Kerry King of Slayer at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - more photos... photo by jeff barringer - staff photographer

by jeff barringer
club kingsnake staff
Slayer
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
http://slayer.net
Slayer Concert Photos
Saturday, Sept 1, 2007
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Selma, Texas)
Also: Bleeding Through, Marilyn Manson

What a day.

It was 3:30 pm when I got the confirmation on my press pass for the Slayer/Manson show. Kerry came through on the Slayer side, but unfortunately I didn't get approved to shoot Manson. That turned out to be to my advantage in the long run.

I packed up the car and headed south to Moondog's house, then on to Jay West's house. Moondog would be shooting for the venue, Jay would be shooting for Insite Magazine, and we decided to carpool down together. Slipping in the Zico Chain's new disc Food, I cranked up the tunes, pointed my truck south and prayed for light traffic.

After what seemed a long hour in which I offered to stop at the Snake Farm several times for my passengers, we finally saw our exit off I-35 and headed off down some back road. Slipping in through the back way we snuck almost to the head of the line pulling into the huge parking lot. Lucking out, we ended up parking close to the ticket office. Moondog, being an old hand, quickly got us in and Megan and Howie of Live Nation got us all badged up. Just in time too -- we barely had a chance to draw a bottle of water before we were whisked down to the pit via an extra large golf cart.