I never ask. you know, when you walk into a record store and ask “what are you playing?” and then proceed to buy that record. (Just as it plays out in High Fidelity [link].) well, ok, there was this one time, when I walked into Tower Records (Mountain View) and the CD for Script of…
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IBTABA Nº 45 — Bill Callahan ( Smog )
In Nº 42, I mentioned that there was a “Set List Incident”, which was an innocent grab… which came to a plot twist at this gig. the gig, as the one in Nº 42, was excellent, and seeing it at a smaller club was great. the Set Lists are not that interesting, though there is…
IBTABA Nº 42 — Bill Callahan ( Smog )
another memorable Bill Callahan gig… whereby the album and the concert are complementary, though not quite as large a gap as the previous tour concerts with Jim White. this time, a more minimal band,consisting of Neal Morgan and Matt Kinsey and quite impressive in their performance of Apocalypse and the flavor it gave to his…
IBTABA Nº 41 — Crystal Stilts
(an alternate photo with Brad Hargett is posted to Instagram, doing the but the microphone is in focus thing… thus to be used later on a Essay post. )finally, a proper gig with Crystal Stilts. that first time was at a cafeteria, and this one was a proper club, with the fantastic second album being…
IBTABA Nº 40 — Sad Lovers and Giants ( Garçe Allard )
this was an epic gig. full stop, but I should really expand. first, musically, among my favorite bands, and I was finally able to catch them: so lucky to fly from San Francisco to Berlin. it was just fantastic, as any long time expectation (20+ years in the making). photographically, it was also the culmination,…
IBTABA Nº 37 — winfred E. eye
not only were these series of concerts great, but it was very formative— as I can see from the photos taken. more importantly, was using Aaron as a portrait subject… and then the ability to be close enough to see how the “but the microphone is in focus” [ link ] approach. it would be…
IBTABA Nº 35 — winfred E. eye ( Aaron Calvert )
an alternate is posted to Instagram [ link ]— in which it closes in on the aspect of it being a portrait, as opposed to a concert event. and yes, that is the key, and it would not be out of consideration, in hindsight due to this process, that the evolution was to go away…
IBTABA Nº 34 — Tortoise
I didn’t remember taking this photo. at the Tortoise concerts I would always stand near John Herndon, as I am always enthralled by his style and energy. while a more “proper concert” photo was posted to Instagram [ link ], this more-portrait-like photo is in line with how I see this revisit of the concert…
IBTABA Nº 33 — winfred E. eye ( Aaron Calvert )
one of my most favorite concert photos— perhaps the first of its kind up to this moment. certainly there was a hint with the Bill Callahan photograph in Nº 6, but here it is in a form that came to be remembered in future concerts as something to chase. well, it is not quite possible…
IBTABA Nº 32 — winfred E. eye
back to Bottom of the Hill— which I found to be a great venue, and as usual for most of them, if not packed. having first found out about the band in 2003, or so, when they opened for Black Heart Procession at the Great American Music Hall, I lost track of the band as…
IBTABA Nº 31 — A Place To Bury Strangers
this was a great concert performance— perhaps the best show I saw of APTBS. there were a few peripherals things of note: 1. strobe lights! I had not photographed concerts with strobe lights before, and had to figure out a way on the spot on how to handle it (using burst shots); 2. I spotted…
IBTABA Nº 29 — winfred E. eye
two groups would welcome me as a “regular”— and winfred E. eye was one of them. I would go to see them as often as I could, and it was a fantastic learning experience because they would play clubs, such as El Rio, and challenge me as to how to approach concert photography. in particular,…
Box of Fallen Leaves 
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