Berserk As Fuck: July 2008

A few concert/musician portrait photos from the last two weeks. Not really enough for full sets as usual but a few good ones here and there. First off, I shot Juana Molina and Feist a couple of weeks ago. I arrived at the venue, the same one that I shot The Cure at a couple of months ago...where my car was hit. I just got it back from the shop by the way, they did a nice job. Anyhoo...security told me that Feist did not want any photographers in front of the stage, you had to be 25 feet to the sides and 50 rows! back from center. Needless to say I didn't get any great shots, I took a few and left. Next up was last weekends concerts, two in one night. First I drove to Crossroads to meet up with Dave Wakeling from The English Beat and Mike Peters from The Alarm for a couple of portrait shots before going over to shoot Foo Fighters and Supergrass. Both Dave and Mike were really cool and talked to each for about 15 minutes. Hopped in the car drove to Kemper Arena to get my photo pass for Foo...which was lost until I found someone who knew what they were doing...did I say yet that it was like 95 degrees out and I'm lugging 40 pounds of equipment around? So they then informed me I couldn't shoot Supergrass, which was the only real reason I wanted to go. I stood backstage while the AEG rep went to find the tour manager...meanwhile I bumped into Pat Smear of Germs/Nirvana/Foo Fighters and took a polaroid of him...I would put it on here but the scanner I just bought off of ebay does not work. I eventually got to shoot one song of Supergrass. (They contacted me and said they loved the tambourine shot) Then shot three songs of Foo Fighters from stage left only...not very good photos at all. So I split and walked out the wrong exit and looked for my car for about 10 minutes then hauled ass back to Crossroads to shoot The Fixx and The English Beat. I was really impressed with both bands and the sound was great, I wish I hadn't missed The Alarm. Oh well...I got a little bit of all the bands.