MACONGA FRIENDS: Tosha Walden, Alan Walden, Chris Hicks, Georgeanna Lanier Walden and Dave Peck. ( Photo © L. Wayne Skaggs)
had my dads 8mm camera. Some people did and I got the chance to work on some of that video that is being made into a movie later, but that's another whole other story. So every since Byron I had wanted to document bands. Add to that the fact that I had made this con- tact with the most talented artist going on in my world sense Duane Allman. I asked Chris if I could start shooting video
of him and he said hell yeah man go ahead do whatever you want. So I did. I shot two or three shows here in Macon, one of the street party. He had met a lot of folks by now, and Toy
Caldwell asked him to bring his band (Loose Change) up and open for him in Greenville, SC at Al’s Pumphouse. That was July 3rd 1988. By now I'm part of the band. Everyone was
accepting me, the girlfriends and all the peo- ple in the band. I became a part of the group. I guess my real position would be a drum tech
and general stage hand. I did anything that they asked me to do but mostly helped with Mark Johnson’s drums and anything else I could do to help. So that Toy Caldwell Band show was the
first video I shot out of town of somebody other than Chris Hicks. Mine and James’ soundboard feed failed and I was really un- happy with that video so I didn't even give Toy a copy.
What is the best concert you ever filmed? From my point of view that would mean the best sound, the best video including the light- ing angles are framing with three cameras, good good audio and the band has to be per- fect as well. Out of over 250 concert video shoots, two and three hour long, there are three that rise to the top. The Chris Hicks Ex- perience, The Kenneth Brian Band, and my most perfect video shoot of all was just two
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