adrian76

awesome, downloading it now

I'll take the recording back to The Palace and make them listen to the bit where Jess told them to give me my money back... they can't ignore me then!!

A Song, if I could retire on a phat rock 'n roll photography lifestyle, I'd be the happiest person on earth. I'm hoping the day job is only around for another 12-18 months though

Pick your photo, and I'll upload it in the resolution of your choice

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Incredible photos mate. You need to send these to the band. The one of Glenn taking a bow would like brilliant on the Wilco website

Good idea, worth a try! The only email I can find is the support guys for the website... I guess that'll do

hey surround fan... sorry for being so tall!

I've just gone through and picked out another 20 shots, the well is dry now, that's the best of them.

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a big thanks for all the kind emails people are sending about the shots - it's all still pretty new to me, so the encouragement is awesome. I wasn't expecting this huge reaction, especially people wanting prints made of them. I'm organising some A4 prints now. Check the second batch of shots incase you want to change your order

adrian, where you in front of the rail or in the front row with the audience?. i was in front right in front of jeff, also taking lots of photos. there were quite a few photographers in front of the rail

I was in the crowd. The official photogs were in front of the rail, bastards, but they only got 3 songs before they were all ushered out by security. I was right in front of John, half on the step, half off it... I was pretty much rooted to the spot, so I was lucky I got as many good clear shots as I did. The folks around me were great, and didn't get in my way at all... even apologising when they bumped me. Nothing like a Wilco crowd. None of my Drones photos look the goods, so I'm glad the beer kicked in when Wilco hit the stage. I stopped thinking, and went into autopilot

20 - I don't know if it started here, but at the Wellington gig, they were taking the piss out of all the acts at "Rock2Wellington", i.e. Ozzie, Alice Cooper, Whitesnake, etc. Jeff did a good Ozzie impersonation, and Glenn stood up and did his best Heavy Metal Drummer impersonation.

 

So what's the deal? Are you a professional rock photog? These photos are incredible!!!

Jeff did whip out his tongue and roll his eyes back during Spiders... I'll go through the photos and see if I caught him in rock bliss

Thanks, I am trying! I've been shooting local bands in pubs around Melbourne for the last 3-4 months. Most times I'll just rock up to a show, take photos then send it to the bands. If payment comes, it's normally in the form of free entry and beer... I guess that makes me a semi-professional I'm hoping that I can start doing it for a real.. non beer-based living in the next year or two.

so what are the stories behind

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your photos are great!

12 - Jeff was foolin' with his hat all night, taking it off the rapturous applause and bowing to people. I was too busy trying to get the photo to absorb the context of the hat on the heart

20 - Awesome moment, where Jeff and Glenn were trying to figure out when and how to kick off what I believe was Hate it Here. They fumbled it a few time, Jeff made a crack about it, And Glenn hopped up for a good 20 seconds of fan love while he posed

22 - It was an all request show, and someone from stage right yelled out "Kamera!"... Jeff said that noone had voted for it on the website. I immediately corrected him... saying that I'd picked it. (Got cheeky and hedged my bets - Pot Kettle Black voted from home, Kamera from work), and he said "well, you were the only one then". I'm pretty sure that photo was the hat dip after the "give that man his money back!"

Spectacular show, but I'll leave the posting of the setlist and review to the experts...

Photos from last night, taken with a Nikon D80, pretty much front and centre. Apologies to anyone I nudged trying to get an angle on a shot... I reeled off 1000+ photos in the 3 hours, here are the highlights

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