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August 22, 2016
Last weekend a wonderful reunion took place with the Bill Camplin Band.
Four shows were held and I photographed the show Sunday night at John Ebbott's beautiful barn on the Bonnie Brae Farm near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Acoustically it is just a perfect place I think for a concert .
In 2013 a reunion was held and recorded in this wonderful barn and the cd is now available for purchase through Bill Camplin.
The cd is in continuous play in my truck! It's wonderful! Love the song "Northern Lights" a lot.
My photographs here are of the event and farm and next week I will show photos of the show.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
August 15, 2016
On April 30th in 1972 I was hired by The Bugle American newspaper to photograph the Byrds at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Accompanied by Columbia Records executive, John Hagar I had a night I would never forget!
Backstage I got to meet the band before the show and Roger McGuinn didn't want any photos taken during the show.
Guitar player Clarence White was sitting on a church table and said to Roger to let the kid (I was 18 years old) take some photographs.
Clarence was so nice to me and we talked a bit.
The photos here show Clarence playing his B Bender guitar that now is played by Marty Stuart. I recognized the guitar years later when I was photographing Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives at Summerfest.
The stickers of Frankfurt and Nudie on the guitar helped me recognize the legendary guitar with amazing sound. Clarence you see, invented the B Bender and this is the first one of many to come.
My first blog was on this guitar and Clarence. Enjoy a revisit of Blog #1 with some added photos.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
August 8, 2016
Today I have Part 2 for you of the Gathering on the Green concert featuring Huey Lewis and the News that was on July 15th.
I described the show last week so here are the photos that I didn't include with Part 1 last week.
I just remembered that you should all come to one or all of the 4 performances that Bill Camplin and friends are doing this coming weekend. Check out Bill Camplin's website or Cafe Carpe in Fort Atkinson for more information.
Bill Camplin and his band Woodbine are with some other great musicians for these shows. Fabulous music here, not to be missed!!!
Thanks and see you at one of those shows hopefully.
Rich Zimmermann
