The Proud, The Few, The Birthday, The Secret show

April 21, 2016     ALL, band, bands, bar, black and white, Black Flag, color, crowd, D7000, descendents, filmage, gallery, Greg Jacobs, low light, m43, micro 4/3, motion, music, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, photo pass, photography, punk, punk rock, Ribshots, Ribshots43, Rock and Roll, rock show     3

On 4/20/2016 The DESCENDENTS played a secret show at The Standing Room in Hermosa Beach for Fletcher’s 50th birthday (he’s the Pennywise dood). It was insane! They played EVERYTHING from the really old songs like Catalina to Silly Girl to Everything Sux to a few new ones that will be on their new record coming out in…

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OFF and The Descendents on the same bill?

October 2, 2014     ALL, band, bands, bar, black and white, color, crowd, D7000, descendents, Documentary Film, downtown, filmage, friends, kids, low light, m43, micro 4/3, motion, music, Nikon, olympus, omd, photo pass, photography, pomona, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, Rocket From The Crypt     4

Two of the best bands in the world played in Pomona on Sunday night. OFF! supported the Descendents. I always consider myself fortunate to score a photo pass for any show, but especially for shows like this.  I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the people responsible for getting me hooked up with the…

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going OFF! in Pomona.

October 2, 2014     ALL, band, bands, black and white, caught my eye, color, crowd, D7000, descendents, Documentary Film, downtown, filmage, FLAG, low light, m43, micro 4/3, motion, music, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, photo a day, photo pass, photography, Pizza, pomona, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, Rocket From The Crypt     9

OFF! is one of my favorite bands. 100% energy from start to finish. Their regular drummer, Mario from Rocket From The Crypt, was in the Pacific Northwest, so this is the first time I saw OFF! with Dale Crover (Melvins) … Holy CRISP (holy crisp was typo in an email I sent out last week…

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people ruin everything

October 1, 2014     Acoustic, ALL, band, bands, bar, bar pink, black and white, buffalo trace, Colorado, D7000, descendents, Documentary Film, family, long beach, m43, micro 4/3, music, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, photo pass, photography, Pizza, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, roots, san diego, travel     4

Last week, Sept 25-26, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Scott Reynolds and Chad Price. I offered to help book them a couple shows, one of which was in San Diego, so I drove them down to the show and hung out. It was a lot of fun. We got a room at…

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