“I had a drum kit up in the attic – it was like a cinema attic, music, whatever you want to do up there. Charlie came, and so did John Bonham. We’ve got three drummers, just hanging out.
Bonham got on the kit. But because it was just like … you know, it’s not like onstage, where you nail them down, so they’re steady. It was just, like, there. So as he was playing, the bass drum was hopping away from him.
You think, ‘Ah, man! [Laughing] That would have been a great little video, a TikTok or a photo that would have gone worldwide!
But in the ‘70s, I had parties, and you’ll never find any photos because I wouldn’t let you take photos, you know, in my house. But I always think, that would have been a great shot to have.”
-Ringo Starr on the time he, Charlie Watts, and John Bonham played drums together. (from a press conference promoting his EP “Change the World”, 2021)
me being a facetious tinhat for the chaos of it:
no need to keep reading this he means exactly what you think he means ❤️
Remembering Stuart Sutcliffe, who passed away on this day in 1962.
‘Come Foreward’ [sic] by Stuart Sutcliffe, February 1958:
“Perhaps when spring is near with skies and conscience clear will come the breath of light which through my sight will puff and blow the webs away will break the chains one day until through my lazy eye I’ll see all.”
Photo: Astrid Kirchherr, 1961/62.
Tommy Lee backstage with Heather Locklear in Los Angeles.
John whenever he and Paul spoke in the early 70s
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page backstage at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, July 24, 1973.
“I was there the night he walked into Max’s for the first time in the baby blue suit and the bright orange hair. It was striking. Everybody else in there was dressed in black and this colorful alien came in and just enchanted and charmed us all. He was a divine brilliant special artist and a sweet man, a good man,”
— Bebe Buell, on the first time she saw David Bowie.
Paul McCartney on his 'New World Tour', Circa 1993, Tampa, Florida.
Elle France - August 31, 1967. Twiggy in Yves Saint Laurent. Photographed by Ronald Traeger.