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Friday, June 12, 2009
Last Night / Photo Shellac at the Vera Project
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Shellac plays Vera again tonight (and it's today's Stranger Suggest).
All photos by Rabid Child Images, see more here.
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great show, but this photographer was fucking annoying. I am tired of all these "photographers" all up at every show throwing the cameras up in the air with the flashes going off every 2 seconds. i was hoping albini would slap that stupid fuck in his face... but no, it never happened. holding you fancy digital camera above the crowd and clicking away doesn't make you a artist, it makes you annoying, so knock it the fuck off. there were a dozen "photographers" all trying to get a pic of a legend for the shitty flickr portfolio. fffuuuuucccckkkkk oooooffffff!
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I think Steve did have a few words with him between songs (after his initial round of "I'm gonna get up on stage and pop flashes in Steve Albini's face"), because he seemed to mellow out after a bit.
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The same thing happened at Bat for Lashes, and this one photographer kept walking back and forth across the front of the stage elbowing people. Taking a few pictures is cool but why do you have to take non-stop photos through the entire set? It's not like there are costume changes. Relax and actually enjoy the show, don't watch the whole thing through your camera lens. It's kind of pathetic that people seem to go to things just to take photos these days.
Also, there's no such thing as saving floor space. If your friend left to go get a drink, she needs to squeeze her way back up front and find herself a new place to stand. It's a rock show, not a play.
Also, there's no such thing as saving floor space. If your friend left to go get a drink, she needs to squeeze her way back up front and find herself a new place to stand. It's a rock show, not a play.
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Just wanted to post to agree with everyone in this thread, and the entire world. Take a few pictures, fine. But the flash going off ALL FUCKING SET is REALLY ANNOYING.
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I am sorry to anyone that has a problem with flash photography at a rock show. It is never my intention to piss people off while I am taking pictures. Also I put a lot of work in to what I do in hopes that it will benefit the Seattle music scene, the bands and the venues. I do this for free most of the time. As in we are all in this together. I did talk to Todd Trainer, the amazing drummer before the show and told him that I would be taking pics for some local music blogs, his reply was “have at it, snap away”. I guess I got a little carried away and got too close to Mr. Albini’s face, but I promise I made my best effort to snap a pic, then get out of the way. I got down off of the stage at the first cue from the sound guy and Steve did ask me nicely not to get on stage again. If he had asked me to erase every picture on my memory card I would have. I also raised the ISO on my camera as to make for the smallest flash possible to get photos. I think I took a total of 5 photos that were around 3 feet away from Steve Albini. I honestly didn’t think hopping on stage for less then one song to snap a few pics would bother people. I’ve been in bands all of my life and I would be the first one to pick up the mic stand if it got knocked over or do anything to help the band out. I did not mean to seem disrespectful. I’ve always feared that the bands and crowd might be bothered by the way I shoot, and I’ve talked to a lot of bands about it and none of them said that it bothered them. This is the first negative feedback I have received. Point taken guys. Again sorry.
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To all you haterade drinking snobs who are so annoyed by a kid snapping pictures, how do you function in any normal public interaction? Oh right, this is Seattle where everyone passive-aggressively "stays out of each other's way" and tries to avoid any sort of meaningful human contact. Let it go. Maybe you can only enjoy yourselves by hating. And that's not rude at all, is it? Or hypocritical? Naw. That's acceptable. Because you can hide behind a blog comment.
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#6 - I know Charles Peterson. I've worked with him and I've watched him at work. You, sir, are no Charles Peterson.
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i bet you douches didnt even tap your toes when "copper" was played. i wasnt even there, but i dont care where i am when i hear that song, im going to totes be jumping off furniture/your face when i hear it. couldnt imagine what i would do if they were shredding in my face. p.s. you know you were trying to find yourself in those pics to make it your facebook defaults.
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#10 What is "ballsy" about sticking your camera up someone's ass as they're doing all the work? It's just annoying to everyone else at the show. Seattle passive aggression be damned, "photographers" in this city need to learn to cut that shit out sometimes.
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True story:
I went to see Shellac at Neumo's (before it was Neumo's and after Moe's). Area 51?
I had my video camera with me and was shooting the show from the middle of the crowd. After the fourth song Bob Weston put his bass down, came down in the audience and took my video camera from me.
He was pissed and lectured me from the stage about how "it's always some guy working on a 'project'" adding that I could have the camera back after the show but not the tape.
Fair enough I thought. Dude doesn't want his performance taped that's his call.
After the show my friend went up to talk to him and while he did that I snatched the camera and the tape back.
Can you imagine in this day of YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK and CAMERA PHONES anyone giving a shit?
Anyways, the show was awesome and I still have that footage.
Epic fail Weston.
Advantage me.
I went to see Shellac at Neumo's (before it was Neumo's and after Moe's). Area 51?
I had my video camera with me and was shooting the show from the middle of the crowd. After the fourth song Bob Weston put his bass down, came down in the audience and took my video camera from me.
He was pissed and lectured me from the stage about how "it's always some guy working on a 'project'" adding that I could have the camera back after the show but not the tape.
Fair enough I thought. Dude doesn't want his performance taped that's his call.
After the show my friend went up to talk to him and while he did that I snatched the camera and the tape back.
Can you imagine in this day of YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK and CAMERA PHONES anyone giving a shit?
Anyways, the show was awesome and I still have that footage.
Epic fail Weston.
Advantage me.
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@14: Someone asked why he doesn't do that anymore, and Steve made fun of him and basically said he's not as slender and active as he was back then.
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Both shows were excellent. Some of the better Shellac Shows I've attended.
Question the first: Moreso on Thursday, why the fuck did you people insist on shouting at every lull or quiet moment? You're not funny, nor clever, nor iconoclastic...just douches.
Question the second: who was the fat bearded balding dude standing behind me on Friday night (kinda stage right, about 3-4 'rows' back) who kept jumping up and down like a giddy school girl and rubbing his sweaty man-tits on me?
On Photography: as a former photography professor, I can assure you that there is nothing special about any of the concert pics I'm seeing. Great, another black and white image of some dude playing a guitar. Next week you're gonna bring in a picture of a tattered doll left on the side of the road. There is an important difference between capturing images and making meaningful contributions. I view show photography as essentially to same calling as wedding photography. The death of film, and its inherent real-world costs, have been a factor in this photography becoming infinitely more annoying. When a roll of Fujichrome cost $7, and developing was another $10, everyone was a lot more careful about the quantity of images, and worked much harder to get their shooting ratio up to at least 1:3. That is to say, everyone worked hard to think about what shots they took, took many fewer, and therefore annoyed the rest of us much less.
Question the first: Moreso on Thursday, why the fuck did you people insist on shouting at every lull or quiet moment? You're not funny, nor clever, nor iconoclastic...just douches.
Question the second: who was the fat bearded balding dude standing behind me on Friday night (kinda stage right, about 3-4 'rows' back) who kept jumping up and down like a giddy school girl and rubbing his sweaty man-tits on me?
On Photography: as a former photography professor, I can assure you that there is nothing special about any of the concert pics I'm seeing. Great, another black and white image of some dude playing a guitar. Next week you're gonna bring in a picture of a tattered doll left on the side of the road. There is an important difference between capturing images and making meaningful contributions. I view show photography as essentially to same calling as wedding photography. The death of film, and its inherent real-world costs, have been a factor in this photography becoming infinitely more annoying. When a roll of Fujichrome cost $7, and developing was another $10, everyone was a lot more careful about the quantity of images, and worked much harder to get their shooting ratio up to at least 1:3. That is to say, everyone worked hard to think about what shots they took, took many fewer, and therefore annoyed the rest of us much less.
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Props to Rabid Child Images. What they do is exactly what you want from a photographer, local or otherwise. For those of you who haven't worked in concert promotions, it's pretty much standard procedure to allow photogs to be up front shooting for the first 1-3 songs (depending on the stipulations of the artist). Being that he was granted clearance by a band member, he went in and took photos. It's what he does, and it's how you get to see what the show was like when you weren't there.
The notion of a photographer being "fucking annoying" is a testament to the selfishness of a lot of concertgoers these days. Get off your high horses, enjoy the rock, and stopp being such a bunch of babies.
The notion of a photographer being "fucking annoying" is a testament to the selfishness of a lot of concertgoers these days. Get off your high horses, enjoy the rock, and stopp being such a bunch of babies.
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