anyone in the photos. A few
months later he got an email from
Billy Schorling, who used to frequent Dizzy Duncan’s. He said
he thought the band looked familiar. A couple of weeks later he
saw their photo on a New Jersey
club owner’s Facebook page and
quickly told Knight the news.
The band, now known as The
Bad Land Band, was an eclectic
group, described by lead vocalist
Rich Gulya as “electric bluegrass.”
The photographer is still unknown, but lead guitarist Richard
Verge suspects it may have been
New Jersey Stage
his brother who lived near the
club and was a semi-professional
photographer. His brother died
at a young age, so we may never
know for sure, but it’s possible his
camera and film may have been
sold. Knight thinks it’s very possible Richard’s brother was the
photographer, since many of the
images feature him.
Most of the time, it is more difficult to learn who the photographer was than to learn who the
people in a photo are because the
camera is pointing away. “In the
case of The Bad Land Band, we
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