The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at Parkdale’s Train Station, Toronto, ON, Canada on 13 June 1993.
“The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion finally arrived in Toronto after releasing three records in rapid succession, with a fourth about to come out. They played the Opera House, a former cinema on the far side of the Don River, with the Muffs opening, and once again I offered the band a place to stay.
I asked Jon if we could do a photo session the next morning, and I suppose he said yes as a sort of payment for years of offering a place to stay and a relatively clean bathroom. I took the band and my Rolleis out to what was once Parkdale’s train station, a weedy stretch of tracks near where Queen West met Dufferin and Gladstone. I shot the band out under a cloudless sky with a deep orange or maybe even red filter over the lens, then took them to the old stone stairs that once led from the street to the station and shot a couple of rolls of cross-processed Fujichrome 400.
I’d been working on a retro look to my work for some time by then, and I’m pleased to discover that my colour shots actually came close to aping the peculiar cast of old colour prints or fading Kodak slides. I’d have been pretty happy then – if I’d ever bothered making prints from this shoot. Once again, the first time these have ever been seen.” – Rick McGinnis
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