It Takes Three
It takes three - Los Lonely Boys - Taos Solar Music Festival
By rights I should be posting one of the images that I shot today in the Taos Ski Valley but I couldn’t choose between them. Today’s images are posted in the New Mexico 2010 gallery, starting with the aspens shown in the thumbnail on the right. For the promised daily post while on vacation here instead is another shot from Sunday’s Los Lonely Boys show at the Taos Solar Music Festival.
There are more dramatic and better quality images that I could have posted here but I wanted to make the point that Los Lonely Boys is made up of three brothers and not just the two with guitars. It is the nature of things, when photographing bands from in front of the stage, that the drummer gets left out of the action. Too far back on the stage, hidden by the kit, fogged in with smoke, and blocked by the guitarists, the drummer is the foundation of the music but not the photograph portfolio. But heck, doesn’t the music gene run strong in this family!
I shot a little over 200 frames on Sunday night; that will edit down to maybe a dozen worth showing. I will leave the selection until after our New Mexico trip is over and set up a separate gallery for them on the main site rather than rushing the job and burying them into the middle of the already too large New Mexico 2010 collection.
Nan in VT:
A great photo of the Garza Brothers… ALL 3 of them! And, thanks for reminding people that every band’s foundation is indeed the drummer! All three, Henry, Jojo, and Ringo, are fine musicians and should get equal billing. But as you pointed out, the drummers position, even if on a riser, is the worst for photographing! I have hundreds of shots of The Boys that I’ve taken over the years, and we always lament that it’s nearly impossible to get Ringo’s sweet face up there.
July 1, 2010, 6:29 am