The Experience

Today I went to the Experience Music Project, to see an exhibit called "Taking Aim; Unforgettable Rock-n-Roll Photographs, selected by Graham Nash."
I haven't been to the EMP since I moved here, but I've been there a couple of times before. If you don't know what it is, it's the Paul Allen funded museum devoted to rock-n-roll. It's the building that looks like a smashed guitar from the air, designed by Frank O. Gehry...weird looking, but cool.
Anyway, I loved the exhibit. I have several really awesome books of rock-n-roll photos, but there were several here I've never seen. Graham Nash took several of them - I didn't know, but he is an accomplished photographer, as well as a musician.
One photo that was particularly mesmerizing to me, was of a young Mick Jagger, in very tight silver shorts (and they were short) standing on sand in a studio, taken by the great Fancesco Scavullo. I just kept staring at it. I don't care what anyone says about Mick, but he was a fine looking specimen when he was young!
There was a huge photo of Charlie Watts (Stones drummer), a profile shot in about 1990. Absolutely stunning. And of course, the psychedelic photos of the Beatles by Richard Avedon.
Some of the photos were so raw, so revealing, I wanted to cry. Johnny Cash at Folsom, Dylan alone in an airport, C,S and N on a front porch of a country home. These images make me yearn for a life I wanted so bad. Beautiful exhibit.