One Night at the Roxy
March 30 2021I threatened to do this in the last post so I might as well go ahead and do it.
I don’t know if there’s such a thing as one perfect concert. But I know what it feels like to have a really good show with cameras in hand. One night a few years ago I had one of those nights with the All-American Rejects at the Roxy in West Hollywood, CA. It was a show for winners of a KROQ contest and I’d been off the road for about five months because I’d started my job at David LaChapelle’s Los Angeles studio. Then I got the call, want to come shoot? YES. PLEASE.
I loved learning from David, don’t get me wrong, but in the time I worked for him I made very little art of my own. I hadn’t picked up a camera that I wasn’t handing to him in months. I poured every bit of backlogged creative energy into that show. And the band was really enjoying the intimate venue after arenas and large venues. The Roxy’s capacity is 500 people. I had to pick a spot and stay there, there are no photos of Chris. It was a miracle that I fought the die hards who’d dialed till they couldn’t see straight to get tickets, a backline tech basically had to toss me a rope and pull me to the front. This was the spot so I guess no drum photos. But the room was alive and everyone in there knew it, and there was just glitter absolutely everywhere. I exercised some I haven’t made my own art demons that night with some friends in front of me playing one of those shows where everything is going right. So anyway, here’s those photos. Click/tap on a photo to expand it.
