Recently, Solomon Burke – a rock and roll hall of famer, and recognized icon of rock and soul music, sadly passed. I was lucky enough to catch his set at the recent Bumbershoot Festival this last month – and a set of photos featuring Mr. Burke are now on a featured gallery on SoundSpike.com.
http://www.soundspike.com/photos/307-solomon_burke_in_seattle.html
Train, rolled into Redmond, to a spectacular closing night at Marymoor(last show of the season at this gorgeous outdoor venue)…just miles from where Pat Monahan calls home, this night was just perfect…a final glorious night at the end of Seattle summer – the thousand of fans couldn’t have asked for more!
On top of that – the energy, was just beyond…take a look…
Gallery on Soundspike – http://www.soundspike.com/photos/235-train_in_seattle.html
The 2010 Seattle stop of The Flaming Lips landed at the historic Paramount Theatre (see 2009 visit here) – all that spectacular chaos packed INSIDE of a theatre, you say? Yep – and the result – utter abandon… Photographically there were a lot of things that went right, and wrong for me this night…I won’t even go into the craziness that was the exposure…the oddness of seeing the hamster ball rolling around inside the Paramount…or the confetti lining my camera bag…because, I think, you can see the craziness – words can only barely give a hint of…
To view the gallery on SoundSpike.com – see: http://www.soundspike.com/photos/259-the_flaming_lips_in_seattle.html
