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Gene Shaw Photography

I've been photographing musicians and celebrities for over three decades.

My work can be seen at The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Museum.Time Life Picture Library, landov.com, Rock Paper Photo Gallery, Gene Shaw.com, RockandRollPhoto.com and private collections around the world.

12/25/2021

Merry Christmas to you and yours. May you find love and give love because that's the only way the world goes around.

07/30/2021

Pearl Jam played Irving Plaza on May 5th, 2006. It was a rare club appearance away from the stadium arenas in which they were accustomed too of late. The energy bouncing off the walls was electric. Eddie even wore a tee shirt with Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics for the occasion. The Plasmatics was a legendary New York Punk band because of their destructive live performances.

07/29/2021

I was the house photographer for Irving Plaza starting in 1988 thru 2013.
Buster Poindexter was still strutting his stuff up the street atTramps. Irving Plaza was the happening venue for concerts and events.
We had a crew that was a family.The shows were fun with all the rock and roll antics thrown in. Even The Who popped in for a private birthday party. The list of performances was like a bullet train tearing down the line.

Here are my years in pictures.

This photo of Shooter Jennings was taken on April 18th 2006 at Irving Plaza. He played a rocking set that was attended by members of The Sopranos. He was dating Drea de Matteo at the time. Last Friday night, I saw Shooter perform on piano with Brandi Carlile at Forest Hills Stadium.

06/21/2021

singing Creep by Radiohead with live at . WOW!!!

06/16/2021

Joe Berger is a guitar player’s guitar player. If you ever went to a NAMM trade show, walking fast through the traffic, passing booth after booth and then stopped dead in your tracks because of what you heard, it was probably Joe you heard. Joe goes from attacking the guitar to playing sweet melodies that heighten the senses. Joe takes no prisoners and doesn’t use a pick.

06/08/2021

On August 1st, 1980 AC/DC played The Palladium where this photograph was taken. It was the first tour after Bon Scott passed away who I can remember carry Angus on his back through the crowd at The Palladium during The Powerage tour in 1978.
This photograph was taken in the beginning of my photograhic journey when I was at Elmira College and pleaded with my classmates to give me a ride back to New York. I would offer them access to the sound check and the show free of charge to whatever band was playing that weekend. Those were the days!!!

AC/DC was rocking without all the explosions and laser lights it was straight forward loud Rock and Roll for those about to Rock!!!

06/04/2021

Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page have an air guitar contest with fellow Yardbirds looking on at the Rock Hall of Fame Induction dinner .
Have a great weekend and remember it's only rock and roll.

05/31/2021

Uli Jon Roth was born on 18 December 1954 and is a German guitarist who became famous for his work with Scorpions and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre. He is also the founder of Sky Academy and designer of the Sky Guitar.
Roth was romantically involved with artist Monika Dannemann who was with Jimi Hendrix when he died. Roth and Danneman collaborated on various songs including "We'll Burn the Sky" from the Scorpions' Taken by Force album in 1977.

Danneman also painted the album sleeves for all three of the releases by Electric Sun.

Monika Dannemann was convicted of breaking a 1996 British High Court order not to repeat allegations that Kathy Etchingham was an "inveterate liar" for accusing her of playing a role in Jimi Hendrix's death. Although Etchingham asked the judge to jail Dannemann she was released. Monika Dannemann was found dead in a fume-filled Mercedes-Benz near her cottage in Seaford, East Sussex two days later--aged 50. Her death was ruled a suicide, but Roth publicly stated his opinion that her death was the result of foul play. He dedicated his later works to the memory of Dannemann.

05/29/2021

The young bloods of the blues. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, John Mayer and Johnny Lang are getting their chops experiencing life, which is the only way to play the blues because your not playing it, but living it.

05/13/2021

Back in my Greenpoint, Brooklyn days in the 70’s I was introduced to Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead. There were a bunch of Dead heads who called themselves the Zoo crew. Jack McCabe was one of the merry band leaders of The Zoo Band and is sorely missed. Those were the days of free love and peace over war was all around us. Jack MaCabe, Emil Ferzola and company would break out their acoustic guitars and create a sit in. This was when I learned of the Dead and embraced their music.

My freshman year at Elmira College I hitched a ride to Binghamton to see them play with Donna and Keith. I would never hitch in my life again. Joe Larosa and I made it there in two rides, but in one ride there was at least 3 inches of dust piled high on most surfaces, which was something out of a black and white Alfred Hitchcock movie. It was strange. We got a ride back from some upperclassmen in the back of their pick up truck.

The show was amazing and little did I know it was rated as historical by Dead fans, It was the 1979 Binghamton show where they played China Cat Sunflower , I know You Rider into He’s Gone. The band was really cooking with gas and on the mark. It was a great concert that was over three hours and Jerry was doodling all over the neck.

This photo of Jerry was taken on Central Park South in 1995, which was the year he passed away.

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