GENERATIONS

Mick, Keith, Charlie, Bill, and the new one, Mick Taylor, come out on stage. Brian’s death is on everyone’s mind. Mick pauses and asks for silence. He quotes Shelley: “Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life.” So, Mick, no doubt unwittingly, adds to […]

http://youtu.be/iDXlgWoDKEU (Ethan Russell is in background of clip changing lenses.) “I scrambled madly about the rooftop, changing angles, for if I was focused on Paul I would, of course, be missing John (and George and Ringo) and vice versa. It was a typically high-overcast, gray London day. In terms of photographic light, it was quite […]

“Jim Morrison, seemed the perfect subject for the Granada show. He had a reputation as an angry young man, and some called him the “American Mick Jagger.” As the show began, Morrison came out dressed in his normal costume (WARDROBE) of black leather trousers and jacket and white shirt. He seemed to me somewhat puffy-faced. […]

For FULL SCREEN click in video bar. “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70tF-9Uf-Mk&feature=youtube_gdata_player “The next day the first thing we do is buy a stereo and a copy of Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced? To be “experienced” – I am at the time certain about what this means – is to understand purple haze, amplified feedback, and the extension of time. From the album cover Hendrix, flanked […]

For FULL SCREEN click below “Some months earlier, Jon visited me in the flat I was then renting in Kensington Court. I’d shown him some of my writing, which he said was good. This was a great compliment to me. Before he left I’d also shown Jon some photographs I had taken in California. They […]

“Photograph Mick Jagger? Why, I remember in college, driving down the California highways in my VW bus, hair just beginning to grow over my collar, an Indian brass bell and hawk feather hanging off the rearview mirror, and the dashboard painted light purple polka dots, the color I was into then, singing at the very […]

  HBTV: Depth of Speed – Simple Soul from HBTV on Vimeo. HBTV: Depth of Speed – Simple Soul from HBTV on Vimeo. The Playmobile of the 60s. Still crazy after all these years. “Craig Johnson represents a long list of devout Volkswagen fanatics who have carried on the legacy of several iconic products from […]

When the men returning from the war found wives, they cut to the chase and formed families. That meant babies and plenty of them. Between 1946 and 1950 20 million babies were born in the USA. But what to do with them? How to care for them? What to feed them? How to raise them? […]

When the War ended the soldiers came home looking to take up with their pre-war lives or start new ones. One of the first things they looked for were American girls like this one, Norma Jeane Dougherty, who had been ” working in the Radioplane Munitions Factory, mainly spraying airplane parts with fire retardant and […]