Pat and Lee Reach 20,000 views

May 21, 2015     band, bands, bar, blues, D7000, Foo Fighters, m43, micro 4/3, music, Nikon, olympus, omd, photography, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll     0

I am making an assumption here that the 7 people who read this blog already know what Death or Glory is and what my roll is with it. If not, please check out some of the previous posts. Pat Smear and Lee Ving were the guests on the first episode of Death or Glory and…

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Death or Glory #7

April 6, 2015     Acoustic, band, bands, bar, black and white, blues, D7000, friends, long beach, los angeles, low light, m43, micro 4/3, music, Nikon, olympus, omd, photography, portrait project, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, san diego     0

I guess I’m going backwards, I posted episode #8 last week … Here’s Death or Glory #7 with Derwood Andrews from Generation X and Casey Chaos from Amen. In my mind, this episode epitomizes what Death or Glory is. It’s not an interview show, it’s a conversation between 2 people with interesting stories and you…

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Big Deal …

March 25, 2015     art gallery, band, bands, bar, black and white, Black Flag, Blasters, blues, building, Captain Sensible, crowd, D7000, Dave Alvin, descendents, downtown, downtown la, family, filmage, fisheye, FLAG, flash, flowers, Foo Fighters, friends, gallery, graffiti, haze, hollywood, iggy, iggy and the stooges, iggy pop, in-store, long beach, los angeles, low light, m43, micro 4/3, music, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, Phil Alvin, phonography, photo pass, photography, portrait, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, roots, soul, The Damned, true crime, venue     4

While I am merely an unpaid hired gun set photographer, I feel very attached to Death or Glory. Recently, I assisted in putting on an event at Angel City Brewery called “Steal Music Buy Art” or SMBA for short. SMBA was created to debut 4 episodes of Death or Glory but became so much more….

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I would pay you a dollar to play dollar.

February 6, 2015     alex's bar, band, bands, bar, bixby, black and white, blues, bourbon, buffalo trace, california heights, crowd, D7000, family, friends, long beach, los angeles, low light, m43, micro 4/3, missed shot, motion, music, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, photo pass, photography, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, Rocket From The Crypt, signal hill, soul, tiki     2

Rocket From The Crypt played a 2 night stand at Alex’s Bar on January 30 and 31, 2015. They were great, playing different sets each night, and spanning their massive catalog. I’m sure everyone there left satisfied, hot, sweaty and tired … I also assume everyone there left bummed that they didn’t get the hear…

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On Line Gallery for ArtExchange show in Long Beach

November 7, 2014     alex's bar, Alvin, art gallery, band, bands, bar, black and white, Blasters, blues, Captain Sensible, D7000, Dave Alvin, exhibition, filmage, fingerprints, fisheye, FLAG, Foo Fighters, friends, gallery, garage, hollywood, iggy, iggy and the stooges, iggy pop, in-store, ink n iron, long beach, los angeles, low light, m43, micro 4/3, Moorpark, Naked Raygun, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, Phil Alvin, photo pass, photography, Pizza, punk, punk rock, Queen Mary, Redballs, Rock and Roll, rock show, soul, The Alarm, The Damned, The Living End     0

Here are the photos that I’m showing at ArtExchange Holiday Salon (Nov 8 – Jan 15). Opening is Nov 8 at 6:00pm – I hope to see you there. I had all of the photos framed by the incomparable Dick McCoy (except the 11″ x 17″s). They are all framed with a square black molding…

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On Line Gallery for Los Angeles Punk Museum show

November 5, 2014     alex's bar, Alvin, art gallery, band, bands, bar, black and white, Blasters, blues, Captain Sensible, crowd, D7000, Dave Alvin, downtown, downtown la, exhibition, festival, fisheye, iggy, iggy and the stooges, iggy pop, in-store, ink n iron, long beach, los angeles, low light, m43, micro 4/3, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, Phil Alvin, photo pass, photography, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, The Damned, venue     0

I currently have 8 photos in the Los Angeles Punk Museum show at The Stockroom in (Silverlake) Los Angeles, CA. The show runs through Nov 8, 2014 and included some really cool stuff. Great photos, Punk Rock Cartoons, Paintings, Clothing, Original Sex Pistols posters, movies, rock shows … It’s great … All of my photos…

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honky tonk your face off

June 13, 2014     band, bands, blues, downtown, fingerprints, in-store, long beach, micro 4/3, music, olympus, omd, Phil Alvin, photo pass, photography     0

Dave and Phil Alvin played an in-store at Fingerprints Record Shop in Long Beach on Tuesday 6/10/14. They were great! I was lucky enough to get a good spot in front of the stage and shoot some photos. One of the photos of Phil reminds me of the cover of the Blasters LP, it looks…

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Bell Bottoms!!

April 18, 2014     band, bands, bar, black and white, blues, crowd, D7000, echo park, fisheye, hollywood, los angeles, low light, m43, micro 4/3, motion, music, Nikon, olympus, omd, orange, photo pass, photography, punk, punk rock, soul, the echo     0

I’ve seen the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion a few times – mostly back in the 1990’s … But I have to say, Wednesday night (4/17/14) at The Echo in LA, they were awesome. They have not lost a step. They were bar sludgy, swamp boogey, punk rock, or something like that. It was dirty and…

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I never saw the Golden Gate Bridge

April 10, 2014     band, bands, black and white, blues, bourbon, bridge, crowd, downtown, food, friends, m43, micro 4/3, night, olympus, omd, photo pass, photography, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, Rocket From The Crypt, soul     0

That’s true. We were in San Francisco for 4 days and never saw the Golden Gate Bridge. We didn’t see Fisherman’s Wharf, Ghirradelli Square, we didn’t even see a cable car! We did get to see great friends (though we missed a few of those too), great bands, we ate great food and had a…

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