Posts Tagged: Norman Rockwell
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Norman Rockwell Meets The Longhairs

This is a great story about how Norman Rockwell came to paint the cover of The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper.

Michael and I were sitting in a photo studio at CBS waiting for Norman to photograph us so he could paint our portrait. In he strolled, right on time, and Bloomfield, a closet Rockwell groupie, just gushed all over him. As it turned out, Michael was wearing his brother's coat, found a pill in the pocket, and popped it. It was STP (superacid) and he gooned out all over Norman: "Oh man, you're the best. You should come to San Francisco, man, you would see [...]