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Photomerge from Mt. Ashland
Today’s pic is from this past weekend when I did some snowshoeing on Mt. Ashland. I took 7 vertical photos and put them together to come up with this one horizontal one. Doing such makes Mt. Shasta (to the left of center between the trees) and the rocks on my right look much smaller than they actually looked at the time. I’ll post individual photos of what Shasta and the rocks really looked like in a later entry.
Raptor – Thrash Metal band from Portland, Oregon @ Musichead (2/21/13)
Also playing at Musichead this past Thursday night were the thrashers from Portland known as Raptor.
Scotlin Duncan of Bloodlust @ Musichead (Medford, Oregon 2/21/13)
Bloodlust, something of a Venom cover band but with several originals thrown in the mix, were also on the bill Thursday night in Medford.
Randy Settles of Bloodlust
Minerva Gonzales of Bloodlust
Bloodlust @ Musichead
Witch Cult @ Musichead
Last night’s bill at Musichead in Medford featured five bands. Witch Cult got things started. They play in Ashland this next Wednesday night.
Wehrmacht @ Musichead (2/21/13)
Wehrmacht began their West Coast tour last night in Medford. Tonight they play in Oakland at the Oakland Metro Operahouse. Saturday night they open for Sacred Reich in West Hollywood.
Marco “Sharko” Zorich – Shark (guitar) Attack
Members of Witch Cult hanging in the Musichead crowd (Witch Cult opened the show)
John Duffy of Wehrmacht
Good night to be a young Wehrmacht fan with a birthday
Wehrmacht setlist – Impala is the first new Wehrmacht song in over 20 years, and it was played live for the first time on this evening at Musichead
Brian Lehfeldt on drums for Wehrmacht behind another sweet Marco Sharko guitar
Eric Hezler of Wehrmacht
Attorney by day, Wehrmacht bassist by night, Shann Mortimer
More photos from this evening coming here soon…
Mount Shasta Sunrise
Today’s pic is from Mt. Ashland on an autumn morning.
U of O quad
During the two days I spent in Eugene late last week we saw almost 12 seconds of blue sky. Today’s photo (a photomerge of six photos actually) captures about half of those seconds.
If this looks familiar and you’ve never been on the campus, it may be because ESPN’s College Gameday has set up in this location on more than one occasion.
Mount Shasta – Northern California
Kyra Kelly and Zak Johnson of The Dead Americans @ Eugene, Oregon’s McDonald Theatre
Opening for Zepparella and Hells Belles earlier this month in Eugene was a local band called The Dead Americans.
Major Jones rocking Roscoe’s BBQ on 1/19/13
A friend was telling me that I would like Major Jones after happening upon them at Roscoe’s BBQ in Phoenix (between Ashland and Medford) one evening. So last night we headed up old Highway 99 to check them out. By the time they played Black Sabbath’s “Fairies Wear Boots” (about their fourth or fifth song of their nearly three hour set) I realized I had a new favorite local band to follow. Their original songs sounded great, and they covered Robin Trower, The Ramones, Cliff Burton-era Metallica (twice), Radiohead, AC/DC, and Motorhead.
(from left to right) Skinny, Matt, Travis, and Kelly of Major Jones
I had given up hope of recording video with a DSLR when the results from my D7000 were so underwhelming. I heard bad things about the audio with the D600 so I hadn’t even bothered to try. However, last night, just for kicks since I could set my camera on a table, I tried taking a couple of short video clips with the default settings and no external mic. The results came out better than my D7000 with an external mic! So now I have to consider actually trying to take decent videos with my Nikon D600 using something better than the default settings and with an external microphone.