He talked a lot about Gary; he also showed some extended video of the two of them hanging out with Jackson Browne in his kitchen — all ribbing each other about how the package for JB’s first album came together (as it turns out, they pretty much winged it). Priceless stuff 🙏
Joni Mitchell at her window in Laurel Canyon, 1970 📸 Henry Diltz
Morrison Hotel album cover shoot with the Doors, downtown LA 1969 📸 Henry Diltz
Behind the Lens promo flyer feat. Henry Diltz
Henry mixing it up with fans after his Behind the Lens slideshow, Roxy Hotel NYC
Had a blast checking in with Henry Diltz — rock photog extraordinaire and ultra-colorful scholar of the Laurel Canyon scene. He’s worked with everyone from the Doors (he’s a co-founder of the Morrison Hotel gallery) to CSNY, Joni Mitchell, Eagles, James Taylor, Jackson Browne…just an incredible run.
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THE OUTFIT (1973) is an underrated crime noir directed by John Flynn, with Robert Duvall and Joe Don Baker both playing the heavy in some badass scenes, including this closing sequence 🙏
A lot of tributes mention “Easy to Be Hard,” “One” and “Joy to the World” as some of Chuck’s signature highlights. I keep coming back to his take on Jesse Colin Young’s “Sunlight”. At first blush it’s all sentimentality and schmaltz, but he really nails the melancholy soul: youtu.be/lmi9rvB_DFk?...
Cory Wells was the lead on this one, but of course it’s still a 3DN classic. Nicely done 🙏🎶
Publicity shot of Three Dog Night, circa 1970: Chuck Negron (foreground), Cory Wells, Danny Hutton
I grew up listening to 3DN and reached out to Chuck Negron a few months ago when I heard a documentary was in the works. Very sad to hear we lost him on Feb 2.
If you don’t know the album, get your ears on Naturally (1970) — it’s just a stone-cold classic, soulful, gritty and raw.
Bubble? What bubble?
“Anthropic’s valuation has surged dramatically since the first lawsuit. In Oct 2023, the company was valued at $5B. According to today’s complaint, Anthropic is now valued at approximately $350B — a 70-fold increase.” www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/umg-concord-...
John Cage and John Cale, New York City, 1963 #TheVelvetUnderground
Definitely an “American Prayer” feel to that one (thinking of Jim’s posthumous spoken word record w/the Doors). But keep your eye on Warren Ellis; he’s really the lynchpin now to the Bad Seeds & the perfect foil (and creative force) for Nick to lean on. The film One More Time with Feeling nails it.
Earl Caldwell with Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 3, 1968
Each year on MLK's birthday I feel compelled to think about him from a new angle. This year it's the journalist's perspective on his death and legacy, as told by Earl Caldwell, who was in Memphis on assignment from the New York Times on April 3 and 4, 1968. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Can’t believe it’s been ten years. We’ve been through the wringer since then, but his music still gives me the same lift it did when I was young. relix.com/reviews/deta...
Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright, Rob Reiner and Andre The Giant on the set of THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
Moving and poignant remembrance of Frank Gehry, well worth the read: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...
Photo of Steve Cropper with dobro, 1973 📸 David Reed archive
I know it’s nearly impossible to set aside Steve Cropper’s unparalleled command of the electric guitar as a rhythm instrument, not to mention his towering contributions to modern soul music — but man he rolled with some pretty badass threads back in the day too 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/a...
“Billie and I met, and I said, ‘Look, our goal here would just be to shoot your show. I don’t want to impose myself as a director.’ In fact, I even offered her, ‘Why don’t we co-direct this? I’ll just show up with cameras and record it, essentially.’” — James Cameron, to Matthew Belloni for The Town
Caught a few shots of Jim Steranko and Larry Lieber in conversation at this weekend's @bigapplecomiccon.bsky.social
Between the two of them, they've seen over 100 years of hustle, hard work and triumph in the comics game. Absolute legends, and very nearly the last ones standing from a bygone era.
Photo of Gary "Mani" Mounfield performing with Primal Scream in January 2000. 📸 Graham Knowles/Redferns
Mani was just the nicest guy, with a whip-cracking sense of humor. Interviewed him back in 2006 when Primal Scream released Riot City Blues and he had me in stitches for nearly an hour. Let the tribute parties begin…
Clearly you guys are not Johnny Cash fans
I’ve been a committed Yoko fan since I first came across a pristine copy of Approximately Infinite Universe at Waterloo Records in Austin back in ‘96. She’s a genius, and John obviously knew it too.
I’ll never understand the haters. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Well, other sources say otherwise, which presumably is why the Times ran with it. www.facebook.com/share/p/1D8h...
I had absolutely no idea Donna Godchaux sang behind Elvis on “In the Ghetto” and “Suspicious Minds.” Gonna have to go back to listen to those with newly tuned ears.
Never saw her live with the Dead, but man she led quite the career. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...
NYC at 48th and 7th Ave #NoKings
I’ve heard he was working on a new record with Raphael Saadiq, a team-up which by itself is as tantalizing and poignant as his entire career has been. Just mind-boggling, genre-stretching talent. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...
Just last night I came across an IG clip of him whipping off an impromptu guitar vamp cover of Funkadelic’s “Soul Mate” 🔥
Incredible talent. I can’t believe he’s gone. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I mean, is anyone really surprised by this? It was frivolous from jump. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/drake-lawsui...
Jane Goodall: “Do your best while you're still on this beautiful planet Earth…”
“…that I look down upon from where I am now.”
It’s her spiritual closer here that really gets me. Just poignant, poetic and powerful.
Alan J Pakula with Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford on the set of All The President's Men (1976)
I’d always meant to look for a collection of JQ’s Movieline hits but just never got around to it until I picked up Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler last year. Such a great book!
There’s most definitely an audience for a curated retrospective of your work on FFC. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Stellar review. I haven’t laughed like that since reading Joe Queenan back in his Movieline prime.
