Mitch Goldman

Getting To The Other Side of the Lens

(This piece was one of a series that I wrote for a photo/video equipment vendor). More often than not, we find ourselves trying to get “real people” to [...]

Low Tech Solutions To High Tech Problems

(Here is another piece of my professional photography advice, written for a major photo/video retailer's educational portal). Low Tech Solutions to High [...]

Joe Franklin

"Mitch, did you really know Joe Franklin?" You bet I did, little Timmy! Although, to be honest, that wasn't really such a distinguishing characteristic. If [...]

Jack Bruce

I first met Jack Bruce in Stuttgart, Germany in 1995. It was a televised festival of the music of Jimi Hendrix and I was there as Vernon Reid’s tour [...]

Robin Williams

A Robin Williams story from backstage at Carnegie Hall. Orchestra Room 3 is packed with rock stars and their usual retinue but all eyes and ears are on one [...]

Lou Reed

Sad news about the passing of Lou Reed, a sonic explorer with as pitch perfect a shredded-steel guitar sound as I have heard. He could be the most acerbic [...]

Ronald Shannon Jackson

Dark day. Just got word that Ronald Shannon Jackson passed this morning. I was 19 when I first heard his music. No one had ever told me that music could do [...]

Rodney King

Rodney King was introduced to me as "Glen," the name by which his family had always known him. It was in Altadena in 1994, a couple of years after That Whole [...]

Leroy Neiman

Time for another episode in my continuing series, Encounters With Recently Dead People Whom You Might Have Heard Of. I had a couple of occasions to visit [...]
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