Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Carrie Underwood


Carrie Underwood
Originally uploaded by rachelparker
The night before Halloween Carrie Underwood finally stopped in Dallas on tour. Sure she was here with the Idol tour and opening for Chesney a couple years ago, but not having headlined here yet was getting ridiculous.

When we got to the venue I was surprised they fit her catwalk in since it's a theater not an arena. Our seats were pretty awesome and this seasons Nashville Star winner (and my high school alumni) Melissa Lawson was sitting two rows behind us.

The show was good, it was kinda a sit down show as odd as that is. You would expect her crowd to be a stand up crowd, but there just aren't enough up tempo songs. My only real complaint was the need that she felt to change outfits like 3.5 times through out the show. Most artist I go to see either dont change outfits at all or change maybe once. I guess if you're doing it for theatrical effect and all that's cool.

Either way she sounded great. I had a meet and greet before the show and she was nice, kinda quiet but nice.

Anyway here are some shots
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Rachel

Playing Catch Up!


Tina Turner
Originally uploaded by rachelparker
Ok so I know.. I've totally neglected the blog for a month. In my defense I've been so incredibly busy its ridiculous. So I'm taking advantage of my free time at the moment trying to catch up. So for your viewing pleasure I have some Tina Turner, R.E.M., Ben Folds, and Missy Higgins for this blog. Then I have a couple more things that need to be edited and go up. All Country music as ironic as that is! I hope everyone is doing well and having a good turkey week.

Ok onto the photos!

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R.E.M
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Ben Folds
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Missy Higgins
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Ok so there's that! More to come, probably tonight.

Rachel

Monday, November 10, 2008

Neil Diamond


Neil Diamond
Originally uploaded by rachelparker
Ok I'm playing catch up! Got to shoot Neil Diamond a few weeks ago. I thought we were going to be soundboard, but we get there and his media wrangler lets us know we can shoot from 15 rows back. But we opted to stay in the cross behind the first section about 20 or so rows back. I was still glad I had the 300. But hey that's cool that we weren't all the way in the back. Yay Neil Diamond! Production for him was way simple. The only thing major was the stage platforms with the band moved. That tripped me out I was like whoa didnt see that coming.

Ok here are a couple shots.
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Sara Bareilles


Sara Bareilles
Originally uploaded by rachelparker
Ok once again I'm overdue a blog! Sara Bareilles was here the night after Gavin Degraw. That was a heck of a week man. She had Marc Broussard with her, which was odd in a full circle sort of way. The first time I got to see Sara was when she opened for Marc at the Gypsy Tea Room in 2006. I was singing along to love song, back when its demo version was only existent on her myspace page. And she got way excited I knew the words and told the Audience she wanted to sprinkle some fairy dust and fly around the room. Good times.

I have to admit its odd seeing her with the LED lights and disco ball and production. She has her own photo pass.. it wasnt the generic house of blues pass. It's all exciting. I do miss the more stripped down stuff back when it was her, Javier, and Josh on his drum box. I'm happy she's doing well though because it means she can continue to make music and not be just scraping by.

My favorite moment was FINALLY getting to hear Between the Lines, live and in person. My only complaint about the entire show was the really tone deaf drunks next to us screaming the words to songs like City.. and Gravity.. I mean seriously? P.I. is not attractive if you're obnoxious.

Here are some shots!
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Broussard
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Ok a bunch more to come. But I make no promises. I have to go to houston thursday and little rock saturday! I got to shoot Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton this past weekend. That was exciting and I didn't think we would cover it since we've covered her twice this year already at the paper. It was awesome and I will tell yall more in a couple weeks when I can post the pictures! ;-P

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Gavin Degraw


Gavin Degraw
Originally uploaded by rachelparker
So a couple weeks ago Gavin Degraw stopped by for a show at the house of blues and an appearance at Kidd Kraddick.. which made for an amazing day on my end.

Gavin put on a fantastic show that night, not missing a note which was amazing since I knew he wasn't feeling 100%. Even doing an extra song which was what surprised me the most. I cant wait till he comes back to Dallas.





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Gavin at Kidd Kraddick. More shots are at Kiddlive.com
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Alrighty a few more things to come. Sorry for my lack in blogging. I've been super busy!!

Rachel