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We've collected some photos over the years and will continue to post more! If you have information about any of these images (who we should credit, or a story about the photo) please contact us. Thanks!
1996 · Bees Reunions at Sue Mclean’s Mill City Music Fest (Mpls Warehouse District).
Clyde
Willie Murphy, Steve Tibbetts, Steve Cochrane, Jan Reimer
Willie in 'The Insider' magazine, Oct. 1976
photo: John Botkin 2018
Mark Haynes, Willie Murphy, Donald “Hye Pockets' Robertson
Willie & The Bees
Hook & Ladder, Jan 2018 · photo: Nick Lethert
Early Bees (from Insider Magazine, 1976)
Willie Murphy & Steve Jamison
Photo by Rick Dublin
Photo by Richard Sinnott (Viking Bar, 1999)
Dirtball Launch & 75th Birthday Bash, Eagles Club, November 2018
Willie on 'The Insider' cover, Oct. 1976
Willie at The Loring · Photo by Carla Tollefsrud
Willie, Taco, Max, Marbue
Willie & the Bumblebees 1972. Photo: Ramon Muxter
Photo by John Botkin
1996 · Bees Reunions at Sue Mclean’s Mill City Music Fest (Mpls Warehouse District). The festival lasted four years (1996-99). In 1996 Willie was declared the first Mayor of Mill City, an honor created by festival organizers. In 1997, Willie and the Angel-Headed Hipsters played the same festival, supporting their critically acclaimed Monkey in the Zoo album. Photo by Carla Tollefsrud
Tom Attridge & Willie
Photo by Marc Norberg
Photo courtesy davesnakerray.com
Max Ray, Willie Murphy, Hook & Ladder, Jan 2018 · photo: Nick Lethert
Willie at The Loring · Photo by Carla Tollefsrud
A Big Night at Famous Daves · front row, l to r: Curt Obeda, Willie, Hubert Sumlin, Rob Stupka, Curtiss A, Paul Metsa
Bees Reunion rehearsal, 2000 · Photo by John Swanson
Contact Sheet from 'I've Got a Secret' Album
Lunch on Enchanted Island
Willie Murphy with burning mattress 1970 · photo by Ramon Muxter
Willie Murphy & Dr. John
Willie and the Bumblebees with Dave Ray & Tony Glover sitting in. L to R: John Beach, Maurice Jacox, Jerome Broughten, Gene Hoffman, Voyle Harris, Howard Merriwether, Dave Ray, Willie Murphy, Tony Glover. Photo: Fred Case, probably late '70's, behind the DANCe Warehouse. Photo courtesy davesnakerray.com
Willie Murphy, Steve Tibbetts, Steve Cochrane
Jim Kogl, Willie Murphy, Michael Velasquez, Barb Brynstad, Max Ray, Scott Snyder. Lees Liquor Lounge, August 2017
photo: Tim Campbell
Willie & The Bees with Dr. John
Photo by Marc Norberg
Willie Murphy 1985 - photo by Larry Marcus
photo: John Botkin 2018
Spider John Koerner and Willie Murphy
Photo by Ridgezy Petersen (December 1983)
Willie & Clyde, Riverside Park · Photo by Polly Vollmar-Heywood
Last night at the Viking - August, 2006
Willie & The Bees promo contact sheet · photos by Rick Dublin
Photo by Jim Walsh (December 2018)
The Bees in the day! Photo by Rick Dublin
Greg Helgeson photo ran in the Reader in 1978 when the Bees released their first LP. Willie and Maurice are posing in the vegetable garden outside the Walker Church.
Willie Murphy as "S.B." in the jail scene from Spider John Koerner's 1970 cult film The Secret of Sleep. A DVD of the Koerner-co-directed film, coupled with a CD of his 1972-released "Music is Just a Bunch of Notes" (backed by Willie & the Bees), plus a 16-page booklet, is available from Treehouse Records, [email protected]
