August 4, 2014

Today's blog looks at one of my all time favorite bands, The New Riders of the Purple Sage. When I was in college, NRPS, was my favorite band.

I became a lover of the pedal steel guitar because of Buddy Cage. He is the amazing pedal steel player of the NRPS band.

This show was on December 5, 1973. They opened the show for The Beach Boys that night at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin.

Enjoy a look back at a great band that I hear is back together again!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

The New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Dane County Coliseum on December 12, 1973.

July 28, 2014

Rory Gallagher's Facebook page and I have been talking lately and they have featured some of my photographs.

Today, we look back at both of Rory's shows that I covered.

October 20, 1971 at the Milwaukee Arena with Frank Zappa and Fleetwood Mac was the first show and the second one was on

November 8, 1972 at The East Village, a local club here in Milwaukee.

Enjoy looking back at Rory. All photographs are available to purchase as limited edition archival prints.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

July 21, 2014

This past week we lost a couple of good rock people.

Johnny Winter and JC Hartsfield left us for the big great rock band forming in heaven.

JC Hartsfield was a good friend of mine for many years when the band Heartsfield was playing a lot in the 1970's and 80's here in the midwest.

Heartsfield, was a country rock band.  If you never heard them, please do yourself a favor and look them up.

The attached photos cover many years in the 1980's and it seems a few of the photos are of a birthday party for JC.  It looks like the good old shaving cream pie in the face.

I have a lot of Heartsfield photos and more will be coming soon but I had to scan a few today because of JC's passing.

Miss you JC, we had some good times together.

Thanks for the memories JC.

Rich Zimmermann

J C Hartsfield and the band Heartsfield having fun on J C's birthday!

July 14, 2014

Last weeks blog, was on the Babe Ruth Band at Summerfest on June 28th, 2014.

After looking at all the photos that I took, I had to share some more with you. So, enjoy 12 more images of a very fun night and let's hope they come back soon to do it all again!

I didn't mention that the Babe Ruth song, "The Mexican", has been sampled and enjoyed by the break dancing community. One of my photos last week, showed one of the break dancers on stage with Alan Shacklock's son playing DJ behind him.  Very cool stuff!

Have a great week and please join my Facebook page Rich Zimmermann Photography if you haven't already.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Janita Haan, Jenny, leading the Babe Ruth band at Summerfest on June 28th, 2014.

July 7, 2014

On June 28, 2014 we had the Babe Ruth band visit Summerfest here in Milwaukee, Wissconsin!! They came to America for one show.! Yes, they traveled all the way from England to perform the one show for us loyal fans!

I have photographed rock'n'roll for a very long time (1971) and have had the chance to meet all types of bands and rockers. Jenny, Alan and the entire Babe Ruth band are some of the nicest rockers I have ever met!!!! My request for photo credentials started weeks ago when I sent Jenny an email along with some shots of the show I photographed in 1975 when they played here with Roxy Music. Those photos are in a previous blog and are on my website.

Last week when they were here, I got together with them before the show and gave them a disc with images of the 1975 show.  They loved it and invited me to come back after the show. After their terrific performance I went backstage and had some fun with the band. Then I went with them for an autograph signing session. They were so nice to everyone and signed everything possible! Not in a big hurry, they really signed everything they could!

Enjoy the photos of my new friends.  I'm getting used to my new watermarking system. It will get better, so please bear with me as I work out the kinks. All photos are for sale on my website.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Janita Haan leading the Babe Ruth band at Summerfest on June 28, 2014.

June 30, 2014

It's a very exciting week here in Milwaukee with Summerfest going on at the lakefront. It is the largest music festival in the world!

Last night, I had the great pleasure of meeting and photographing the band Babe Ruth! They are some of the nicest people I have ever met and the world of rock'n'roll is full of a lot of egos and more.

Very nice people who I told I would do this week's blog on them. Unfortunately, I forgot that I was going finish part 2 of a 2 week blog on The Byrds from 1972. So, my Babe Ruth fans, please give me until next week and I will get that blog done then.

The photos last week were of Clarence White and here are the rest of The Byrds! Roger McGuinn, shown here is playing a beautiful Rickenbacher guitar. Skip Battin is playing bass and Gene Parsons is on drums.

Also, check out my friends The Familiar Looking Strangers, performing at the Briggs stage on Tuesday night, July 1, at 8pm at Summerfest. They always do a great show and have a lot of fun with the crowd.

Have a great week and please join me on Facebook at Rich Zimmermann Photography.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann