Chester B Simpson
The Frank Zappa experience
"He suggested I stay for more coffee and said we should chat about music and the arts for another hour or so."
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Chester Simpson Photography
Tales of a Rock-n-roll Photographer
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Punks in a mental institution
"the punks, the band and the mental patients were all going nuts"
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My first job in San Francisco
What it was like working as a barker on Broadway in the 1970s
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Good Time Charlie
Hanging out at the Good Time Charlie club in Kumamoto, Japan while on the Country Gold Tour in 1996.
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These Little Moments
My experience with wounded heroes, Joe Bowser and Scott Lilley, back in 2009 with Stars and Stripes.
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Meeting Ansel Adams
"You are the future of photography, always help each other out and learn the business of photography..."
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Jail time in Roanoke, Virginia
As he was squeezing the moldy orange he said to me, “Can you be made to eat this orange?’”
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The Last Waltz
"We wanted it to be more than a final concert. We wanted it to be a celebration."
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Smoking weed with Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson opened the door, asked us if we would like a Pabst Blue Ribbon, and handed us each a beer.
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Busted for one joint
He couldn't understand why the police would beat me up so badly over one joint.
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Bagging groceries with a killer
He stabbed her 21 times in the neck and chest
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Backstage with Jerry Garcia
"Have you ever smoked Thai weed?"
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Dosed with acid at a Ted Nugent concert
I watched musical notes float through the air and enter my ears and I knew something wasn't right...
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"The Mad Marker Strikes Again"
How I came to love art and the trouble it got me into.
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My sister
The story of how my sister Eloise got her first job working at a record store in the 1960s.
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"Playground built in a corner of Hell"
My experience in Bardera, Somalia, March 18th, 1993.
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"No photos till you drink with me!"
My photo assignment of Tom Waits for BAM magazine, November 29th, 1977.
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"White Boy!"
That time I met Rick James at the Record Plant in Sausalito, CA 1983.
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That time I joined Siouxsie & The Banshees
Hanging out with Siouxsie & The Banshee
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