The campaign’s aim: to process more than 3,000 rolls of undeveloped 35mm and medium format film - a sprawling visual history that could include never-before-seen images of musical acts such as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, The Velvet Underground, The Jeff Beck Group, and, if he’s lucky, Jimi Hendrix. They started with a small grant from the Somerville Arts Council, but earlier this year his friends launched a $30,000 fund-raising campaign to shore up his legacy, as Daniels, 79, undergoes chemotherapy for a recently diagnosed blood disorder. Now, more than five decades later, Daniels and his supporters are seeking to bring these images to life.
Now president of Live Nation New England, Law described Daniels as an “iconic figure” of the club who was “right there for so many of the big moments in the early days of these bands getting launched.”
“An act could be unknown on a Thursday night and be hugely popular by the time they left on Saturday,” said Don Law, manager of the Tea Party from 1968 till it closed at the end of 1970. From left, Ron Wood and Rod Stewart on tour with Faces.
