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About Me

Really wanted to be a painter, I really wanted to be a rock star.

My career ended up giving me the chance to be neither of these things – and both. I take photographs. Mostly of musicians. It’s a pretty good life, for the most part. Assuming you don’t have any qualms about setting up cameras in a graveyard at midnight. Or being surrounded by 300 angry scorpions who don’t want to be in a studio. Or trying to keep a singer’s energy level up when she’s just come off a seven-month world tour with the worst case of dysentery in recorded history. All in a day’s work.

Think of me as an innocent bystander

There was no master plan. No carefully tended career path. I loved rock and punk music. I saw things. Puzzles intrigued me. Bugs and lizards and creepy crawly things fascinated me. Influences possessed me. There had to be a way to put it all together… and those girls in the clubs who were all presence, black leather and kohl eyeliner…

Need I say more?

Actually, I probably do. Because what you’re about to experience is the summation – to date – of a life’s work, mostly in and for the music business. These pictures represent the world as I’ve seen it, lived it, breathed it, touched it and especially loved it.

Apparently, even a jet-setting photographer needs a hobby.

John Scarpati has taken to scouring old Hollywood studio supply warehouses in search of restoration worthy movie lights. Scarpati favors lights by famed makers Bardwell & McAlister and Mole Richardson. Utilizing only models produced between the 1920s and 1960’s, each is a one-of-a-kind original, complete with period accurate stand. The patina on these things is as good as it gets. Complete with new wiring, and a fresh bulb socket, the lights are 100% suitable for home use. Scarpati offers access to his lovingly restored, authentic, Hollywood movie lights from his Etsy shop. Each light is the real deal. Made with old-school industrial quality, they were meant to serve as serious tools, having spent decades on southern California soundstages and movie locations.

this is me

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"we're not banging rocks together here"

Recent posts

1940’s J. G McAlister Hollywood 5K

1940’s J. G McAlister Hollywood 5K

English Eccentrics

English Eccentrics

The Cramps

The Cramps

Pandora’s (both of them) & Feline

Pandora’s (both of them) & Feline

Shooting My Friends

Shooting My Friends

L. A. Guns

L. A. Guns

Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo

Poison

Poison

The Enigma Days

The Enigma Days

Life’s So Cool

Life’s So Cool

Mary on a

Mary on a

Street Talk

Street Talk

Fiesta!

Fiesta!

The Yellow and Black Attack

The Yellow and Black Attack

The Motels

The Motels

REDD KROSS

REDD KROSS

My first shoot…

My first shoot…

Pre Hasselblad Summer

Pre Hasselblad Summer

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