This was a diversion I took one evening from the Zappa at home pictures. I decided to pull out this large binder I have full of various bands I photographed, primarily in the mid to late '70's. I thought there would only be scanning and some light Photoshop correction. This notebook got transferred outside of the office it was in and sat relatively exposed to the elements for about a year. It was a covered storage area but the notebook and it's contents still suffered a lot. This was not my doing.

College Days

Once scanned it looked as though the transparencies, 35 mm Ektachrome, had been under attack by some sort of emulsion consuming virus. Moisture got in the slide pages and it appears as though the transparencies developed some mold. The work done on these was before the "healing brush" in PhotoShop so it was a pain in the ass to fix--not my idea of a fun retouch.

I didn't take any where near as many pictures as I normally would have at a concert and you can see I was in a pretty good position. I think I shot 3 maybe 4 rolls of 36. This was due to the stuff that was going on around me. In a nutshell: The woman I was with or she was with me, either way she met us with the tickets-- she went a little wack-o. This carried on from our meeting outside up to Frank taking the stage. She pissed Frank off but it was brief. It was something I needed to distance myself from. I ended up moving to a spot where I could sit down, an area which was much more acoustically pleasing and I listened to the concert.

I slept in the back seat of a Volkswagon Bug somewhere on the Stanford campus that night. We had about a 310 mile drive back to school ahead. My two buddies slept in sleeping bags on the 50 yard line of a football field. I scared the crap out of them in the morning.

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