Pictures

These photos were all shot in the Los Angeles area between 1971 and 1978 with the Hollywood Palladium being the primary venue.  If you were born before 1960 and were into rock these photos might be especially interesting to you. High quality prints of these images are available to purchase for personal use as fine art.

The Rolling Stones show was June 11, 1972. They had recently released their critically acclaimed Exile On Main Street  double album. I had an artist/vip pass that night which I still had to pay $6.50 for. Even with that, it was really tough to position myself for shooting. So most of the the shots are of Mick, Keith, and Bill Wyman. There is one image  that you can catch a glimpse of ex-Stone Mick Taylor in the background and another of reed man Bobby Keys. Ron Wood was still with The Faces at that time. Little Stevie Wonder opened the show that night. Sorry but I have no photos of Stevie, I was late getting to Hollywood that night. Plus I was saving my three rolls of Tri-X for the main act.

The other photos on this page include Rod Stewart and The Faces at the Hollywood Bowl, Dave Mason at the Fox Theatre in Long Beach, the late Robert Palmer at the Long Beach Auditorium, J.Geils at the Santa Monica Civic, and back at the Hollywood Palladium, Alice Cooper, Marc Bolan of T-Rex, and the late Papa John Creach and Jack Casady of Hot Tuna.

Hopefully coming soon to this site will be some shots of Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and David Lindley at a benefit for Lowell George at the Forum in Inglewood, CA on New Years Eve 1977.

For interested photographers, I rated the Tri-X at 1600 and processed it in D-76 1:1 at about 68 degrees for 22 minutes.

In memory of my sister Teresa Prizer Nelson, without whom none of these photographs would have been shot.

Gene Prizer