RCA Studio in Hollywood 1965 The Rolling Stones rehearsed and recorded the backing tracks for an appearance on the popular TV show Shindig on May 18 and 19 at RCA in Hollywood. He brought along his Leica M3 camera on the road and recorded approximately 2,700 historic, intimate, extraordinary images of the Stones. Tour manager for the Rolling Stones beginning with their very first tour of America in June, 1964 and con- tinued in this role through 1966.
Bob Bonis Tour Manager Due to a no-nonsense reputation earned from years of working in the jazz clubs in New York that were mostly run by wise-guys, Bob Bonis was tapped to serve as U.S. These never-before-released photographs are now available from the Bob Bonis Archive as strictly limited edition fine art prints. With his Leica M3 camera ready-to-shoot, he documented the band at the height of the British Invasion, capturing candid and historic moments in their meteoric rise to fame. Bonis didn’t dictate their image, rather he captured it on film.
Tour Manager for the Stones’ first five trips stateside between 19. While teenage girls across the world were being sent into frenzies as The British Invasion reached American soil, parents everywhere were biting their nails, pondering the question – “Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone? While Oldham was choreographing how the boys appeared in public, Bob Bonis was also at work behind the scenes as U.S.
