July 30, 2012

In 1971, Queen, one of the world's greatest rock'n'roll bands was formed.  Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon traveled the world extensively touring through the years.

On March 7, 1975, I had the pleasure of photographing Queen at the Uptown Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  The night before they played Chicago and the night after Milwaukee they played Madison, Wisconsin heading west. 

For me it was a very memorable show.  I was photographing from the orchestra pit in front of the stage which was filled with equipment cases from the band.  During one of the songs they used a fog machine to fog the stage.  The orchestra pit and the front of the stage were filled with fog.  It was beautiful and I tried to get the perfect shot by moving over to the left a little on my knees.  I proceded to fall about 4 feet down off of an equipment case going off the edge of the case!  I was fine, the camera was fine and no one saw a thing because of the fog!  It was worth it too because the shot was exactly what I was trying to get.

I just got back up and kept on photographing like nothing happened and I will never forget that incident.

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