We're a little bit backed up on getting my concert
photographs up here on The Old Blog. I suppose we will catch up at some
point, but this would be a good time to remind you that my concert photographs
can be seen in a much more timely manner by visiting V13 Media,
which you can do by following the link. If you'd like an even more direct
route to my photographs, you can visit my personal page over there but using
the following
link. During his prime, James Brown was known as ‘The Hardest
Working Man in Show Business”. If there
was a similar title awarded to a group, the guys from Black Label Society would
definitely be in the running. They were
in Montréal this week for a ceiling shattering performance at the MTelus. But they didn’t just headline the show,
various members of the band were also involved in all of the
opening acts as
well. Though we had already seen all of them already, it was time
for Black Label Society to hit the stage.
Though they had already been battered by heavy riffs and hard music, the
fans seemed to have only gotten stronger.
The first body surfer went by my head mere minutes after the band opened
their set with “Funeral Bell”. The bodies kept coming in fast and furious during “Name In
Blood”. So much so, that security made
the call to clear us photographers from the pit before our third song,
“Destroy And Conquer” was only just beginning.
At one point, I had looked behind me and there were ten bodies coming in. The rest of their set featured a heavy selection of
hits. Zakk Wylde and his signature
guitar 
riffs were on full display and I must admit that I was under their
spell. It was so cool to see this
guitarist who I had been listening to since I was a teenager and be able to
capture some awesome shots of him in action.
The band worked in the final sequence of Ozzy Osbourne’s “No More Tears”
on to the end of “Heart Of Darkness”.
As the song ended the entire building was chanting “Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy!” as Zakk raised his arms to the sky in
a show of respect to his former boss. A very fun moment was when Zakk introduced all of the
brothers of the band. As Zakk would name
them, he would add that the mentioned Brother was a fan of certain rivals of
our local hockey team. The crowd would
boo, to which Zakk would respond, “But that’s okay because I love the Montréal
Canadiens!” The Ozzy chants
also
returned a little later, as we heard “Ozzy’s Song”, a tribute to Ozzy from
Black Label Society’s latest album, Engines Of Demolition, which was released only four days before this show. The show came to an end with “Stillborn” as the sweaty and
satisfied masses raised their fists in the air and let out a final deafening
roar. All in appreciation for the
evening of hard rock and unrelenting riffs that they had just experienced. There was certain to be some rough voices and
sore bodies the next morning, but I’m sure that they would all do it again. Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? The fans inside of the MTelus certainly
didn’t think so. Certainly not when Zakk
Wylde and the rest of Black Label Society are involved. All of the photographs were taken at f/3.2 while using various different shutter speeds, ISO settings and focal lengths. Here are the rest of the photographs that I took of Black Label Society while they performed on the MTelus stage.
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