Pebble In The Shoe Of Time

The footage that starts at 55 seconds in and runs to 1:06 shows me at the Memorial Coliseum, 1973, Portland, Oregon, USA, shot from behind Alice toward the crowd. I was front stage center right in front of Alice's mikestand wearing a long sleeved white shirt with a Nikormat 35mm shooting B&W tri-x pan. You can see me between his legs and off right as he moves around. I took a lot of shots turning the camera on it's side to capture the full body legnth of Alice (some of the best shots, it turned out). It's not in the video but something funny happened as I was shooting, I think during a different song. I was looking thru the lens at Alice walking right toward me I hear him boom out "hey, I think I like you. How 'bout a kiss?" His face filled my lens. As I lowered my camera in horror and tried to step back he smiled at me, getting the misunderstanding on my part and thinking my horrorified reaction was funny and kissed the girl standing next to me! Anyway, from 0:55 to 1:06 into the video you can see me, white shirt, camera up and shooting. A guy behind me later yelled "whiskey!" and threw a pint of whiskey at Alice, which I expect missed by a wide margin, but I was showered with some whiskey just as I was changing lenses! Slowing down the frames as the camera sweeps to right (after Alice palms girls face) catches me changing lens (or assesing damage) The end of this video I see myself again (barely) from a camera way back, probibly on sound man platform. The thronging crowd wore me out (I think I probibly weighed a whole, 140 Lbs.then!) and I felt like I was getting crushed after about 10 songs and retreated to the upper tiers to try and shoot with my telephoto lens and changed my film to ectachrome (can't remember how to spell it) which was fairly fast color slide film. The B&W stuff turned out the best.


The you tube link for better quality video (non-opera server compressed) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qE0AmdwYWu8