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PhotoSynthesis: Steppenwolf

Previous | Next Malibu, Calif., 1969: I shot pictures of them quite a bit, did a couple of their album covers. We went to Leo Carrillo Beach, sort of near Malibu. It's real hot and sunny at the beach, it's really not a good place to take pictures, unless it's right at sunset, so we'd gone into this little cave where the light was really nice and ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Previous | Next Los Angeles, 1969: The guy on the left is Dallas Taylor; he was the drummer. The second guy from the left is Bruce Palmer; he was the bass player in the Buffalo Springfield, and he was going to be the bass player for CSNY, but at the last minute there was some kind of a problem with his working papers -- he was Canadian. But ...

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PhotoSynthesis: The Turtles

Previous | Next Wisconsin, 1969: We were touring the Midwest, driving around in two station wagons with all their gear in the back, doing little concerts. And as we drove through Wisconsin one afternoon, we saw these signs that said "Cheese" -- with an arrow. And we started following them just to see what the hell it meant. And at one point we ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Jimi Hendrix, Mama Michelle & Mama Cass

Previous | Next Los Angeles, 1967: This was taken probably a half an hour before that picture of Hendrix standing onstage. There we are in this little green room right offstage, and there was one couch in the room and everyone is just sitting around waiting. Mama Cass is drinking a bottle of Galliano. Jimi had whispered something to Michelle, and ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Jimi Hendrix

Previous | Next Los Angeles, 1967: He had just played at the Monterey Pop Festival, which was produced by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. So they had nabbed him to open their show at the Hollywood Bowl, which was soon after Monterey. So being good friends with the Mamas and Papas, I was in the green room right offstage -- the Mamas and ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Bruce Springsteen

Previous | Next San Francisco, 1973: My friend Chip Monck had been hired to do the lighting and staging for the Columbia Records convention at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. He actually hired me to take pictures as they assembled the lighting structures and the big speakers, and in the end, of course, was the concert. It was quite a ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Frank Zappa

Previous | Next Los Angeles, 1971: This was in a rehearsal for the Mothers of Invention -- not the first group but the second incarnation. It was a good rehearsal, because it was like a real band, or more like an orchestra; he was definitely the conductor. It wasn't like a lot of groups that get together and just kind of jam and screw around. ...

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