I have done a blog before on Clarence White of the Byrds, but it only included one picture, and it was my very first blog. Clarence is one of my favorite musicians. I got to meet him when I took these photographs on April 30, 1972.
The place was Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was sitting on a church table backstage when I met him that night. He was very nice to a young 18 year old photographer who wanted to be a rock photographer and was tagging along with a Columbia Records rep.
Clarence is playing his B Bender guitar in these pictures. He developed it and it is legendary. The guitar is now being played and used frequently by country star Marty Stuart. I have gotten to know Marty and we have talked about Clarence. Marty has these photos in his collection! It's so good to see this guitar used again and I recognized it when I photographed Marty in 2008 and saw the Frankfurt sticker on it.
One of the photos I have shared before but the rest have never been seen 'til now.
Enjoy these photos of Clarence and next week I will show the rest of what I have from this show.
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Our blog today is about a Grateful Dead show at the Dane County Coliseum on February 15, 1973.
Starting today, my photographs on my website will have a watermark on them for many reasons. The biggest one being that I am in this whole business to sell some photographs and not be a starving artist!!
I never knew that Jerry Garcia was missing part of a finger until someone mentioned it and I looked at my photographs of this show. This proves that you don't need all of your fingers to play great guitar!
Enjoy some photographs from a great show that I remember being a very long performance. The Grateful Dead was known for playing long shows. They frequently went into long jam sessions.
If my memory serves me correctly this was a two night show.
Almost forgot my blog today!! It has been a very busy weekend with moving my Mom and going through lots of old stuff. Found my Dad's Army papers and his U. S. Army uniform!
Back to my rock'n'roll world here and we are looking at REO Speedwagon from a show at UW Oshkosh on September 4, 1972. They played with the Brian Lee Band and a band called Flash from England outside at UW Oshkosh.
REO Speedwagon is coming to Summerfest on June 28th with Babe Ruth opening the show. Should be an awesome show with 2 great bands I have not seen in years.
Enjoy some photos from a nice day for an outside concert.
On December 10, 1972, I photographed Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen at Humpin Hanna's here in Milwaukee.
Three days before, I photographed Manfred Mann and his Earth Band at the same club. Manfred Mann, was last week's blog. Humpin Hanna's was a great venue in the 70's for a lot of national acts coming through town.
Commander Cody had ties to Wisconsin because he was a teacher for a while at UW Oshkosh!!
His famous song "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette", was very popular at the time and the photos attached here show him smoking and playing it!
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