Here I am at The Holding Company, taking photos after Corporate Citizen asked me to come and take photos, and bought me some beers.
I am drunk and ready to leave, when a man comes up to me and says his band is next, and can I take photos of them too? I tell him I am about to leave, and he asks me “How much to stay and take photos?”
I tell him $100.
So, I stay, take photos, and 2 things come of it:
- Blue Elephant and the Seven Snakes turn out to be a fantastic band, and I end up taking photos of them at many more shows.
- That is my new threshold – If I am going to be there already, I am happy to take photos for free. If you want me to come out to a show I wasn’t going to go to, or stay past when I was going home? $100.
