Venue: The Viper Room
City: Hollywood, CA
Set length: About 45 minutes
Tonight’s Lineup:
- The Feud 7:00 PM (did not see them)
- Marcus Singletary System 8:00 PM (have a few photos but not shown)
- Society’s Child 9:00 PM (have a few photos but not shown)
- The Widowed 10:00 PM (have a few photos but not shown)
- The Violet Lights 11:00 PM
- Musehead 12:00 AM (did not see them)
Pre-show banter…
It was a Tuesday, and I had to get up really early the next morning – what the hell was I thinking??
Venue Review…
I think the lighting engineer took the night off tonight. The stage lights were very non-existent, which made for a very hard time to get anything that wasn’t super grainy. I was riding the ISO at 6400, f/2.8 most of the time, and at a speed of 1/40 to 1/125 the entire night. And with a 7D, which doesn’t have the greatest ISO over 4000. Rough…
Reviews, comments, and possible putdowns for The Violet Lights…
Came out to see this band and feel like I fell short. I caught a couple decent shots but nothing to write home about. Next time…