On May 22, 2015, I had the pleasure of seeing and photographing my favorite guitar player of all time, Jeff Beck! Buddy Guy, would be my number two guitar player.
Billy Raffoul, from Canada, was the opening act, and is seen here in my photos. He is young, and very good, and didn't deserve the heckling about his hair.
Jeff Beck seems to have a different band every time I see him. This band consisted of Rhonda Smith on bass, Nicholas Meir on guitar and keyboards, and Jonathan Joseph on drums. They were all excellent of course, just like every band Jeff puts together.
This week, I am having a sale on 16" X 20/16" X 24" prints. The limited edition, certified, gallery prints are $ 75.00 plus shipping!! Normally, we sell these prints for $150.00!
So, check out some good Jeff Beck photos, and pick out one or two for the walls of your home or office.
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It's Sunday evening here as I write my blog in Wisconsin. It's a cool, rainy, sleepy day, and good day to sit and watch the Indy 500.
My blog today takes a look at Jeff Beck, who I had the pleasure of photographing Friday night at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater. He is so good and my favorite guitarist.
We sat and watched Juan Pablo Montoya win the Indy 500 today! He was in last place for a bit, and then wins it all!! Congrats to him, wife Connie and family.
For fun, I have included my first ever Indy car photos from the Milwaukee 1971, Rex Mays Classic race at the Milwaukee Mile. Dad wouldn't take me, so the photos are done with a tripod and shot through the television!!! Bobby Unser won it and looks so young! A.J. Foyt has a plain old white helmet with AJ written on it! Funny stuff to look at until you see the one photo of someone's car in flames on the track. Love the #1 Bardahl car of Joe Leonard!
This week we look at the legend, Curtis Mayfield, who I photographed at Summerfest in 1973.
It's always fun to look at Summerfest's Main Stage on the grass hill here, where the speakers were held together with rope!
His bass player is shown here, throwing his guitar in the air while playing! Anybody remember his name?
Curtis, had a remarkable career, but had a very tough life. In 1990, at a show in New York, some lighting equipment fell on him, paralyzing him from the neck down.
This, did not stop him from writing songs! He would compose, sing and record while on his back!
Famous for being in The Impressions and doing soundtracks for movies like Shaft, he had a great career through a lot of hardship. He lost a leg due to diabetes and finally died from complications of the disease in 1999.
He had his own record label Curtom, and a recording studio, in Chicago for many years.
I will always remember him for his famous song, Superfly!
Lately, I have featured some blogs from photographs that I have found, lost in a closet in the house here.
Today, I am featuring Willy Porter and his band from Summerfest in 2009. I found them lost in my digital closet here on the computer! They were in with a bunch of bands from Summerfest in 2009.
At Summerfest, I always try to photograph just about everyone I come across while I am there.
Sorry Willy, you, Carmen, and the band, have been lost for a while! Too many shows photographed at Summerfest by yours truly in 2009!
Willy Porter and Carmen Nickerson are one of Milwaukee's top music artists. Milwaukee is very fortunate to have such quality performers that tour nationally.
I didn't know about Willy, until I was at a gallery opening with my photographs in Minneapolis years ago. Willy and the band were playing in Minneapolis and a friend said that one of Milwaukee's top acts was in town that night. Sorry again Willy, I didn't know who you were!!
You and Carmen are exceptionally talented musicians that need more exposure and shouldn't be lost in a closet!!
So, everyone, enjoy some photographs of Willy, Carmen, and the band, from 2009 and get out there to see them sometime soon.