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A fun slide show of Julie Slick photos from Saturday night. I was on her end of the stage and it was impossible to get any close up shots of Eric, her brother with my lenses so I focused on getting as many shots of Julie that I could. You can see the original versions of these photos of Julie here . And you can see the rest of the band photos here .

Here are some of my images from the Adrian Belew Power Trio concert on Saturday night. I won't complete all the edits for awhile yet, but the first pass through is almost complete. You can see the remainder of the set here .

don't worry, i will write a full and proper review of the concert for publication at Ground Control Magazine in a few days. right now i need to share and document some of my immediate feelings. first off, the first most amazing thing that happened tonight was arriving at the ticket office at Slim's and finding once again that my name was NOT on the guest list. Slim's is losing my respect in this department because as usual, once the tour manager is found everything is rectified. this was amazing in a NEGATIVE sense. next amazing thing was meeting Renee (Tickledrop) in line. in fact, i didn't even take 2 steps from the ticket window when she walked up to me and called out my name. i have only seen this woman once before and that was in Santa Cruz at the ABPT show back in November 2006. first thing she said was to comment on, how in my blog i talked about coming off meds. she said that she could tell that a definite change had occurred in my countenance, that i seemed mo...

Well, my day has finally come. I have been recognized by my efforts to establish myself as a quality concert photographer. Two bands have granted me -=photographer passes=- for concerts happening this week. Mind you, they are the opening bands for these shows, but hey, this is the very first time that I've asked for this privilege and it's been granted. Wednesday night I will be photographing Spindrift (as well as Vietnam and The Black Angels) at The Independent. Then Friday night I will be photographing Stolen Babies (as well as Kylesa, Within Temptation, and Lacuna Coil) at Slim's. Feeling pretty jazzed right now folks!!!

ok, it has been a long weekend and i'm ready to go to bed for a week. it started out with a phenomenal non-win/win of Trivia Tickets to Slim's to see Weezer/The Smiths/U2 cover band show (i'll detail this story more later) and then going on a photo shoot with 20 strangers i met on Flickr. i shot over 1000 photographs on my new camera. ok, the thing i have to make note of here more than anything is the weirdest dream image i have seen in over 10 years. i was sitting out front of our house in my car with my mom. my brother came walking out carrying my mummified corpse which was wrapped like a mummy. he said that i had to take this with me and deliver it. i thought he said it had to go to some store that was down the street, and "that they would know what to do with it." i opened the sunroof and he slid it in, feet first and i laid it down into the back of the car. how weird is that?

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...

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 ...