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fore the European tour. In the live setting, graph of. “It would be nice for us to have a was just standing there and she was, I
Jerry says they “brought the tunings down photo of us meeting Metallica,” he replies. would say, probably 5 metres, maybe 6 me-
for some of the songs, just because it’s “That would be cool. That was in 2002, I be- tres, from the edge, and there was no rail or
very hard for him to sing some of the really, lieve. We did an MTV show called Icon anything, and she just dropped her hands
really high notes. But other than that, his where they honour… this one particular and kind of put her head back and was hav-
voice has been performing really well.” show was about Aerosmith and they had ing a spiritual moment. But she had a tod-
At the show that night, the band went younger bands or more contemporary dler, and the toddler was just walking
full steam ahead, powering with passion bands do covers of their songs, so we did around with nobody watching him, and I
and strength and giving the fans everything ‘Sweet Emotion’ and Metallica were there. was off in the distance, kind of waiting for
they wanted, expected, and then some. They were there to speak, they weren’t them to move so I could get this picture,
there to perform. That was the band that I and I was kind of freaking out, ‘What is she
ut going back to our opening para- listened to and got to meet them and they doing? How can you just let your kid walk
Bgraph and the mention of flaws that were super-cool.” around? The dad’s over there taking a pic-
need fixing. Photographs – that is some- He says no-one had a photograph of ture of them, so if they think it’s okay… I
thing more and more of us spend time fix- the moment they met each other though – guess it’s OK, but… I’m going to take a pic-
ing – whether we are in front of the camera which is always the way… You usually ture of this, because it’s kind of crazy’. So
or behind it. Whether it’s dodging and burn- never capture those super-special but un- that was kind of a weird moment. It was re-
ing, cropping, adding filters, using photo expected moments on film or digitally. In- ally kind of strange. It’s a cool photo – and
apps before posting on Instagram… these stead, you hope it stays in your memory they’re OK!”
days everyone is doing it. And while Jerry forever. We’re glad they’re OK!
is photographed a lot onstage and even off- When asked what has been the most
stage, he also likes to get on the other side eye-opening thing that he has taken a Well, Papa Roach are more than OK,
of the camera lens. He loves photography photo of, he tells us, “I was on holiday with and we hope that we can keep capturing
and takes it seriously, even selling a few my family at Yosemite National Park in Cal- them on camera and in print for many years
prints via his website, www.jerryhortonpho- ifornia. There was an area of the mountains, to come. While ‘Crooked Teeth’ is inspired
tos.com. In the past, he’s talked of bringing it was a really high point called Glacier by imperfections, we think P.Roach are
out a book of his photography, but he says Point. It kind of looks down over the whole pretty near perfect themselves.
he’d like to build his collection of work up Yosemite Valley. This one area where I was
a bit and sell more individual prints first. trying to get a picture, there was a family; a Visit www.paparoach.com for more
We ask if there’s a band or music-re- father, mother and child. The father was off info.
lated moment he wishes he had a photo- to the side taking pictures and the mother Words By Shari Black Velvet
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