Good Time Willy

...at the Minnesota State Fair on Sunday, 09-05-10. I mentioned in a previous post that Mark (Willy) and his band, Good Time Willy, were going to be recording a Live CD. I'm in the process of uploading to my website over 150 photos from the party at Famous Dave's at the Fair. I posted more photos than I should but hopefully you'll get the idea of the fun time everyone was having! The stage was very small and at the start I tried to avoid as many distractions as I could, but then I decided to treat the shoot as an event. Anything went!

I want to thank all the wonderful people I met that day. As you can see from the photos everyone was getting into the music. How could you not!!

Good Time Willy (MySpace)

Good Time Willy (Facebook)

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Chuck

Chuck Ryan Photography

Sena Ehrhardt Band

This past week-end I was busy taking photos of some different bands. On Friday night, I was down at Wilebski’s Blue Saloon to see John Primer play some real Chicago blues. Excellent performace! If you ever get a chance to see John...Go! 

I bought his CD, All Original, while there.  I’ve listened to it several times this week-end while driving to different places. I’ve enjoyed it!

I posted the link to the photos of John Primer in the previous post.

On Saturday, 09-04-10, I was back down to Wilebski's to see the Sena Ehrhardt Band. I’ve never really listened to them, but I was pleasantly pleased hearing them in person.  As you can see from the photos, Sena is very photogenic. 

The sound was the best it has been since they opened in the new venue. There weren't any of the same problems as in the past few weeks. Hopefully things have been worked out.

Sunday, 09-05-10 was the Minnesota State Fair day for me. I probably haven’t been to the State Fair in 15 years. If it wasn’t for going to see a couple bands to listen to and photograph I wouldn’t have gone. There are just too many people!

I was there before noon to see Pete Neuman and the Real Deal. I saw these guys about a month ago at the Blues on the Chippewa Festival in Durand, WI. Here are some photos of them from the Blues on the Chippewa. I’ll post photos of them at the State Fair later.

Next, I went over to Famous Dave’s where I knew Good Time Willy was going to be recording a live CD. I knew Mark Williams, Willy, was going to have some fiends perform with his band. There was Bruce McCabe, Steve Clarke, Boom Boom Steve V that I knew who were going to be playing. Some others who made an appearance were Hurricane Harold Tremblay of Cool Disposition, Tom Harkness of the Swamp Kings, and John Franken. 

It was a very fun time!!!!! The crowd was awesome and I met several nice people. Different members of the band would go out into the crowd and play. You had to be there! I’m sure many of the folks are still talking about the great time everyone was having!


Photos of Good Time Willy at the Blues on the Chippewa.

After Good Time Willy I walked back over to the DNR stage to see Pete Neuman’s  last set before going to see Alison Scott. I figured since I was at the Fair I may as well go over and take a few shots of her.

When I began shooting Alison I noticed that the lights from the sides of the stage were hitting her mic stand and there were shadows being cast upon her face. I tried to get some shots of her without the shadows. Tough to do the way she sings. I'm not saying anything bad the way she sings, but that the lights could have been set up better. If there were some lights to the front it would have knocked down those shadows. I’ve uploaded her photos, but I haven’t gone through them yet.

On Monday I drove to Menomonie, Wi to see Mojo Lemon play. Again, I'll post photos later. They were also at the Blues on the Chippewa. Josh is good for some facial expressions when he plays his guitar. Here are the photos from the Blues on the Chippewa. 

Well, now I have to post the photos I took, so tonight I processed the Sena Ehrhardt Band photos and they are posted on my website.

Keep checking back for the other photos from this past week-end.  

Sena Ehrhardt Band
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Chuck

Chuck Ryan Photography

John Primer

...at Wilebski's Blues Saloon on Friday, 09-03-10.

John Primer
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Wilebski's Second Week-end Miscellaneous Photos

I needed to revert back to the old blogger, so I could post photos. Somehow I got changed to "Blogger in Draft" that obviously has some problems. For one I couldn't post any photos from my hard drive.

I tried posting these yesterday, but there was a problem when I tried uploading these with the old uploader. Today it worked!

These photos were taken with my new Nikon 50mm 1.4G lens.

Chuck

Another week-end of live music photos from Wilebski's and Neumann's....

Friday night, 08-27-10, I was back down to Wilebski's Blues Saloon to take some photos and to help support Ted Wilebski's new venue. It's open both Friday and Saturday, but work is still being done during the week. If you sign up on their website, you'll get an e-mail during the week on who is playing.

Since I'm not able to post photos from my hard drive to my blog I'll post links to the photos posted on my website. I have a few miscellaneous photos I'll post from Friday once I'm able to post photos here again.

Friday Night (Wilebski's):

Cooker John : Photos

The Butanes : Photos

Saturday Night:

Barbara LeShoure Benefit: Photos

I posted some miscellaneous photos in this folder. You have to check out, Nikki's, shoes/boots. Nikki just started at Wilebski's as a bartender. She told me the boots add 7 inches in height.

I left Wilebski's arond 11 pm or so. I knew Mickey Bauer with Cool Disposition was playing over at Neumann's so I headed there.

Cool Disposition : Photos

Oh, I almost forgot. I received my new Nikon 50mm 1.4G lens from B & H Photo on Friday. I believe all the photos I posted from this week-end were taken with that lens. It sure does have narrow depth of field. It's pretty dark on the stage at Wilebski's, so I needed a lens that gathers a lot of light. After shooting this week-end with the 50 mm I believe I need the 85mm 1.4. $1,700! Ouch!!

I buy most of my camera equipment, lights, etc from B & H Photo. Excellent service and they have lower prices.

Chuck

Blues on the Chippewa Day 2 New Links to Photos

Yesterday I was moving my photo galleries into folders on my website. Long story short the folder containing all the photos from Day 2 were deleted, so all the old links for the folder and the galleries for that day no longer work.

I uploaded all the photos again, so here are the new links:

Music (New Folder where I'll be putting all music photography)

BOTC 2010 Day 2

Yata

Do Da Day

Good Time Willy

Combo Flambe

Aaron Williams and The Hoodoo

The Nitecaps

Left Wing Bourbon w/ Maurice Jacox

Dave Lambert (Day2)

Ellen Whyte w/ Sue Orfield Band

Day 2 Miscellaneous Photos

Chuck

Blogger won't upload Photos to this Post!

More problems with blogger.

Last night, Friday night, I went back to Wilebski's Blue Saloon. They still are working on the interior during the week, but are open Friday and Saturday. The big bar was open tonight for the first time. I'm sorry I forgot her name, Susan (?), she was upstairs hand painting more drawings on the walls while the music was playing. Someone please correct me with her name.

Anyways, Cooker John played before The Butanes went on stage.

I attempted to post some photos this morning but there's a bug with Blogger so I can't upload any photos at this time. I tried several times before doing a google search to find there was a problem.

I'll post some photos later!

I mentioned in my post with Zed Leppelin that I was having problems with changing the font size. I couldn't change the font size on my Mac, but I viewed the post later on a computer other than a Mac and the font size was fine.

Edit: Cooker John Photos

Chuck