April 1, 2019

I'm a "Happy Boy"!! If you have never heard that tune, please Goggle or use You Tube to watch "Happy Boy" and The Beat Farmers. Listen to this old fun tune!! Miss you Dick Montana.

I am a happy boy because two of my photos of Roxy Music from 1975 were used in the induction ceremony for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame last Friday night! Hopefully the photos will make it to the broadcast of the show on April 27th on HBO and you can see them. Love the clear electric violin of Eddie Jobson. Otherwise, just go to my website, Rock Category and find Roxy Music for all the photos.

Anyway, this blog is about my old friends and local band here in Milwaukee, Shortstuff. I am going to try to do some more blogs on the local bands that inspired me a lot in the 1970's. Shortstuff was one of those bands with the great Junior Brantley and Jim Liban. The lineup changed a bit through the years and this version was a favorite.

These pictures are from a show on 1-8-1972 at my high school in Whitefish Bay in the field house/gym when I was 17!

Check out the guys.

Have a great week.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

March 18, 2019

Glad to see our snow is finally melting around here!! Just needs to get a bit warmer.

I have redone my photos of TheTubes in 1975 with new software. In these pictures they are playing in Milwaukee.

They are a fun band and a great show. Their new tour starts April 4 in St. Charles, IL. Catch them if you can. It will be worth it and fun I guarantee!

Check them out here in 1975!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

February 18, 2019

I first met Linda Ronstadt in a locker room/dressing room in 1972 when I was 17 years old!  I then took one of my favorite photographs ever! That black and white photo is with Ramblin' Jack Elliott listening to her warm up before she went on stage.

I've been working on some photos of Linda Ronstadt from 1972 and 1980 lately for something coming up!

Other than that picture, these are photos from 1980 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Always have loved Linda's talented voice. She has sung just about every type of music I believe other than opera in her long career.

Not sure on the band here but I think the main guitar player is Danny Kortchmar. Any help in identifying the band would be appreciated.

Enjoy the photos.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

February 4, 2019

Hope everyone has been staying warm with our cold winter weather!   Do you think Mother Nature may be angry with us?

I covered the opening of the U.S. WorldWired tour of Metallica that was in Madison, Wisconsin last September in a previous blog.

Recently, I realized that I forgot to show you the Milwaukee tour stop of Metallica on October 16, 2018 at the FiServ Forum.  I've been too busy with this thing called life I guess.

Here are a few of the photos of that amazing Metallica show.  The stage and production design by our Milwaukee friend, Dan Braun, is just incredible!!

Check out the boys and this tour if possible to see in action the kinetic cubes above the stage. Four of the cubes rise from within the round stage and become drum kits for all four guys to play.

Stay warm!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Metallica and the WorldWired Tour at Milwaukee's FiServ Forum on October 16, 2018

January 21, 2019

It's finally winter here in Wisconsin! We got about 6" of snow the other night and it's beautiful outside!

My last blog was about Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac in 1987 without Lindsey Buckingham. Here we have Lindsey Buckingham at Summerfest in 2007 without Fleetwood Mac! He did a solo tour then like he is doing right now.

Lindsey has a great voice and I think he is even better at playing guitar. The guitars he used here were Turner guitars that looked a bit modified if you look closely. Great sounds out of these guitars with the master playing them on a nice night at Summerfest.

Enjoy and stay warm.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

January 7, 2019

Happy New Year everyone!!!  Hope you all had a great holiday season.

This week we look at Fleetwood Mac way back when in 1987 when Lindsey Buckingham was not yet part of the group.

It's similar to what Fleetwood Mac is like now without Lindsey.  For me,  he really was the heart of the band. Well, maybe after Peter Green and Bob Welch that is!

So, check out Stevie Nicks, Billy Burnette, Rick Vito, Christine McVie and of course Mick Fleetwood. This was a cold night in 1987 at Alpine Valley Music Theater here in Wisconsin.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

December 24, 2018

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

This is my last blog of 2018 and it has been an amazing year in my world of photography.  I've been very busy with some awesome projects. Here are a few highlights.

One of my photographs is in a book on Jethro Tull! I have a two page spread in Neil Preston's photo book on Led Zeppelin! There is a photograph of mine of Al Kooper in the documentary "If I Leave Here Tomorrow" about Lynyrd Skynyrd!!  Thanks to all people involved with these projects.

Presently, I am working on a Roxy Music project that I hope will work out and can share with you soon. Until then, take a look at these pictures of Roxy Music at the Riverside Theater on February 26, 1975.

Babe Ruth and StarCastle also played that show. Babe Ruth people have become friends and I was lucky enough to photograph them at Summerfest a few years back. Those pictures are on my website.

Roxy Music and Brian Ferry have always been one of my favorite bands. Brian has such a unique sounding voice.

Thanks, and I'll talk to you next year.

Rich Zimmermann

Fleetwood Mac at Alpine Valley Music Theater in 1987 on a cold night in the valley!

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