{"id":888,"date":"2012-07-30T20:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2016-11-25T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:30:42","slug":"last-summer-on-earth-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/last-summer-on-earth-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Summer on Earth Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayan calendar seems to come to an abrupt end in late 2012, so why not celebrate the end of times with a summer music tour? Specifically, the Last Summer on Earth Tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-OH-07-06-12\/G0000AlhPu1HFmcQ\/I00000MhzmCmej3s\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I00000MhzmCmej3s\/s\/300\/198\/JSD-120706-Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-Zoo-013.jpg\" alt=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12 (Jon Diener)\" width=\"420\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With a lineup comprised of <a title=\"Cracker's Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crackersoul.com\/fr_home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Cracker<\/a>, <a title=\"Big Head Todd &amp; the Monsters' site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bigheadtodd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Head Todd &amp; the Monsters<\/a>, <a title=\"Blues Traveler's Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestraveler.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Blues Traveler<\/a> and <a title=\"Barenaked Ladies' Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/barenakedladies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barenaked Ladies<\/a>, the summer tour kicked off in the sweltering 100\u00b0 heat of an early July Friday in Toledo, Ohio. I was able to secure a photo pass just days before the show and braved the heat to shoot the first three songs of each band (a standard limitation of photo passes.) \u00a0Due to the mid-summer length of daylight and the orientation of the stage, most of the first three acts took place in daylight with very little stage lighting. This made for some flat, boring lighting on the subjects. Once the headlining act, Barenaked Ladies, took the stage around 9:20, dusk had settled in and the stage lights and fog machines added some nice atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cracker&#8217;s Johnny Hickman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Cracker-Toledo-OH-07-06-12\/G0000.KHCdBPrlH8\/I0000DZn9QgE4CDY\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Cracker - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000DZn9QgE4CDY\/s\/400\/603\/JSD-120706-Cracker-Toledo-Zoo-018.jpg\" alt=\"Cracker - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12 (Jon Diener)\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Big Head&#8221; Todd Park Mohr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Big-Head-Todd\/G0000Vtxpq.IftkA\/I0000B1mOvcUnV38\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Big Head Todd &amp; the Monsters - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000B1mOvcUnV38\/s\/400\/603\/JSD-120706-BHTM-Toledo-Zoo-061.jpg\" alt=\"Big Head Todd &amp; the Monsters - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12 (Jon Diener)\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blues Traveler frontman\u00a0<\/strong><strong>John Popper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Blues-Traveler-Toledo-OH-07-06-12\/G0000thQcJzpUd.c\/I00002XJr4D7po5k\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Blues Traveler - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I00002XJr4D7po5k\/s\/400\/603\/JSD-120706-Blues-Traveler-Toledo-Zoo-113.jpg\" alt=\"Blues Traveler - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12 (Jon Diener)\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barenaked Ladies <\/strong>(clockwise, from upper-left: Ed Robertson, Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Tyler Stewart)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/-\/G0000AlhPu1HFmcQ\/I0000DUlBUt.5qUM\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000DUlBUt.5qUM\/s\/400\/603\/JSD-120706-Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-Zoo-125.jpg\" alt=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12 (Jon Diener)\" width=\"270\" height=\"408\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-OH-07-06-12\/G0000AlhPu1HFmcQ\/I0000PXe.fIH2YHc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000PXe.fIH2YHc\/s\/400\/603\/JSD-120706-Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-Zoo-056.jpg\" alt=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12 (Jon Diener)\" width=\"270\" height=\"408\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-OH-07-06-12\/G0000AlhPu1HFmcQ\/I0000BKLoYR6LWBA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000BKLoYR6LWBA\/s\/400\/603\/JSD-120706-Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-Zoo-108.jpg\" alt=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12 (Jon Diener)\" width=\"270\" height=\"408\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-OH-07-06-12\/G0000AlhPu1HFmcQ\/I0000ulsQI6UvkfE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000ulsQI6UvkfE\/s\/400\/603\/JSD-120706-Barenaked-Ladies-Toledo-Zoo-101.jpg\" alt=\"Barenaked Ladies - Toledo Zoo Amphitheater - 07.06.12 (Jon Diener)\" width=\"270\" height=\"408\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full galleries from this show <a title=\"Last Summer on Earth Tour - Toledo, OH - July 6, 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/jondiener.photoshelter.com\/gallery-collection\/Last-Summer-on-Earth-Tour-07-06-12\/C0000c3Fp23fHBfE\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of my images of BNL from this show were also published by the Idaho Statesman newspaper, in both their print and <a title=\"Idaho Statesman story on BNL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/2012\/07\/27\/2203410\/barenaked-ladies-dig-deep.html\" target=\"_blank\">online versions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for looking!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayan calendar seems to come to an abrupt end in late 2012, so why not celebrate the end of times with a summer music tour? Specifically, the Last Summer on Earth Tour. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[93,91,8,90,88,89,11,87,92,26,32,42,45,35],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-photography","tag-lsoe","tag-amphitheater","tag-band","tag-barenaked-ladies","tag-big-head-todd-the-monsters","tag-blues-traveler","tag-concert","tag-cracker","tag-last-summer-on-earth-tour","tag-photography-2","tag-show","tag-toledo","tag-toledo-zoo","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}