Eric K. Andersen is one of the top concert photographers in the New York, New Jersey area. Well, maybe not but whose to say? Art is subjective.
I’ve been to a lot of concerts. A lot of great ones. The Clash, Queen, U2, New Order, Aerosmith, The Who and The Cure to name just a few of the hundreds of shows I’ve attended. And all I have to remember them by are the ticket stubs. Come the digital age, and it became much easier to document events. First with a poor quality image or video from a phone camera and then from better quality point and shoot cameras. Not happy with blurry phone camera images, I invested in an excellent quality FujiFilm X100F point & shoot camera. Soon I upgraded to an interchangeable lens FujiFilm XT-30. The images on this site represent the memories I have been able to collect using these tools.
Video Projects from the past…
While working at PolyGram Records as an associate producer in the music video production department in the late 80’s, we were finishing up a project entitled “KISS – eXposed” and I had an idea. I found my old 45 rpm for “Rock and Roll All Nite”, brought it in to the office and transferred the sound to a 3/4″ tape. I began editing a music video using the footage from the program and showed it to my boss who suggested I show it to the head of video promotion. They both liked the idea so I completed this edit that aired on MTV. Some trivia: Paul Stanley ends every concert by shouting “we love you!” The version on the record did not have that exclamation. We added it to the video.
Before I worked at PolyGram Records, I worked at a video production house where on the weekends, myself and an aspiring video editor worked on our own projects. This is a video I directed for my friends The Modulators. It got significant play on the now legendary UHF channel U68.
Before working at the video production house were I shot and edited this video, I worked at a boutique video editing facility where the video for the song called “Leave It” by the band Yes was edited. That video inspired this video. Both videos relied heavily on what was then cutting edge special effects generated by a device called ADO – Ampex Digital Optics. It cost about $300 an hour to rent this device at the time. Now you can easily create these effects at home.
