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October 15, 2012
Last week, a good friend and great musician, Jon Paris, (check out jonparis.com), posted a photograph of John Lennon on Facebook. In the photograph, John Lennon is having some scrambled eggs for breakfest and a copy of a record album by the Wisconsin band Soup is seen.
Soup, was a popular band in the early 1970's. It consisted of Doug Yankus on guitar, with Dave Faas on bass and Rob Griffith on drums. Doug Yankus did the main vocals and the majority of the song writing.
Their first album was a plain brown jacket with a bright green insert listing the songs and credits. The insert said the cover art was to be done by "You"!
The attached photographs show my own personal cover art and photographs from a show they did with the Dutch band Focus at the Performing Art Center in Milwaukee, March 25, 1973.
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Rich Zimmermann
October 8, 2012
In 1987, I was fortunate enough to be the house photographer at Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin. It was a great job, with no pay, but it was fun. When I was a bit younger and in high school I was on the Alpine Valley Ski Patrol at the ski hill at the same resort! That could be a whole different interesting blog with some good stories.
Alpine Valley is legendary for all the acts that have performed there, but Madonna's show on August 2, 1987 was truly amazing.
When she came to Alpine Valley on her True Blue Tour, construction had to be done because she required a bigger stage. They took out the back walls and made the stage deeper for her big show. She had a huge band and showed a lot of video on a large screen during her show which was why the stage had to be expanded.
She did not disappoint. The crowd loved her singing and every costume that she wore.
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October 1, 2012
After talking with a friend this week who liked Jackson Browne, I went back to my archives and found some pictures from a show on May 10, 1975. On that day, Jackson Browne played the Milwaukee Performing Art Center and Phoebe Snow was the opening act.
I have always liked Jackson Browne. He has a voice and sound that I can never hear enough of. Jackson also plays slide guitar and David Lindley plays in his band. He too is one of the best slide guitar players around.
All the new music coming out these days will not last as long as Jackson's music will.
Phoebe Snow was a great opening act. She had a great voice.
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Rich Zimmermann