G. MITCHELL DAVIS
The world without photography will be meaningless to us if there is no light and color, which opens up our minds and expresses passion.
Ok without a doubt these guys are truly the Rock Gods. Out of all the concerts I’ve covered over the past years, I have always been away on assignment somewhere else when U2 came to town. This time I was lucky, not only did I get to see the show, I got to cover it. It was well worth the wait. There are Rock Stars and then there are ROCK STARS. Bono Rocks!
Always trying new things, I put together test shoots. That way I can try out new lighting techniques, play around with the images in Photoshop without loosing a client. So after talking with my buddy Morgan Rose, I put together a shoot at a laundromat at 2 AM. Morgan needed some new promotional photos, so we grabbed his wife and off to the nastiest laundry we could find. The bad news is “A Well Known” cymbal company and “A Well Known” drumstick company thought the images were to hot to publish and turned down Morgan on using them. The only person brave enough to use them was Rob Warner of Head First Drums. I’ve got to move to Europe where nudity is not a sin!
Well it’s off to Madison Wisconsin, the land of cheese, to do a shoot for Drum Magazine and Morgan Rose of Sevendust. This is going to be a rough shoot, I fly in at midnight, get up the next day, unpack equipment, shoot the cover, repack and then fly back that same night. Oh well who needs sleep. I have so much fun working with the boys from Sevendust. Me and Morgan go way back. I’ve know Morgan since he was 11 years old. It’s like working with your little brother. Everything was going great until Morgan came up with the idea of being held upside down over his drum kit…. we don’t like talking about the resulting accident!
Today Sevendust released their CD “Next”. It’s my first CD cover! A pretty cool feeling to walk by the racks in the record store and see your work staring back at you. Thanks Boys!
OK this is an old one but a good one. The week that the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup we had Tim McGraw in concert. It was crazy, everyone was like little kids wanting their photo taken with the trophy. So here we are backstage with Tim and the trophy, what you don’t see is the line of people waiting to have their photo taken. And yes that’s me and the cup.
