I was looking through some old negs and found these King's - X pics...I've got hundreds of photos of these guys, I'll add more later...also adding a few pics from my Scofield and Stephanie McKay shoots...7dust, The Roots, Cindy Blackman, JD Allen, Johnathan Blake, The Bad Plus, Less Than Jake, The Yellowjackets and Tim Blane

So dig this, friday night I went and shot Joan Jett @ Seneca Niagara Casino. I've never been to this venue, I was told the stage for this particular show was outside.

I drove to the show with my bud Joey Koch, we had a lil time to kill before Joan's set so we got our gamble on...I think Joe won a hundo' or maybe he lost...I wasn't paying attention...anyway we make our way outside to the VIP area, but before I can get to the front of the stage we're accosted by this yard ape who Joe tells me is the house photographer (I could care less) he informs us that we can only shoot the first three songs to which I reply "I got approved to shoot the whole set". The yard ape starts sweating and drooling throwing his hands in the air, frothing from his pie hole and screaming at the top his lungs "Who are you with!!??!!" "Who are you with!!??!!" he repeats this ad nauseum...Any minute I'm expecting animal control to show up and and tranquilize this baboon..."Who am I with?!?" "Who thee fuck are you!?!" "What an asshole!"

I pulled the paperwork out of my bag so I could rub it in his face.

Joe shows him, and I have to give Joey props for maintaining his cool, cause this clown is screaming at him and being quite rude...

I'd had enough at this point, I grabbed the paperwork put it in my bag and was getting ready to tell this guy to fuck off when he ran away on his cell phone calling upstairs to see if he could get some answers.

Hey douchebag!! *newsflash* They're the ones who told me I could shoot the whole set!

Joan was in-freeging-credible!! How old is she late 40's? She's still wicked hot, I've had a crush on her since I was a kid...

Shot the mighty Sevendust.

I got 10 minutes with the band (not a lot of fucking time!) *fast forward* outside the bands dressing room 15 minutes before they take the stage I'm chill'n...waiting....looking @ my watch....waiting...waiting...finally Lajon steps out of the dressing room doing vocal exercises, warming up the pipes. The rest of the band showed up a few minutes later.

Lajon and I say Hi rap a lil' bit, then I say what up to Morgan...Everyone gets together, Lajon invites me into the bands prayer circle (ritual before taking stage) he spoke about our troops in Iraq (7dust just got back from Afghanistan/Iraq where they entertained the troops for two weeks) he also touched base on the importance of family. Actually, it was a very profound moving moment. I was stoked to be part of it...we knocked out a few frames then the band was off to destroy!

New pics in Music III (I've also got a few rolls of b&w film that I shot, they're @ the lab getting developed "That's right I still use film!")

Kudos to the bands tour manager Chris Vineyard, thanks for all the last minute hustle bro you're the shit!

Sup,

I shot Less Than Jake on Sunday...I'll publish a few pics under my Music I port this week...

Upcoming shoots with Sevendust, Jucifer, The Foo Fighters and The Melvins

What's up,

I'm moving some images around on the site...

New photos added...

The Roots
Cindy Blackman
The Yellowjackets
John Scofield
Johnathan Blake
Joe Locke

More photos to be added from...

Stephanie McKay
The Bad Plus
Beady Belle
David Liebman
Tim Blane
TV On the Radio

I added a few Fall of Troy photos to the Music III portfolio, you can find them after the Sevendust pics...

I shot The Fall of Troy yesterday...super nice guys...I'll publish some pics when I get my prints back from the lab.

My shoot with Divine Heresy was canceled...it hasn't been officially announced yet but they're looking for a new vocalist...

Saturday I'm shooting The Police...I haven't seen them play in ages...85 or was it 86?...I forget

I shot Idiot Pilot on Monday. I wanted to get them in the studio but they were still on the road @ 4:30 in the afternoon, no time. We ended up shooting a few rolls outside in 10 degree weather, they were hella cool about it...

Also planned a shoot with Bullet for My Valentine....that didn't happen...LAME!!...I had some really cool lighting and prop concepts I was going to try, a buddy of mine who owns a shooting range/gun shop booked time off for me the day of the show so when it didn't go down I was vexxed. Long story short B4MV's people (ie: Matt w/Hungry like a Woolf) need to pull there heads out of there ass...

Added a few photos to Port IV

I just got in from shooting Flogging Molly, they're such an amazing live band!!

I'll add some photos to my portfolio later this week...

Congrats to Flogging Molly guitar player Dennis Casey (dude you're the bees knees)

Denis and his wife just had there 2nd child.

"James Patrick Casey" was born yesterday morning.

His wife gets out of the hospital tomorrow afternoon which means she should be pregnant again by tomorrow evening...

I'm shooting Medeski Martin Wood this week...looking forward to that...

What's the Happs?

I haven't updated my news/blog page in eons...I've been super busy shooting and hanging out with the Family...

I had a chance to catch up with the brilliant trumpet player Terell Stafford a few weeks back. You can find a few snaps in my Music II portfolio...

I shot Dillinger Escape Plan for a mag last month...I can't tell you what zine (not my idea) when the story is publised I'll link it...

On deck I'm shooting Flogging Molly this week and Bullet for My Valentine and Idiot Pilot early next month...

I've had a few people ask my favorite albums of last year so here goes in no particular order...

4 hero - Play With the Changes (best album of 07')
Bad Brains - Build a Nation
Prong - Power of the Damager
Down - Over the Under
Rahsaan Patterson - Wines and Spirits
The Cult - Born Into This
Fishbone - Still Stuck in Your Throat
Christian Scott - Anthem
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Meshell Ndegeocello - The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Saul Williams - Niggy Tardust
Jason Moran - Artist In Residence
Little Brother - Get Back

Happy Holidays!!!

I've been hella busy, shot Rob Zombie and In This Moment last week I'll put up some pics as soon as this Holiday madness is over...

Stoked to be shooting Hatebreed, God Forbid and the legendary Agnostic Front this week...

Be Cool!
SS

I threw up a few Briggs photos from the other night (Music IV)...Also shot the Dropkick Murphy's, I'll add a few photos from them as well...

I watched 28 Weeks Later last night, it was cool not something I'd watch more then once...I'm going to try and stay up for 1408, I'm a big John Cusack fan...

This week I'm shooting The Shiny Toy Guns, The Casualties and The Gore Gore Girls...

$3.50 a gallon huh? It's On!!

Big hugs and smoochs to everyone for ALL of the B-Day wishes, you rawk!

I turned 36 on 11/08...I'm frick'n old...

So dig this, I was going to drive to Buffalo and shoot the Cult tonight, however opted to pass...let me break it down for ya'...

Generally whatever magazine or paper I'm shooting for will work out all of the details before I arrive @ the venue ie: photo pass, am I shooting with the band before they play or do I need to book some studio time? what are some of the concepts for the shoot etc etc...

So I speak with Cara the bands PR person and she says everything is a go...now even though this was discussed it's always a good idea to triple check details, you don't want to get to a location and no one has a clue who you are...she leaves me Mitch's number and I give him a quick shout just to get the bands set time so I can plan my evening, in my experience some TM's are cool and some are not...fast forward to the afternoon, I get a call from Cara asking me if I called Mitch "The Bitch" (the Cults tour manager) to which I replied yes...

I left him a vm asking for the bands set time, is that a problem?

Cara then says "YOU SHOULD NEVER CALL MITCH because he's very busy and now he's blowing a gasket because you called him...

Jeezus H Christ I just need the bands set time. I'm driving an hour to the gig and want to plan on what time I'm leaving etc etc...

Cara says "Well I just got a very nasty e-mail from him, please don't call him all correspodence should go through me from now on"

No worries, don't get your panties in a bunch hon, so do you know what time the band is going on then!?!

No I don't...

Wow! WTF!

So he's really that busy huh?

Let me see if I understand this...in the time it took him to type up his crybaby bullshit e-mail to you he couldn't have just rung me up and said

"Hey Scott the bands set time is @ 9:30"

Mitch sounds like a douchebag and I'm totally turned off now and don't even want to shoot the band...

Anyways...Tomorrow I'm doing a shoot with the Briggs and on Saturday I'll be shooting Branford Marsalis...

peace
SS

Sevendust's management company can eat a bag of dicks!

Hey,

I had a chance to kick it with Christian McBride on Sunday...He's a really cool cat, it was a real pleasure to interview and shoot him...I'll put up a link to the story once it's complete and published...I added a few pics from the McBride shoot to my Music IV port, have a look...

There's a new design vibe on the home page...you can grab the images and move them around before double clicking to enter the portfolios...also added a 4th gallery as well

Hey!

It's been ages since I've updated my news page...

The home life has been super hectic, my family has been blessed with a new addition, a beautiful baby boy...

Ladies and Gentlemen on 9/18/07 @ 10:41am Kevin Thomas Stewart (the next Guitar God) was born into this world...









Jordan and Kev'ee Kev



Big Sister and huge Fishbone fan


Later this month I'll be shooting Pat Metheny and Christian McBride, also doing a shoot and interview with From Autumn to Ashes and the Bad Brains...

Next month is going to be hella cool...I'm shooting 7dust again on the 2nd and on the 14th I've got a shoot set up with the Cult...I haven't heard there new album yet, but a few friends have told me it's a lot better than there last album which was dreadful...

The new Prong is awesome, go cop it!

On the 17th of Nov. I'm shooting Branford Marsalis...

Gotta jet, be cool!
Scott