C'mon Don, MAN up, you're not going to let a bunch of international copyright lawyers stop you from having fun are you.
Concert report. NB -from a photographer's point of view, lest I offend the die-hard fans....
Damn. That was the most excruciating, longest 10 minute of my life. (they kick the photogs out after 2 songs) It was like photographing a couple of shop manikins on valium (them- not me, although I could have used some drugs) from a prime position beside the mixing desk, which was somewhere back between the men's room and the car-park. Yes, I was so faraway the punters around me had only paid $300 ea for their seats.
I did get the shot of the night though. Halfway through the second dirge, Arthur -the other old one, the one with the bottle-orange hair- raised his right arm beatifically during the chorus. A ripple of excitement passed through the photographers, and our shutters clattered frantically.
If I HAD been shooting Kodachrome, my exposure would have been about an hour and a quarter at 2.8. On digi, I cranked things up to 3200 iso to get times down to a 60th. It was camera movement I was most concerned about- God knows it was pretty static on stage!
In fairness they were probably building towards an ear bleeding, rockin on, crowd surfing, mosh-mosh version of
Bridge Over Troubled Waters in the encore, but if they didn't get there fast they risked the crowd falling asleep first. As I filed out of the room Simon was just cranking into
I am a Rock and I couldn't help but agree with him.
