March 18, 2019
Glad to see our snow is finally melting around here!! Just needs to get a bit warmer.
I have redone my photos of TheTubes in 1975 with new software. In these pictures they are playing in Milwaukee.
They are a fun band and a great show. Their new tour starts April 4 in St. Charles, IL. Catch them if you can. It will be worth it and fun I guarantee!
Check them out here in 1975!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
February 18, 2019
I first met Linda Ronstadt in a locker room/dressing room in 1972 when I was 17 years old! I then took one of my favorite photographs ever! That black and white photo is with Ramblin' Jack Elliott listening to her warm up before she went on stage.
I've been working on some photos of Linda Ronstadt from 1972 and 1980 lately for something coming up!
Other than that picture, these are photos from 1980 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Always have loved Linda's talented voice. She has sung just about every type of music I believe other than opera in her long career.
Not sure on the band here but I think the main guitar player is Danny Kortchmar. Any help in identifying the band would be appreciated.
Enjoy the photos.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
February 4, 2019
Hope everyone has been staying warm with our cold winter weather! Do you think Mother Nature may be angry with us?
I covered the opening of the U.S. WorldWired tour of Metallica that was in Madison, Wisconsin last September in a previous blog.
Recently, I realized that I forgot to show you the Milwaukee tour stop of Metallica on October 16, 2018 at the FiServ Forum. I've been too busy with this thing called life I guess.
Here are a few of the photos of that amazing Metallica show. The stage and production design by our Milwaukee friend, Dan Braun, is just incredible!!
Check out the boys and this tour if possible to see in action the kinetic cubes above the stage. Four of the cubes rise from within the round stage and become drum kits for all four guys to play.
Stay warm!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
January 21, 2019
It's finally winter here in Wisconsin! We got about 6" of snow the other night and it's beautiful outside!
My last blog was about Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac in 1987 without Lindsey Buckingham. Here we have Lindsey Buckingham at Summerfest in 2007 without Fleetwood Mac! He did a solo tour then like he is doing right now.
Lindsey has a great voice and I think he is even better at playing guitar. The guitars he used here were Turner guitars that looked a bit modified if you look closely. Great sounds out of these guitars with the master playing them on a nice night at Summerfest.
Enjoy and stay warm.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
January 7, 2019
Happy New Year everyone!!! Hope you all had a great holiday season.
This week we look at Fleetwood Mac way back when in 1987 when Lindsey Buckingham was not yet part of the group.
It's similar to what Fleetwood Mac is like now without Lindsey. For me, he really was the heart of the band. Well, maybe after Peter Green and Bob Welch that is!
So, check out Stevie Nicks, Billy Burnette, Rick Vito, Christine McVie and of course Mick Fleetwood. This was a cold night in 1987 at Alpine Valley Music Theater here in Wisconsin.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
December 24, 2018
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
This is my last blog of 2018 and it has been an amazing year in my world of photography. I've been very busy with some awesome projects. Here are a few highlights.
One of my photographs is in a book on Jethro Tull! I have a two page spread in Neil Preston's photo book on Led Zeppelin! There is a photograph of mine of Al Kooper in the documentary "If I Leave Here Tomorrow" about Lynyrd Skynyrd!! Thanks to all people involved with these projects.
Presently, I am working on a Roxy Music project that I hope will work out and can share with you soon. Until then, take a look at these pictures of Roxy Music at the Riverside Theater on February 26, 1975.
Babe Ruth and StarCastle also played that show. Babe Ruth people have become friends and I was lucky enough to photograph them at Summerfest a few years back. Those pictures are on my website.
Roxy Music and Brian Ferry have always been one of my favorite bands. Brian has such a unique sounding voice.
Thanks, and I'll talk to you next year.
Rich Zimmermann
December 10, 2018
Today, we are looking at Neil Young from a show that I photographed at the Milwaukee Auditorium on January 5, 1973.
I posted some of these photos in blog #26 way back in 2012 when I was first starting up my blog.
Software is better now so I rescanned the negatives and touched them up with the new and improved Lightroom.
I'm discovering that my old black and white negatives are disintegrating more and more. Lightroom helps but I could spend hours on some of these photos. I do exactly that when they are ordered as a print for your home or office.
This show was just a few months after Neil Young's guitar player, Danny Whitten, had passed away. The name of the band at that time I think was Crazy Horse but I have found two other possible names! Could be The Stray Gators or The Santa Monica Flyers. I'm not sure.
The band was so good. You can see in the pictures that they were drinking Michelob. Rumor is that before Heineken became the staple of every band, Michelob was the beer of choice.
Enjoy a look at the boys a few years back.
A couple 2019 calendars are left yet and if you are interested, just let me know. Forty dollars includes shipping and each month is a frameable photo of a musician on his birthday month.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann