Outside Lands Fest Photos

Stanton Moore of Galactic; Mike Gordon


Zach Gill of ALO (who also rocked with JJ later that night)


Les Claypool brought in the astronauts for this 'homecoming show'.


Ben Harper rips the lap steel


RadioHead opens things up Friday night.

The CrowdFire / Microsoft tent (aka meeting spot)

Outside Lands Festival

Stellar weekend at the Outside Lands Festival this past weekend in Golden Gate Park. Thanks to my aunt, Kerri and I were able to escape to San Fran for a 4-day weekend in wine and music paradise. We were able to meet up with friends from near and far.

Highlights at OSL included Widespread Panic, ALO, Grace Potter. Quote of the weekend courtesy of Primus' Les Claypool - "San Fran, we're gonna knock some dust off the classics since many of them were written right down the street from here."

Claypool's quote made me think, where were all of the classic San Fran bands this past weekend? Where were members of the Grateful Dead? Where was Santana? Where were those that helped create the origianl SF music scene? They were truly missed and made me ultimately feel that this thing was too far down the path of $$ versus true roots of music and celebration.

Other criticisms include the fact that after 3 days of music, a very short half day on Friday (for the same price of Saturday and Sunday) felt like a ripoff. It was great to check Radiohead off the list, but they aren't really on my musical taste radar. Nevermind the fact that I spent 45 minutes waiting in a line for a beer missing the entire Beck set, Friday sure was a money grab.

Photo courtesy of Scherer. Taking in ALO as the first band of the day Sunday.

All Access Pass at Rothbury

Scherer's photo work got picked up by a couple of outlets for his Rothbury fest photo work. My personal fav is Schools drillin' it.

Here http://tinyurl.com/5u428y and on Jambase here http://tinyurl.com/6pbv72. His best of the best at Rothbury are featured on his page here http://tinyurl.com/6fuebu.

Family Photo Shoot = Nightmare

Have you ever tried to shoot a family portrait with 8 kids under 4 years old? Turned out to be quite a treat. Aside from the cheesy color coordination, the set-up was nice. But someone forgot to teach the kids to sit still for more than 15 seconds.

NOLA Round Two in Pics

A Tommy Lee sighting (shooting his reality TV show) and the scene of the crime from the last NOLA visit - the legendary Jean Lafitte's Absinthe House.
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A Paige McConnell sit-in with WSP and a group shot at WSP w/ JB overlooking the crew.

Jazz Fest Late Night Shows

Scherer scored several photo passes courtesy of Jambase...some of the treats include these - Robert Walters (with Bucky and I serving cameo) on the Creole River Queen; Galactic 3:30 a.m. home at Tipps; and Warren Haynes with Bela Fleck serving as one of the many sit-ins that night.

Special thanks to Jason Colton at Red Light for the Gov't Mule set-up.

Whales Outside the Hotel in PV

We had a once in a lifetime experience of watching a school of whales playing right out in the Bay of our hotel. At one time, we saw all 4 whales jump out of the water. Unfortunately, we didn't catch that one in a photo, but here are a couple that Scherer did catch with the long lens.

Suns vs. Spurs Kicked Off SB Weekend

Dad hooked up Scherer and I, first night of the weekend, with 6th row tix to the Suns vs. Spurs game. The Suns were rolling all game, but Ginobli ate up the Suns in the 4th and they squeaked it out. It was the long awaited rematch of Horry coming into America West, but Horry never saw the floor. Pics courtesy of Scherer. My ole man took very good care of us during this epic weekend in Phoenix. Thanks dad.

Scherer Gets Published

My boy Jay Scherer(http://www.jayzscherer.com/) had his photography from the last SCI run ever at Red Rocks published by one of my favorite music sites Jambase.com. Catch his piece here: http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=11204

Many thanks to Carrie Lombardi and the SCI Fidelity crew to taking care of Jay during the past few years.

Damn I wish I was able to hit these shows....these guys put on a show that was pure energy..never wanting to sit down - even hours after they played their final encore. They will be missed and I sure hope Keller plays with these guys - at least one tour a year.

Best of luck Billy! You and the boys will be missed!

Nice work Scherer!

Life's a Beach

Probably my favorite picture ever taken of my son Keller and I. Keller is 4 months away from turning 3 in this photo (Feb 2006). My friend Jay took these - check out his work - http://www.jayzscherer.com/