Dave’s Photo Blog

Massachusetts Avenue itself was quite a spectacle. There were police lines on sawhorses on both sides of the street running for quite a distance to allow feast-goers to have more room to move about.

When I returned for the performance, however, it had been transformed. The front of the cafe had been cleared and a performance space had been created complete with a live sound board.

I have since some to realize that I’m pretty hard on acoustic guitars. I bend the strings. I bang on the face with my hands. I rock the neck back and forth to create tremolo. I pound the strings with the side of the pick. To me, it’s all about using every aspect of the instrument to create different sounds.

These are much scarier in black and white than in color, but I’ve put a color nightscape in at the end so you can get a feel for what that looks like too.

 
I was watching for a certain location as I rode the bus south down Mass Ave. earlier this week. I had seen a bizarre thing on the ride up to the mechanic and I was willing to hop off a few stops early and take some photos if it was still there.