Episode 1077 - Ethan Russell

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Photographer Ethan Russell is the only person to shoot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, which is quite an achievement considering he didn’t even want a career as a photographer. Ethan talks with Marc about going from the U.S. to England in the 1960s to become a writer, only to find himself working with Mick Jagger and taking rock and roll photographs that stand the test of time. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the ill-fated Altamont Free Concert, Ethan describes what it was like to document the event and be on the helicopter that got the Stones out of there when it all went down. This episode is sponsored by Zoro.com and SimpliSafe.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.2	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING
0:01.3	The game is a complete mess, but it's time to go to the next level of the game.
0:09.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.7	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck, Nick?
0:13.3	What's happening?
0:14.2	I'm Mark Marin.
0:15.1	This is my podcast.
0:16.7	WTF, how's it going?
0:19.2	Today on the show, I talk to Ethan Russell.
0:22.1	He's a photographer.
0:23.6	Now look, you know, I get stuff in the mail all the time, man.
0:26.6	I get pictures.
0:27.4	I get books of pictures.
0:29.1	But this one, you know, the cover of it is Keith Richards walking off the Rolling Stones
0:34.3	chartered plane in 1972 and I'm like, what is this?
0:39.2	And in it, there's just these amazing pictures of, you know, John Lennon and Yoko and the Stones
0:45.7	and the who and the Eagles are in there.
0:49.2	Linda Ronsette, John Thjoplin, Jim Morrison, Taj Mahal, Benny Goodman.
0:54.5	They're just, but some of the Brian Jones picked, some of the last pictures of Brian Jones
0:58.3	before he died and more importantly, not even more importantly, but there were pictures
1:03.2	from Altamont.
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