Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Country, Surf, Rock n Roll; call it what you will, it is the facilitation of the exact moment when one is able to forget everything else and truly leave their body on an unparalleled musical high.  Reverend Horton Heat made this dream a reality for a packed venue at The Alley earlier this July.  Swingin’ Utters put on a floor-spitting, microphone stand smashing-ly uproarious opening set and the sardine-like crowd wanted their fix … and boy did they get it!  From the opening moments of “Marijuana“, The Rev, along with band mates Jimbo Wallace (bass) and Paul Simmons (drums), unleashed their unique collaborative musings and the sweat started to pool along eyebrows and foreheads all throughout the jam-packed club.

While I did have to battle the 7 year old pictured below for positioning (this is not even a joke in the slightest sense of the word), I was able to maneuver my way around microphone stands and bouncing bodies well enough to capture some close-ups of The Rev and company with my trusty 50mm f/1.8D lens attached to this up-and-coming DX shooter’s favorite, the Nikon D7000.  During some initial testing, I somehow came up with an aperture of 2.5.  In retrospect, this could have been fully opened to 1.8.  Shutter speed stayed put at 1/250th of a second and ISO was static at 1250.  Looking back, I’d say the ISO could have been bumped up to 1600 at least.  All the more reason to make an attempt with an auto ISO ranging from 800-3200.  Fingers have been crossed.

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Camera(s) Used:

Nikon D7000

Lens(es) Used:

Nikon 50mm f/1.8D

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