Classic Rock and Blues

Guitars, Hedonism and the Golden Age of Rock 

[thesongremainsthesame]

Tom Petty photographed by Michael Putland, New York, 1977. I love these photos of him — so beautiful 💘

[furlongs]

grand funk railroad and their producer, todd rundgren

[soundsof71]

Todd in 2016: The Grand Funk Railroad album [We’re An American Band, 1973] was one of the easiest things I ever did. I got involved through photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who was part of the new management team and a good friend of mine. She got the idea of putting us together. 

It simply required my normal sensibility, particularly because the band was operating with such low expectations. They’d had some great success but they were not well-regarded critically. They had a huge live following but were excessively jammy, and if you compared them to real jam bands like Cream they really didn’t hold up. To compound things their manager insisted on producing their records, and he was terrible at it. So by the time I worked with them their expectations for the record were so low I couldn’t fail.

I think We’re An American Band surprised a lot of people.

[soundsof71]

Neil Young on his ranch, 1971, by Henry Diltz, via selvedgeyard

[stoneflowersattic-deactivated20]

[aliphantparts]

Stephen Stills & John Sebastian

[harmonictune]

Paul Simon

[auskultu]

[music-is-the-dope]

[whtlitewhtheat-blog]

Fans… we’re a pain in the ass.

[ilovethestones]

[zzzze]

[soundsof71]

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Jimi Hendrix, Paris, by Jean-Pierre Leloir

[rockhard-ridefree]

[doraemonmon]

The Doors

[apvxoxo]

Nothin quite like ‘69

[thewildandthedarkness]

[brucespringsteenfuckyeah]

1975 - by Tom Hill