More Jack Casady and Rare Jefferson Airplane, Please!

Posted on April 18, 2013 by m3jimphoto

From Facebook: "Happy Birthday Jack Casady - Bass Player for Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna - April 13, 1944. This shot is pre-Monterey Pop, 1966. Jim’s archive on the Airplane is VAST! We have been editing all the Airplane color slides over the last few weeks! It is a treasue of never-before-seen images!"

I was intrigued recently to note how “viral” Jim’s rare 1966 shot of Jack Casady, former Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna bassist, went after we posted it on the Jim Marshall Photography LLC Facebook page in honor of Casady’s 69th birthday on April 13.

While it’s not too tough to predict that shots of Johnny Cash at Folsom or San Quentin or The Stones on their 1972 tour will gain huge amounts of “eyeballs & clicks,” sometimes there are sleeper images — rare or never-before-seen photos — whose popularity surprises and delights us no end.

With more surprise and delight in mind, we searched Jim’s archive to find other black-and-white shots of Jack Casady and the Jefferson Airplane from that same time frame to send out to the blogosphere and “tweeterverse” … or whatever the kids are calling it these days (wink).  And we were NOT disappointed.

All of the shots of the Airplane featured here were taken by Jim Marshall in 1966 (most likely in the Fall of that year since that’s when Grace Slick officially replaced the first co-lead vocalist, Signe Toly Anderson).

Jefferson Airplane in Golden Gate Park.

Slick performed with the band live at the Fillmore Auditorium in October, 1966.  It was to prove to be a huge year in the history of rock and roll and particularly the burgeoning SF music scene’s embrace of psychedelia.  If you’re curious about the pre-Slick Airplane, here’s a link to the Airplane performing “It’s No Secret” at the Filmore in early 1966.

Jefferson Airplane Lineup: October 1966–February 1970

Paul Kantner

Left to right: Jack Casady, Paul Kantner, Marty Balin

Grace Slick – vocals, piano, organ, recorder
Marty Balin - vocals, rhythm guitar, bass guitar
Paul Kantner - rhythm guitar, vocals
Jorma Kaukonen - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
Jack Casady - bass guitar, rhythm guitar
Spencer Dryden - drums

To see more of Jim’s work on the Jefferson Airplane and/or the San Francisco music scene in the late ’60s, check out these JMPLLC blogs from the archive:

Somebody to Love

Feed Your Head

Janis + Grace + Jim

Valentine’s from the JMPLLC Archives

Jorma Kaukonen

The Airplane at the Bandshell in Golden Gate Park.

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Jim the Connoisseur

Posted on March 28, 2013 by m3jimphoto

Robert Mondavi with the vines that made him world famous. Jim took this shot in 1976.

This week (March 24) marks the third year of Jim’s passing … and sometimes I still think I’ll pick up the phone and he’ll be yelling (affectionately) into my ear about what a pain in the ass I am, etc., etc.

This time of year always gets me to thinking about how much I shared with him and how so many of those memories involved good food and, of course, drink.  More often than not, the drink was a fantastic bottle (or two) of wine, most likely a red of some sort from the Napa Valley.

I’ve talked some about the tough times with Jim, how he was such a pain to deal with, his obsessions and passions, but there has been one passion that we really have only scratched the surface of: his love of fine wine, great bars and restaurants and his enduring, undying fear and loathing of onions.

So what better way to honor his memory and usher in the season of new growth and all things delectable then to focus some blogs on the foodie side of Jim (not that he would “stomach” being called a foodie, I’m sure he would think it was uber-pretentious).  Instead, Jim would just say, “I know what I fuckin’ like and what I hate.” And leave it at that.

Peter Mondavi with the renowned wine barrels in 1976.

However, I did see Jim take a bit of pride (on the down low) about his knowledge of California wines, which surprised me the first time he broke it out.  I must have looked rather skeptical at this hard-drinkin’ foulmouth who suddenly asked the waiter about their best “Cab Sav” in the house.

Seeing my initial surprise, Jim said one of the reasons he knew a bit more than the average Joe about wines from “Sonapa-Noma,” as he liked to say, went back to a shoot he had done to accompany a piece for New West magazine – “Brother Against Brother: The Wine Feud that Split the Mondavi Family,” back in November 1976.

And, thanks to Jim’s obsessive cataloging of his black and white work, we were able to dig up these never-before-seen shots of Peter and Robert Mondavi from that shoot.  I sure wish I could have been there to watch Jim interact with the two titan vintners.  For more info on the brothers, their famous feud and the history of wine in this country, check out Julia Flynn Siler’s book, “The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of the American Wine Dynasty.”

Talk about tastings! Wish I could have been a fly on the wall (or a nose in the glass) at Mondavi that day in 1976. Anybody know who the other guys are in this shot?

Stay tuned for more foodie and wine-related tales from the Jim vaults.  And, as always, we welcome your recollections, especially if they happened over a great restaurant table or in a favorite Jim dive or, ESPECIALLY, if they are about Jim’s ongoing battle to avoid his Kryptonite: onions.  If you have any photos documenting those memories, send them in, we’d love to see them and hear the stories that go along.

 

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From the Blog Archives: Favorite Johnny Cash Posts

Posted on March 7, 2013 by m3jimphoto

In honor of Johnny Cash’s recent birthday (he would have been 81) I gathered some of my favorite Cash images (plus a proof sheet) featured in the JMPLLC blog over the past two years. Many of the images shown below were highlighted to promote his wildly successful book, “Pocket Cash”– the last book Jim Marshall approved before his death in March 2010.

At Team Marshall we strive to protect Jim’s legacy with the spirit and purpose he fought to maintain throughout his long career.  We also revel in uncovering hidden gems, buried stories, connections and influences that make Jim and the artists who graced him with their trust as relevant today as they were the moment the image was captured.

In that spirit, I would love to hear from you all out there about any new directions, attitudes and connections that Jim may have catalyzed in your lives, both professional and personal. It can only make the blog better.

And, after all, as Jim always liked to remind me: “It (meaning love and trust) cuts both ways, Michie.”

Here are the links to the blogs these images were featured in:

“Finding Connections Among the Gods & Icons”

“Thanksgiving 1969 With the Cash Family”

“A Pocketful of Love: June Carter + Johnny Cash”

“The Proof is in the Shooting”

“Jim Always Wanted a Mercedes”

Jim loved this shot of June Carter and Johnny Cash taken at their home in Hendersonville, TN in 1969 a year before their son John Carter Cash was born.


But I think I love this shot of June and Johnny almost as much, maybe more than the iconic one. To me, it just captures a pure, relaxed and undiluted moment of love and family between two giant talents.

This one really needs no caption: Jim's shot of Cash flipping the bird at San Quentin in 1969 is one of the most famous (and ripped off!) images in rock 'n roll history. Jim used to always joke that this shot was his "Cash cow" due to all the money he won from people using it illegally. It's an honor to work to protect it and the rest of Jim's legacy.

On their way to one of the most important live gigs ever recorded – on a four-track no less. John and June in 1968, heading toward Folsom Prison.

Johnny Cash 1968: Marshall was the only photographer to accompany Johnny Cash when he recorded his live album at Folsom Prison. Cash stepped down off the bus, surrounded by granite walls, guard towers and barbed wire when the gate clanged shut. “There’s a feeling of permanence to that sound,” Cash said.

With Bob Dylan on "The Johnny Cash Show" taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in 1969.

Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash at Thanksgiving 1969 at the Cash homestead in Hendersonville, Tenn., hanging out in front of the gold-record-encrusted fireplace mantel. An accomplished helicopter pilot, Kristofferson once took a helicopter out to Cash’s house, without prior warning, to give Cash some tapes of his songs to check out.

 

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Valentine’s from the JMPLLC Archives

Posted on February 14, 2013 by m3jimphoto

Jay Blakesberg caption #1: I have been seeing this photo for the last 35 or so years. Always wondered where it was taken and when ... and if there were others ... while scanning the color Grateful Dead Archive and doing some sleuthing I figured out some facts ... to be continued

What better way to celebrate February 14, the “official” day of love (in the U.S. anyway), than to focus on some of what we adore most here at Team Marshall: the lovely surprises and serendipitous gifts that await us when exploring Jim Marshall’s magnificent and still quite-mysterious photo archive.

Jay Blakesberg, our archivist and head of North American licensing, discovered some beauties the other day when he unearthed the accompanying color slides of a shoot Jim did with the Grateful Dead in 1967.  The shot of the Dead (clockwise from left: Pigpen, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Bob Weir) from underneath with Jim laying on the ground is rare enough, but the really amazing finds were the two other shots taken of Jim and the Dead while in the midst of the shoot.

Jay Blakesberg caption #2: First I found this photo of Jim laying on the ground shooting the band ... which means he shot this image with more then one camera. But I have only found one roll of film. This leads me to believe there is at least one roll MIA? B&W, more color? TBD??? Love the pedestrians walking by ... but I still could not figure out where it was taken ... BUT, based on some other images, I did determine that it was 1967 ... to be continued

Who was it that took these shots whose identity is now (sadly) lost to the annals of time? An assistant? A friend of the Dead’s who knew his or her way around a Leica?  A passerby who Jim trusted enough to snap off a couple of shots correctly exposed and mostly in focus? I know, that last one’s highly doubtful given how protective Jim was about those Leicas, right?

When Jay posted these onto the JMPLLC Facebook page recently there was quite a response and so I thought it only fair to re-post them here with Jay’s text from the Facebook wall as captions, for those of you in the blogosphere who manage (somehow) to resist Facebook’s siren song.  It’s interesting to note that in a number of different interviews and scenarios Jim mis-remembered that this shoot with the Dead happened in Golden Gate Park.

Jay Blakesberg caption #3: Then I found this frame...I KNOW this neighborhood. This photo was taken in a dirt lot on the corner of Geary and Fillmore - I would say this is exactly where the Boom Boom Room is now in SF and THAT is the Fillmore Auditorium across the street! Mystery solved!

Here’s an example of Jim’s faulty recall:

“This picture was originally shot in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 1967.  Jim Marshall said of them, ‘We were going around in Golden Gate Park, I got a shot with a 21mm lens, then I laid down and did this one looking up at them and the sky.’ ”

And yet as Jay and a multitude of other JMPLLC Facebook fans point out, the shots with Jim in them clearly show that the shoot was in the Fillmore.  Interestingly, Jim was laying down on what is now the site of today’s Boom Boom Room.

To add some multimedia flavor to today’s post, here’s a video of the Dead at an Acid Test in 1967 to give you a sonic idea of what the band was about at the time Jim took these shots.  And kudos to my favorite Dead fan, Dan Sullivan, for sourcing this link.

Look familiar? For this much more famous band shot taken for a Look magazine story in Golden Gate Park – also in 1967 – Jim used a 21mm on his Leica M4 to provide a squirrel’s eye view of the two-year-old Jefferson Airplane (clockwise from bottom: Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Jorma Kaukonen, Spencer Dryden and Jack Casady).

Somebody to Emulate

I thought it would be neat to re-run a classic Jim Marshall shot of the Jefferson Airplane also taken in 1967 that is more than a little reminiscent of the Dead set up that leads off this blog.  I first ran this image of the Airplane in my blog “Somebody to Love.”

See what I mean about connections in Jim’s work and how his passion propelled him, even if it meant rolling around in a dirt lot in the Fillmore?  Jim always pointed out that we are bound together by our shared experiences and he never lost the ability to be truly grateful over the small serendipities and coincidences of life.  It turns out they are all around us … if we just know how (and where) to look.

 

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Birthday Surprises and Super Sundays

Posted on January 31, 2013 by m3jimphoto

Jim and “Truck,” in front of his beloved City. The sturdy Ford Ranchero was on its last cylinders (literally), but it was his only ride during the dark times in the mid-'80s. I think this is one of the last photos of Truck before it finally gave up the ghost.

It would have been Jim’s 77th birthday this Sunday, February 3, 2013. Notably, one of Jim’s favorite teams, the San Francisco 49ers, is in New Orleans preparing to take it to the Baltimore Ravens in the Superbowl (Go Niners!) this Sunday as well.

All this synergy got me to thinking about birthdays past and one of the more super surprises I ever pulled off. Basically, I managed to crash Jim’s big 50th birthday celebration: a formal dinner at his favorite Marina restaurant, Mulhern’s, with dozens of his nearest and dearest friends in attendance. To throw him off the scent, I had told Jim repeatedly that I couldn’t just drop everything and fly out from New York for his dumb old birthday, which really hurt his feelings. I pretended not to care.

The bash was organized by Jane Judge, Jim’s “sister,” who was kind enough to fly my starving freelance self out for the occasion. I hid out that afternoon and arrived very, very late with a guest and dear friend of Jim’s, James Mason, who was a rather large individual. Thus, he managed to totally camouflage me as he sauntered into Mulhern’s darkened back room, with me walking directly behind him in lockstep.

Jim was giving Mason a rash of shit about being so late until I stepped out from behind Mason and said, “Happy Birthday, Jim!” I’ll never forget his reaction as long as I live. Jim’s eyes bugged out, he yelled “Michie!,” then he grabbed his chest, gasped, shut his eyes and fell back against the wall in complete shock. We all thought I had given him a heart attack. It was pandemonium.

Needless to say, Jim recovered almost instantly, grabbed me in a bear hug that almost crushed my ribs (with assorted other extra curricular activities thrown in) and proceeded to never let go of my hand throughout the whole evening. I’m smiling now at the scenes running in my head, such a superb evening.

Jim took this shot of me and his beloved "Truck" at SFO in 1986 when he dropped me off to catch a flight back to NYC. I had surprised him, flying out and sneaking in to his 50th birthday dinner at his favorite restaurant back in the day, Mulhern's in the Marina.

I was able to dig up the photo Jim took of me with truck at SFO that I’m running with this blog as evidence of that super weekend 27 years ago. Jim snapped it before I ran to catch my plane back to NYC and my new life. This mounted print sat around Jim’s kitchen table and shelves for all those years, so the print and mat is sort of beat to hell, and I treasure it all the more.

Go Niners!

I mean how fitting that the 49ers offense is known as the pistol, right? If Jim were here he’d say it’s just ’posed to be. Happy Birthday, Jim, we miss you now and always more than I can say.

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Finding Connections Among the Gods & Icons

Posted on January 17, 2013 by m3jimphoto

Janis Joplin

Jimi Hendrix

Johnny Cash

Shel Silverstein

Kris Kristofferson

Bob Dylan

Looking back on the past two years that I’ve been lucky enough to blog on “all things Jim” for Team Marshall – this is the 66th blog I’ve posted in fact – I feel a host of emotions: shock at how much time has gone by, excitement at how much is still left to uncover … and gratitude.  I’m so grateful for the opportunity to explore the vast archive left behind by a photojournalist literally possessed by the need to capture the 20th century’s most important people and moments.

You would think it might be rather easy for our “inner photo editors” to get jaded, looking at one masterpiece image after another, but speaking strictly for myself here, there are basically two things that keep me marvelling at Jim’s talent and tenacity: 1. The near daily discovery of never-before-seen, often historic or heroic, images; 2. The Six Degrees of Separation-type connections, however random or reaching, that one can make among the photos of the people, places and things Jim chose to grace with those trusty Leicas.

Gathered here today is a “random” group of images culled from some of my favorite blogs over the past two years.  Some are among the world’s most famous images and some were never seen before we ran them here.  There are more degrees of connection among these classic shots than meet the eye. Why don’t you see what you can uncover and let us know?  It just might be news to us.

Hint: Search the blog if you need any help.

 

 

 

 

 

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More Gifts from Jim … Plus Another Look at Holidays Past

Posted on December 20, 2012 by m3jimphoto

Jim took this photo of Muddy Waters in 1974 backstage at a joint near Chicago. This photo was used as part of a live album package released in 1979 by Blue Sky records. The album, "Muddy ‘Mississippi’ Waters – Live," was given the Grammy for Best or Traditional Folk Recording in 1979.

“I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin’ stone.” – Muddy Waters

Seeing as it is the height of gift-giving time has got me to musing a bit more on Jim’s generosity and how that generosity continues to live on our walls, looking down on us, inspiring and reminding one and all to live in the moment ’cause as Jim never tired of telling me: You never know which one will be your last.

Today’s blog features a wonderfully bemused color portrait of Muddy Waters that Jim took in 1974.  It is another great example of Jim’s spontaneous, urgent need to give the people he loved something he loved.

I’m lucky enough to have a rather large version of this Muddy Waters print, a print that Jim gave to me on one of his regular trips to NYC in the late ’90s. The shot is featured in his book of color imagery, “Trust.”

Here’s a caption that ran with the shot. The sentiment is initimitable Jim, rather terse and just the facts and yet he also manages to make a truly salient point that most in the music publishing industry would still rather not hear.

“Muddy Waters backstage of some club in a small town near Chicago. Columbia Records sent me there, Johnny Winters was producing a live album for him. I shot Muddy a lot before, he was a real gentleman and a very influential musician, probably got cheated out of millions over the years like a lot of blues guys.”

Every time I look at this framed portrait in its place of honor right above my beloved Dan’s turntable (yeah, that’s right, we still rock the vinyl from time to time just to keep things jumpin’), I get a little smile on my face, and I feel a little bit naughty and quite nice, just like Muddy would’ve wanted, I’ll wager.

And I get to replay the moment in my head when Jim gave me that print in his room at the Paramount hotel, ostensibly because he didn’t want to schlep it home but really because he thought I needed to have it and knew that I would cherish it always. And he was right.

Speaking of replays …

It seems appropriate to re-run this blog, “Thanksgiving 1969 With the Cash Family”,
one of our more popular, from last year’s holiday season in tribute to Jim’s knack for finding family wherever he went and celebrating the ties that bind in all their myriad shapes and sizes.  Happy Holidays from Team Marshall, it has been a truly great year and we look forward to many more to come!

Thanksgiving 1969 With the Cash Family

Anybody who ever met Jim in his later years knows that he had a real love-hate relationship with this time of year.  Any holiday or birthday, especially Thanksgiving or Christmas, just seemed to depress him, and that depression would then send him into one of his manic spirals, full of misanthropy and chaos.

Sadly, he started to use the holidays as an excuse to “get weird” and tune into the darker side of his nature, but that wasn’t always the case.

Nowhere is the lighter, hope-filled side of Jim more evident than in his work documenting the Cash family, who embraced him, allowed him into their lives and their Hendersonville, Tenn. home just like he was one of the family.

And, the intimate, powerful portraits that emerged – many taken during the Carter Family Thanksgiving of 1969 – are the legacy of that trust.

As always when diving into Jim’s proofs, you never know what or who you’ll find and the connections and collaborations can be truly intriguing.  For example, in these Thanksgiving ’69 shots you see singer-songwriting renaissance men, Shel Silverstein and Kris Kristofferson, along with Johnny’s beloved parents Ray & Carrie Cash, his adored wife June Carter Cash, and the rest of the extended Carter clan.

Click here to check out the original blog and its amazing candid shots and remember to hug your family, and family of choice, just a little bit tighter during this holiday season.

 

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“Clown”

Posted on December 7, 2012 by m3jimphoto

This shot of a clown taken backstage at a circus in NYC in 1962 was one of Jim's all-time favorites.

In today’s blog I want to highlight one of the earliest of Jim’s multitude of hero shots and the first print he ever gave to me.  It is a shot he took very, very early in his career and always said was one of his absolute favorites.  A shot he referred to, with the abject simplicity of his that I came to find so endearing, as “Clown”.

There’s a spread in Jim’s remarkable book “Proof” that features “Clown” on the righthand side and the original proofsheet on the left with the trademark yellow grease-pencil rectangle marking frame 33 to indicate the one to print.  “Proof” is one of my favorite of Jim’s books because you can really get a sense of how he worked, what captured his eye, how selective he could be and how he was always working full frame with available light.  Amazing.

For those of you who may have missed it the first time, here’s my blog, “The ‘Proof’ is in the Shooting” where I muse on the book and its impact.  I especially enjoyed speaking with collaborator Joel Selvin to pick his brain for some lovely recollections.

Here’s the caption from Proof:

“CLOWN (1962) Marshall snapped this backstage shot from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Columbus Circle in New York City.  It was one of the first rolls of film he took when he arrived in New York for the first time.”

One of his first rolls of film during his first time in NYC … I really don’t think Jim was on assignment but rather just roaming around, doing his Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith street photographer thing.  And, I bet he was paying for the film out of his own pocket.  You can see how economical he is with his shot selection and also how many other amazing shots there were on just that one role.

This is the print of "Clown" that Jim gave me in 1984 right after we met. It is one of my favorites probably because it's such an unposed and randomly odd moment. This print has always been a proud centerpiece in my collection. Just below the barrel on the mat Jim wrote, "For Michelle".

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

It’s that time of year when we all start thinking about gifts (the way we get hammered with the message across all media, I feel like I’m thinking about it when and whether I want to or not).  And it’s sort of quirky that Jim hated the holidays because I rarely saw him with a bigger smile on his face than when he was making a present of something that he absolutely knew would delight the recipient.  And I count myself among the most fortunate in that Jim’s generosity toward me really knew no bounds.

I just thought to include this snap of my framed print of “Clown,” because it is a crowning part of my personal Jim Marshall collection.  I’m not sure if you can see it, but Jim has written “For Michelle” on the mat just under the barrel.  My print was made in 1984 not long after Jim and I met in March of that year.  Jim made sure I noticed the inscription.

My 19-year-old self sort of pretended to get what the huge deal was though, truthfully, I thought “For Michelle” was rather formal and unromantic.  Also, while I really loved the shot, I was surprised it wasn’t from the music side of things.

Obviously, I just did not at all get the implication of what he’d done… and with those huge brown eyes staring a hole through my head, he could tell.  So then he practically shouted at me: “You don’t understand, I never write on my photos.  I just don’t do it!”  And I could tell that it was a sort of sacrilege, that something had literally forced his hand.

So, of course, I was a bit freaked out and mortified to have seemingly inspired him to do such a thing, and then Jim proceeded to show me why.  But some gifts remain best kept a secret.

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Rip This Joint! The Rolling Stones 1972 Exhibition at London’s O2 Debuts

Posted on November 15, 2012 by m3jimphoto

A photo opportunity for visitors to Jim Marshall's Rip This Joint! exhibit at London's O2. This clever Gibson-guitar-sponsored vignette offers visitors a rare chance to imagine what it felt like to be Keith Richards at Sunset Sound, putting the finishing touches on "Exile On Main Street."

All Jim Marshall and Rolling Stones fans lucky enough to be in London sometime over the next three months need to check out the new exhibition – Rip This Joint! The Rolling Stones 1972 – that opened a few days ago (the opening party is tonight) at The O2 in London.  The exhibit coincides nicely with the Stones live shows at the O2 slated for Nov. 25 and 29 that reportedly sold out in 7 minutes(!) in celebration of the band’s 50th year.

To whet your appetite a bit, here are a handful of behind-the-scenes shots from the exhibit’s installation courtesy of Team Marshall’s crafty Dave Brolan, who curated the show.  One of my favorite touches is the vignette created to emulate a classic shot of Keith Richards sitting on a stool at Sunset Sound in LA in the spring of 1972.  Visitors will be able to sit down to get a snap and perhaps a momentary feeling of what is was like to be “Keef” in the midst of creating “Exile on Main Street,” one of the truly splendid rock albums of its, or any, era.

The striking, very Stonesy, red baroque wallpaper of Jim Marshall's Rip This Joint! exhibit at London's O2.

Here’s a nice write up by Louise Jury, chief arts correspondent, published a few days ago in the London Evening Standard:

Pictures of the Rolling Stones “with their trousers down” on an infamous U.S. tour go on show in London for the first time today.

The candid photographs were taken in 1972 by the late Jim Marshall who joined the band in partying so hard that the journalist he was working with for Life magazine complained to their editor.

Another shot from Rip this Joint! at London's O2. Wonder what drew Jim to snap this image?

But Dave Brolan, who has curated the new exhibition at the British Music Experience museum, said: “Jim still got the cover shot and a big photo feature and hundreds of great pictures.

“Jim was granted exceptional access to the Stones. He is regarded as the most important rock photographer, most of his archive is unique and he was often the only photographer present, at the Stones’ recording session in the show, for example.”

Early stages of the installation of Rip This Joint! at London's O2.

Marshall, who died aged 74 two years ago, also photographed Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire at the Monterey pop festival, Johnny Cash performing in San Quentin jail and backstage at the Beatles’ final concert.  Keith Richards once described him as “another Stone.” The guitarist added: “He caught us with our trousers down and got the ups and downs. I love his work, which must have been frustrating to do at times.  But this is what happens on gigs like this.’ ”

Entry to the exhibition is included in the price of a ticket to the British Music Experience.

Proof sheets from Rip This Joint! at London's O2. In my opinion, nothing captures Jim Marshall's brilliance quite as succinctly as his original proof sheets: you see how he shot full frame, composing in the moment. You also glean how the story unfolded and the incredible trust and access Jim was granted.

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Coming Soon! The Rolling Stones 1972 Exhibit at The O2 in London

Posted on November 8, 2012 by m3jimphoto

Jim Marshall's "The Rolling Stones 1972" continues to influence and inspire, now across the pond with the upcoming O2 exhibit -- which opens Nov. 12 and runs through Feb 3, 2013 and is devoted entirely to images from the book.

There is much news brewing in the world of Jim Marshall Photography for the rest of 2012 including most notably the upcoming “Rolling Stones 1972” exhibition at The O2’s British Music Experience, Britain’s groovy interactive museum of popular music housed in the O2 Bubble in Greenwich, London.

The show, curated by Team Marshall’s own Dave Brolan, is being installed today and will run from November 12, 2012 to February 3, 2013.  This powerful show is devoted to images entirely from Jim Marshall’s posthumous book, “The Rolling Stones 1972,” which is now in its second printing.  The exhibition opening will be next Thursday, November 15.

Stay tuned for more in-depth coverage of the O2 exhibit, including a peek at the special Gibson Guitar vignette for you Keith Richards aficionados, as well as behind-the-scenes shots of the installation in next week’s blog!

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