Drugs, Guns & Music: Photographer Jim Marshall : Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Coltrane & San Francisco
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I wrote this soon after Jim passed away in 2010:
Three Stories of Jim Marshall :
I met Jim through my late friend Dany Walker around 1979. Dany’s father, George, was one of Jim’s criminal attorneys and handled his weapon assault and drug charges. When Jim did his work-furlough program for photographer Dennis Grey, (assist during the day and in jail at night) Dany moved into Jim’s Union Street apartment. This was probably around 1980 or so. I would hang around there a lot and there were lots of parties. It was above the Food Art Store and faced right onto busy Union street. There were these steel filing cabinets in the kitchen all full of Jim’s negatives. I mean ALL of them. We used to rummage through looking at them. It’s so cool nobody took them. They sat there for a couple of years.
I remember once way back in the late 80s when I was going to New York to show portfolios, Jim asked me if would take his work and show it around. I told him that I would represent him in a minute, if he were dead. If you knew Jim, you would understand my reply. He told me to fuck off a few times and then gave me a print. A few months later he photographed me and my friends at my birthday party. I never saw those images
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About seven or eight years ago I was sitting at the bar at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in LA. There were about ten or more of Jim’s photographs framed on the walls. I started talking to the bartender about Jim. The bartender told me that he had been banned from the Hotel for throwing a chair through the window. Literally ten minutes later we hear this really load voice yell out from the doorway across the room; “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE MASLOV.” Sure enough it was Jim. Returning to the scene of the crime
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Last July I ran into Jim at at Lulu’s in San Francisco. I took a picture with my iPhone after he bought me a Martini (he frequently bought everyone drinks) . I would always run into him in bars. Many many many times.
The old Fu’s Tattoos location here where I got most of my work did an entire back piece of that Johnny Cash middle finger photo for someone.
Almost two years later this video was really good No one else has covered this documentary then or now.
Just ordered Show Me The Picture which Barnes And Noble promises with be a sealed copy.Last week at City Lights they had the new book on Harry Smith which may prove to be a lot of reading for me but it does have some good photographs of Harry in his much younger days. Still making no progress on the picture of Ralph Gleason and Bill Graham no one is particularly helpful You’re videos from Vancouver were really good!
Thanks for your generosity here, Norman. My kid brother was a protege of Jim's, and got to know him pretty well. He, too, regretted not keeping prints Jim had given him. (I still have one.) In my signed copy of "Not Fade Away'" he wrote "This is the shit." Tom always had two Leicas hanging around his neck, but if someone took a picture of him, he'd give 'em the finger. He got that from Jim.
Loved this. One of my fav videos you have done. Thanks.
Well done! Thanks for sharing.
This video has prompted me to leave a comment because of your detailed and personal insight into Jim Marshall. In doing so I realise that all of your videos have those qualities present in them . Thanks very much Mazzy .
Thank you John. Yeah I really try to share some personal takes on when why and how I got into these artists. Maybe a sort of self therapy 🤷🏻♂️
i'm looking forward to seeing that documentary...growing up in new york, getting great shots was as simple as holding up a camera....i was never without one...nowadays, it's the phone that captures everything and everyone is a photographer....but i love how he just took the moment rather than the set-up....those are always the best shots...great video...be well my friend...peace...rocky
Hey Mazzy, great stories and a beautiful video, Cheers Snowy
so many great images.that one of jerry sitting on the ground behind a trailer with a beer cool
Such an interesting video, I feel that I have to say thank you for this, the time just flew by.
Happy you enjoyed. I love showcasing visuals artists too. ✌🏽
Really enjoyed this enjoyed Mazzy, what a amazing portfolio of photos he took. Enjoyed your stories and time you spent with him too. Great feature !!
I don't want to be presumptuous but I'd like to think Jim and I would get along.
Jim was my best friend for 23yrs love and miss him every day ......
Purchased and just finished the doc. Thank you!!!
Have known his name and loved his work since the 60s. Had no idea of the character he was.
Very well done documentary with great music.
Thanks again!!!
The doc was a good representation of him and his photographs ✌🏽
Thank you for such an informative video
Jim took some great shots of the Stones on the 72 exile tour. I got the book a few years ago. Great video
Hi Norman - I got my copy of Jim’s book yesterday as a birthday gift - left a big hint for my wife 😎 - it’s a great read and visually fantastic - what a character he most definitely was - maybe there are modern day equivalents but I doubt it - thanks for the video
Glad you like it. It’s a great overview portfolio ✌🏽
What a great story of your friend. The documentary is something I must see. Enjoyed this very much
the monk, coltrane, bill evans and allman brothers photos alone make the man worthy of probation for drug and gun charges. i can't believe that coltrane has been gone since 67 or that duane's been gone since 71. those dylan photos from 64 are magnificent. i've seen them a thousand times but love them. i've never seen his photo of lennon from 1966 and you have it framed. wonderful! thank you.
you never sang "for emily whenever i may find her" in way that'd make art garfunkel jealous as or around the time you took jim's picture with emily or did jim sing it?
my final comment. i forgot earlier: i can't believe jim photographed kim novak at the 1963 monterey jazz festival.
Very interesting video, I enjoyed it.
Great photographer, I need to get some of his books and see the documentary…these videos are so full of information..Thanks..☮️✌️☮️
Looking forward to this doc. Especially after watching the highly recommended PBS series Icon:Music Through the Lens.
Thanks for sharing these stories.
Thanks for watching ✌🏽
Aww loved watching this Norman. It brought up so many memories of the indomitable Jim Marshall! 🥰
Hello Patricia 🤠✌🏽❣️
Excellent!!
Thank you ✌🏽
Met him many times at the Artist's shows and at this club (where George Michalski played piano) in the '90's and early 2000's. I remember one night Kathi McDonald was there too. He was always telling a fascinating R&R story 🎶💕
Really interesting, Mazzy.
That was a great video and tribute to the man. Thanks for posting it.
Thank Harry. I love sharing stories like this ✌🏽
thank you
Hi from Wales. Very interesting. The haight book looks amazing.
It's so good! Hello Wales. and Super Furry Animals!!
Mazzy, as a hobby photographer and a lover of jazz and rock, loved this video. Super cool and great stories! Thanks for the book recommendations I’m gonna go and check them out! Cheers
His archive is amazing and diverse ✌🏽
The Hero Image? Great term, thx for this interesting career overview of Jim Marshall. I’d certainly watch other photographer bios made by you.
I need to think how to portrait some others. I have sone smaller features on several in the past ✌🏽
Great video Mazzy! I loved hearing those stories.
I enjoy sharing them. Thank you ✌🏽
I really enjoyed this. I used to shoot high iso (1600,3200) b&w existing light in clubs around Dallas 30 yrs or so ago. Local bands mostly. If you have not seen it, check out the documentary The Jazz Loft.
The Jazz Loft about W Eugene Smith. My guess is in your line of work you have seen this
This was a fascinating watch! I always considered Jim Marshall the Lester Bangs of photography and your stories added fuel. Years ago my sister gave me a copy of the book "Early Dylan" which had beautiful photos by Barry Feinstein, Daniel Kramer and Jim Marshall. Captivating stuff.
Probably cut from the same cloth ✌🏽
That book Proof looks amazing. VERY expensive on Amazon. Thanks for showing it, and the others....GREAT Marshall bar story at the end. Wow.
Oh is that one out of print ? Show Me the Picture should be reasonable. ✌🏽
Thanks for yet another excellent video, I saw the documentary earlier in the year on Sky Arts TV here in England and have watched it a few times since, brilliant and compelling, came across it by accident after watching a couple of other photography documentaries (McCullin, Martin Parr, Finding Vivian Maier, The Man Who Shot New York). To be honest I'd never heard of Jim Marshall so obviously had to checked out his books but as prices are fairly high I'm still looking out for bargains. Music and photography, can't go wrong, its just deciding what's more important to buy.
Yeah I thought the doc captured Jim and his work really well. ✌🏽
I enjoyed this video very much
I always look for the photo and art credits even on ancient albums by non rock performers, and arrangers/conductors, producers, engineers and recording locations, if listed.
Got Not Fade Away. Show Me the Picture is affordable. A book with pictures and narrative would be desirable. Tried to think of Marshall's most memorable picture and concluded it was of Johnny Cash. Much thanks.
Fillmore east box that’s a choice piece Mazzy. Jim Marshall a perfect master and a true icon.
Mazzy, you are the perfect person to do this “presentation “ having so much personal experience with photography and personal experience with Jim. This was natural, your flow state was engaged. I suppose it helps that it’s a subject I’m deeply Interested but I throughly enjoyed it. Thanks & Cheers.
I wonder if you should do a Baron Wolman or Richard McCaffrey…. Mick rock 😺
I met Baron years ago and knew him slightly. Wouldn’t have stories. I like the stories 😎
Thanks Bob. Yeah one area I know about and the experiences were crazy. Drugs and rock and roll. He told me some whacked out stories. 🎶📷
Watched it last night, fantastic! Only wish it was longer. Obviously the GOAT of rock music photography, but I don't really agree with the praise for the Miles Davis photos. Not that they're not great photos, but I almost consider them to be 'staged'- Miles was jealous and wanted Jim to make him look as cool as Coltrane, so he basically posed for them. They just don't feel as authentic knowing the back story.
cool stories!
My daughter bought me the "Haight" book last year . Just beautiful. I still scrawl the odd peace sign when no ones looking ✌
Love that book. Showcases a time and place dear to me. ✌🏽🌸
@@mazzysmusic Born in '61 in the UK . Hope for better luck next time round!
Nice video Mazzy. Randomly found his Johnny Cash book a couple months ago. It was being thrown away outside my apartment. Just ordered Show Me the Picture book.
Wow. Thrown out ? It’s not an old book and it’s fantastic ✌🏽
Amen! I've been waiting for this to be released since 2019 when it was first advertised- not sure why it took so long to find it's way to North America?
Yeah I know the pandemic slowed down distribution in places....
Tremendous photographer his concert photographs are incredible. I read that one of the Allman Brothers at Fillmore outtake photos of them are of them flipping him off too. I wonder what he would do to get that reaction from some of his subjects. He was a great talent.
When you know him and speak with him you get it. I’m sure Ive flipped him off one or more times 🖕🏻
@@mazzysmusic Hahaha! He must have been quite a character to know. Thanks for sharing your stories about him . I enjoy your channel too you always share information about artists that I care about. Thanks again Mazzy!
I'm wondering if you are a fan of the late Nick Tosches.
Thanks for most of the insight into a very talented photographer. Your personal encounters with Jim really helped flesh out his character. I wasn't aware that many of the images of his you showed were in fact taken by him. I'm guilty very frequently of seeing great things and not taking the time to attribute it to the creator. I appreciate you bringing it all to our attention. This was one of your better videos. I've seen most of them. What I'm not particularly grateful for is your choice of a word you used twice, at least, in describing him. Specifically "damaged".... wow now that is a judgement and frankly not very clear. Damaged means less valuable or useful. I might agree that he was damaged to perfection in the sense that his best works makes Richard Avedon look like a F...ing C...ing. d bag. Yea I know they are totally different except they are both trying to capture "something" one of them was posing the other was doing. I'll take that doing rather than those that pose. It's those damaged F.C er's that bring light to this world. You know that because you knew he was kind. To label those "damaged" while trying to cite "perfection" will bring you to a very dark corner. I've known a lot of people in my life that you'd called damaged. Imperfect, you bet, and many other adjectives. In the end valuable and useful. Keep up the good work.
Yeah maybe not damaged but flawed. As most of us are. But whatever it was is mostly worked for Jim.
@@mazzysmusic I agree. FYI Your collection and enthusiasm has been infectious. I've blindly purchased many of your suggestions never disappointed. Per your connection, I also follow Vinyl Richie who's a hoot,. Plus 6inchpianist etc. THANKS! I regret not being available for your Coleman sales. Particularly, the mono items which I'm set up for.
You look a lot like Michael Brandvold...