Eric Senich interviews me about my new book, “Jukebox: Photographs 1967 – 2023,” on his latest podcast. We spoke for nearly an hour and a half about the musicians I photographed including Van Morrison, the Sex Pistols, Jim Morrison and many others. I talk about the first rock festival in the country and photographing Jim Morrison when I was only 13 years old. I talk about photographing and interviewing Jerry Garcia when I was 17, and how loose things were in the late 60s and 70s. Hanging out with musicians and photographing them in their hotel rooms or backstage.

I think it’s an interesting conversation that people who are into music will enjoy. Watch the Youtube version here. Or just listen here.

Recently the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story on the book and I that you can read here. ” … his images across the ’70s offer a snapshot of a bygone era when access to artists was more open,” writes Brandon Yu.”…The book is also a panorama of San Francisco at that time as a vibrant hub for music and where the “countercultural bohemian” ethos from the decade prior had a longer shelf life than the rest of the country. “

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“Jukebox” Includes photos of the Sex Pistols, Crime, the Ramones, the Avengers, Debbie Harry, Devo, the Nuns, the Clash, Tom Verlaine, Lou Reed, John Cale and the Dils as well as Tom Waits, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Janis Joplin, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Muddy Waters, Toots and the Maytals, Patti Smith, Bettye Lavette, the Who, Neil Young, Jonathan Richman, David Byrne, Eno, Townes Van Zant, the Flamin’ Groovies, and many many more.

Please note that the book can be purchased directly from the publisher, HoZac Records and Books. I will be doing an event at Grace Cathedral’s Forum on Sunday, August 11 starting at 9:30 am. Books will be available at The Forum and I’ll be around to sign them.

I will also be doing a presentation on “Jukebox” at Book Passage in Corte Madera on August 24 beginning at 4 pm and books will also be available there. And, nearly 40 photos from the book on display through September 22 at the Haight Street Art Center, where you can also see “We Are the One: San Francisco Punk 1970s – 1980s,” an art exhibit that I curated. Books are available at the Art Center and there will be an opening party on August 2 from 6 pm to 9 pm. If you are in the Bay Area, please come to the party,

Excellent coverage from the Louder Than War and Best Classic Bands websites of my new book, “Jukebox: Photographs 1967 – 2023.”

Louder Than War critic Robin Boardman writes, “It soon becomes clear as you turn the pages of this Aladdin’s cave of photographs that Goldberg not only knows how to hold a camera, but he also has an instinctive eye for what makes a good shot, born of his wonderment at the world of icons and wannabes in which he operates. … it’s a cornucopia of musical delights celebrating the broad church of rock music in all its forms with treats at every turn.”

Meanwhile, the folks at Best Classic Bands note, “Music journalist and former Rolling Stone senior writer Michael Goldberg has published a new book, “Jukebox—Photographs 1967-2023,” featuring distinctive, full-page photographs of musicians taken between 1967 and 2023. Goldberg is best known as a writer, but for over 50 years he’s also been photographing musicians and the photos in Jukebox are drawn from the thousands he’s taken over the years.”

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Included are photos of the Sex Pistols, Crime, the Ramones, the Avengers, Debbie Harry, Devo, the Nuns, the Clash, Tom Verlaine, Lou Reed, John Cale and the Dils as well as Tom Waits, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Janis Joplin, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Muddy Waters, Toots and the Maytals, Patti Smith, Bettye Lavette, the Who, Neil Young, Jonathan Richman, David Byrne, Eno, Townes Van Zant, the Flamin’ Groovies, and many many more.

“Text is kept to a minimum, restricted primarily to artist name, date and location,” writes Boardman, “allowing the photographs to do the talking, and that’s something they do very eloquently indeed. Jukebox is a thrill ride through the golden age of rock n roll which no fan will want to miss.”

Please note that the book can be purchased directly from the publisher, HoZac Records and Books. I will be doing an event at Grace Cathedral’s Forum on Sunday, August 11 starting at 9:30 am. Books will be available at The Forum and I’ll be around to sign them.

I will also be doing a presentation on “Jukebox” at Book Passage in Corte Madera on August 24 beginning at 4 pm and books will also be available there. And, nearly 40 photos from the book will be on display beginning July 25 through September 22 at the Haight Street Art Center, which you can also see “We Are the One: San Francisco Punk 1970s – 1980s,” an art exhibit that I’m curating. Books will be available there and there will be an opening party on August 2 from 6 pm to 9 pm.

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In a special summer Forum at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, I’ll be talking about my new book, “Jukebox: Photographs 1967 – 2023,” and projecting many photos from the book so the audience can get a good idea of the photos. Join Dean Malcolm Clemens Young for a conversation with me about my experiences with the musicians, the challenges of photographing musicians, and my pioneering career creating the first web music magazine, Addicted To Noise, and in writing about music for Rolling Stone. The Forum takes place downstairs from the main cathedral. Grace Cathedral is located at 1100 California Street. There are parking garages nearby including one under the church building.

Along with some of rock’s biggest stars (Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Neil Young), the collection features an impressive array of underground figures and outcast luminaries captured in their natural habitat, most seen here for the first time anywhere. Bridging the gaps between the late ‘60s psychedelic era, primitive first-wave ‘70s punk, and soul & reggae, as well as never-before seen images of country and folk iconoclasts and rule-breakers across the spectrum, and even including some modern artists still making waves, “Jukebox” is an acclaimed photography collection.

Photo of Debbie Harry copyright 2024 Michael Goldberg.

“A visual encyclopedic history of rock & roll and pop culture as it really was. Michael Goldberg was there and documented it as it happened. A behind the scenes and real look at icons through the ages.” – Laurie Kratochvil, award winning Director of Photography at Rolling Stone (1982-1994) and editor of more than a dozen photo books including 20 Years of Rolling Stone What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

I’m best known as a writer, but for over 50 years I’ve also been photographing musicians and the photos in “Jukebox” are drawn from the thousands I’ve taken over the years. The book’s Foreword is written by acclaimed music book author Joel Selvin: “Come for the big names – Stones, Dead, Van, The Band; stay for the beautiful faces from the distant past – Tim Buckley, Professor Longhair, Sal Valentino. An extraordinary portfolio from any shooter, let alone one we know primarily as a writer.”

“This is a book of musicians I’ve dug over the years, musicians whose recordings moved me (and still move me), musicians I was lucky enough to photograph. I think these particular photos are my best, and I hope you find them unique, and at times mysterious; there are many excellent photographers of musicians, but none of them took these photographs.”

Books will be available at The Forum and I’ll be around to sign them.

Please note that I will also be doing a presentation on “Jukebox” at Book Passage in Corte Madera on August 24 beginning at 4 pm and books will also be available there. And, nearly 40 photos from the book will be on display beginning July 25 through September 22 at the Haight Street Art Center, which you can also see “We Are the One: San Francisco Punk 1970s – 1980s,” an art exhibit that I’m curating. Books will be available there and there will be an opening party on August 2 from 6 pm to 9 pm.

An art exhibit celebrating the punk rock scene in San Francisco during the late 1970s and early 1980s will open at the Haight Street Art Center on July 25, 2024 and run through September 22, 2024. An opening party will be held from 6pm until 9 pm on Friday August 2.

I’m the curator of this exhibit and I’ve been working on it for the past six months with help from Haight Street Art Center staff curator Ben Marks. The show includes approximately 150 photographs from an amazing group of artists/photographers: Ruby Ray, the late Bruce Conner, Jonathan Postal, Chester Simpson, Richard Alden Peterson, James Stark (Stark’s photo of the original Avengers can be seen below), Kamera Zie, Vincent Anton Stornaiuolo, the late Bobby Castro, Jeanne Hansen, and the late Jeff Good. I will also have photos in the show. There will also be over sixty flyers and posters, mostly provided by Kareem Kaddah, drawn from his extensive collection. Some of the flyers are on loan from former Crime drummer Henry Rosenthal. Jonathan Postal, once of the Avengers and the Readymades, designed the poster for the show (see above) which features his photographs. Video of half a dozen key bands will play as part of the exhibit and there will be audio recordings by many San Francisco punk bands and bands that influenced them playing in the main exhibit room.

Among the exhibition’s many highlights are 22 of artist Bruce Conner’s photographs that he took during 1978 at the famed Mabuhay Gardens, where the S.F. punk scene began in late 1976. In addition to Conner’s stunning black-and-white photographs, “We Are the One” will include eight rarely seen color photos that Conner took at the club. “In its own way, it [the Mabuhay scene] reminded me of the energy of the poets, artists, filmmakers, and dancers who had been characterized as the Beat generation in the 1950s,” Conner said during a 2005 interview with journalist/publisher Mike Plante for his Cinemad magazine.

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As a complement to the exhibition, the Art Center will present a punk film night and panel on Friday September 6. “San Francisco’s First and Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Movie: Crime 1978” directed by Jon Bastian will be screened, along with the rarely seen, unfinished, “In the Red,” a documentary shot in 1977 and 1978 by Liz Klein and Karen Merchant. There will also be live performance clips shot by Target Video’s Joe Rees. Following the screening there will be a panel discussion of the films and the punk scene featuring V. Vale, Henry Rosenthal, Jon Bastian, Liz Klein, Karen Merchant, Avengers singer/songwriter Penelope Houston. I’ll be facilitating it.

Running concurrently with “We Are the One” will be “Jukebox: The Music Photographs of Michael Goldberg,” a selection of almost 40 photographs drawn from my new book, “Jukebox: Photographs 1967 – 2023.” Included in the “Jukebox” show are photographs of Frank Zappa, Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison, Debbie Harry, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, George Clinton, Professor Longhair, Emmylou Harris, Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, Peter Tosh, Muddy Waters, Bettye LaVette, Bob Dylan, and Van Morrison.