Chester B Simpson3 minGood Time CharlieHanging out at the Good Time Charlie club in Kumamoto, Japan while on the Country Gold Tour in 1996.
Chester B Simpson4 minThese Little MomentsMy experience with wounded heroes, Joe Bowser and Scott Lilley, back in 2009 with Stars and Stripes.
Chester B Simpson3 minMeeting Ansel Adams"You are the future of photography, always help each other out and learn the business of photography..."
Chester B Simpson5 minJail time in Roanoke, VirginiaAs he was squeezing the moldy orange he said to me, “Can you be made to eat this orange?’”
Chester B Simpson2 minThe Last Waltz"We wanted it to be more than a final concert. We wanted it to be a celebration."
Chester B Simpson2 minSmoking weed with Willie NelsonWillie Nelson opened the door, asked us if we would like a Pabst Blue Ribbon, and handed us each a beer.
Chester B Simpson3 minBusted for one jointHe couldn't understand why the police would beat me up so badly over one joint.
Chester B Simpson2 minDosed with acid at a Ted Nugent concertI watched musical notes float through the air and enter my ears and I knew something wasn't right...
Chester B Simpson3 min"The Mad Marker Strikes Again"How I came to love art and the trouble it got me into.
Chester B Simpson2 minMy sisterThe story of how my sister Eloise got her first job working at a record store in the 1960s.
Chester B Simpson3 min"Playground built in a corner of Hell"My experience in Bardera, Somalia, March 18th, 1993.
Chester B Simpson2 min"No photos till you drink with me!"My photo assignment of Tom Waits for BAM magazine, November 29th, 1977.
Chester B Simpson3 min"White Boy!"That time I met Rick James at the Record Plant in Sausalito, CA 1983.
Chester B Simpson2 minThat time I joined Siouxsie & The BansheesHanging out with Siouxsie & The Banshee
Chester B Simpson4 minBarkers in North BeachArriving in San Francisco as a young photographer from Roanoke, Virginia in 1975
Chester B Simpson2 minMeeting James BrownPants halfway undone, I burst through the door only to be greeted by a big smile and curlers. Standing there was James Brown...