image: School of HONK - Street Parade!
Live Music Photography Since 1978 in and around the Greater Boston Area
Hello and thanks for visiting. Basically, this is a gathering of all the images I've made of musicians in my life. Around the time that the pandemic stopped things for me in the music world, I decided to look over my film negatives and slides to decide which ones to have scanned. To date I've had some 5000 or so scanned. Eventually I'll post them here, for folks to enjoy.
My website is completely a labor of love and a work in process. I'm hurriedly posting them here to avoid leaving this world without some trace of my hobby. And while I have no immediate plans to go away, I believe lots of folks leave without a plan. I'm posting a lot of not-yet-edited images, a sin to some. Given enough time, they'll be prettied up.
In some instances the images are just bad, as is the case with Floyd Dixon. But I only saw him once, so you get all that I have to share. And in other cases, I've photographed a band so often that the portfolio is massive. At any rate, enjoy.
The easiest way to maneuver through this site is to go to the directory page and get linked to my alphabetical listings. As I've created this page on my own, I did what I think made the most sense.
If you've been to a live music event, most specifically blues and jazz, than chances are our paths have crossed. On my Directory page you'll find a listing of many of the venues, and events I've attended. Elsewhere you'll find copies of my scanned ticket stubs, items I've collected whenever I got a ticket with info on it. There's a few from Johnny D's and Jonathan Swifts, the two venues I've visited most often and two venues that rarely supplied tickets with the artists' name on them.
I've had a blast and I got to know a lot of really great people. I couldn't possibly tell you how many shows I've been to in all those years. Some nights, mostly in the 1980's and into part of the 1990s, I would attend three different shows in a night. Ed Burke's used to be open until two, which meant a late night stop there.
I've had my share of funny experiences, and have even walked home from shows, broke... on two occasions [Johnny Winter at Paradise and Johnny Clyde Copeland at Ed Burke's]. I wouldn't exchange my life with anybody!
My website is completely a labor of love and a work in process. I'm hurriedly posting them here to avoid leaving this world without some trace of my hobby. And while I have no immediate plans to go away, I believe lots of folks leave without a plan. I'm posting a lot of not-yet-edited images, a sin to some. Given enough time, they'll be prettied up.
In some instances the images are just bad, as is the case with Floyd Dixon. But I only saw him once, so you get all that I have to share. And in other cases, I've photographed a band so often that the portfolio is massive. At any rate, enjoy.
The easiest way to maneuver through this site is to go to the directory page and get linked to my alphabetical listings. As I've created this page on my own, I did what I think made the most sense.
If you've been to a live music event, most specifically blues and jazz, than chances are our paths have crossed. On my Directory page you'll find a listing of many of the venues, and events I've attended. Elsewhere you'll find copies of my scanned ticket stubs, items I've collected whenever I got a ticket with info on it. There's a few from Johnny D's and Jonathan Swifts, the two venues I've visited most often and two venues that rarely supplied tickets with the artists' name on them.
I've had a blast and I got to know a lot of really great people. I couldn't possibly tell you how many shows I've been to in all those years. Some nights, mostly in the 1980's and into part of the 1990s, I would attend three different shows in a night. Ed Burke's used to be open until two, which meant a late night stop there.
I've had my share of funny experiences, and have even walked home from shows, broke... on two occasions [Johnny Winter at Paradise and Johnny Clyde Copeland at Ed Burke's]. I wouldn't exchange my life with anybody!
