I had a great opportunity to shoot a show this past weekend in NYC that I couldn’t pass up. It was the first show of the new tour for the German Heavy Metal band... Accept. I’ll post another entry on them next. But first, here is the band that opened up for them... JC Satellite.

Before the show I checked out their website to see if I could get an idea of what kind of band this was. Boy was I surprised to see that the oldest member of the band is seventeen years old and the singer/guitarist is only 13 years old! They have a really good website with some pics and videos that will give you an idea of what they sound like.

I will say that I was very impressed with this band. They were just a good, straight ahead rock band that sort of reminded me of AC/DC a bit. Very tight rhythms which I will say I didn’t expect. Having been in numerous bands myself I listen pretty closely to each of the players while I shoot pictures. The whole band was just locked in with it’s timing. For players that young there was certainly a much greater sense of maturity than you would expect. And, they didn’t try to “over play” if that makes sense. They kept to what they do best and they did very well... So, here are some pics of them.

These were shot with both Nikon D3 and D3s cameras with 24-70mm and 70-200mm lenses. The ISO was pretty high at 4000 to 5000 which is pretty incredible.