Alla Rakha on tabla accompanying Ravi Shankar at The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Shankar and Rakha's set from D. A. Pennebaker's 1968 film of the festival was a major factor in my choosing to apply to Wesleyan University, where I studied tabla for four years, in parallel with my composition studies with Alvin Lucier. (You can see an excerpt from their Monterey Pop set HERE.)
The only extant photo of the author playing tabla, West Falmouth, MA, summer 1974.
Photo by George Collins.