1960-1969

When I was in junior high school (1967-’70) the white kids listened almost exclusively to white bands, Beatles, Stones, Cream, while the African American kids preferred the Temptations, Supremes and Marvin Gaye. Today, my music collection has an eclectic balance of almost everything, and this linked video documents the acceptance of “white” music among minorities. […]

Hello to all who may read this synopsis of my “American Experience”. It will be difficult to make it brief enough to be readable yet not long enough to be boring but I will try. I was born in Portland in 1952, the oldest of three children. My Dad had a degree in Anthropology and […]

THE BEATLES “LET IT BE” “….In the decades between college and this walk I had become a photographer too, and often for the Rolling Stones. As we meandered, Gered matter-of-factly mentioned to me that I was the only photographer to have shot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. That this […]

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See out link policy) (1968) ‘With the Fall, Linda decides to return to the U.S. She does not seem to share my penchant for the gray brick, the black and white romanticism of A Taste of Honey. Besides, she […]