As Summer Dies

I just shot the senior citizens in The Germs, ya know how conversation can be a chore with older folks? Very similar vibe with Don and Lorna.

*sidenote* Hired gun, actor-vocalist Shane West clearly does not fall into the old folks category...

Pat Smear was sooo not into getting his picture taken. He was cool, just has severe A.D.D...it's worse than mine, and that's hard to fathom...

I had to keep screaming at him "Pat look @ me!!" Lorna would also give him a nudge and tell him to look my way...what a nightmare...

I intitally wanted to shoot them in the afternoon, the light was perfect, I found a few cools spots outside of the club, there was no rain and all the pseudo punk rawk sub-humans hadn't shown up yet.

Jerry, the bands tour manager had a different plan, he asked me to do it just before they go on stage. Brilliant. That's never a good idea, yes the band has there makeup on and hair in place, however you always get rushed and it's uncomfortable, which equates to you not doing your best work...

So, essentially here I am trying to shoot the band with a 150 drunk idiots surrounding them, camera phones out and albums they want signed tucked under there arms.

I was so vexxed @ this point. Where thee f*&k is Jerry the tour manager and other roadie for the the band!?!

HELLO!!! How about some crowd control!

Every frame I take has to be followed with "Hey moron! Get the fuck out of my shot!"...One idiot had the balls to stand directly in front of me with a shitty point and shoot taking pics, I almost dropped him like a bag of dirt...not fun

Anyway, I posted some new snaps of Pat Martino, Marcus Miller, Eric Alexander, Ryan Shaw and Terell Stafford on the site...

I've been listening to:

Suicide City - Frenzy

Mastodon - Crack the Skye

Street Sweeper Social Club - Selftitled

The Who - Odd & Sods

Shad K

Arkaea - Years in the Darkness

Westbound Train I dig it all...I'm a sucka' for ska

My SKINDRED shoot was excellent, many beers, lots of laughs, great time...super nice guys...have a look

Wig = $3.00
Top Hat = $10.00
Ray Ban Glasses = $150.00
Clove, smoke = 0.40
ESP Limited = $1500.00

Pics of Skindred as Slash = priceless

I did a shoot a few weeks back with my homie Sean Jefferson, an excellent jazz drummer...He'll be playing the Rochester International Jazz Fest this week, if you make it out to the Fest, don't miss em'

Also did a photo shoot with Skindred last week, had an absolute blasty blast!

Big hugs and smoochs to my bud Kurt for letting 4 South Wales blokes and 6 Yanks in his beautiful studio to drink, snap and drink some more...

Sean Jefferson

Mushroomhead wreck s**t live! The stage set is straight out of a Clive Barker, Hellraiser movie.

I should have brought my parka, at the front of the stage there are two huge floor toms on either side, both filled with enough water to fill a reservoir.

Now, if you haven't witnessed a Mushroomhead show, but have seen someone like say The Blue Man Group, then you'll pick up what I'm laying down...Ya' know that part in the BMG show when they go beserk on the huge drums, and for the duration of that tune everything in a 25 foot radius is covered in neon paint, v'iola...fuhgedaboutit...

Had a chance to kick it with Mistress Juliya on Friday night, super cool chick and an absolute sweetheart...she's in killer shape, looked totally gorgeous...

Juliya was a complete pro, this shoot was done @ the beach after midnight, it was a lil chilly down by the water, she was a trooper...I'd love to get her in the studio with my medium format camera and blast away, she'd look stellar in black & white pics, done by the master!!

Burn Halo...