SHERBURT SELECTS - FOIL PACK 006

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?
Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.
See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.
Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The sixth pack has my favorite edit of the first set, Alkaline Trio.
Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.
Six packs of four every quarter.

Foil Pack Features:
- ALKALINE TRIO at their headliner at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI March 2024
- DRAIN supporting Neck Deep at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI February 2024
- KOYO at the triple headliner at Edgemen Screenprinting in Clinton Twp, MI March 2024
- UNABOMB at the Small’s Bar 25th Anniversary Shows in Hamtramck, MI January 2024

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SHERBURT SELECTS - FOIL PACK 005

SHERBURT SELECTS is a way to express my childhood love for rare collectible cards. Foils were some of my favorites to get. So why not do foil packs?
Yes, I do know there is a double entendre here with heroin foil packs. Yes, I am okay with that.
See what I am thinking of is Upper Deck and Fleer and Panini.
Where your mind goes, is not up to me. The fifth pack has one of my favorites, Drug Church.
Each set of 24 gets compiled and then packs get randomly sorted.
Six packs of four every quarter.

Foil Pack Features:
- ANXIOUS at the triple headliner at Edgemen Screenprinting in Clinton Twp, MI March 2024
- DRUG CHURCH supporting Alkaline Trio at ROMT in Royal Oak, MI March 2024
- MACHO at the Small’s Bar 25th Anniversary Shows in Hamtramck, MI January 2024
- ORBIT CULTURE supporting Machine Head at Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, MI February 2024

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Neck Deep, Drain, Bearings, and Higher Power @ Royal Oak Music Theatre

NECK DEEP taken by SHERBURT 2.13.23

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Neck Deep has been on my list of bands to photograph since I started doing this over a decade ago. For whatever reason it just seemed like it was never going to happen. Denial after denial. Then I got approved and woke up the day of the show sick with the flu. And of course, more denials. Then I had to not put in once for inventory at my old job. It just seemed like a lost cause. Then they announced this tour with one of my favorite bands in the world, Drain. I took this as a sign, that it was time. I could easily just hit Drain up and they would hook me up but I wanted to do this right. I wanted to do it on my own accord, and I wanted to go through the headliner. I didn’t want to ask for a favor. I didn’t ask for one for Blink or NOFX. So I did it the old way, the same way that got me the first gigs. Publicity.

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NECK DEEP LIVE IN AMERICA

N E C K D E E P

D R A I N

B E A R I N G S

H I G H E R P O W E R

I have been working so many production shows that I haven't been able to do these kinds of gigs as often as I would like. These are a net loss for me every time. There is no payment for these kinds of gigs. Working for a publication maybe they might pay you, but I work for myself so I go in knowing I am losing money on parking, on a beverage, on food afterward and even sometimes, having to pay for tickets. Hence why a lot of these types of shows have been getting thinner and thinner on my calendar. The best part is that it’s not the same reason most start to give up shows, it’s because I have prior obligations to production companies and one of the biggest bands on the face of the planet. So with all that being said, at this point in my career, if I am willing to lose money to work, it’s because it is something I truly want to do.

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Alongside Neck Deep and Drain were Bearings and Higher Power creating an absolutely stacked lineup stretching from UK Pop Punk to California Hardcore.

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NECK DEEP

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DRAIN

BEARINGS

HIGHER POWER

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To Dream Is To Cream… The Only Sherburt Ever is Here.

SHERBURT

It is time…
No more head trips…

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Hardstylin’ at Cow Palace taken by Josh Badura

Hello, it is me, your friend Sherburt. For the last 5 years, I have been running a website called I Like Their Old Stuff. I have covered everything from Movement Festival to Slayer’s Last Michigan Show to Local Gigs with 10 people in attendance. Over the years I always dreamed of getting past this stage of blogging or content creation and just making art without any kind of guidelines or pigeon holding by artist PR. Welp, this is a free-for-all. People can tell me in emails what their expectations are but the truth is, I have no desire to create for a person who answers emails. I am making art for me. I am making art for the fans of the bands. And I am making art for the bands. This has been an issue for me especially starting last year. I have to keep up these fucking appearances like I am a functioning media outlet when the truth is I’m one human being on my own. I don’t have a team. Nor do I want one. Cue some uplifting Drum and Bass music please I need it…

Oh wait, did you think I was kidding about cueing the Drum and Bass music? I wasn’t. I can now be myself. Which means my humor will come out more than ever. So will my Junglist side. So will my politically driven side. So will my party animal side. I am so over faking-the-fucking-funk. So let’s get it! No use wasting more time!

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First night working for NOFX taken by Jay Reynolds aka @nofxcrewofficial

So what was the problem?

Freedom. It just didn’t feel like I was free at all. I felt like I was just trying to get things to happen by forcing them. I realized I like making art in digital form with the photos I take and implementing video or written word or spoken word. I realized I was tired of the regular blog format and how fucking tiring it all is to try to keep up with the Jones’s.

So what is this site about?

This is my place for free expression. No pigeonholding myself. Sure things might look similar at first, and that may be the point to get you hooked in here. What is to come is so much that I have never created before and I would like this to be the center of all of it. This is now the NEW SITE. This is now THE PORTFOLIO. This is now THE BOOKING SITE. This is now is a Hatebreed song I like a lot. This is also a space where you will be able to order prints from shows directly eventually. You will also be able to see events for Metro Detroit that are in the realm of stuff I cover. Sorry if there is an arena show, unless it’s Green Day or Blink 182 chances are I won’t be covering it. The big thing is seeing how it goes from a media site to a lifestyle site. This is just now how things are for me. So I want to experiment visually and with audio and written word and design and just different ways to present my work.

This is simply a home base for Sherburt.

What about the Patreon?

Patreon was shifted to www.patreon.com/sherburtphoto and still has over 225 posts and will still be operational! More tiers will be added as time goes on, but all basic posts will still be visible with the $5 a month for life tier. That will never stop! What comes with other tiers will be the ability to donate more, but also giveaways and exclusives like 1-on-1 edit sessions/tutorials and even my own custom presets ripped right from my Lightroom.

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With Alexis flying to Punk In Drublic Orlando, 3rd time working for NOFX. Flew in flew out in the same 21 hour period.

What sparked all of this?

Believing I can do more. My achievements last year proved to be the deciding factor in reversing into personal brand and out of the realm of trying to run a site. Becoming NOFX’s live music photographer, getting on the Tied Down Detroit media team, becoming a photographer for the revived Black Iris Booking, and joining the Pleasant Underground media team all led me here. It made me realize I didn’t have to fake the funk anymore with a blog site. I didn’t have to just make it look like I knew what I was doing. I do know what I’m doing.

I also was faced with a brand new Squarespace editor that I couldn’t use with the old site without transferring to a new one. Instead of having multiple sites up I wanted to narrow in… and this all came from my Father asking me what my website was and then I said “Which one?”. If my own Dad a former military networking engineer specialist couldn’t figure that out, then I knew I was in trouble. I had no real recognition of my brands but my alias name Sherburt continues to grow by the day. It makes all the sense in the world finally. And tbh, I wish I would’ve done this sooner.

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Photo by Hannah Badura

So instead of being Sherburt from Time Is A Circle Pit or I Like Their Old Stuff…

I am just Sherburt.

Thank you for coming along with me.

And like a local reggae band, I gotta say BIG TINGZ COMING!

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