The Raconteurs – Live at Electric Lady

Surely we can all do with some lighthearted content now and then (especially now). Maybe some actual work stuff from "the before time" is far due in this dumpster fire we're currently living in.

Back in September I got to work with Contrast Films cam op'ing a shoot with The Raconteurs for Spotify's Live at Electric Lady. Most of my day was waiting around for the live performance start while the main crew were filming interview and b-roll footage for the rest of the edit. But soon enough I was skating back and forth across the back of an absolutely packed and historic live tracking room. Freakin' kudos to dolly grip Glenn Porter for pushing, pulling, and dodging *nearly every effort I made slinging a not so petite Alexa Mini package mounted to a Cobra dolly.

*Sorry for smashing you more than once Glenn. It was a tiny space.

Notice how we were all packed into that tiny space and not a single person wearing a mask or rubber gloves. Actually, there may have been one or two, but they were goth kids and I believe it was a fashion thing. Ooo, and I bet no one was having a panic attack about getting sick or the economy tanking or losing their jobs or being cooped up in a tiny apartment for months with or without tiny kids or major protests in the streets against racism and police brutality or murder hornets. Surely too the vast majority of the people in this room didn't even know what a sourdough starter was let alone have their own. Oh the before time...