{"id":7499,"date":"2012-09-26T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T03:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2012-09-26T21:06:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T04:06:28","slug":"fiery-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/fiery-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"FIERY FOCUS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"FIERY FOCUS<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Photographer Rob Shanahan immortalizes\u00a0rock \u2019n\u2019 roll passion<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve always equated music and photography, and blended the two,\u201d says veteran rock shutterbug Rob Shanahan, who took up drums at 11 and photography at 12. Both loves are on display in a new book of Shanahan\u2019s photography, Volume 1<\/em>, featuring a foreword by Ringo Starr\u2014an indication of the lensman\u2019s particular affinity for percussionists (like Stone Sour\u2019s Ray Mayorga, captured above in 2009). \u201cWe drummers have a unique bond,\u201d he notes. The following pages showcase a few selections from Volume 1<\/em> (available at robshanahan.com),
\nwhich samples 15 years of Shanahan\u2019s vibrant images.<\/p>\n

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CHRISTINA AGUILERA, 2007 - \u201cDuring the Grammy rehearsals in Burbank each of the performers ran through their numbers. Christina sang James Brown\u2019s \u2018It\u2019s a Man\u2019s Man\u2019s Man\u2019s World.\u2019 Hearing her belt that out, no PA, from five feet away was bone-chilling.\u201d <\/p><\/div>\n

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Eddie Van Halen, 2004 - The band was in Boise, and I positioned myself to shoot Alex\u2019s drum solo. Eddie then walked to center stage to salute his brother\u2014on his knees, fist in the air. I thought, \u2018If I captured that, that\u2019ll be one iconic photo.\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n

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John Dolmayan of System of a Down, 2003 - \u201cI had a cool idea to shoot John in an L.A. pool for a Paiste cymbal campaign. There were issues, like floating drums. Finally we were ready. Something was missing. I called a friend, asked her to get her bikini. She\u2019s in the background.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tommy Lee, 2005 - \u201cThat was shot in Omaha, during soundcheck before a M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce show. The pyro guy had been practicing shooting the flames. I worked it out with him to fire them off during soundcheck with Tommy doing his crazy Tommy scream.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Elton John, 2005 - \u201cI was on assignment for Yamaha to shoot Elton for the Red Piano tour at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. I had lots of shots from a variety of angles, but this was one I especially liked\u2014and believe Yamaha used it for their promotion.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sarah McLachlan, 2008 - \u201cWe were shooting in the penthouse of this old, beautiful art deco building in L.A. She was wearing a long dress, and we were drinking champagne. She laughed, put her hand up and leaned back in that chair. I just clicked the button.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mick Fleetwood, 2009 - \u201cFleetwood Mac was rehearsing at a huge soundstage at Sony Studios in Culver City before their tour. I thought it would be cool to capture Mick spread out over his drums. His reach is probably as wide as his height\u2014this shot just came alive.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sting, 2007 - \u201cThe Police were rehearsing at Rogers Arena in Vancouver for the launch of their world tour. It was nice because it was just the band, the crew and me. I especially like this shot because you can see Stewart Copeland in the corner.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIERY FOCUS Photographer Rob Shanahan immortalizes\u00a0rock \u2019n\u2019 roll passion \u201cI\u2019ve always equated music and photography, and blended the two,\u201d says veteran rock shutterbug Rob Shanahan, who took up drums at 11 and photography at 12. Both loves are on display in a new book of Shanahan\u2019s photography, Volume 1, featuring a foreword by Ringo Starr\u2014an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3630],"tags":[4999,4998,1063,4996,4994,5000,5002,81,5001,620,4997,4995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7513,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions\/7513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}