Posts by L. Paul Mann

Glide photographer L Paul Mann was at Bonnaroo for all four days and hardly missed a set. Check out all the retrospective of everyone from: Pear Jam, LCD Soundsystem, Super Jam, Ween, Dead & Company & more.  

An army of bonafide rock stars descended on the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, Thursday, May 12th, for a benefit concert and auction to raise money for the Adopt The Arts organization. The group co-founded by ex Guns N Roses drummer and philanthropist Matt Sorum and Abby Berman, is a Los Angeles-based charity. The organization works […]

Glide had a front row invite to the Ozzfest meets Knotfest press conference in Los Angeles on May 12th as, Ozzy Osbourne and Corey Taylor, along with Sharon Osbourne, Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, Zak Wylde and others, unveiled “Ozzfest Meets Knotfest,” a two-day event that will see the merging of the two major metal festivals. The event […]

The 2016 Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, TN from 4/29-5/1/16  included Neil Young performing with his current touring group the Promise of the Real, Beck, Paul Simon, Meghan Trainor, Jason Derulo, Modest Mouse and more. Photos by L Paul Mann.

Tesla came to the Samala showroom at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez to rock a sold out crowd, Thursday night March 24th. The band is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 1986 release of their mega hit album Mechanical Resonance. The group opened with a thunderous explosion of rock, perfectly representing the classic […]

The sold out Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival, which took place last weekend in Okeechobee, Florida. The festival featured among many names: Avett Brothers, Ween, Big Grams, Robert Plant, Kamasi Washington and a late night jam featuring Win Buter and John Oates with Miguel. Photos by L Paul Mann.

The latest installment in the Best Fest came to the Fonda theater in the heart of Hollywood for two sold out performances on February 9th and 10th. The Best Fest, which began in New York, is a star studded charity event bringing well known film and music personalities together to perform benefit concerts for Sweet […]

A large crowd gathered at the historic Fonda Theater in LA, January 19th to hear Americana singer songwriter Josh Ritter. The 39 year old smiley fresh faced singer from Idaho has been recording his own songs for nearly twenty years, but is now reaching a wider audience on the strength of his new, more rock […]

John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon, the godfather of English punk music, brought the latest incantation of his band Public Image Ltd (PiL), to the Fonda Theater in the heart of Hollywood. The sold out show was a fitting finale to the group’s 2015 tour. Lydon was joined by PiL’s other members, Lu Edmonds on guitar, Bruce […]

A veritable army of veteran rockers showed up to jam at El Rey Theater in Los Angeles on November 3rd. The event, which may have been one of the best rock shows of the year, in Southern California, featured the Hellcat Saints. The band was the idea of former Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner and […]

On November 3rd an extraordinary group of iconic performers are coming together at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angles on Tuesday, November 3rd in the name of cancer awareness. The show was organized to benefit Ronda’s Kiss, an organization which raises money for cancer patients struggling to pay their medical bills. The core band […]

The all-female rock trio known as Baby In Vain wrapped up a very successful U.S. tour at The Echo in the Silverlake district of Los Angeles, Tuesday night August 11th. The tour included opening dates for The Kills as well as a slot at the prestigious Outside Lands festival in San Francisco. Their headline performance […]

Members of the rotating rock royalty that make up the Kings of Chaos band gathered at the legendary Fillmore concert hall in the heart of San Francisco for an ear shattering sold out rock jam on Wednesday, July 29th. The evening began with VIP guests arriving to meet and greet and have their photos taken […]

Hard Summer, the ongoing premiere EDM music festival in Southern California, brought a huge sold out crowd to the Pomona Fairplex for two days on August 1st and 2nd. The festival, the brain child of promoter Gary Richards, began in 2007, and has morphed into an annual, multi- event cornucopia of EDM music. Events now […]

The Heart of Storm was performed in front of a live audience July 24th and 25th and filmed for a PBS television special at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. Astonishingly, it was the first time that a live rock band performed with a classic ballet in the United States. The band featured an immensely […]

Glide photographer L Paul Mann was in the trenches for all four days of Bonnaroo 2015 and got us shots up and close of the artists and the fans.

The fifth annual Notes For Notes benefit concert and auction took place  Sunday, June 7th, in front of an exuberant sold out audience. Notes For Notes is a Santa Barbara based organization started by Phil Gilley & Roderick Hare and presented by local musician Seymour Duncan, who is better known nationally as one of the […]

The biggest Cinco De Mayo celebration in downtown Los Angeles had to be at the two sold out Lucha Va Voom shows at the  grandiose Mayan nightclub, on May 4 and 5. For the uninitiated, Lucha Va Voom is an amalgamation of Mexican wrestling, music, and sideshow acts, combined with 1950s era inspired Burlesque, stand […]

Photos by L. Paul Mann of Coachella during weekend two taking place in Indio, CA during April 17-19, 2015.                                                                         […]

The third annual Rock Against MS concert, filled the Whiskey a Go Go club on Sunset Boulevard on March 3rd. The VIP pre-party and subsequent marathon concert, featuring over 50 performers, lasted over seven hours. The event was organized by Nancy Sayle, a Los Angeles publicist, popular amongst area celebrities and musicians. Sayle, who is […]