Eric and Julie slick, Adrian Belew's accompanists on his current tour - two young musical prodigies. And Burton is a fantastic neo-photographer that attended two of Adrian's shows in southern California and took the most amazing amateur concert photos i think i've ever seen. soo, i am on my way to Santa Cruz this afternoon, with my FujiFilm FinePix S5200 in tow to take my chance at improving my own photographic skills. oh and hey, i'm really only going there for one reason and that is to hear the fantastic healing musical vibes that Adrian and this cute, cute couple generate from their hearts. i do not feel inspired to take photographs of just any ol'musicians...

last night fortune smiled upon me again and i won tickets to a show at Slim's in San Francisco. it was a show i would have been happy to purchase a ticket to attend, but finances and the fact that i should have been in class last night urged my better sense to not indulge. thank you fates for changing the course of my life, yet again. seeing Adrian perform last night was a phenomenal experience. there was one person between me and him i was that close to the stage. oh, and i am done using my phone cam to document concerts that i attend when i could very well have been using my "real camera" - so i apologize for this soft focus/artsy shots. watching him, hearing him - the King Crimson influences and collaborations that he need not be embarrassed of owning rights to play; he is one ecstatically happy man that emotes through a machine, a guitar, and well - i was electrified, the crowd was electrified, probably the most on-fire audience i've been part of at a show at ...