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Every time i put on my Wild Honey LP I always admire the cover haha, I wonder what happened to the stained glass window, i wonder if its still at bellagio rd? i think thats where it was

It WAS there. The Bellagio Rd. house has since been torn down. Quite a few years before that, Jeff Foskett took possession of the window, which was located above the front door at 10452 Bellagio. I heard recently that Dan Rutherford has possession of it now - not sure if that's a fact.

If you were inside the house and looked at it with the sun shining outside, it was absolutely beautiful.

yes, Dan has it now.

Dan is a cool guy. Real nice when I met him, and Canadian as well :)

Being Canadian might preclude him from being cool and nice, eh ?  :)

Are there any other photos of the window besides the cover?

Any chance Dan Rutherford would take a picture of it and upload it for us ?

I was waiting until it was finished before I posted about it, but this seems like an opportune time...

So my grandma is a stained glass wizard, she does all the stained glass for the churches where I'm from and sells stuff on the side. She likes to give us stained glass stuff as presents, so I have a beautiful lamp she made in my living room and all kinds of other stuff. This summer, I asked her to make me the Wild Honey window for Christmas. I was home in August and brought her my LP. She said the pieces were too small, so we blew it up to 3'x3'. I was home at Christmas and it wasn't done yet, but I don't care if it ends up being my present for the next 5 years. It's going to be too big for an actual window probably, so I am likely going to be hanging it on my wall. I am so stoked to get this thing. I'll post lots of pictures when it's done!

That's very cool, Amanda! Back in the 70's, I asked a couple of different people (who were in the business) to do a replica stained glass window of the Wild Honey cover, but with all the lead and materials and labor and stuff, it was cost prohibitive at the time. I would definitely like to re-visit it now though, and ask around to see if someone could do it.

When your Grandma finishes the window, please post a picture of it here, OK?  :)

I've got a photo of Brian sitting in front of the window...but having trouble getting it to post

Jon, I just saw it - that link you provided earlier worked!  That's the first time I ever saw that picture! Looks like it was a much larger version of the one I saw above Brian's front door at Bellagio. Couldn't be the same one, could it? Looks like the one you just posted was a living or family room window at the Laurel Way house circa 1966, but maybe it was Bellagio post April '67? That's something.

where's that link?

Try this...
"http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p614/Jonstebbins/BrianHoney.jpg"

Sorry, I don't know anything about this picture...I can't even remember where I found it. I'm really digging that lamp!

The first one was much better - it was already large, sharp, and detailed.  I can't enlarge the last one for some reason and it's blurry after saving it to my desktop and blowing it up.

Check above to see if its better now

How about that! Great photo - never saw that before. Did it come from a magazine article, I wonder?

Makes you think how many candid personal photos are tucked away in boxes and albums from various family members, and how so many fans would really enjoy seeing them.

Perfect. Just like the picture in the original link that you posted, Jon.

Guitarfool, another photo that needs to be investigated. Or maybe not. Need to get an approximate date on this - is this Laurel Way or Bellagio? Maybe he had this window about a year (1966) before Wild Honey came out? Or was this at the Bellagio house in '67? Also, this window looks MUCH larger than the one above his door at Bellagio. This one wouldn't fit above the door! Were there two Wild Honey stained glass windows? Is the one in this photo just a picture and not a window? That would settle everything.

Edit: Nah, I think it's 1967 - same clothes he wore to LAX for the famous photo when he came back from Michigan.

Thanks for posting. I never realised it was so big. When was that window put in there?

Wish there were more to go on in that photo, it's a tough call. It would seem they cropped the cover photo quite a bit, if the design on the window in the B&W photo is any indication...that window is *huge*!

The question of whether he had that window somewhere at Laurel Way is a great one, Mikie - I just assumed it was always at Bellagio.

Two photos found on a quick search, credit to the original uploaders and hosts:

(http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n295/guitarfool2002/bwchair2.jpg)
(http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n295/guitarfool2002/bwchair1.jpg)

For comparison, notice the gold colored sofa/couch, the carpet, and the single chair Brian is sitting in between all three photos. Obviously the stained glass shot has that chair in front of a window and the shot of Brian with the plates of food has no window. It seems to be the same chair and the same sofa, but what do I know? ;D

I'm hoping someone who knows those interiors can chime in!

Hanging down are his Windchimes. Cool.

My God, who did the color coordination for the carpets and upholstery in the house(s)?

Thanks for the picture Jon ! Never saw that before.

Does this work ?

(http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p614/Jonstebbins/BrianHoney.jpg)

That works. You're welcome. As far as the Wild Honey image shown in the picture...if it was a photo mock-up or painting or something then that would explain why its so much bigger than what people are remembering about the WH stained glass, however doesn't it look like light is coming through the image in the picture? It looks like stained glass right?

Compared to the window to the right of Brian it doesn't seem like that much light is coming out. I would be really surprised if Brian had a giant painting of the Wild Honey cover in his house, though.

60's, baby, 60's.  ;)

If you look at the light spillage on his right arm (as well as on the sofa to the left), there appears to be almost as much light coming through as from the window to the right. That's definitely a stained-glass window.

Yeah, but..............NHC, I know Marilyn was only what, 18 years old at the time, but there's more color variation there than on a Christmas tree! And I'm no decorator, but look at the yucko colors! Baby Diaper Greens and Browns with blue rugs..........geeeez! And this was a rock star's house! I didn't think the Bellagio furnishings were all that hot either when I was there - very surprising considering the amount of money they had. And we're talking Beverly Hills and Bel-Aire here..........not a tract home in suburban Hawthorne!

I'm bumping this four year old thread because I finally finished my Wild Honey stained glass project! So, here's the story - like I said in my original post my grandma was concerned about the level of detail in the picture and that we needed to blow it up so big to make the pieces a size she was comfortable working with. She decided instead to make me a set of lamps inspired by the cover but her own freestyle pattern instead. Unbeknownst to me at the time, she also decided that the red/yellow colors and the bee weren't my style and changed things a little. A year or so passes, the subject is never brought up and I basically forget about it. Then she gets diverticulitis, goes into a nursing home and dies in September 2013. In September 2015 my grandpa also passed away and we started going through their possessions when I was home for his services.

What do I find in a chest in the dining room? All her stained glass stuff, including two 3/4 of the way finished lamps and my nicest looking copy of Wild Honey. I love the pattern she ended up using, and she was right, these colors are more my style and go better with the stuff in my house. I also like that it's now more of it's own thing that was inspired by the cover design instead of just aping it. I finished the first lamp and hope to finish the second one soon. All that needed done was soldering the pieces together, which is by a wide margin the easiest part. I just took these with my phone, so these pictures aren't terrific, and I am not a craftsy person so I wasn't sure how they'd turn out but I'm overall very happy with this first one.

(http://s10.postimg.org/wko72elih/IMG_20160120_123602346.jpg)

(http://s22.postimg.org/uqqjtihz5/IMG_20160120_123617986.jpg)

Just beautiful...and in the dining room chest...

waiting for you...and those pictures are great!

:love

That was a lovely story, fabulous artwork!  My Gran also died of diverticulitis having been in a nursing home.  This story struck a chord with me.

I'm sure any family that's had someone in a place like that can relate to how horrible it is. My grandpa had a brain hemorrhage in 2009 and had been in some kind of facility since, so in a way it was nice that she got to spend her last months sharing a room with him. I'm the only member of that side of the family that lives more than forty miles away, so someone was with them for every meal and as a family we were very involved in their care. I feel awful for the people that don't have family to advocate for them to the staff, because most of the staff at those places are under paid and overworked so there is high turnover and a lot of people who don't care about what they're doing anymore.

Since this thread has reappeared it seems an opportune moment to ask if anyone knows the whereabouts, oh has anything of ex-road manager Arny Geller, who reported took the photo of the WH window ?
Just been talking with Craig Butler (Geller/Butler Advertising on the Friends sleeve) and Dave McMacken (Friends artist) but Arny seems to have vanished to one and all. After '68 his name appears to disappear off the radar ...

(http://s10.postimg.org/wko72elih/IMG_20160120_123602346.jpg)

(http://s22.postimg.org/uqqjtihz5/IMG_20160120_123617986.jpg)

Quite beautiful Amanda, very Art Deco! Quite an heirloom, I'd be overwhelmed.

Thank you! It is a nice heirloom and I'm glad I got to have a hand in completing it. Plus it gave me something to do on these couple of days of bed rest  :P

It is beautiful. Your grandmother was quite an artist.

Beautiful, especially the dragonflies.

I hadn't noticed the dragonflies! I thought it a subject-free pattern. I love it more!

I must say, the Wild Honey cover is possibly my favorite. Up there with Surfs Up and Love You

Say what you will, Amanda, but it looks to me like a smiling funny face with 2 teeth & a gap. I enjoy looking at catalogs of hand-made stuff, people have such creativity it's amazing. I think it passes from granny to mother to granddaughter. Cool lamp.

+1… :)

Jeff Foskett never had the window. I know it from Daniel.

Good one John...we will get this catching on....

Weird, I don't see dragonflies - from what angle you see them? I just see faces.

Zoom in on the blue panels - they're the wings; the longer green vertical panels are the bodies, facing down the way … they even have eyes if you look close enough. :)

Maybe it's the difference between seeing it in person versus pictures, but the dragonflies are the thing that stand out the most to me. That's what I got instead of a bee. It fits the color scheme and shape of the lamp better. The wing detail is painted on sauder. The wings are light blue, bodies green and yes, John's right, little red eyes.