January 10, 2022

Happy New Year to all and best wishes for a great ahead!  I hope you like this blog on the Shinyribs! If you've never heard of them listen to them on iTunes, Spotify or something else. You won't regret it!

The Shinyribs are from Austin, Texas and are led by Kevin Russell who is a show in himself. He is the leader for sure and has a lot of fun with his large band and multiple singers.

My Rich Zimmermann Photography calendar for 2022 has the Shinyribs on the cover. Hope you got one of my calendars!

The show on September 4, 2021 at Summerfest was so good, I stayed for the whole thing.

Try to see Kevin and his band the Shinyribs whenever you can.  It's a fun show and you will enjoy it.

Here are some photos from that night.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

April 5, 2021

Last year at this time, the world was going crazy with the COVID-19 virus. The first loss of someone I met a couple of times and hardly knew, but loved, happened on April 7, 2020. John Prine was now gone.

I hate this virus a lot as we all do. I have now lost 18 friends mostly from the racing and music industry. But this also includes a couple of high school friends too.

Hopefully, we are on the other side of it now.  However, it doesn't bring back John Prine or any of the others.

The first time I met and photographed John Prine was in 1972. After the show I met him backstage and we laughed a bit as we drank our Pabst!  I was almost 18 so what the heck, why not? He was so nice to me.  I was just a young kid photographer doing a few photos and a little story for the Bugle American newspaper.

The next and last time I met with him was in 1974 at the Schlitz Country Stage at Summerfest.  I gave him a photo of himself playing on stage with a can of Pabst on the stool next to him. That picture was taken in 1972.  Should have gotten one of my photos signed but I never did. I just enjoyed sharing my work with him and comparing Pabst and Schlitz back then.

We even made an executive from Schlitz laugh a bit as he looked at the photo and said, "no Pabst around here young man"! So we enjoyed a Schlitz and laughed and John went out to play and I went out to photograph him.

I believe I saw him 4 or 5 more times through the years but never did photograph him again.

John was such a great songwriter and musician.

Miss you John Prine...

Thanks for the fun times.

Rich Zimmermann

December 10, 2018

Today, we are looking at Neil Young from a show that I photographed at the Milwaukee Auditorium on January 5, 1973.

I posted some of these photos in blog #26 way back in 2012 when I was first starting up my blog.

Software is better now so I rescanned the negatives and touched them up with the new and improved Lightroom.

I'm discovering that my old black and white negatives are disintegrating more and more. Lightroom helps but I could spend hours on some of these photos. I do exactly that when they are ordered as a print for your home or office.

This show was just a few months after Neil Young's guitar player, Danny Whitten, had passed away. The name of the band at that time I think was Crazy Horse but I have found two other possible names!  Could be The Stray Gators or The Santa Monica Flyers.  I'm not sure.

The band was so good. You can see in the pictures that they were drinking Michelob.  Rumor is that before Heineken became the staple of every band, Michelob was the beer of choice.

Enjoy a look at the boys a few years back.

A couple 2019 calendars are left yet and if you are interested, just let me know. Forty dollars includes shipping and each month is a frameable photo of a musician on his birthday month.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

March 19, 2018

Finally found time to edit all of the Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives photos from my new Sony camera! This show was at the Stoughton Opera House on February 24, 2018.

Marty and the guys are amazing and so is my new Sony A7R3 camera. This camera is so good in low light. I have been a true Nikon man since 1972 but it was time for a change.

Since 2008 when I photographed Marty at Summerfest, I recognized Clarence White of the Byrds guitar in his hands. Marty uses Clarence White's legendary B-Bender Fender guitar in most of his shows.

This show however is in a very small venue and as Marty says, "if he used the B-Bender he would blow the paint off the walls"! His acoustic show is very intimate and very good.

Enjoy a look at Marty and the guys!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives at the Stoughton Opera House 2-24-2018.  Fabulous Superlatives indeed!!