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Rock and roll stories may abound, but "what happens on tour, stays on tour" I believe is said. Perhaps more pertinent for here is a story of nineteen year closure.

One of the favourite bands I designed for were See See Rider, a maverick blend of glam country rock. I shot a portrait of them for their first EP, in fact the very slides discovered in that box. Followed by another sleeve using stills from the video set, then, for the forthcoming album I discovered a house with it's wall removed, a single cane chair sitting in the exposed room. A perfect metaphor. A guerilla raid to the property with my Bronica.

Alas it was not to be as the band split before the album ever saw light. Nineteen years later looking at the slides from that first session I wondered whatever happened to them. Google. The album was available for free from an archive website. Through the site I tracked the signer down, and now, two decades later the photo adorns the mp3 release.

Coat

Because a shoot is such fun you can forget the subject's intention, seeing the negs for the first time caused a double-take.

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