October 30, 2017
I have been busy this past week rescanning the Grateful Dead show from November 1973!
In doing the research for this show, I found a few other shows from that time period that will be coming up soon.
What I remember most about this show is the red spotlight and it went on for HOURS!
Did you ever know that Jerry Garcia is missing a finger? I didn't until looking at these photos. Still photography is great.
Enjoy a look at the band in 1973.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
June 16, 2014
Our blog today is about a Grateful Dead show at the Dane County Coliseum on February 15, 1973.
Starting today, my photographs on my website will have a watermark on them for many reasons. The biggest one being that I am in this whole business to sell some photographs and not be a starving artist!!
I never knew that Jerry Garcia was missing part of a finger until someone mentioned it and I looked at my photographs of this show. This proves that you don't need all of your fingers to play great guitar!
Enjoy some photographs from a great show that I remember being a very long performance. The Grateful Dead was known for playing long shows. They frequently went into long jam sessions.
Have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
Jerry Garcia leading the Grateful Dead at the Dane County Coliseum on February 15, 1973.
June 9, 2014
On December 5, 1973, The Beach Boys headlined a show with The New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin.
It was a cold, wintery, snowy night in Wisconsin, but The Beach Boys turned up the heat! It was a great show for a big crowd.
Enjoy some photos of that evening. Next week we will have the opening act of this show, The New Riders of the Purple Sage!
Have a nice week and join me on Facebook at Rich Zimmermann Photography if you haven't already.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
The Beach Boys at the Dane County Coliseum on December 5, 1973.
Linda Ronstadt at the Dane County Coliseum in 1980
December 3, 2012
On March 13, 1976, The Who came to the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin.
After waiting in line outside with a very large crowd, for a very long time, my friends and I made it inside and ran to the front of the stage as soon as they opened the doors. We ran because we had to secure a good spot with our cameras since it was a general admission show and we had no backstage passes. We were glad to have made it inside because outside we were pushed into the glass entrance doors to the point that we could not breath! I remember being very scared that day.
The show was great! It was after all The Who, so the waiting and getting crushed outside was worth it!
They were on tour in Chicago this past week so I thought it was a good time to dig up these images from 1976.
The present tour of course does not have Keith Moon on drums or John Entwistle on bass, unfortunately. I was lucky to see and photograph The Who with the original band.
The photos featured on the blog each week are for sale at $30.00 for an 8 X 10 or 8 1/2 X 11.
Thanks,
Rich
