Stories of Captured Moments of Rock and Roll Magic

Rock and Roll stories by PJay Plutzer about taking photographs of the artists and bands that appear on the Prisoner of Rock and Roll Photos Website.

Meeting Bruce Springsteen ~ Boston, March 25th, 1977

“You’ve always got to remember, rock and roll’s never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never – never – about surrender.”

— Bruce Springsteen

Jimmy Page ~ Led Zeppelin, MSG, N.Y.~ June 13th, 1977

"As a musician, I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework."

- Jimmy Page.

Jerry Garcia~The Grateful Dead - Roosevelt Stadium, N.J -July 18th, 1972

“Well, my feelings are, the music is for the people, ya know it’s like uh… I mean after it leaves our instruments it’s of no value to us, ya know what i mean, it’s like, ya know…what good is it?, So it might as well be taped, my feeling is that..and if people enjoy taping it and enjoy having the tapes to listen to, that’s real great”.

-Jerry Garcia

Eric Clapton ~ Oakland Arena ~ February 10th, 1978

“Give me a guitar and i’ll play, give me a stage and i’ll perform; give me an auditorium and i’ll fill it”.

-Eric Clapton

Neil Young ~ Stills-Young Band- Boston Garden ~ June 26th, 1976

“Rock ‘n’ roll is everybody’s fucking music…I would certainly hope that it’s the devil’s music, but it’s not just the devil’s music. I think that’s where God and the devil shake hands – right there.”

-Neil Young

Bono ~ U2 ~ “Save the Yuppies” Concert ~ Justin Herman Plaza, S.F. ~ November 12th, 1987

“Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.”

-Bono

Those Were The good all days of rock and roll ~ PJay PLutzer

“As the Rolling stones song goes “it’s only rock and roll , but i like it”. Seeing bands perform live in concert always excited and thrilled me. So at every show that i photographed, my goal was to always capture those moments of rock and roll magic on film”

Pjay discusses what it was like to take photos and how the business changed.

- PJay Plutzer~Photographer