I used to go to shows a lot. Not so much anymore. When I did, I usually took my camera and took photos. When I started it was with my mom’s crappy point and click 110. Later I got my own 35mm. I asked for a fully manual camera, but got a fully auto one. I went through a black and white phase while I was in art school, mainly because it was cheaper and I could develop it myself. But also because I thought it was cool.
Today I ran into a dude from an old band that I shot once. Like most bands, I never was able to give a copy of the photos to the band. It made me realize that while most all of the photos I took back then are on Flickr, people who would care to see them mostly don’t know they exist. So, here’s a blast shot into the abyss, that maybe someone will hear.
I shot almost everything that I went to. As it turns out, it was all on film (110, 35mm, Polaroid). By the time I got a digital camera, I had stopped shooting photos and had moved on to digital video (another post for another day.)
In writing this post, I realized that there are still a handful of bands that aren’t scanned/uploaded yet. I’ll get that remedied some day. I started when I was 15. My first show was Shelter and Enkindel (which was supposed to be Earth Crisis, but they crashed their van). Here’s a very small sampling of bands that I photographed.
- Hardcore bands
- By The Grace Of God
- Birthright
- Boy Sets Fire
- Punk rock
- Avail
- No Use for a Name
- Good Riddance
- Ska bands
- MU330
- Assorted Jellybeans
- Citzen Fish
- Big bands before they got that big
- Limp Bizkit
- Goldfinger
- Sugar Ray
- (and for some reason a mountain of ICP photos)
- Big bands that were hopelessly far away
- Rancid
- Rage Against the Machine
- Little hometown hero bands
- Neena Foundry
- Eiffel Tower High
- Cheese Weed
- And weird bands
- Pug
- Blaster the Rocket Boy
- Boris the Sprinkler
Originally published at: http://sbb.me/b4MX1
Shane Becker 