The shots from our recording sessions in Toronto were taken by
David Rosenboom, which is why there is only one with him in it.
All but one were lifted from two 8x10" 35mm proof sheets, and
blown up. They aren't much to look at, but it's all we've got, and
the stories that go with the pictures might be interesting to some
readers.
Click on any image to see a full-size version. Included with
each picture is anecdotal commentary, some of it fairly detailed.
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In the Beginning |
| We had our start in 1967, when the first three
of us were students at University of Illinois, in Urbana. Of
the first sequence of photos, the second and fourth were taken
in Urbana, the others shortly after we moved to Buffalo, New
York, where we lived for only seven months. |
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The founding fathers of Time |
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Lynn Newton looking windblown |
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Ellen McFaul and David Rosenboom |
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Ellen McFaul in Urbana |
The Pierce-Arrow Factory and Beyond |
| The next six photographs
were taken in in our rehearsal studio in the former
Pierce-Arrow factory. The last two were taken at one of our
first jobs, which turned out to be a specially challenging
experience. |
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Rehearsing Waking in the Pierce-Arrow factory |
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Tom McFaul at Pierce-Arrow, framed by percussion rack |
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Tom again |
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Lynn playing lute |
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Rehearsing Lily Has a
Rose |
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Ellen McFaul watching patiently |
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Our big garage gig -- don't skip this story! |
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In a garage in Buffalo -- in winter! |
Toronto Recording Sessions, January 1968 |
In early January 1968, we traveled twice to Bay Sound
studios in Toronto to record eleven demos, which after all
these years have finally been resurrected and assembled into
the CD album Before There Was Time.
David Rosenboom brought a camera to the sessions. I'm sure I
was barely conscious of his running around and taking
pictures at the time. At the time I owned a camera too, but
had no money for the luxury of film.
Until very recently I never saw any of these pictures. Last
year (2000) David sent me two 8.5x11" 35mm proof sheets with
a total of 76 shots on them. Three of them he had enlarged
himself, but the rest I had to cut out one at a time using a
graphic image editor. These images also included the shots
taken at the Pierce-Arrow factory above.
All the images are of poor quality by any standard
you can think of. The ones I've preserved for the sake of
this slide show are, believe it or not, the best of
what there is, thrown together here for the sake of having
some sort of permanent record of what we did.
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Lynn playing trombone on Green Fields
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Lynn with bass and music |
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Lynn with bass in subdued light |
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Lynn doing voiceover, framed by percussion |
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Lynn and Tom seen from the control booth |
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Tom from the control booth |
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Tom, engineer in control booth |
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Tom recording vocals |
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Tom imitating the Phantom of the Opera |
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Richard Stanley playing dulcimer
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Richard making feedback on the Vox |
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Richard next to control booth |
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Richard on dulcimer, Tom in background |
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Richard playing dulcimer, Tom and clavinet in background |
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Jim Mohr worrying |
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Jim Mohr and Kathy (a.k.a. Kate) Stanley |
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Kathy Stanley (a recently discovered picture) |
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Tom, David, and Richard in control
booth |
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The recording console |
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An engineer at the console |
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Tom, Richard, and the chief engineer |
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The engineer deep in thought |
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Our Vox Beatle amplifier |
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The dulcimer on the clavinet |
New York City Days |
In May 1968 we all moved to New York City. The story of how
we all got there goes beyond even what I was able to cover
in the recording notes that accompany the two band CDs.
Not long after we all got back together, we rented a loft in
the third basement of a warehouse on Mott Street, where we
could make all the noise we wanted day or night. There was
nothing lofty about the loft. The warehouse was in Little
Italy, one block south of Houston Street, and one block west
of the notorious Bowery. Occasionally I had to step over
dead former drunks on the street.
This room was at least as big and utilitarian as our
previous place, but not as cozy. But it was home to us. It
also served as a convenient supply depot to various heroin
addicts and fences in the area.
By the beginning of summer, David Rosenboom left the band to
pursue other opportunities. That was the beginning of the
personnel problems that ultimately killed the band.
We also changed our name from Time to Think
Dog! soon after arriving in New York. Although I
thought Time was a great name, I recall there was a general
feeling on the part of the others, including Jim, that we
needed a better one. When another band called Time came out
with an album, my own feelings about that name became
academic.
The next six images were all taken one day in our Mott
Street loft, using my camera. Only one picture has me in it.
The last three images in this series were taken during the
last period of time the band was together.
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Tom in our Mott Street loft, NYC |
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Tom fooling with a guitar |
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Lynn fooling with a bass |
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Richard in the Mott Street loft |
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My bass amplifier cabinets |
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Lynn at home in Wilmette |
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Lynn on the verge of enslavement |
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Lynn playing piano in 71st Street apartment, NYC |
After the Band |
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This tour concludes with a few pictures that were taken
after our band ceased to exist. Regrettably, I don't have
anything relatively recent of either Tom McFaul or Richard
Stanley. You will notice two new faces below of persons who
have not yet been mentioned, but who are covered in the
recording notes that go with Dog Days.
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Lynn playing guitar, 1973 |
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Ron Renninger, recent picture |
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Bob Steeler playing with Hot Tuna |
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Lynn demonstrating Gibson ES-335 |
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David Rosenboom playing keyboard, recent picture
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 | David at Stonehenge |