Commander Cody pictured at his home in Stinson Beach in 1977. (Photo by Michael Goldberg) Jerry Garcia pictured at his home in Larkspur in 1970. (Photo by Michael Goldberg) Jesse Colin Young pictured at the Youngbloods' office in Point Reyes Station in 1971.
(Photo by Michael Goldberg) Jim Morrison of the Doors performs at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais in 1967. (Photo by Michael Goldberg) Music journalist Michael Goldberg is behind “Jukebox." (Photo by Roni Hoffman) Michael Bloomfield pictured at his home in Mill Valley in 1971.
(Photo by Michael Goldberg) John Cipollina performs at Winterland in San Francisco in 1973. (Photo by Michael Goldberg) Commander Cody pictured at his home in Stinson Beach in 1977. (Photo by Michael Goldberg) At the tender age of 13, music journalist Michael Goldberg was already documenting rock history.
In 1967, the Summer of Love, he rode a shuttle bus to the top of Mount Tamalpais, paid $2 for a ticket and joined thousands of rock fans at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, a historic two-day extravaganza that claims the distinction of being the first rock festival ever. (The more famous Monterey Pop Festival took place a week later.) A huge fan of the Doors, the teenage Goldberg shot pictures of Jim Morrison, the band’s famously erratic lead singer, using a Kodak Brownie camera his parents gave him.
One of those photographs, taken from the side of the stage with the newly minted rock sta.