The PhotoFlashbacks Blog

What IS "Classic Rock and Roll"?

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:19:01 -0500

I've been doing some research on the phrase "Classic Rock and Roll" and it appears to be a very interesting subject on the Internet.

So... I am posing this question for the few subscribers we have on this blog, our other blog and our forum.

If you have an opinion (or three)... I'd love to hear your input.

Rock On...

Noel

Illinois Speed Press...

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:56:17 -0500

Greetings,

Okay... more new stuff to report.

We just finished the work on our new Illinois Speed Press section consisting of photos of Paul Cotton, Kal David, Mike Anthony, Fred Page, and Keith Anderson.

These are photos Doug took at the Phoenix Memorial Coliseum on 12/31/68.
Also appearing on the bill were Steppenwolf and Three Dog Nite.

We hope you enjoy them and if you were at the concert, drop us an email and tell us about it.

In fact, we would really enjoy hearing from folks who attended any of the concerts we have on line.

That's it for now...

Rock On!

Noel & Connie
Photoflashbacks.com

Some New Stuff...

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:42:28 -0500

Okay...

First, we have had a complete make-over of the web site. The content is still in the same places but the overall look of the site has improved. Navigation has been updated and we feel the site is now easier to navigate. If it's not... I'm sure you will let us know!

Second, we are experimenting with providing some Classic Rock N Roll specific news feeds. We only have a couple at the moment, but they seem good and stay on topic. Dave White from About.com has been doing a very good job since he took over the editing of the Classic Rock section. His feed is the primary feed we are using.

We're still working on identifying photos of more performers and groups as well as thinking about other products to offer you.

That's about it for this entry. Do swing by the site and let us know your thoughts.

Rock On...

Noel & Connie

New Changes Are Coming...

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:06:55 -0500

It has been a while!

We're making some changes to PhotoFlashbacks... new product, more photos and a cleaner look to the site.

We're still a few weeks away form all of these changes... but they are coming and we hope you enjoy them!

Until then... Rock On!

New Doors T-Shirts...

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:17:30 -0600

Greetings,

We hope your Thanksgiving Holiday was everything you desired.

Just a quick note to let you know that we have added a new section to our T-Shirt Department...

We now have 2 new designs in the new Doors section!

We have made some changes to the web site page that takes you to the store, as well:
http://www.photoflashbacks.com/pages/T_Shirts.shtml

Connie has been coming up with some new designs that we hope you will enjoy.

Expect to hear from us in the next week as we get more T-Shirt designs and artists online.

All the best,

Noel & Connie
PhotoFlashbacks

T-Shirts Revisited (and a new promotion)...

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:21:11 -0600

What? Back so soon?

Well... the last post provided alink that took you right to our new T-Shirt shop.
We've taken it a step further...

We put a link on our site's Home Page that takes you to a page within our site that actually shows you all of the items we have in the shop. Also, by clicking on one of the items you can go directly to that item for product details.

We figure it's tough enough to get people to go back & forth between our site and the remote site to shop. So, hopefully, it will make it easier for or visitors to see what we are offering.

We have also created a new promotion... we call it the "10/10 Sale for Featured Artist Prints"!

We now will feature a different artist each month and the framed and unframed prints of that featured artist will have a 10% discount automatically when added to the shopping cart. In addition, we will take an additional 10% from the normal retail price and donate it to a local charity.

Just our way of offering our wonderful customers a price and putting a little bit back into our community. Of course, we wouldn't mind if it helped sales as well!

We'll keep you posted.

Rock On!

Noel

PhotoFlashbacks T-Shirts...

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:22:13 -0600

Whew! What a long strange trip it's been!

We have been working on a way to offer our photos to our customers in more formats than the two we have had on our web site (Framed and just mounted & matted).

We have done a lot of research on the subject and finally decided that using a Print-On-Demand (POD) service would probably be the most economical way to go... for us and our customers. So... we started looking into what was available. We found a company that had T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Hoodies as well as cards, mugs, buttons, stickers and other cool items. "Alright!" we thought. Now we can get some of Doug's photos to people in various formats and at prices lower than our current product line! We were excited.

We signed up and set up a test store to try some things out. We were notified by the service (I'm not going to mention their name in this blog, but you can email me if you want to know) that they were concerned about using celebrity photos on our product. We assured them that we owned the photos and that we would not violate any "rules of the road" pertaining to the rights of those celebrities. Long story short... the POD service did not want to take the chance.

So we closed the shop.

The good news is that we found another service (there are not that many good ones, evidently). They do not offer all the products as the first company but they have a great service and a solid reputation. This time we checked with their legal department before setting up a store and received the "green light".

We are very pleased to be able to tell you that our new PhotoFlashbacks Shirts store is open for business!

Although we have only one design on line at the moment (Janis Joplin), we are working on more as fast as we can. We have purchased a couple of the shirts and the quality is there.

So, if you think you may be interested in sporting an original Doug Hartley PhotoFlashbacks Classic Rock photo (in any number of popular styles and sizes)... please surf by the store and take a look.

Until next time...

Rock On!

Help Radio Free Phoenix!

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:47:51 -0500

Radio Free Phoenix celebrates its 4th year on the "air waves"... or rather, Internet waves!

To quote from their site:
"Radio Free Phoenix was created to provide the Phoenix area and the world with legitimate Free-Form Radio. Long lost to the FM Airwaves, this mix of music is alive and vibrant and on RadioFreePhoenix. You will not hear big-voiced pre-produced liners on this station, nor will you struggle through the repetitive madness that greets you at most commercial radio stations. Instead, you will hear Rock 'n' Roll with a heart and a conscience brought to you by those that understand the music and the connection it brings."

If you have never listened to the station (and assuming you like good Rock music), you really should give them a listen. I'm an old Bay Area guy and I have been exposed to free from radio formats (in the past at least) and it just does not appear to be happening on the FM band the way it once was.

The jocks at Radio Free Phoenix bring a lot of experience and an eclectic array of musical styles to their shows. Very refreshing!

PhotoFlashbacks is doing what we can to help the Radio Free Phoenix cause by donating 10% of the purchase price of our photos from customers who enter the code "RFP" on the PayPal "Review Your Payment" page at our checkout.

If you are interested, you may view the instruction HERE. Radio Free Phoenix will have more information & links regarding this service in the near future (Heck... we only thought of it this past weekend!).

Whether you buy one of our photos or not... if you enjoy fresh "non-corporate" Rock Radio... do check out the tunes at Radio Free Phoenix. We think you will be glad you did.

In the mean time...

Rock On!

Noel & Connie
PhotoFlashbacks

The Beans (the group before The Tubes)

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:33:55 -0500

This story took place recently.

As I had not come to Arizona until 1972, I had never heard of The Beans. Doug had left notes with his photos implying he had photos of the band... but Connie did not remember what they looked like. So, there we were!

A while back I had stumbled upon a blog called KCAC Lives! I knew enough about Arizona music & broadcast history to recognize this site as a possible research resource. Also, I should mention another great resource, Radio Free Phoenix. Not only does this web station provide quality music, but it is also locked in to the audio history of Arizona. Some very good talent on the air.

I found an article on the blog named "The Valley's Tubes to be Inducted into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame-Share Your Local Tubes/Beans Stories" and it got me thinking.

The album cover the article was probably the first time I had seen a photo of the band and I thought one of them looked like a guy I had seen in the negatives of the Poco concert at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in December, 1969. I went through that roll of film and sure enough... the drummer, Bob Macintosh, looked like the blond long-hair on the album cover.

The next thing I did was put up a private viewing gallery of the photos we had that I thought might be The Beans. Then I went to the KCAC Lives! blog and invited the folks there to the take a look at the gallery and see if they could help us identify (or not) the photos.

Much to our joy, we received several confirmations that we did indeed have photos of Vince Welnick, Bill Spooner and Bob Macintosh of the original band. 3 out of 4! We have not found a photo of Rick Anderson as yet, but he may be in there somewhere.

So... as soon as we can get the Illinois Speed Press section up... we will start to work on a section for the Arizona band, The Beans.

Thanks to all who help us in our effort. There are just some things we could not do without your help!

Until next time...

Rock On!

Connie & Noel
PhotoFlashbacks

The Hamilton Streetcar Story

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:13:05 -0500

This is the story about how we identified the photos of Hamilton Streetcar.

We have a place on our site where we have listed all of the names of groups that we believe we have photos. This information is based on the notes that Doug left with the photos. You can view this listing here. One of the groups we believed we had photos of was Hamilton Streetcar.

Connie did not know a thing about them nor did I. On several occasions we tried to find something about them on the Web... but no photos of the players were available. One day in 2006 we receive an email from John Burge who identified himself as "Ian Hamilton" from the group Hamilton Streetcar. He had found us on the Web and saw that we claimed to have photos of his old group. We explained our situation and that our information (from Doug's notes) said that the group had played with The Doors and the Sunshine Company at the Phoenix Memorial Coliseum on 2/17/68. He confirmed that information.

We were pretty excited. We came up with a plan to put the photos up that were from that concert on a private viewing page so that he could identify his band. Of course, he agreed and the rest is, as they say, history!

Since then, another member of the group, Michael Georgiades, has been in touch with us and added some information to our gallery. We like to think that we have contributed a bit to Rock and Roll history with our efforts. As far as I know... we have the only live performance shots of Hamilton Streetcar on the Web. Pretty cool!

Next time I'll tell you about how we recently were able to identify photos of The Beans.

Until then...

Rock On!

Noel & Connie
PhotoFlashbacks

The Research

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:51:01 -0500

We started out with all of the 35mm negatives Doug had left his sister. He had a lot of notes on the envelopes that held the negatives... but not all the information.

Connie diligently placed each roll of negs into a proper protective sleeve and put all of Doug's information into a database.

Then we began the scanning process... every frame was scanned at 4000 ppi and burned to CDs. This started in 1993 and when we went back to check our scanned CD archive several years later, many of the CDs appeared to have damaged data (bummer)!

However, with the advances in the digital domain, as we have rescanned the negs, we have ended up with better scans... so it all does work out. Of course the emphasis here is WORK!

Meanwhile... the process of building the web site (which has gone through at least 3 major overhauls and many refinements) and image research began. A lot of the performers were easy for us to recognize and those headliners were the first to go up. Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Doors, The Who, Donovan, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat, Blue Cheer, Blues Image, Jefferson Airplane, Lee Michaels, Delaney & Bonnie, The Rolling Stones, Blind Faith, Steppenwolf, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chambers Brothers, Poco, Mothers of Invention and Quicksilver Messenger Service were easy. We had to research band members, discographies and such, but the identification of the act was easy enough.

In that process we were approached by Janis Joplin's brother. We were excited and we sent him regular prints of all the photos we had of his sister. Suffice it to say that nothing came of that contact. We were back into our little groove stumbling along on our own devices.

The Internet has obviously been a tremendous help to our research as well as the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll.

The first "obscure" band for us was Hamilton Streetcar. In my next post I'll tell you how that all came about.

Rock On!

Noel

PhotoFlashbacks... The Basics

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:01:56 -0500

As you may or may not know, PhotoFlashbacks is the photographic work of Doug Hartley.
You can read a little about Doug at the main site by clicking here.

Doug's sister, Connie, and I have been working for several years to get his work out to the public via the web site PhotoFlashbacks.com.

We sell archival prints of his photographs. We provide many links to information about each of the acts we have online including discographies and album covers of the albums the performers were promoting on the concert tour. Here's the link to the "Links Page".

We also have a new forum and welcome your comments and discussions. Here's the link to the forum.

Over time, I will attempt to provide a history of how we started and what ensued to where we find ourselves now. There have been many conversations with fans, collectors and even some of the performers.

What a long strange trip it's been!

Until the next entry...
Rock On!

Noel

The Old Blog...

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:42:34 -0500

This is a note for you if you happened to stumble upon this blog...

We have an older blog on Blogger if you care to see previous posts.
You can view the old blog here:
http://photoflashbacks.blogspot.com/

We decided it was time to host our own blog... so this is the new version.

Enjoy,

Noel & Connie

Introduction...

nospam@example.com (Noel) — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:14:00 -0500

Greetings,

Well... as the subject says... this is the "Introduction" post of this blog. Some of you viewing this may have already visited our site, PhotoFlashbacks (http://www.photoflashbacks.com/), but then some of you have not.

PhotoFlashbacks is the collected work of the late Doug Hartley of Scottsdale, Arizona. Doug was a freelance photographer and his work was primarily of the Rock N Roll concerts in the Phoenix area during the late 1960's.Doug was killed by a drunk driver in 1971 and never really saw his work published. You can read a little more about Doug here: http://www.photoflashbacks.com/pages/photographer.shtml

Most of his photos are black & white shot on a 35 mm format. His negatives were stored away for many years by his Mom and sister until I came along into their lives and realized what a tistorical treasure he had left them. His sister and I have been working on this project for several years doing research and finally getting the site up in March of 2003.

We have not completed the project as there are over 50 acts in his collection and only 23 online at the moment. We hope you enjoy viewing his work and... might see a photo you would like to own.

I will be adding more to this blog but for the moment, "Thanks" for dropping by and we hope you will swing by the site. Your comments are always welcome.

All the best,

Noel
PhotoFlashbacks - The Doug Hartley Collection