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December 12, 2022
On November 30th, we lost musician Christine McVie from the band Fleetwood Mac. I was fortunate enough to photograph Christine with Fleetwood Mac three times through the years. She had such a great voice and was a talented artist. She even did the album cover artwork for their album "Kiln House". That album is one of my personal favorites, especially the song "Station Man".
In my very early photography days back on October 20th 1971 at the Milwaukee Arena, I photographed Rory Gallager, Frank Zappa and Fleetwood Mac with Christine. Also playing in the band was guitarist and vocalist Bob Welch who passed in 2012. Rhythm guitarist, Danny Kirwan, also played that night. He passed away in 2018.
Maybe there is a new Fleetwood Mac band upstairs having fun and playing music again. Christine and Bob Welch really worked well together with their awesome vocals. Christine has been quoted saying that she really enjoyed working with Bob.
These black and white photos shown here are not the greatest photos I've ever taken but I was just getting started at 17 years old!
The next time I photographed Fleetwood Mac was on September 11th, 1977 at Milwaukee County Stadium. I wasn't allowed to photograph the show but had fun backstage taking a few photos and then listened to the band play to a very large crowd. One of the photos shows Christine backstage with a large boombox! Kenny Loggins and his band opened up for Fleetwood Mac that night.
Then in 1987 as a house photographer for Alpine Valley Music Theater, I was allowed to take a few photos and one of Christine is included here as the last photo.
Enjoy a look at Christine, Bob Welch, Danny Kirwan and a couple of Mick Fleetwood.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
November 28, 2022
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.
A few weeks ago we lost one of the best rock 'n' rollers to ever play. Jerry Lee Lewis ,"The Killer", was one of a kind and we will never have another musician or person like him.
I had the pleasure on July 18, 1972 to not only photograph The Killer but to chat with him and his band backstage that night. Really a nice guy and had alot of fun with him that night.
The band Truc, also known as Truc of America,opened the show for Jerry Lee Lewis. Drummer Ed Sison became a good friend and was also playing for the band The Ox in those days.
Enjoy a look at both bands from that night.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
November 14, 2022
I can't believe that it's almost Thanksgiving. Time flies, doesn't it?
Finally catching up with things but still have a ton of Summerfest photos to edit and archive for future blogs.
So, this is Part 2 of the Millers at the Milwaukee Mile on July 8th and 9th of 2022. The previous blog was Part 1.
During this two day event I took over 600 photos at the Milwaukee Mile. Then I went to Summerfest in the evening to photograph Rod Stewart, Cheap Trick, The Tubes, John Fogerty, Los Straightjackets, Rick Springfield, The Cult and the Marshall Tucker Band!! Probably took over 3000 photos that weekend.
Enjoy another look at some amazing and historic cars at the Milwaukee Mile.
It's such a good story of how Indy cars evolved through the years. I still can't imagine driving an Indy 500 in some of these cars, but at the time, they were the state of the art machines.
Some of these photos may look very similar to the photos in the Part 1 blog but the drivers are diffferent in a few of the cars. I'm also using 3 cameras with different setups and lenses.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
