Karin Michele Dailey

a few weeks ago, i got a text message from amadeus: “hey karin!!! hope all is well. i’m playing in boston tonight for the radio show, let me know if you are available to shoot…” he was taking about the trey songz set at jamn’ 94.5′s monster jam. i responded with something semi-professional: “if you can get me approved, i can shoot it. let me know. thanks!” meanwhile, i paraded around the studio, doing high kicks, chair flips and fist pumps. anyone who knows me is familiar with my love for the ‘slow jam’ and trey songz has plenty of them. plus, shooting at the td garden is always a good time. plus…it’s monster jam!

so, who is amadeus (antwan ‘amadeus’ thompson)?

• 1. platinum boy music ceo
• 2. record producer for sean ‘diddy’ combs’ production team – ‘the hitmen’
• 3. music director and tour drummer for trey songz
• 4. vater percussionist
• 6. inspirational speaker tweeter and family man.
• 5. stinkin’ ny giants fan <– go ahead. click on that. #cc ro garcia

so, that night, i picked up my credentials at the garden will call window and headed back around thru security. the big red pass around my neck let me walk everywhere backstage. i met up with the band in the catering area. only two minutes into our conversation, amadeus made sure to remind me that the giants beat the patriots in the superbowl. twice. anyone who knows me, is also familiar with my love for the patriots. it still burns.

trey songz was the headliner. also on the agenda: ca$h out, rita ora, french montana, meek mill, j.cole and big sean.

i watched most of the show from the side of the stage, occasionally walking the long hallway of dressing rooms and tweeting about it – just because.

when it was showtime for the trey songz experience (TSE), i shot their ~40 min set and shot from up on the stage for some. big ups to jorge for making that possible.

good show. crazy crowd. great company.

check out some more photos in the slideshow below.

these guys are currently out on the chapter V world tour, with miguel and elle varner. support the team. support platinum boy music.

follow the entire TSE on twitter here: TreySongz, ProducerAmadeus, Ralph_Kearns, NateJonesOnBass, RickyStrings1

p.s. i covered the trey songz sets on both the jay-z and usher tours for amadeus, when i contributed to examiner.com.

check out those articles here:

• http://www.examiner.com/article/the-trey-songz-experience
• http://www.examiner.com/article/artist-spotlight-antwan-amadeus-thompson-trey-songz

it’s the most wonderful time of the year…training camp time!

for starters, let’s not talk about last season. it never happened. i don’t remember flying all the way out to arizona to watch the game with my father. nope. i don’t remember that awful feeling in the 4th quarter, when you realize your team is going to lose to the giants again. again. to the giants. oh god. there’s that pain again.

go to a happy place. go to a happy place.

welp, i headed down to foxboro today, with my cousin nikki (“cuzzo”). hazy, hot and humid.
i sat uncomfortably in the stands for my 15th year of visiting patriots practice. a.) that’s a whole lotta of training camp. b.) i must be getting old.

there are so many new names on the roster. as cuzzo stated, “bill must be cleaning house.” i guess it was needed. can’t wait for the season to kick off! pats! pats! pats! ALL DAY!

snapped all these from the stands with a 70-200mm and a tc-20e II (2.0x) converter.

hey, hernandez. holler.

my homeslice from the shipping department, moonlights as the front man for kingston 530.
meet chris ferrara: one man. one mic. one acoustic guitar.

we met up after work and took an alley tour of the fort point area. check out a handful of images from the shoot.
you can catch his new weekly set on thursdays (from 4-8pm) at the grand canal.

go ahead and ‘like’ his facebook page: CHRIS FERRARA LIVE

“doo doo water!” – c. ferrara

styling: lauren d’avolio
hmu: rachael berkowitz

goodbye NFL lockout!

patriots training camp. a tradition since 1997. i used to bring my little kodak advantix camera down to bryant college with my brother and grab shots of terry glenn, lawyer milloy and…pete caroll. then i got my firstdigital camera. a 5mp point and shoot.larry izzo,ty law, troy brown…the photos came out awful. i graduated to a dSLR and after 14 years (!?!?!) of photography and training camp sessions, i think i’ve got it down. 14 years? that’s kind of insane when you think about it. i’m not that old. or am i? what can i say. i’m a sucker for the game of football americano.

anywho, last year was the only year i didn’t make it to at least one practice. well enough about me, check out the slideshow below! photos are from 7/31 and 8/13. p.s. you look mad, chad.

for more information on the patriots’ training camp schedule, click over to the official website: GO PATS!

i get excited about every band i have the opportunity to photograph, but there are a few shows that leave me completely starstruck. one was janet jackson, another was jay-zw/ trey songz, and then there was this past saturday night. i covered the backstreet boys & new kids on the block show (NKOTBSB) at the td garden and had to remain calm throughout, in order to prevent spontaneous combustion. if you were never a 14 year old girl, you wouldn’t understand. the show was one word – AMAZING. dare i say….EPIC? i know. i know…

check out the review of the show here:  http://www.examiner.com/live-music-in-boston/nkotbsb-td-garden-review-1

and now for what you really came for….the photos. enjoy! KMD

don’t forget to check out the darn review!  http://www.examiner.com/live-music-in-boston/nkotbsb-td-garden-review-1

“it’s mr. steal yo’ girl….”

here is a 4 minute slideshow from last tuesday night at the td garden. trey songz on the omg tour. it was nothing but good times with the trey songz experience [TSE], on their stop in boston. every single person on the tour staff and the garden staff was wonderful. the write-up can be found on the examiner website: here. <—- let’s not judge sentence structure and spelling. let’s just look at the pretty pictures. lol.

ralph ‘buttaz’ kearns on the keyboard,nate joneson bass, and ricky ‘strings’ ramos on lead guitar and antwan ‘amadeus’ thompson on drums. you guys rock! yuuup!

press play on the slideshow below.

be sure and download: keyshia cole’s ‘Where Would We‘ – produced by amadeus. go buy it! i did.

you can also follow the entire TSE on twitter: TreySongz, ProducerAmadeus, Ralph_Kearns, NateJonesOnBass, RickyStrings1

shoutouts to: dante, jorge & becky. thank you!

BIG THANK YOU TO AMADEUS! CHECK OUT PLATINUM BOY MUSIC!

i’m kidding. it’s just the td garden.

check out the examiner.com review of pearl jam from last night at the td garden.

big thank you to liz hennigan, tom giusti and will dailey for supplying the expert pearl jam opinion of the show. it really wasn’t a show about fancy lights and stage tricks – it was a dude in flannel rocking the roof off that place. a crazy sight to see, for real. and they played for 3 hours! all you 45 min set bands, take notice! they do have a million cds to choose from. the 90′s were alive last night.

i swear i saw a troll doll. wait – that was my early 90′s.

a note about photography…they split the pit with two lines of tape, leaving the center clear of even security.  us photographers had to pick a side and stay there. it was cramped. shoutouts to mary. i couldn’t figure out why this weird rule was in place. i’m still not 100% sure, but i’m guessing the eddie vedder spit might have something to do with it. dude can hawk.

the rest of the world is watching the celtics right now. i lack cable in my life. so i keep watching the live updates on celtics.com.  heck yeah!  final score: 95-92. let’s do this!

peace.  KMD

some weeks, i feel like i live at the house of blues. last week was one of those weeks.

CORINNE BAILEY RAE

one of my favorite artists. i can’t narrow it down to top 5. not even top 20. but she’ll always make whatever list. i remember shopping in tower records back in ’06 or ’07 and the lady at the counter suggested i purchase the cd. andrew kendall, one of my favorite music photographers, had just finished posting her images from the cd shoot…so, i bought it in support of his photography.  and then fell in love with her music. i was all set up to photograph her gig at the paradise a few years back and something fell thru in the end. in short, i had the opportunity to photograph her show this time around and she didn’t let us down. you go, corinne! 

click here for the examiner.com review and a million photos.

SAY ANYTHING
the folks over at the sony office, who had approved me for alicia keys back in march, asked me to cover say anything at the house of blues last tuesday. they were opening for angels and airwaves and whipped the crowd in to a frenzy. i swear i saw the barricade move. tons of crowd surfing and moshing (both forbidden at the HOB) – i don’t know how the security staff does it. someone threw a condom. i ran into chad b. and dave g. at the show and saw the angels&airwaves set from up top. thanks, guys! shoutouts to VATER percussion. fam.

click here for the examiner.com review and a milli pics.

^ ^ what’s up with that watermark? where’s my logo. oh well. it’ll do.

OK GO
so, i request shows that a.) i have the evening open for and b.) i kinda know a few songs of the band. i knew HERE IT GOES AGAIN and danced alone, when they played it. i really thought their stage show was clever. a little bit of everything. they did some weird hand bell thing, jumped into the crowd, tossed out tambourines, had little webcams on the end of their mic stands and that fed up to the screen….it was cool. i dug it. the confetti is from the FIRST SONG. who shoots confetti at the beginning? they do and i love them for it.

click here for the examiner.com review and the photographs.

the red sox/yankees game let out around the same time i left OK GO. fail. kenmore station was a mess, so i walked all the way up to hynes convention center and got on there.  4 cleveland circle, 2 out of servce and 2 boston college trains later, and i got on an empty D riverside train. headed outbound, the train picked up the massive amounts of fans leaving kenmore and fenway. there was yelling and one drunk girl fell and crawled around on the floor.  she thought it was so funny, she did that silent laugh – followed by some miserable siren-pitched cry that lasted thru to beaconsfield. at this point, the train was emptying out, but the drunk section remained. i have to admit, as much as i was annoyed, i was amused…until….

one kid took it a little too far. you could pinpoint it in his eyes. the joke turned to rage in SECONDS. i stood my behind up and moved to the front of the train, as an all out brawl commenced. there were fists flying. blood. profanities. profanities en espanol. it involved too many people and it was going to out of control in moments. luckily, the train slowed and the doors opened at my stop. amen! the police came as i made my way out of there!

GO C’S!

good times. check out all the reviews/photos i’ve posted, because you care. and hey! leave a comment so i know you were there/here. i will repay you in gum.  KMD

i’m swimming in an ocean of unedited, un-posted images. ugh.

last night, i powered thru some images, so my mind could rest and i could finish the wedding images from last saturday at some point this lifetime. these are from the last 3 shows. grammar doesn’t count, right?

SOULIVE @ THE PARADISE ROCK CLUB
i’m not a fan of jam bands. i like music, but i like words. there are no words at a soulive show, unless they get a special guest to join them. no lie. I LOVE THIS BAND. amazing show. nigel  hall was fire. a great dancing show. too bad i was alone and had a giant camera with me. otherwise i’d would have been ‘getting down with the get down’. I love the end of the slideshow in the article – a little video clip of nigel hall’s james brown split.

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30 SECONDS TO MARS @ THE HOUSE OF BLUES
let’s talk about jared leto, shall we? management emailed saying we could only shoot the first 3 songs from the soundboard and aisle. no pit. no problem. once we got there, security said we could shoot the whole show, no flash. no pit. no problem. so the photography posse stayed for most of the show, respecting the rules in place. towards the end, leto looked over…ran over starts screaming at me and my camera. i’m confused. thought i imagined it. moments later, he’s got his hand on another photographer’s lens, spraying his fury on him. ha! whatever dude. i just spent 2 hours sweating blood and tears at your show to get great images of your band and that’s how you treat me (us)? this ain’t hollywood. i’m no paparazzi. you’re a douche. there, i said it. freedom of speech, son. he was a douche the whole show, really. but i actually enjoyed the gig. oh well.

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a little leto rage? sure nuff. he was so mad. i couldn’t figure out why. but i left and missed the end of the show.

SNOOP DOGG @ THE HOUSE OF BLUES
the following night was snoop dogg. last minute credentials granted. i mean, one-hour-before-showtime last minute. and i actually listen to snoop, so i packed my bag and headed for the train. why was snoop 90+ minutes late? scheduled to go on at 9:30…he took the stage after 11. kind of expected. but still annoying. good show though. you can’t go wrong with the chronic 2001′s NEXT EPISODE.

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read all about the dashboard show from last thursday night at Examiner.com (just click on the image below).  my buddies over at Melophobe did a killer write-up. read that too. quick post. that is all. KMD