Thanks! it was a short zoom...stage really wasn't big enough for me to climb aboard. In fact, the much larger shows - while you can shoot from in front of the pit right @ the stage, they only give you 3 songs to shoot! then they kick you out as not to be a distraction I guess.
This is the (local) band Bitter Tongues, not my style but not the worst act I had to cover either :-P
I think a lot of that depends on where you live too; city or rural. Here, you could go see any one of 50+ live acts any night of the week...never could have done that where I grew up in the country!
This is Dalek from NYC. I had never heard of them prior to shoting them but they were really good...phat bass!