moe. @ Historic Ashland Armory (March 3, 2013)

Earlier moe. photos from the Ashland Armory can be found here.

Posted on March 6th, 2013 under only in ashland, people, places. Tags: concert photography, Historic Ashland Armory, moe., music, Nikon D600, sigma 85mm f/1.4. Comments Off on More moe. (alt spellings “Mo Moe.” or simply “moe. moe.”)

moe. played in Ashland last night for the first time. It was my first time seeing them, but I met a guy in the audience from New York who was at his 61st moe. concert!

Rob Derhak of moe. sat through the evening with his right leg in a cast

Setlist (March 3, 2013) moe. @ Ashland Armory

Chuck Garvey of moe. @ the Historic Ashland Armory in Oregon

Posted on March 4th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, Historic Ashland Armory, moe., music, Nikon D600, sigma 85mm f/1.4. Comments: 1

Sarcalogos @ Club 66 – Ashland, Oregon (2/27/13)

Last night saw the return of metal to Ashland after about a four year break. Sarcalogos kicked off their West Coast tour at Club 66. Tonight they play in Eureka, California. The rest of the short tour is as follows:
Friday, March 1 in Oakland @ The Pink String
Saturday, March 2 in Fresno @ CYC
Sunday, March 3 in Las Vegas @ Favorites
and Tuesday, March 5 in San Francisco @ Casa Sanchez

If you are anywhere near one of these places, head on over to the venue for an evening you won’t soon forget.

Posted on February 28th, 2013 under only in ashland, people, places. Tags: club 66, concert photography, music, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, sarcalogos. Comments Off on Sarcalogos @ Club 66

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.

Posted on January 20th, 2013 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, major jones, music, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, Nikon D600, video. Comments Off on Major Jones @ Roscoe’s BBQ

Josh Middleton of Sylosis

Last night (December 14, 2012) was the previously mentioned show featuring Lamb of God, In Flames, Hellyeah, and Sylosis at the Medford Armory.

Rob Callard on drums and sporting an Opeth t-shirt for Sylosis

Alex Bailey working his Gibson SG

Carl Parnell on bass for Sylosis

Sylosis at the Medford Armory

Posted on December 15th, 2012 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, music, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, sylosis. Comments Off on Sylosis @ Medford Armory

Tony Smiley performing on 12/6/12 at Alex’s Plaza Restaurant & Bar in Ashland, Oregon

Tony will be amazing the masses again tonight in Ashland at Taroko Pan-Pacific Bistro.

Posted on December 7th, 2012 under only in ashland, people, places. Tags: concert photography, music, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, Nikon D600, video. Comments Off on Tony Smiley – The Loop Ninja

Stoneburner was amazing at Musichead a few nights ago. I think they are coming back down from Portland in late August for another show in Medford.

Posted on July 25th, 2012 under outside of ashland, people, places. Tags: concert photography, music, musichead, nikon d7000, stoneburner pdx. Comments Off on Stoneburner @ Musichead

Musichead had three bands play last night. The fourth cancelled. First up was Exsanguination from Brookings.

Jenna Jameson drum kit

small but appreciative crowd

Posted on July 8th, 2012 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: medford, music, musichead, nikon d7000, sigma 85mm f/1.4, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X 116 Pro DX Autofocus Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Exsanguination @ Musichead

Robert Ellis

In New York City in the summer they have a series of (mostly free) concerts called SummerStage. My wife wanted to see Alabama Shakes. I wasn’t planning on taking photos, but I was heading over to Citi Field in Queens to catch the Mets and Yankees game later in the day so I had my camera with long lenses in the bag.

Ryan Chavez on drums

The first band on the bill was Robert Ellis. We weren’t very close to the stage, but with a crop sensor DSLR (Nikon D7000), 70-200mm lens, and 1.7X teleconverter, I didn’t need to be to take these shots.

Geoffrey Muller, bass

Wil Van Horn, pedal steel guitar

Kelly Doyle, guitar

Posted on July 3rd, 2012 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Teleconverter TC-17E 1.7X II for Nikon, concert photography, music, new york, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, nikon d7000. Comments Off on Robert Ellis (& The Boys)