Leo’s Tavern 50th anniversary banner. Photograph by Carlotta Hester. I was just looking at the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine, from November 1967. Donovan was the inaugural interview and is referred to on the cover as the “manchild of magic.” Artist Carlotta Hester outside Leo’s Tavern. Photograph by Chris Murray. Donovan brought his […]
Earlier this week, Bruce Springsteen joined Tangiers Blues Band to celebrate the reopening of Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, NJ. What an incredible gig it was!! The rebirth of the bowling alley/music venue is thanks to the renovations by Jay Sugarman of i-Star, which has also launched the adjacent Asbury Hotel. After Tangiers Blues Band and Bruce’s […]
DJ Fontana, Elvis’ original drummer, passed away on Wednesday. DJ was integral to Elvis’ magical sound in 1956. Alfred Wertheimer took the greatest photographs ever of Elvis Presley in 1956. Here is a great one of DJ playing drums at the earth shaking recording session on July 2, 1956 at RCA Studios in New York, where […]
Bruce Springsteen and David Sancious, Central Park, 1973. © The Estate of David Gahr. Backstreets magazine just published a terrific story and interview on the making of Bruce Springsteen: From Asbury Park, to Born to Run, to Born in the USA (Rizzoli). It is an account of how Bruce Springsteen and photographer David Gahr came together and […]
Tom Petty, Bonnaroo, 2009. Photograph by Danny Clinch. Just a couple of weeks ago I attended the opening of The Soundry in Columbia, Maryland, the newest fine music venue in the Washington area. It was a remarkable evening. Tom Meyer, President of the Clyde’s group, commissioned Newmyer Flyer Productions to present a concert to open The […]
I was at the free Rolling Stones concert in Havana in March, 2016. It was a blast! Genesis Publications has just published a limited edition, deluxe autographed book of the Stones set lists that Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood illustrates. I love his painted set list from the Cuba concert I attended, and here it is. We […]
I saw a cover story from the January 21st New York Times Book Review titled, “Philip Roth is Still Here.” Now Philip Roth is not here, having just passed away, but his writing certainly is still here. At the end of his story on Roth, Charles McGrath interviews him and asks, “What have you been […]
Bob Dylan and George Harrison, The Concert for Bangladesh, 1971. Photograph by Barry Feinstein.
George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon, Hamburg, 1961. Photograph by Astrid Kirchherr. Yesterday was Astrid Kirchherr’s birthday. Astrid took some of the finest early photographs of the Beatles. Her exhibitions at Govinda Gallery were legendary. She was also a featured photographer in the inaugural exhibition at The Experience Music Project (now known as the Museum […]
This Saturday, May 19th, The History Book Festival in Lewes, Delaware, is celebrating the publication of Bruce Springsteen: From Asbury Park, to Born to Run, to Born in the USA (Rizzoli), featuring the photographs of David Gahr. They have some good programming planned. Bruce Springsteen and David Gahr, New Jersey, 1979.