#edthrasher

Neil Young With Crazy Horse ‎– Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere #RipriseRecords 1969 🇬🇧 UK Art Direction – #EdThrasher Bass – #BillyTalbot Drums – #RalphMolina Engineer – David Briggs Guitar – #DannyWhitten, #NeilYoung Photography By [Cover] – #FrankBez Producer – David Briggs, Neil Young https://www.instagram.com/p/CKcYuIBsyKj/?igshid=zmkz3x8zsv1e

The Meters ‎– Cabbage Alley #RepriseRecords 1972 🇺🇸 US Art Direction – #EdThrasher Bass – GeorgePorterJr Cover – #DavidWillardson Design – #JonEchevarrieta Drums, Cowbell, Wood Block – #JosephModeliste Guitar, Tambourine – #LeoNocentelli Lead Vocals – Arthur Art Neville (tracks: A3, B1, B3) Organ, Piano, Cowbell, Tambourine – Arthur #ArtNeville https://www.instagram.com/p/CHlkJgHpT7S/?igshid=1hhqogyqm17w4

Gloria Scott ‎– What Am I Gonna Do #Casablanca 1974 🇺🇸 US Advisor [Spirtual Advisor] – Larry Nunes Arranged By – Barry White, #GenePage, #TomBrock Art Direction – #EdThrasher Concept By [Album] – #BarryWhite Design – John And Barbara Casado Engineer – Frank Kejmar Photography By – #ShermanWeisburd Producer – Barry White Producer [Associate] – Tom Brock, #VanceWilson Vocals – #GloriaScott ‎ https://www.instagram.com/p/BwrMH4Cgf9C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uaqyje46wpc8

Dino photographed by Ed Thrasher, 1964

Jimi Hendrix photographed by Ed Thrasher 1968 #jimihendrix #1969 #chopper #edthrasher #flowerpower #bandana #motorcycle

“I was probably 19 when my dad [Ed Thrasher] was hired to direct the shoot for the “Purple Rain” movie poster and album cover. I was blown away when he asked me to tag along as his assistant. He knew I was a fan and thought this would be a great win / win for me; get hired to work, and be there to see Prince. We all arrived at one of the backlots on the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank and prepared the set. "Just stay busy and don't make eye contact with Prince" were my specific instructions. Apparently he did not dig that. Prince's longtime bodyguard Charles "Big Chick" Huntsberry was with him, and I was terrified that I would get caught checking out Prince from the corner of my eye and get kicked off the set. So I did my best to keep moving and look busy. At one point, Prince decided the set needed rose petals, so I was sent scrambling to the local florists in Toluca Lake to buy up a bunch of red roses to be scattered on the ground. After hours of test shots with a Polaroid (no digital playback then), they finally had their shot. A night I'll never forget.” — Jeff Thrasher