Blog
January 17, 2017
Wow!! Blog #1 was on February 26, 2012, with an effort to scan my rock'n' roll and racing photography. Here we are at blog #250 and still scanning negatives and slides of mine for you.
Hope you all enjoy it. Something interesting things have happened along the way. Just this past year, photos of mine were published in Jeff Beck's book, "Beck01"!
Today's blog is on Bryan Lee at UW Oshkosh on September 4, 1972, when he opened a show for REO Speedwagon. No stage was made other than getting a flatbed trailer from someone's truck. It was primitive and small, but it worked.
Bryan Lee is called "The Braille Blues Daddy", because he has been legally blind since age eight. He is a Wisconsin boy born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin on March 16, 1943. In the 1980's he made New Orleans his home and continues playing and touring today from there.
A little bit B.B. King, Buddy Guy, a touch of Luther Allison and you have Bryan Lee. He's a great musician who I'd like to see again sometime soon.
Enjoy a look at some old photos of young blues man, Bryan Lee.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
January 9, 2017
Hi everyone and Happy New Year! Been a little under the weather here do to a little procedure and subsequent infection. Sucks getting old and as my Dad used to say, getting old ain't for sissies! Boy was he right!
A new friend expressed some interest in my Little Feat photos from the Oriental Theater here in Milwaukee on April 27, 1977. It was an awesome show and my blog #56 on 4-15-2013 was about them and that show.
I have rescanned the photos and worked on them a bit and here ya go! New technology helps a lot but this is some old film that I could work on forever!
Enjoy another look at Lowell George. He was one of the best slide guitar players ever and a great writer. I have heard that he taught Bonnie Raitt how to play slide guitar.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
December 26, 2016
We are taking a little break for the holidays and would like to wish all of you a happy holiday season!
Here is a photo of a Christmas tree though the roof of a house like Sparky would do in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation!! Love it and it's our favorite movie that we watch every year!
The other photos are of me at work at the races at Elkhart Lake and then a little winter scene for Christmas.
Happy Holidays!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
