Filmmaker | Photographer Cale Glendening » Music

KISS

Cale — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:34:49 +0000

I was fortunate enough to be given a KISS photo pass at their show. Seemed kind of surreal getting to shoot such a historical band like KISS. From the get go I knew these photos were going to look the best. This was my favorite set from Epicenter and one of my favorite sets to date. I knew I only had two songs to get everything I needed, so I rushed around a ton. If any of you wonder why they give us a song limit, it’s so we aren’t standing in front of all the kids who have been waiting all day to see them. We get a couple songs and then we leave. Also some bands just don’t like photographers. Hard to perform when you look down and have a sea of cameras and lenses in your face. There is about a good 10 foot barrier between the stage and the crowd that all the photographers stand in. Anyways, during the last moments of the 2nd song I noticed Gene Simmons look in my direction. Then he proceeded to point directly at me. I snapped about 5 photos before he looked away. Immediately after, I felt someone tapping on my back. I turned around and the guy behind me said “DUDE, PLEASE TELL ME YOU GOT THAT!” I love when bands have fun and interact with everyone, including photographers. Needless to say I was very stoked to capture that moment. Thanks!

“I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.”
- KISS

True that!

Cale Glendening

Big Boi

Cale — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:21:26 +0000

Photos of Big Boi at KROQ Epicenter 2010.

Cale Glendening

30 Seconds To Mars

Cale — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:49:06 +0000

Here is the set from 30 Seconds To Mars.

I appreciate the fact they spend so much making their videos the highest quality. Some of the most beautiful music videos I have ever seen come from 30 Seconds To Mars. Love when a band actually gets visual and cinematic.

Before you look at my photos. Please watch a video or all of them. Serious inspiration.

A Beautiful Lie

Kings and Queens

Closer To The Edge

Btw, Jared….love your movies.

Cale Glendening

Blink-182

Cale — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:17:38 +0000

Last weekend my buddy Scott Simock and I attended KROQ Epicenter 2010. First, thank you again to the KROQ family for giving me the chance to see/photograph incredible bands. You all freaking rule. At Epicenter I got to see bands like Eminem, Big Boi, Rise Against, 30 Seconds to Mars, Against Me!, KISS, and of course Blink-182. I had such an incredible time, despite it being 110 degrees and on black asphalt. No humidity, just a blazing oven with thousands of crazed fans out to see their favorite artists.

A quick little back story. Blink-182 was my favorite band growing up. Anyone who really knows me will definitely know that. Believe it or not they actually played a role in how I got into Film-making. Video production was offered to me my Jr. year in high school and I said to myself…”I always wanted to learn how they did the cool camera tricks (photos turning to video, video turning to photo) in the Adam’s Song music video.” Day one in video production I fell in love and have been pursuing it ever since. Now I am not a little crazed “fan-boy” or anything, I just really appreciate them for inspiring me into my career. I definitely still love their music.

That being said, I was most excited about shooting/seeing them. Oddly enough it was one of my least favorite sets of photographs. Nothing due to the band, but due to the stage being so tall and the position of the event’s stage lighting. I was getting mainly black backgrounds. The front house spot lights just created a flat wash. Enough excuses, I had 3 songs to shoot and I just didn’t come through. Hopefully this wont be my last time shooting them and I can supply them with some much better content next time around.

Big thanks to Blink-182 for the show. Thank-you Aissa and Gus for coordinating and giving me a pass to shoot.

“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Several more galleries to be posted over the next week.
Cale Glendening

DH Unplugged

Cale — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:08:28 +0000

Back in October of 2009 I shot some in studio stuff for Demon Hunter’s current album “The World Is A Thorn.”

Ryan Clark had an awesome last minute idea to do an acoustic unplugged set with Patrick Judge and Yogi Watts. We used Aaron Sprinkles studio to do the shoot. A couple of difficulties since it was so last minute.
We didn’t have a master track for any of the acoustic songs they wanted to sing, so they freestyled each song 3 times a piece. They picked the recording, for each song, that sounded the best and sent it off.

Only problem you have is 3 songs, 3 takes a piece, 1 camera man, and no master track. So editing became difficult as every couple of seconds the timing would be off from the master track. The biggest problem I ran into is Yogi changing up how he played drums. Sometimes he would the ride, then the next take on the crash, and also changing fills. You will catch editing mistakes here and there but I did best I could. I really love how their heavy songs transition into acoustic tracks. I was so happy to be working with them again. They really are a talented amazing group of guys.

CLICK HERE to check out their albums on Itunes.
To check out my videos, including the one below, check out my FILM page.

“Won’t bow to man. Won’t bow to government.
Won’t bow to greed. Won’t bow to false hope.
Won’t bow to self. Won’t bow to modern code.
Won’t sell my soul to a dead world. I defy”

- Demon Hunter “The World Is A Thorn”

Cale Glendening

KROQ Weenie Roast 2010 (post 2)

Cale — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:52:42 +0000

As promised, post 2 from KROQ Weenie Roast.

Spoon

Temper Trap

Sublime W/ Rome

The Dirty Heads

Silversun Pickups

STP

“Music is love in search of a word.”
- Sidonie Gabrielle

Cale Glendening

KROQ Weenie Roast 2010 (post 1)

Cale — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:24:30 +0000

Bands below include, Against Me, Cage The Elephant, Chevelle, Deftones, DEVO, and Hole. A non-stop day of pure bliss to the ears. There will be one more post of images from Weenie Roast, in the next couple of days. The next post will include the bands Silversun Pickups, Spoon, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime W/ Rome, Temper Trap, and The Dirty Heads. Here are some of my favorites from the event.

Cage The Elephant

Hole

Chevelle

Against Me

DEVO

Deftones

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
- Aaron Copland

Cale Glendening

Paramore

Cale — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:43:58 +0000

Last weekend was KROQ WEENIE ROAST 2010! It was one of my favorite events this past year. Maybe it was the furry convention, the prom, great friends, running into T_BING or maybe it was just catching Hayley spit the biggest loogie ever. Now I played baseball for 16 years…so i’ve seen my share of loogs. Let’s just say she could’ve put them all to shame! Anyways, in the end it was a combination of everything this past weekend that made it so memorable. Blessed to feel at home with KROQ and their incredible/hardworking staff. They have been one of my favorite clients, hands down.

Paramore is excellent live. So much energy and fun. Here are my favorite from the set. Btw, Jeremy, good seeing the surprised look when you saw me!
Will be posting more soon of other bands from Weenie Roast.

“My heart is in the music…JUDGE THAT!”
-Paramore

Cale Glendening

Coachella 2010

cale — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:00:43 +0000

A couple weeks back, I happily attended Coachella 2010. It was absolutely incredible, to say the least. There were so many incredible acts, I wish I could’ve caught more shows. I can never remember shooting so much in such a short period of time. I shot around 75gigs of photos in 3 days. Only getting 3 songs per band, and battling tons of other photographers in each pit. Sifting through thousands and thousands of images, below are a few of my favorite…Jay-Z photos not included in this post. (above image – Phoenix)

Vampire Weekend

The XX

The Dead Weather

Phoenix

MuteMath

Local Natives

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Julian Casablancas

The Dead Weather

Dillinger Escape Plan

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Julian Casablancas

Phoenix

“Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
- Walter Savage Landor

Cale Glendening

JAY-Z

cale — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0000

During Coachella 2010 I got to experience something I didn’t even imagine possible, for at least a while. I got the opportunity to photograph one of my favorite musicians ever, JAY-Z. It is weird how my heart started beating so fast during the countdown to his show. It seriously seemed to count down slower and slower. I checked both of my cameras constantly, making sure my settings were correct and unchanged. Knowing I only had the 1st 3 songs to shoot, I made my rounds very fast and fought my way through the overcrowded photo pit. My favorite image I captured(above) was actually taken during the 4th song. The evil CSC rebel force security guards were invading the pit and exterminating the photographers out. As I was leaving, I turned around and saw JAY-Z heading towards my side of the stage. So, like a Patrick Swayze in Red Dawn, I snuck past the security using the camouflage of retreating photographers, creeping up to the side of the stage. I stood up just as JAY-Z started pointing to the crowd and I popped off about 5 more shots just before security noticed me and quickly apprehended me. They put their hands in my lens, blocking my shot, making my powers useless. As I walked out, proudly, I roughly scrolled through my images and viewed the last batch. I screamed WOLVERIIINNN….. I mean, VICTORIOUSSSS! I got very excited when I saw the above image, I just hoped once I got it blown up it would be in focus. “Persistence”paid off and I walked away with my favorite live shot to date, defeating the tough CSC Security Staff. Shooting that show has been a big highlight for me. Hopefully things will keep rolling and more unimaginable things will happen. God is bigger than anything I can fathom. I am truly thankful to have gotten that opportunity. Big thanks to KROQ and Goldenvoice for getting me a photopass for Coachella. Also big thanks to JAY-Z. Several of the bigger bands called a last minute audible and 95% of the photographers weren’t allowed in the pit to shoot. Thankfully JAY-Z was cool enough to let all photo pass photographers in the pit, as it was supposed to be. Out of the 300+ photos from his show, here are my favorite. Hoping one day to actually do a set up shoot with him, however this will definitely do for now.

JAY-Z welcomes Memphis Bleek to the stage.

“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”
- James Whitcomb Riley

Cale Glendening