on air!!! whitesnake & judas priest

whitesnake & judas priest

just a quick post to say i feel blessed for being there at their Gig for the second time this year!!! it is a pity Judas Priest is ending career, they are in a great shape. Soon more photos will be available.

black label society....

it happened last saturday at HSBC Brasil hall and the venue was packed! and it was one of the best concerts from the latest times...

not for the concert itself but also because i could photograph the whole concert by request of the band.

it was a bless!!!

i can say the only problem when it happens is that we generate too much material... TOO MUCH!!! Not that it is a problem for me to spend hours looking at Zakk photos during the edition process. Honestly, you know when you spend too much time looking at, for instance, Angelina Jolie and it hurts so bad to see so much beauty? hehehehe... that's it!!!

Anyway, i would like to share some photos of the concert here. There were some "bad shots" which looked cool for me... The good ones had another destination.

Enjoy!!!

whitesnake...........

One of the most beautiful voices for me, David Coverdale, is about to come to Brazil for the Whitesnake and Judas Priest Tour.

It is amazing because some icons in the music are Rock and Roll figures. So is David Coverdale to me. I look at him and I can see the 70's printed on his face and I just love that! I picture those bell bottom pants, which after some years were replaced by those very tight jeans. Those shirts and that long hair. I really love it!!! And I really wish i had lived in those times. Everything was so different. For sure I would not be writing here, but I would be much more out in the fields probably photographing David Coverdale hehehehe.

The first oportunity I had to photograph his concert was here in 2008 at Credicard Hall. It was such a dream come true because he and Whitesnake were part of my life soundtrack during the 80's.

After that I had the great opportunity to photograph him in Sweden (SRF2008) and in Holland (ArrowRock2008).

This year it was another dream come true to photograph him in Sweden again (SRF2011).



I can't wait for them to arrive here in September for another dose.

I promised to come back and follow up with the news about my work.... but i cant organize my thoughts right now. Too much going on and it seems that the editing work never ends.
I can be put to photograph the whole day, everyday, but when it gets to the computer work, i get so stressed that it seems I cant think about other things.

However, my mind keeps spinning around and i keep thinking i dont know what is going on in the world. So much evilness around. I swear what i have been thinking the most is how life is going by fast. And I cant understand how people spend their time planning to be evil. We have already passed the half of 2011 and in a blink of the eye we will be again wishing happy 2012. I get frustrated sometimes because I build my agenda for the week and I cant accomplish everything that I plan. I wake up in the morning and suddenly is night. I go to bed and wow!!! Time to wake up!!! It feels the night goes by faster than the day.

And when I wake up in the morning and start to watch the news, I hear about the lady who poisoned the food at the kids public school. I hear about the father who set up his daughter's murder because he did not want to pay the pension. I hear about the bunch of politics doing the most terrible things in this big country.

But what scares me most is how people think nowadays. For instance, this week I started to be harrassed on the web by some f'up people. I did not give too much attention to that (also because I did not have time to and I did not want to give attention to that). However, I got shocked because I never knew about her existence before that. Why I am talking about this right now? Well, because I think if people have nothing to do in life, go volunteer. So many people in need of help, go do something good! The world is already cruel and we gotta be strong to live in it. I dont really understand how people waste their time like that! Go volunteer for the victims in Japan, Haiti, Norway, wherever... Just dont come bother me. I am really a nice person but I have no time for that. I dont feel sorry for myself, Im not gonna feel sorry for any psycho that wants to distract me from what i think is really important and worth of worrying. I am so sorry.

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After many hours of waiting, Zakk Wylde arrived at the radio station.

We were anxious and also in doubt if he was going to make it and finally yes!! He made it!!!

Since late afternoon i was with my camera around my neck waiting for the "big guy" to arrive. And for all the thing i had heard previously, I wanted to be ready to shoot him very quickly before they make me stop. I dont know why I had that "wrong" thought, maybe for all the things we hear in the media or from people around....

He was late because he came straight from Argentina and instead of being taken to KissFM Radio Station, he was taken to the hotel. I was at the studio when finally he arrived. He looked too serious, and the room became all quiet.

I felt the need to do something so I went to him and said I wanted to show him something. I grabbed the big print I had made from the BLS concert in Sweden Rock Festival and asked him if he could autograph it because I am collecting autographed material from people I photograph onstage and I have the opportunity to meet afterwards. He asked if he could keep it and I said I would be happy if he did it because I had printed 2 copies in case he wanted.

He liked it a lot!! And I really like when that happens.

Then the interview started and he talked about his previous band, about his period with Ozzy, about BLS and he answered some questions made by the audience.

He was very relaxed making jokes and laughing a lot.

It was funny because I had such a different impression of him, and at last I realized he is such a nice guy!

Lot of people was outside waiting to take photos with him and he was really receptive!

While whoever was with him was trying to take him away, he would always come back when someone asked him "one more photo here, Zakk". On the top of that, he also asked for his bag of picks and started to give to everyone. And the others repeating "let's go! let's go! let's go!" but it seems he wanted to stay there!!!

Even in the parking lot, he stopped to give hands, hug, take photos and give picks to fans who could not have gone upstairs.

It was a great surprise to know Zakk Wylde is so great like that!

Zakk Wylde

Tonight exclusive interview @ KissFM 102,1 FM. It can be also be accessed via web at http://www.kissfm.com.br/portal/ouca-a-kiss

Soon, photos at KissFM Website

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im kinda frustrated i havent been able to write!
im sunk in the photoshop and it has been wearing me out!!!

im around and i will be back when this is over...

peace and love!!!

I know i havent written for a while but everyday i think i should post something about what has been going on around me here.

Everything has been so busy and crazy and for some reason I have been getting too tired (physically) very soon. Maybe i should listen more to my parents when they say i am not 18 anymore.
I play with them saying that im suffering from abstinence... heheheh... travelling abstinence!!

I need to do lots of photo editing, but as soon as possible I will post news on the "Circo Chinês", "10o. Aniversario da KissFM", and I really want to talk about the return of the 80's brazilian bands, which has amazed me.

Cheers!!!

Frejat @ Citibank Hall - Sao Paulo

(fotos: patipatah photography)

Frejat, um dos fundadores do Barão Vermelho junto com Mauricio Barros e Guto Goffi, se apresentou no Citibank Hall no ultimo sábado, 2 de julho de 2011, lançando sua nova turne "A Tal da Felicidade".


Com a turne anterior de seu terceiro CD solo, "Intimidade Entre Estranhos" lançado em 2008 pela Warner Music, Frejat fez mais de 100 shows pelo Brasil.





Na fase do Barão Vermelho, Frejat, nas guitarras, era parceiro de Cazuza nas composições. Cazuza ficou nos vocais até 1985, quando saiu da banda para iniciar sua carreira solo. A partir daí, Frejat assumiu também os vocais. Com o apoio da banda, o seu carisma e o suporte dos fãs, o Barão Vermelho liderado por Frejat se manteve na ativa durante vários anos.


Em 2001 Frejat lançou seu primeiro álbum solo "Amor prá Recomeçar".


 

Com seu sólido talento, Frejat é hoje considerado um dos melhores guitarristas brasileiros e um dos poucos artistas da safra dos anos 80 que se mantém no topo. Fez uma apresentação em grande estilo, com a casa lotada e uma qualidade musical indiscutível.

"have i told you lately......

..... that i love you?" (Van Morisson)

Hehehe.... Have I told you about Rotterdam?
Well, I was very anxious to go to Rotterdam and visit one of the largest Ports in the world. Besides loving the water, the sea, the ocean.... I love ships and boats. And I love the greatness!

Perhaps because I was a bit disappointed with Antwerpen, I could not wait to get to Rotterdam. Also, I would be going back to Holland and soon Amsterdam and then finally home. Now I can say I should have enjoyed 100 times more because from here, I wish I was still there.

As soon as I left the hotel, I took the tram back to the station. The trip took about 1h and soon I got in Rotterdam Centraal station.
As usual, I stopped at the information desk with the Hotel address and I was told where to go and it was pretty close to the station, about 5 minutes walking.
Honestly, those 5 minutes seemed to be longer for the weight on my back. Although I took one of the cameras and one of the lenses out of my backpack, it was still heavy.



It was a sunny day and the temperature was very pleasant. And suddenly I could see the hotel.
My first request at the reception was for a smoking room and YES!!! They had smoking rooms available!!! I love when I can smoke in the hotel room. It is a pain in the ass when I have to go on the streets to smoke.

Got in the room, and the first thing after some "personal stuff", lay down and smoke a cigarette! Then, out in the fields to know what was waiting for me.



I got some intructions and went to the port. I took the last boat which left at 5pm and took about 1hour to sail around the ships. I learned about the Brasilian ships that bring oranges to there.
I was amazed by the greatness of the port and all the structure.
I have been to a boat trip around the port in Santos, Brasil and I already loved it. Imagine the Rotterdam on which is much much bigger.
And it is all automated, you hardly see people around.

Afterwards I took the tram and went to an event that was happening in town, it was a fest in a park joining music, theater and arts. It was a very delightful afternoon, awesome temperature and the sun shining very bright.

I really loved Rotterdam and I was sorry i was going to stay for only one night. It is definetely somewhere to stay longer, as well as Berlin.

In the evening I went to do some night photography of the bridges. I confess that even though I was in Holland, I got a little concerned to walk around my camera at that time of night because everywhere was like a desert. In the European summer, it starts to get really dark after 10pm and I was walking around till about 12am.  I had no tripod so I had to count on my sturdyness.
I think I got some good images.

I ran to the station to take the subway back to the hotel before my day-ticket for public tranportation expired.





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