On Saturday we saw B. B. King and his blues band at the Auditorium Theatre. While I was waiting for them to come on stage, I took some photos of the interior:
I had a whole bunch of these in a row, but some guy walked right in front of my camera as I was doing it.
Hmmm, what’s with the spots? I had to run these photos through Photoshop to lighten them up a bit.
Before B. B. King, the Campbell Brothers played, and they go the house a rockin’ – literally.
This balcony was moving up and down quite a bit. I was slightly scared – not enjoying the music for thinking I was going to die. I was later told that at a rock concert the balcony was moving 18″ and supposedly it was made for movement like a bridge – that type of movement, though, I don’t know. This theatre was built back in 1928, people were smaller and they didn’t bounce around like we do today. I don’t know, to me it still isn’t right.
One of the art deco balcony lights:
From where I was sitting I couldn’t capture the entire band, and I didn’t bring the Coolpix with me, nor did I want to use the flash (that’s so irritating when people flash in a darkened hall):
Close up of B. B. hard at work:
B. B. telling one of his many stories:
He is 83 and he still rocks the world with his blues! You go B. B.!
P.S. I play B. B. King and The House of Blues CD’s in OHA’s museum’s CD player. I started it for Black History Month, and haven’t stopped yet!
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