shots, notes and stray thoughts

i while ago i was sent to aalborg to photograph stevie wonder. the standard deal is to have permission to photograph the three first songs, and not use flash. not so this time.

we were given one minute (thats 60 seconds) to photograph and would then have to leave the building with our cameras. oh yeah, plus the guy was sitting with his back to us the entire time. great.

it turned out that the pr woman had decided to give us all a little something extra in the shape of an additional 15 seconds of stevie wonder playing a mouth harmonica. that meant that the 10 of us who had shown up had a total of 75 seconds to get everything we needed.

that’s just ridiculous. if i had anything to say in this we would stay at home.

someone has to explain to me how all of this works ’cause i dont get it. the man has sold x million albums (think somebody mentioned 60). he has done that because of two things. one; he makes funky and decent music. two; we, the media, told people about it! i dont think those 60 million albums would have sold themselves.

so, for christ sake: let us do our jobs, stevie. pretty please.