How times have changed!
As I am going through my old stuff to scan, I came across some pictures of John Mayall, and was amazed by the access that I used to have. I remember reading the paper one day (June of 1982) and thinking- I should take some pictures of this guy. I had a lot of his albums and was always amazed by the musicians that he had in his band. So I grabbed my bag and went to the venue (a 1000 seat club in Chicago). I walked in and decided to go up to the dressing room and see if I could talk Mayall into taking some posed pictures. The door was open and the 4 musicians were just lounging around before the show. They didn’t know me at all, but gladly got up and posed for a picture. I then shot the show, went home and filed the pictures away, never to be seen again until last week.
As I was scanning, I noticed that the guys in the band looked kind of familiar. YIKES!! Turns out that this was a veritable super group! And I just walked in and shot whatever I wanted to.
From Left to right: John McVie (Of Fleetwood Mac fame), Colin Allen, Mick Taylor(of the Rolling Stones) and John Mayall
Could this happen today? I doubt it!