This year was pretty epic for me as a music photojournalist. In addition to this blog, I also shot for Pancakes & Whiskey and QRO Magazine. I attended 83 shows in total although it seemed like so many more. The shows are in date order since it would be impossible for me to rank them …
It Begins
While I attended an REM concert at Jones Beach in 2003 and an Erasure concert at Irving Plaza in 2005, it wasn't until I attended two Robin Hood Foundation shows that I caught the concert bug. The first was a Rolling Stones show at Radio City Music Hall. The B52s opened and the crowd didn't …
A Late Start
I didn't attend many concerts when I was younger. Besides a few one-off concerts back in the 80s and 90s, I didn't start really going to concerts until the mid-2000s. Perhaps it's my mid-life crisis, concerts being my sports car or motorcycle. Either way, the number of concerts have grown from once a year back …