The Frontrunners at the Bitter End, NYC
November 9, 2000

I've put a small gallery of photos together from The Frontrunners' recent gig at New York City's Oldest Rock Club, the Bitter End. We had a great turnout, with about 250 coworkers, friends, family, and bewildered bystanders attending. Our thanks go out to all who were kind enough to stop by. The band is comprised of a group of guys who (mostly) work together in Manhattan, and began as a dare. Over time, we learned to string a few songs together and took our act on the road -- well at least down a few blocks from the office. None of us are professional musicians, although some members of the band have played professionally at different times in our checkered pasts. The set list was:

For those stopping by via Rich Shelton's photography site, these photographs were all taken by Peter Sherk with the new Fuji S1 Pro digital SLR. He doesn't own the camera so please don't break into his house. The light at the Bitter End is extremely bad; all photos were shot at ISO 1600 (!) with a Tokina 20-35 ATX Pro lens set at f/2.8, and Peter rarely made it past 1/60th even then. However, you can see that this camera does an excellent job of rendering high-ISO images with a minimum of noise. I'd say they are generally better than slide or print film pushed to ISO 800, which wouldn't have worked in this case anyway!

Finally, since this is a photography site, some of the photos are only lightly compressed for better quality, so please be patient if you are bandwidth-challenged...