Jay Reatard, Cola Freaks, openers @ the Brass Rail - 10/14/08

Ahhh...PBR and loud unintelligible music...what could be better?

For this show I used what I call the "stop it down and go to town" method of concert photography (courtesy of one 580ex) due to the recent sale of my 5D, which left me with no fast lens wide enough for this venue. It's not my usual style as I don't like to cover up the ambient light so much, but I don't think I would have had much luck shooting this show at narrow apertures anyway.

1. Castles (Fort Wayne, IN) incl. Omar (seen here) of All Nite Skate/Plain Crashers/Cobradick fame

I like #1 and 3. Nice action & quite nice light in #1.

i like drummer in 5. always interesting captures of public in club.
flyin v looks better in stadium held by j.hatfield

the woman on the right in #6 seems to be saying "he never used to use a flash".

why'd the 5D get sold? saving for mk II?

i like the set. best Reatard shot is 7. best capture is 5.

5 is awesome. Good stuff.

Thanks for the comments. It was a fun show...well worth staying up late on a weeknight for. Of course, it was difficult to get anything but hair for the JR set though.
As for the Flying V...I don't know about James Hatfield...how about Albert King?

narlus wrote in post #6506129
why'd the 5D get sold? saving for mk II?

Yep! ...and I miss the FF more than I thought that I would.

What an odd looking venue ... everyone just standing there with separation of audience from band ... I like it. Reminds me of the Ghostriders' Tavern where I started my band shooting career!

DwightMcCann wrote in post #6507091
What an odd looking venue ... everyone just standing there with separation of audience from band ... I like it. Reminds me of the Ghostriders' Tavern where I started my band shooting career!

There is sort of a reason for that...well, there is about a 6" rise from the floor to the "stage". But there is a better reason ...Cola Freaks do this thing where they assault members of the audience, and JR is known (more in the past than recently) for kicking/punching people who get near/on his gear...so of course audience members try to push each other into his gear.
The guy in the hat in no. 4 and the girl on the right in no. 6 both took some abuse. Note, she is holding hands with her boyfriend in no. 8, I assume to avoid being shoved into the mic stand.
But yes...it is a very odd little venue. The walls used to be lined with taxidermy animal heads...now only one boar head remains.

Check out this infamous Jay Reatard photo:
http://www.formertrans​former.com/photos/1231​3.jpg

the Whaler fan had it coming.

someone link to the youtube vid where he goes nuts in Toronto.

These are great! The use of flash is ideal, and the expressions you've captured are excellent. Nice work!

Here's that youtube video. **** starts to go down around 1:10.

http://youtube.com/wat​ch?v=tzhCiEl4RK4