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randy at riverbend

totten and i covered the randy newman show last night for the pulse review of riverbend 2004. sad to say, this is the best picture i could get of him playing with the chattanooga symphony orchestra, even with my fancy press pass. with the stage basically out in the river the closest fans were still 100 yards away from the stage. i'd almost say the best seats for the show were towards the back where you could see and hear him on another jumbotron, albeit with a 2 second delay on the sound. this was my first experience with riverbend and it was pretty frustrating as a photographer to be so far removed from the action. none of this was helped by the fact that we were turned down for an interview with newman due to time constraints. oh well, at least we got to hear "short people"...

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well, i'm back from atlanta (and rome, georgia) as you may have guessed. another year, another family reunion. its strange how quickly the past year has gone. i'll post a family pic from the reunion tomorrow.