Previous | Next Philadelphia, 2004: That was when I was doing the interviews for Vote for Change. They were on-camera interviews through the media to support what these musicians were doing. So we went to Philly to do the bit with Michael and R.E.M., and he was basically just waiting for us, and it was really just a found photo. I grabbed a ...

Previous | Next Seattle, 1997: I caught up with them in Seattle and we were going to Vancouver. The band had just put in some equipment that they could record on on the bus, and [Thom Yorke] was just fooling around with his new recording equipment. I also remember Jonny Greenwood, the guitar player, had just hit up some consignment store and he ...

Previous | Next Santa Rosa, Calif., 2004: I was on an assignment to photograph Tom Waits for Harp magazine, and I got a phone call from his publicist who said, "Tom would like you to come up to where he lives and go to the fair, because he wanted to take his son and nephew." I remember him showing up and having a bunch of things in the back of ...

Previous | Next Vermont, 2002: We were at Jon Fishman's house, the drummer, and it was really snowing. We had shot a lot of pictures inside, and I said, "Let's go get some pictures outside." So we all threw on our winter clothes. And Trey [Anastasio], on his way out, just grabbed this balloon and was messing around with it, pretending he was ...

Previous | Next New York, 1997: I was shooting some publicity for David Byrne. We went to the piers off Chelsea [in Manhattan]. David ended up walking over to this garbage can and he picked the lid up off of it, and I saw him look inside it and wonder how clean this thing is. And without saying a word to me, he just climbed right in, squatted ...

Previous | Next New York, 1999: Bo Diddley was opening for Tom Petty at Irving Plaza, and a friend of mine was bartending there, and she got me into the gig, and I always bring my camera. She said, "You know, Bo Diddley's just sitting there by himself." Nobody really cared that Bo Diddley was back there; there were maybe one or two people back ...

Previous | Next New York, 1993: I had been doing a fair amount of hip-hop photography and album covers, and I got this assignment from Rolling Stone to photograph Tupac. He showed up [at my studio] right on time, and with just one other guy. I remember he had brought a couple of different changes of clothing, and he took his shirt off to change ...