STRIKE MAKER
At least one United Parcel Service driver wasn’t too bothered when the company’s workers voted to strike recently. Richard White merely saw it as the delivery of an opportunity.
Since the early ‘80s, White, 32, has been videotaping local rock shows, accumulating more than 1,000 hours of concert and interview tape--including Jane’s Addiction’s first and last concerts and many hours from No Doubt’s early years on the local ska circuit, circa 1990. His tape of fan-police confrontations outside a 1990 Bad Religion concert got international airing from ABC-TV news.
“I’ve been at UPS for 12 years, using that to make a living while I did these videos as a hobby,” he says. “Now that I’m not working, I’ve decided to pursue this seriously. Now is the time.”
It started to be more than a hobby last year when, with permission, he started selling “Bad Religion: The Riot,” which documented the notorious show. He’s sold copies through the Internet and, recently, at Moby Disc stores. Now he’s talking to the No Doubt and Jane’s Addiction camps about doing projects with their material.
He hasn’t said which shipping service he’d use to distribute the tapes.
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