B. B. King by Thomas Copi
B. B. King, King of the Blues, holds forth from the stage during the first Ann Arbor Blues Festival, in August, 1969.
B. B. King, King of the Blues, holds forth from the stage during the first Ann Arbor Blues Festival, in August, 1969.
Bill Kreutzmann, drummer for the Grateful Dead, taps on his cymbal. The Dead gave a free Sunday concert in West Park, Ann Arbor, following their so...
View full detailsYears after their smash albums and appearance at Woodstock, Blood, Sweat & Tears was still going strong. Here, in 1980, featuring David Clayton...
View full detailsA young Bob Seger, from nearby Ann Arbor, playing and singing his way into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; here is a closeup of him performing wi...
View full detailsBob Weir, of the Grateful Dead, shows how they do it during a free concert at West Park in Ann Arbor.
Carlos Santana, Rock Guitar Icon, shares his joy of music with a crowd of over 20,000 fans at the Sacramento State University Hornets Football Stad...
View full detailsChuck Berry helped to found and popularize Rock & Roll music in the Fifties; here he is playing in a Rock & Roll Revival show in 1970.
Crosby, Stills & Nash were so great and so popular; when they added Neil Young to the group to become CSN&Y, they were even greater and mor...
View full detailsIn this picture of the group Crosby, Stills & Nash, the players are (LtoR) David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills. At the height of their...
View full detailsDon Brewer, drummer for Grand Funk Railroad, enjoys playing on a sunny afternoon in Cincinnati, during the Cincy Rock Festival in 1970.
The Everly Brothers--Phil (L) and Don (R), were early Rock & Roll heroes, appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show more than once. In 1970 they were p...
View full detailsFrank Zappa, pictured playing drums, also played guitar, percussion, piano, etc. He once "played" a bicycle on the old Steve Allen TV show. A true ...
View full detailsGrace Slick watches Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin during an outdoor concert in East Lansing, back in 1970.
Herbie Hancock was a jazz pianist and gained fame as part of the Miles Davis Quintet (The Second Great Quintet). Later he branched out musically an...
View full detailsHowlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters chill out backstage prior to the opening of the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. The Festival was a gathering of many n...
View full detailsHowlin' Wolf, an old-school blues shouter, shown in extreme closeup while performing at the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
As night falls over Crosley Field, Iggy Pop takes the stage at the Cincinnati Rock Festival, with his band, the Stooges. They are loud and Iggy is ...
View full detailsJefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady entertains the throng at an all-day rock festival on the MSU campus back in 1970.
Jim Morrison was a poet and became a Rock Star with the Doors. Their concert in Detroit became an album: The Doors Live In Detroit, and featured my...
View full detailsJoan Baez was on top of the folk music world in 1967, when she appeared at the Newport Folk Festival, and seeing her "live in concert" was a real t...
View full detailsJoey Covington was the Jefferson Airplane's brand new drummer for this outdoor date on the grounds of Michigan State University, in East Lansing.
John Entwhistle was the Who bassist until the day he died. In this photo he waits to play onstage at Cobo Arena in Detroit, 1970.
Blues singer John Lee Hooker looks over the audience during his performance at the second Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1970. His popularity soared w...
View full detailsJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally, a benefit concert held in Crisler Arena in 1971. Radical activist Sinclair ha...
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