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October 14, 2013
Every year my wife and I take a vacation to Door County for a few days. We take our bicycles and ride around Peninsula State Park for a little break in life.
This year the colors were almost perfect and we had a great time.
Enjoy some photos of our trip and if you look hard in one of the pictures taken at the marina in Fish Creek you can see a school of fish. They are huge!! A fisherman at the dock said that they were salmon. Tried to catch one but they were not interested in me at all!
Have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
October 7, 2013
Digging through my files for a blog this week, I came across photos of "The Killer", Jerry Lee Lewis, at Summerfest on July, 19, 1972!
He got the nickname "The Killer", because of his wild and crazy piano playing shows! One of my photos here shows Jerry Lee climbing his piano! He did have a wild show that night I saw him at Summerfest.
These photos are old but well worth looking at. Doing my blog makes me digitize these old pictures and restore them.
Jerry Lee Lewis, is known for a lot of crazy things like marrying 8 times! One of those marriages was when he was 22, and it was to a minor who was 13 and his first cousin once removed!!
His start was in Louisiana, playing piano with Mickey Gilley and TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart!
Some of his shows included his sister, Linda Gail Lewis, who can be seen here in the photographs from Summerfest.
Enjoy these pictures of "The Killer", and have a great week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
September 30, 2013
As I was doing blog #78 a few weeks ago on Rory Gallager, I thought I had more photos of him in my files. Sure enough, I found some pictures that were taken on October 20, 1971 when Rory played at the Milwaukee Arena with Fleetwood Mac and Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention.
Here are photographs of Rory's slightly used guitar. The varnish is worn off! Looks like Stevie Ray Vaughn's guitar, doesn't it?
I believe that Rory opened the show on this particular night followed by Frank Zappa and then Fleetwood Mac. If anyone remembers the order being different please let me know, just so I know!
Enjoy a look back at an amazing musician and his band. Have a good week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann