(WKYT) - Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Stones, and The Beatles…. all rock ‘n roll legends who helped shape a musical and cultural revolution in America in the 1960s.

A Versailles man was front and center to it all. Don Aters was 21 and living in San Francisco after serving in the U-S Navy, where he learned about photography. It led to a lifelong journey of photographing rock stars at concerts.

Don was in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco, where bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin) took the stage and flourished.

His wife Sharon, who lives in Versailles, says Don was in the right place at the right time and had a knack for making friends with concert promoters and producers.

“That was kind of the beginni

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