Photographer Henry Diltz - CSN&Y and Joni

[Canard]

‘No one gave me the finger more than David Crosby!’ Legendary photographer Henry Diltz on shooting music’s giants

From the Doors to Joni Mitchell, he captured the greats. But Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young won his heart. The revered Californian photographer looks back – and reveals the ‘lost’ Harvest cover

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Joni performs her newly recorded but yet unreleased first album in its entirety at Mama Cass's 1968 picnic in Laurel Canyon. Fellow, guest, Eric Clapton, has his mind blown--open tunings, unusual chords--and can't take his eyes off her fingers.

 

[walrus]

Classic photo! Is that an all maple guitar behind Clapton?

walrus

 

[Uke]

‘No one gave me the finger more than David Crosby!’ Legendary photographer Henry Diltz on shooting music’s giants

From the Doors to Joni Mitchell, he captured the greats. But Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young won his heart. The revered Californian photographer looks back – and reveals the ‘lost’ Harvest cover

www.theguardian.com

Joni performs her newly recorded but yet unreleased first album in its entirety at Mama Cass's 1968 picnic in Laurel Canyon. Fellow, guest, Eric Clapton, has his mind blown--open tunings, unusual chords--and can't take his eyes off her fingers.

I was fortunate enough to wander into town a few years ago when a large selection of photographs by Diltz were on display at a local community college. He really captured the times.

 

[GGJaguar]

That's a cool photo!

 

[Rocky]

Classic photo! Is that an all maple guitar behind Clapton?

walrus

Maple sides, yes, and definitely a flat top from the neck set. Could be a Guild. Could be the Gretsch Rancher that's on the inside of the Layla cover too.

I hope that's a pick on top of it, and not a cigarette burn.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Maple sides, yes, and definitely a flat top from the neck set. Could be a Guild. Could be the Gretsch Rancher that's on the inside of the Layla cover too.

I hope that's a pick on top of it, and not a cigarette burn.

Pretty sure this is the same guitar, photo also taken at that picnic

 

[Rocky]

Pretty sure this is the same guitar, photo also taken at that picnic

Probably, but they're hippies. Probably didn't change their clothes too much.

 

[adorshki]

Maple sides, yes, and definitely a flat top from the neck set. Could be a Guild. Could be the Gretsch Rancher that's on the inside of the Layla cover too. I hope that's a pick on top of it, and not a cigarette burn.

How soon we forget, or maybe you never saw it?:

Gretsch Rancher, you say? We were wondering if that's where Bryan Adams got his wild and crazy idea:

https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/index.php?threads/f-50r-w-bigsby.191638/

 

[hearth_man]

Those Laurel Canyon days must have been amazing! To be a fly on the wall as all this great music was being made and played. A musical community of sorts with all the musical interactions that go along with it.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Classic photo! Is that an all maple guitar behind Clapton?

walrus

F50?

 

[Rocky]

How soon we forget, or maybe you never saw it?:

Gretsch Rancher, you say? We were wondering if that's where Bryan Adams got his wild and crazy idea:

https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/index.php?threads/f-50r-w-bigsby.191638/

No, quite familiar. Probably the first Guild I was aware of. The Rancher you show is a modern one. The one I was talking about is the one on the left side

 

[adorshki]

No, quite familiar. Probably the first Guild I was aware of. The Rancher you show is a modern one. The one I was talking about is the one on the left side

Was just joking, but that Rancher has a stained top, unlike the axe at Mama Cass's picnic.

 

[Rocky]

Hard to tell from a B/W photograph. It's probably the Guild, but I wouldn't swear to it.

 

[adorshki]

Hard to tell from a B/W photograph. It's probably the Guild, but I wouldn't swear to it.

It's the (a) Guild. See the end of the headstock for the notches around the "crown" which Gretsches don't have. (The notches)

 

[Rocky]

It's the (a) Guild. See the end of the headstock for the notches around the "crown" which Gretsches don't have. (The notches)

I was talking about the first photo, but whatever

 

[Canard]

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Henry Diltz: Rock's 'accidental photographer' wins lifetime achievement prize

Henry Diltz, who shot some of rock's most iconic images, will be honoured at Abbey Road on Thursday.

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