August 11, 2014

Today's blog is about the band Emerson, Lake and Palmer. These photographs are from a show I covered for the Bugle American on December 4, 1973 at the Chicago International Amphitheater.

As I look at my records, it was a busy week for me back then. On the following evening, I was in Madison, Wisconsin for The Beach Boys and The New Riders of the Purple Sage.

In 1973, there was a war among rock'n'roll fans as to who was the best rock keyboard player. Was it Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer or was it Rick Wakeman of the band Yes? I was always a Keith Emerson fan, even to this day.

I heard of Greg Lake playing on a cruise ship a while back! Interesting what old rockers do these days. I haven't heard much about Keith Emerson other than that he is a licensed jet airplane pilot! Carl Palmer was a terrific drummer and I hope he is still playing somewhere.

The photographs here show Keith Emerson's massive keyboards! Today of course everything is smaller but the synthesizers he used were huge and full of lots of cables. It's kind of cool stuff!

Carl Palmer always had a massive drum arrangement as you can see here.

Enjoy the photos and have a great week.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

ELP at the Chicago International Amphitheater on December 4, 1973.

August 4, 2014

Today's blog looks at one of my all time favorite bands, The New Riders of the Purple Sage. When I was in college, NRPS, was my favorite band.

I became a lover of the pedal steel guitar because of Buddy Cage. He is the amazing pedal steel player of the NRPS band.

This show was on December 5, 1973. They opened the show for The Beach Boys that night at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin.

Enjoy a look back at a great band that I hear is back together again!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

The New Riders of the Purple Sage at the Dane County Coliseum on December 12, 1973.

July 28, 2014

Rory Gallagher's Facebook page and I have been talking lately and they have featured some of my photographs.

Today, we look back at both of Rory's shows that I covered.

October 20, 1971 at the Milwaukee Arena with Frank Zappa and Fleetwood Mac was the first show and the second one was on

November 8, 1972 at The East Village, a local club here in Milwaukee.

Enjoy looking back at Rory. All photographs are available to purchase as limited edition archival prints.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

July 21, 2014

This past week we lost a couple of good rock people.

Johnny Winter and JC Hartsfield left us for the big great rock band forming in heaven.

JC Hartsfield was a good friend of mine for many years when the band Heartsfield was playing a lot in the 1970's and 80's here in the midwest.

Heartsfield, was a country rock band.  If you never heard them, please do yourself a favor and look them up.

The attached photos cover many years in the 1980's and it seems a few of the photos are of a birthday party for JC.  It looks like the good old shaving cream pie in the face.

I have a lot of Heartsfield photos and more will be coming soon but I had to scan a few today because of JC's passing.

Miss you JC, we had some good times together.

Thanks for the memories JC.

Rich Zimmermann

J C Hartsfield and the band Heartsfield having fun on J C's birthday!

July 14, 2014

Last weeks blog, was on the Babe Ruth Band at Summerfest on June 28th, 2014.

After looking at all the photos that I took, I had to share some more with you. So, enjoy 12 more images of a very fun night and let's hope they come back soon to do it all again!

I didn't mention that the Babe Ruth song, "The Mexican", has been sampled and enjoyed by the break dancing community. One of my photos last week, showed one of the break dancers on stage with Alan Shacklock's son playing DJ behind him.  Very cool stuff!

Have a great week and please join my Facebook page Rich Zimmermann Photography if you haven't already.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Janita Haan, Jenny, leading the Babe Ruth band at Summerfest on June 28th, 2014.

July 7, 2014

On June 28, 2014 we had the Babe Ruth band visit Summerfest here in Milwaukee, Wissconsin!! They came to America for one show.! Yes, they traveled all the way from England to perform the one show for us loyal fans!

I have photographed rock'n'roll for a very long time (1971) and have had the chance to meet all types of bands and rockers. Jenny, Alan and the entire Babe Ruth band are some of the nicest rockers I have ever met!!!! My request for photo credentials started weeks ago when I sent Jenny an email along with some shots of the show I photographed in 1975 when they played here with Roxy Music. Those photos are in a previous blog and are on my website.

Last week when they were here, I got together with them before the show and gave them a disc with images of the 1975 show.  They loved it and invited me to come back after the show. After their terrific performance I went backstage and had some fun with the band. Then I went with them for an autograph signing session. They were so nice to everyone and signed everything possible! Not in a big hurry, they really signed everything they could!

Enjoy the photos of my new friends.  I'm getting used to my new watermarking system. It will get better, so please bear with me as I work out the kinks. All photos are for sale on my website.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann