The Last Word

You can’t talk about moving heaven and earth without giving space to those who seemed otherworldly in their time and now, sadly, rest six feet underground. Last month, over 1,000 curated photographs taken by local photographer Greg Gaar at San Francisco Bay Area concerts in the 1970s and 1980s were added to OpenSFHistory. Live music is, perhaps, one of the things we’ve missed most during the pandemic, so it’s incredible to move through time and space and live vicariously within Gaar’s work. We’re in the crowd with him at The Last Waltz; backstage with him in Golden Gate Park, arms-length from Jerry Garcia; in rapture with him as we see The Who in picture-perfect form.

David Bowie at the Cow Palace, February 6, 1976. (Photo by Greg Gaar; courtesy of Greg Gaar / wnp73.1159)

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