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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Bass Player - Jim
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 01:20:07 -0500
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Gerry,

All I have from those days are scans from 8x10 glossy prints, shot with a 
Speed Graphic and large flashbulb.  This is poor quality, but gives an idea 
of our band during my early college years.  I'm 4th from the right, front 
row.  This was a typical college sorority dance.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Walden" <gerry.walden at me.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: The Bass Player - Jim


> Jim
>
> Thanks for your comments, and I wish I had been around to hear your band 
> it those days. With that line-up in a college cafeteria you wouldn't have 
> needed much sound equipment. Sounds a very similar grouping to orchestras 
> like Woody Herman, who I saw twice here in the UK. I think the high cost 
> of travel probably killed that era of music off.
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden
> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> www.gwpics.com
>
> On 19 May 2013, at 06:06, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gerry,
>>
>> Can't say about the 60s, but in the late 40s - early 50s I played a 
>> number of gigs in college cafeterias where we set up at one end against a 
>> brick wall like that, and photos would have been very similar to yours. 
>> Of course, we were much less well endowed with sound equipment. ;~) 
>> (Five saxes, six brass, four rhythm)  The advent of small combos then 
>> killed off the big bands.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Walden" <gerry.walden at me.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:26 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Bass Player
>>
>>
>>> This is from a recent soundcheck, and the bass player is Reid Anderson 
>>> of The Bad plus. I wanted to try and create a 1960's feel. The shot was 
>>> taken on the X-Pro1 with the 35mm lens at 3200iso and then processed 
>>> through SEP2.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/The+Bass+Player.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Gerry
>>>
>>> Gerry Walden
>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>> www.gwpics.com
>>>
>>>
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