Lindsey and I had the AWESOME opportunity to fly to New York for a client engagement shoot. I know what you're saying to yourself, "How lucky are they??" Well... pretty dang lucky! Not only was it great to meet such a wonderful couple in person, but we also got to stop in an see our long time friend JT. Here's the funny story about how he and I became friends.
I moved to Nashville to play drums when I was twenty. While going on a camping trip, I met these two guys,Tyson and Danny, who I became best buds with. At the time, Tyson's roommate was this guy (JT) who did nothing but play bass during his free time. Seriously, he would go to work and then come home and play bass. While friends were over, he'd be upstairs playing bass. Going to bathroom... playing bass. KIDDING!! I think he played 4-5 hours a day, which I thought was crazy. A few years, and several hundreds of practice hours later, JT and I started becoming friends and I turned him onto a band named Tower of Power. For those of you that are not familiar with the band, they are the best thing to come around since heater blankets and hot apple cider!! Hmmmm, just think about that for a second. Okay, back to our story.
I moved to Nashville to play drums when I was twenty. While going on a camping trip, I met these two guys,Tyson and Danny, who I became best buds with. At the time, Tyson's roommate was this guy (JT) who did nothing but play bass during his free time. Seriously, he would go to work and then come home and play bass. While friends were over, he'd be upstairs playing bass. Going to bathroom... playing bass. KIDDING!! I think he played 4-5 hours a day, which I thought was crazy. A few years, and several hundreds of practice hours later, JT and I started becoming friends and I turned him onto a band named Tower of Power. For those of you that are not familiar with the band, they are the best thing to come around since heater blankets and hot apple cider!! Hmmmm, just think about that for a second. Okay, back to our story.
So with his typical commitment and focus, JT took my Tower of Power cds and learned to play a lot of the best songs on bass. With his new library of songs to play from, we decided to have a little drum and bass jam session at my rehearsal space. That night we played for at least 3 hours and laughed out loud the whole time. It was so exciting that you'd think we had won the Lotto judging by the grins on our face. I think we were best friends from then on.
Seeing JT in New York after about 3 years, was great and we went for a cruise around Central Park and Times Square. Of course I had my film camera with me and a bit of B&W film. The following images are what I was able to grab:) Here's to great friends and film photos. There's just nothing else like it in the world!!! Have a great week everyone.
- Nathan
All images shot with my cheap little Pentax Camera, 50mm 1.8 lens, and Ilford XP2 400 B&W film
- Nathan
All images shot with my cheap little Pentax Camera, 50mm 1.8 lens, and Ilford XP2 400 B&W film
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