May 12, 2006

SOUL PATROL Photos!

UPDATE VIII!

1:09 p.m. Well, they just left a few minutes ago, and it was quite exciting all the way around. Taylor arrived and the crowd went crazy and he got a key to the city and somehow the City Council managed to get a gold record of Elvis's for "In the Ghetto" and gave it to him and he sang with the Little Memphis Blues Orchestra "Go Round in Circles" and then he left in a gigantic Ford Excursion stretch limo/aircraft carrier.

PHOTOS--Starting from slightly before update seven was posted to a bit after noon, the first set of ten. The next set will come along in just a bit.

The Hayes High band was there to welcome him--

Here are the TV folks setting up--

and these are the folks who call themselves the Sweet Ts. There's an amazing amount of symbolism in there--'T' for Taylor, 'Tee it up'; 'Sweet T' for sweet tea, the drink of the South; 'sweety'; "'P' that rhymes with 'T' and that means TROUBLE, TROUBLE with a capital 'T'!"; all that stuff. I would not suggest you go up to them and ask if it means 'tard.'

Fan behavior is an interesting study.

Here one young lady proclaims her, uhh, I'm not sure what.

For those who didn't bring a sign, a PR person went around handing some out. Bill Engvall would be so proud of this picture--

As it got closer to start, the local show folks got up on stage--here are Rick Journey, Janice Rogers, and Mickey Ferguson standing around.

A wider shot to show what a gorgeous day we had today--

--which, as I noted earlier, made for a lovely crop of nekkid arms!

YAY!

Now, off to edit some more photos. Back in a bit.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 12, 2006 01:36 PM
Comments

Heeeeeeeere's your sign...

Posted by: Grouchy Old Yorkie Lady at May 12, 2006 02:55 PM

Heheheee--give that lady a sign!

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 12, 2006 03:04 PM

So yeah...that girl with the sign? She works at BRC. She, in fact, partially replaced me.

That's nice...thanks for making my day.

:-)

Posted by: Annie at May 12, 2006 04:30 PM

Heh--nothing like a little afternoon schadenfreude, eh?

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 12, 2006 04:32 PM

And I assume we're not talking about the "TAYLOR IS MY BABY DADDY" sign. Or am I assuming too much!?

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 12, 2006 04:34 PM

Terry,

I am amazed at how good those pictures are. Did you use a zoom lens of some type, or can a built-in optical zoom do such a thing?

Posted by: Stan at May 13, 2006 08:39 AM

It's an HP M507 (I think) that has an optical/digital zoom. When it's in digital, it's very hard to shoot because of the image lag between what's happening, the image on the viewer, and the shutter speed.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 13, 2006 09:24 AM