Onstage and Backstage Podcast

Elliott Landy, author of The Band Photographs 1968-1969, was on the Wall of Power Radio Hour. He spoke with Paul Metsa about how he got into the rock and roll business, his meeting with legendary Dylan manager Albert Grossman, and more! The podcast is available below, click play to hear what they had to say!   About the BookOnce in a while a photographer gains the trust of an artist or a band, and his work fuses with that of the artist in such a way that the two become married in the public consciousness. One can think of David Duncan's pictures of Picasso at work or Alfred Wertheimer's pictures of Elvis backstage in 1956. Elliott Landy's chronicle of The Band from 1968-1969 is of similar importance. He was trusted so deeply that this group of photographs is as intimate a portrait of a group of musicians inventing a new music as you are ever likely to come across.               Elliott Landy is one of the first music photographers to be recognized as an