#2: Something for Kate's drummer

[Olympus E500 Manual, ISO 400, 1/2500, f5.6 @ 300mm. (600mm @ 35mm equiv.)]

Animal was always my favourite Muppet.
I shot this on Australia Day, 2008, the day after the Sydney Big Day Out. I was with Zeb, Claire W, and Claire's sister Eloise, somewhere in Sydney's sort-of Rocks district, if memory serves (which, it frequently doesn't, please tell me if I was off course).
We'd spent the day wandering the city soaking in the Australia Day celebrations -- It was the BDO when Aussie flags and paraphernalia were banned, remember -- and stumbled on these live concerts at various locations. Amongst other acts, we saw Evermore and Something For Kate, this being a shot of Kate's drummer Clint Hyndman as he abused his skins.
Awesome set, not just because of the music, but because I had my Olympus E500 and 70-300mm lens on me. I'd just bought the lens that week, and had been frothing for a chance unleash its ponies.
Keep in mind we're talking Olympus here -- crop factor x2 -- that's a 600mm @ f5.6 at a rock concert, that I could swing one handed.
Now I lug around a Canon 300mm 2.8 at work most days, so you can go all glass snob on me if you'd like and say the Olympus is cheap rubbish, but you're wrong. For so many reasons, I love my $600 Olympus lens so much more than Canon's white-and-black technical triumph. Yes, the Canon is faster and cleaner and sharper than the Olympus. (If you can buy a camera to focus it.)
I won't argue -- but big glass like the Canon is like 12 times the size and 12 times the weight, (not to mention 12 times the cost). You can't get the shot if the lens it too heavy to carry, or to dear to afford. And how are you supposed to mosh with that on your shoulder, anyway?
In the un-cropped shot that I got a black shadow running down the right side, perhaps from a dude in the pit getting in the way, and at first I thought it spoiled the pic, but that black strip actually works brilliant when the pic is my Mac's background, as I can run my Dock and shortcuts etc in that dead space. Or, if you were a sub editor, you could run story text down there.
Conundrums like that make cropping that much harder for me, and I still struggle to get it right daily. (Just as my boss.)
As for the shot -- I darn well love it. Takes me back right away. And Clint's face packs emotion. If anything, I'd have liked it to be a bit sharper, but, then again, it's as least as sharp as anything ever taken on a Canon these days…

How could I have done it better?

--Ben