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Stevie Wonder, Juneteenth festival concert, Cotton Bowl, 1982 or '83 (1 of 2)

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Ricoh K-mount SLR. Tri-X @ 800 in HC-110. Scanned from print.

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lex_jenkins

Even if you don't like the photo, you'll probably enjoy the back

story. Click on the photo to read my comments on what occurred during

this show.

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lex_jenkins
Well, nuts... looks like the back story for this photo vanished during a system glitch in 2009 that deleted most of my comments on photo.net photos, both in my own portfolio and critiques on other photos. Eventually I'll get around to rewriting it.
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My original narrative for this (and a related) photo was probably better, but I'm too lazy to rewrite it, so I'll just copy and paste this abbreviated version from a photo.net forum discussion:

(One of my fondest concert memories):
  Watching dumbfounded from the foot of the stage while Stevie Wonder tossed his hands in the air and fell straight backward off his seat during a Juneteenth concert at the Cotton Bowl comes pretty close to topping my list. I think this was in 1982? I was so stunned I forgot to snap a photo until after the bass player hoisted Stevie back onto his chair. The band never missed a beat, tho' the backup singers were screaming and running in little circles while this happened. To this day I'm not sure whether it was a stunt.

Anyway, I didn't get the most interesting shot because I was stunned.  Which was when I realized I wasn't cut out to be a good photojournalist.

 

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