GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
JONI MITCHELL “BLUE”
Around the time I was photographing Mary I was listening — over and over — to the strains of “Blue,” by a new Canadian-American singer, Joni Mitchell. More powerful music from across the water. . FROM AN AMERICAN STORY This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders.
Robert Altman Photo
One of my favorite — in fact my favorite — photo to capture what it (sometimes) felt like. While this photograph is often thought to be from San Francisco’s “Human Be-In” in 1967, it is instead from Colorado in 1970. Robert was kind enough to let me use it, and I thank him for that. […]
Norman Seeff
(INCOMPLETE… 6-10-12) The difference between you and Norman…
PETER, PAUL & MARY “BLOWIN’ I THE WIND” 1964 incomplete
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4g_1VoGw4&feature=youtube_gdata_player This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
The next day, waiting for the film to come back from the lab, I went to the Pasadena Public Library. It was quiet and peaceful there. It occurred to me that it was a bit strange for a music video director to prefer this room to some other more flashy media environment, but it felt […]
THE BAND IN WOODSTOCK
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy) “Hyde Park had been the largest outdoor concert ever held but within months it was eclipsed by Woodstock. There the up-and-coming, down-and-out, long-haired, freaky, and high, all showed up and for four days camped outside […]
Duck Tail aka Duck’s Ass 1958
“Before Elvis I used to lie in bed at night with the lights off, and listen to country music very low on the radio, the tiny orange lights of the tube amplifier shining through the slits in the radio’s back. I sang his songs in front of the mirror. I imitated his smile, raising the […]
STANLEY BOOTH, AUTHOR 1968 and 2002
Stanley, in my opinion, wrote a book bigger than his subject. It is a book — The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (Apple/Amazon/B&N) — that I have read many times and never does it fail to impress. It is a monumental effort but not– and this irritates some–simple. So be it. Great requires a […]
A.A. MILNE (and Brian Jones) 1968
“I found myself driving through the green hills of Sussex to visit Brian Jones in his new house. With some fanfare, Brian had just bought the country home of A. A. Milne, the creator of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. To me it seemed somehow perfect that this blond-haired rock and roller should have inherited the […]
