re: Post your favorite picture of some of your favorite musicians.

Arise, Sir Ray Davies

Nick Lowe and Andy Williams

Lou Reed in 1970, shortly before leaving The Velvet Underground

"Aw man, if we'd've played there we'd be rolling in dough now"

The Stones at Altamont



This one is a bit chilling because it's one of the few extant photos Meredith Hunter appears in. He's the black guy on the right with his hat on. Meredith Hunter has only a few more minutes to live. The song being played is "Love in Vain"; Hunter would be stabbed and beaten to death during the next song.

And that’s the famous dog that just walked across that loud stage right in front of the Stones.

Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens (w/gun), ?, Engelbert Humperdinck

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That's not Meredith Hunter

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It could have been him

It's not.

Hunter was wearing a lime green suit and was standing toward the left of the stage 15-20 rows back. He was on the side of the stage where Wyman and Richards were playing.

That African American man you see here was a sound guy, that was standing near the front of the stage to prevent the crowd from pulling down monitors. Several had already been messed with by the crowd.

From Sepia Socialite, May 1942:

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Apex Club’s Cocktail Lounge Is Last Word In “Atmosphere”

“From all over the country they come by Macie Lamott’s Apex Club, and from everyone who has sipped a cocktail in the cool, comfortable lounge comes the remark: “This is the swankiest nite club in Colored America.” And so it is, the large stucco building (picture upper right) sits on the corner of Louisa and Braddock Streets in the shade of a giant, moss-covered oak, surrounded by an acre of parking space. Canopied side entrances lead to a spacious, streamlined private dining room, the main dance floor, center right, and through the front to the main bar (bottom left).

But the feature of the Apex Club is its beautiful cocktail lounge, (picture top left, bottom right), into whose portals only the sophisticated, properly attired, can enter. Prices are a little high, services a little more replete, and accommodations are a bit more comfortable but you have exclusiveness such as is here enjoyed by Charley Brook, Apex bartender and his pretty fiancee, Thelma Smith.

Other employees of M. Lamott’s Apex Club include Gilbert W. Crawford, in charge of the cocktail lounge, Lottie V. Joseph, waitress, Clyde Leduff & Abbot Emerson, bartenders, Lee Ella Collins and Beatrice Davis, waitresses, and assistant Mgr. Louis Brooks.

Make your next trip to Baton Rouge a purposeful visit to the Apex Club. Lots of people we know sneak over from New Orleans.”

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