Pics from Progpower USA 2.0 -- Friday
Here are Friday's pics, in camera order......
- "Cool! The Doors are opening the show at 5PM? I thought Jim Morrison was dead?"
- Balance of Power:
- Nightingale:
- A view of the outer lobby after Nightingale's set. It actually looks a lot cooler than this shot implies
- Angel Dust:
- Jim "Major Asshole" Raggi and this keyboardist chick from the band Somnus, who had the temerity to blink when the flash went off.
- Dimmu Borgir! \m/ --err, Ark:
- Ark takes the stage. "Wow! Dimmu Borgir is performing, too?"
- Ronnie James Dio is in the hizzouse. "In the dark of the day / In the black of the sun / He's coming for youu.... Look out! Look out! Look out!"
- Some keyboardists and synth players look like mad scientists behind their control panels. Seaweed from Ozrics is one; this guy is another :)
- Randy Coven on bass, about whom much has been said.....
- Mmmmmetal! \m/
- Tore Ostby, a legend of the scene.
- The stage-lights fooled my camera into not flashing. This is, of course, my roommate's fault since he was running lights :)
- It happened here, too, but this shot isn't too bad. Unless, of course, you don't like corpsepaint :)
- Tore again
- News note: Ark might be going more metal -- Jorn Lande is also interested in getting leather claws like Jim Raggi's. \m/
- "JohnnyMacalusoIsAJohnnyMacaluso / JohnnyMacalusoIsAJohnnyMacaluso / JohnnyMacalusoIsAJohnnyMacaluso / Jooooohn Macaluso!" (to the tune of "The Macarena")
- "I'm Randy Coven. And you're not."
- More Mmmmmmetal! \m/
- Clearly a still shot from Close Encounters crept in here :)
- Crowd shot during Ark. See rule about the one guy who always ends up getting blinded, above....
- Say what you want about the makeup; Jorn Lande makes a great photo subject....
- Little-known fact: the band Mastermind has a marketing empire that extends to the building right across the street from the Fairfield Inn
- The guys in Superior along with my roommate Tim Hurd (hiding) and a chick.
- The Superior guys with me on the right; something had distracted us.....
- ....so we took the shot over. :)
- Symphony X:
- Crowd shot from the back of the floor as Symphony X starts their set
- Symphony X, stage left
- Rahhh! Hair-swirling! \m/
- That Russell Allen guy is a hell of a frontman -- here he's slapping hands with the front-row faithful
- More-distant shot of Russell with a heartfelt gesture
- Michael Lepond from Symphony X
- Russell again
- Michael L. again
- It was a dark and stormy night, or at least a dark and crappy pic
- Russell again
- The amazing (and curiously short) Jason Rullo on drums
- Okay, this shot is an exception to the "cool skyward gaze" comment above.
- Russell again
- Russell, fairly close shot
- Russell belts it out
- Michael Lepond again
- Russell looks happy :)
- Russ likes to emote a lot with hand-gestures, as you can see...
- Across the stage shot of Russell and Michael R.
- Jason stands up for a sec, so we can actually see him! ("Ooops" from stage-left, though?)
- This is almost identical with an earlier shot of Russell
- Right in front of Russell
- "One of these days, Alice...POW! Right in the kisser!"
- Across-stage shot of Michael R. Note the strange fuzzy nebulosity just in front of him. 'Gods and angels and devils smile' :)
- Nice shot of Michael Lepond
- Michael Romeo, wherefore art thou? Uh, stage-right, actually....
- "Everyone who's going to the Cheetah later, raise your left hand!"
- "Higher, so we can count!"
- Michael Romeo. (Could someone remove that mic stand?)
- Close enough to Russell to feel the sweat fly. Ewww.....
- "I, Russell Allen, do solemnly swear...."
- If I were any closer, Russ would be stepping on ME!
- "And here on the left, we have...."
- The mighty Michael Romeo
- The mightily dark...uh, someones.
- That singer dude is back....
- Tom from Evergrey (and Glenn Harveston, behind the cabinet) are both into Symphony X's set :)
- A rotten shot, but oh well. This was after the photogs were evicted from the camera well. ("First 3 songs only!")
- Ditto....
- Taking shots over people's heads sucks. Reminds me of JJ Kelley's, only I usually got better results than this, there :)
- "Jesus Christ Pose"
- Jesus Christ Pose version 2.0
- Russell and Michael L.
- Michael, Russ, other-Michael
- Russ' ever-popular "hand raised" thing
- And again....
- This distant shot's kinda cool
- There's that "hand-raised" thing again! :)
- Michael R., Russell, Michael L.
- Michael Romeo during his solo
- ..and again....
- ...and again.... Russ takes a well-deserved break and sits down on the drum-riser
- "Put your hands in the air!"
- Nearly the end of their set
- See? I told you Raggi was a Major Asshole. Next year he's up for promotion to Colonel
- The now-quiet lobby, at about 2:30 am. That's the Inside/Out display to the left
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