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In
early 2002, the Michigan
Historical Museum celebrated one of the 20th century's most significant
developments in popular culture. The museum exhibited 75 black-and-white photographs by Larry Hulst.
Hulst's photos captured concert performances of
the most influential rock and roll artists of the past three decades. Thirty
Years of Rock and Roll presented a study of rock and roll through the eyes of the
photographer.
The Rockers
Among the earliest
images in the exhibit was a photograph of Mountain, the hard rock band known for
"Mississippi Queen," photographed in 1969 at the Fillmore
Auditorium, San Francisco. Photos taken in 1970 include the Doors and the
late Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Paul McCartney and the late George
Harrison were there, photographed in 1976 and 1974, respectively, in
solo tours after the break-up of the Beatles.
Hulst caught the
Rolling Stones at their "Tumbling Dice Tour, " Winterland
Auditorium, San Francisco, in 1972. The exhibit also included three photos
of Jerry Garcia—in 1974, in 1981 (with his band the Grateful Dead,
just before their 3-year "retirement") and in 1995 (Hulst's last
photo of Garcia before the musician's death on August 9 of that year.
The blues
were
represented. Hulst photographed B. B. King and Ray Charles at the Sacramento
Blues Festival in 1990. He snapped Eric Clapton at the McNicols Arena in
Denver, during Clapton's 1995 national tour to promote his all-blues album From
the Cradle.
Among the rockers
who brought the story to 1999 are Trey Anastasio and Lauryn Hill. Hulst caught
Anastasio, guitarist and founding member of the band Phish, at Denver's
Fillmore Auditorium that year. Lauren Hill, originally with the alternative rap trio
Fugees, went on her own in 1998. Hulst photographed her at the Mammoth
Event Center in Denver in 1999.
Thirty
Years of Rock and Roll is a
traveling exhibition of Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, organized by the
Colorado Springs Museum.
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