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December 17, 2021 at Warehouse Live

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December 10, 2021 at Warehouse Live

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December 8, 2021 at Warehouse Live

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November 21, 2021 - I first got to photograph Zakk & The Doom Crew in January of 2018, the show itself was kick ass as expected, yet it was what happened that Im still proud I was part of!  I wish I’d have thought to record it.  The BLS show was scheduled at the House of Blues on the 15th, sadly that morning the music world had lost Delores O’Riordan of The Cranberries.  

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November 4, 2021 - I have tried twice previously to get an opportunity to photograph Ms Daigle once here in Houston & another at a Christian Music Festival in San Antonio.  Ive been a fan of hers since the first song I heard of hers, she is an extremely talented and likable young lady!  Ive tried repeatedly to get credentials for various Christian artist, yet was never successful.  I was surprised when I did and a bit nervous still, only my 3rd show to photograph since the music returned.  And Ms Lauren is very well known a couple rusty mistakes, but I got some cool images!  And one that’s an unusual angle but I like the sparkle in her eyes.  

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October 30, 2021 - So I’ve gotten to photograph 3 artist in 2021, it’s been amazing to feel the rush of power as the lights go down, the expectation.  Now as I’m finally sitting down to put pen to paper, well now it’s finger to keyboard.  First show I had a bit of nerves, it had been 19 months or 545 days, but Blue October I’ve been allowed to photograph 2 times previously and the entire show both times!  That’s not regular for most bands, nor was I expecting it post-covid.  It was a bit surreal coming up on Bayou Music Center for the first time since 2019, I had planned on eating at Hard Rock Cafe.  You can tell I missed a memo somewhere, but there were no restaurants of any kind.  I guess it really hasn’t been that long since the music returned.

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September 17, 2021 - It was great to finally get to photograph live music again, to walk down the stairs, to feel the energy, watch the artist interact with the audience through the lens.  I made a couple of rookie mistakes, running out of space on the card, thankfully not too far before we had to move back to the holding area upstairs.  I was a bit rusty for Jimmie I admit, chasing the light.  I guess

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September 17, 2021 - So did I?  I don't know, but here are the facts as I know them.  On September 7th at 1:43 PM I submitted for an Eric Clapton credential.  At 3:15 September 7th I was Denied!  So Sunday morning before church I posted up the picture of Jimmie Vaughan with the captions listed in the last image.  Joking about how I was turned down almost immediately!  But figured I had tried and that all I can do, then Monday evening at 6:33 I find out I was approved!  Almost a week after I was denied, I don’t know who changed their mind?  Thank You for the opportunity to take some images of Jimmie & Eric and (finally after 19 months or 545 days , but who’s counting), once again experience the energy that is released when the light go down and the crowd goes up!  Man I missed Live Music!

August 24, 2021 - Today the music world lost another great Charlie Watts passed away, while I never got a chance to photgraph the band.  I was lucky enough to have gotten to see them twice.  I guess the continued loss of these greats just means Im getting older.  Thankful Ive gotten to expierance first hand those artist that continue to leave us, for so many in the future from this point on they'll only get to listen to the originals.  I was there!

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August 13, 2021 - So I’ve decided to add a "My Favorite’s" album, although it August already I am finally trying to get some shows lined up for who ever might be left, visiting AAMN since Covid changed the world as we knew it!  I just don’t want Dusty Hill’s passing to be the only thing out here, that loss is still to fresh.  So I'm going to be updating this album for a bit, so check back!  I’m going to start it off with the first concert I ever photographed ZZ Top, I wasn’t a credentialed photographer, more a “Clandestine One”.  My beautiful & intelligent girlfriend at the time Nurse GoodBody, suggested we should take my camera to the show.  Which she snuck in wearing maternity clothes, we also did this for Stevie Ray Vaughan as well!  For some reason I took slide film, GoodBody & I weren’t rich and I probably figured next time, which sadly there never was.  I’ve made my first credential request for 2021, we’ll see what happens?  

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July 28, 2021 - So I’m sitting here listening to my ZZ Top box set, going through images from 2015 when I got to photograph the band legally.  My girlfriend snuck my Canon F1n and a 75-200mm f4 lens into the Summit (now a Church) wearing maternity clothes in 1986 for the Afterburner tour.  I can remember pretty much where I was when each album was released, especially up though Afterburner!