Jim Marshall at Woodstock (photo: Henry Diltz)
Woodstock. Monterey Pop. The Beatles’ last concert. Jim Marshall was there. But more than being there, Jim Marshall created the images that we remember these events by.
As Marshall himself said, “Too much bullshit is written about photographs and music.” So without further ado, we give you a pictorial tribute…
The Beatles on August 29, 1966, going onstage for their last public performance. Marshall was the only photographer allowed backstage.
John Coltrane in 1960, about to take the world by heavy storm
Miles Davis, in his electric/boxing period, 1971
Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Gerald Wilson, goofing, 1963
Backstage at Winterland, Janis in 1968, getting Southern Comfortable
Janis in ’67. This shot would be used on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1970 after her death.
Pete Townshend, in his jumpsuit period, closing out the Who’s set at Woodstock, at dawn of the festival’s second day.
Robbie Robertson, poet Michael McClure, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsburg, San Francisco, 1965
Marshall shot the Stones’ in 1972 on what he called “the pharmaceutical tour.”
Jimi—whose full name, coincidentally, is James Marshall Hendrix—shot by Marshall before a free concert at Golden Gate Park, 1967.
The Who, outside their hotel in San Francisco, poised to play their first American gig, The Monterey Pop Festival, June 1967
Having lost an argument with The Who’s Pete Townshend about who would follow who in the festival set sequence, Jimi makes good on his vow to pull out all the stops. Monterey Pop Festival, June ’67.
Frank Zappa in his Laurel Canyon bed, 1967
Johnny Cash, at the suggestion of Marshall, salutes the warden of San Quentin, 1969
Sir Mick flexes his lips for the camera, 1972.
The great Muddy Waters, 1971
Ray Charles in 1962, at an Atlantic recording session
Chuck Berry rocks Madison Square Garden, 1969
Moby Grape, in the photo for the cover of their first album. Columbia Records did not initially notice drummer Don Stevenson’s surreptitious flipping of the bird and would excise the offending digit on subsequent pressings of the record.
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