On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23/3/09, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>> >>> <http://www.cottysnaps.com/fatcat.html> >> >>Great stuff. I can feel the emotion of the music as I look at these. > > Frank, you're f*cking star mate. That's made my day!
My favorite "concerts" are played in smallish pubs and bars by musicians crammed together on tiny stages. When one is 10 feet from the musicians you can "feel" the music in a way that just doesn't happen in a larger venue. When I was a kid I went to rock concerts at stadia of various sizes - I think 70,000 at Rich Stadium in Buffalo to see Yes was the largest I went to - and from the 50 yard line at ground level the stage looked like a postage stamp. Sure the music was loud (my ears rang for days afterwards) but there wasn't a whiff of emotion to be felt - mind you it ~was~ Yes, so there wasn't a lot of emotion to be felt from the outset. A rather pleasant side-effect of my changing musical tastes has been that much of what I like (jazz, blues, folk, a bit of indy-rock, small chambre orchestras) is played by smallish combos playing in intimate spaces. You've captured that intimacy and emotion so well! That's why I liked your photos. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
