Posted on 09/18/2020 3:43:19 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 18, 1970, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix died of asphyxia while intoxicated. He was only 27 years old, and his stint as a superstar lasted less than five years, but he obviously made his indelible mark — being declared by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music” and by Rolling Stone as the greatest guitarist of all time.
And one of the first mainstream rock acts to recognize Hendrix’s greatness was the Monkees. Unfortunately, the Monkees’ young fans weren’t quite as enthusiastic when that TV band’s Micky Dolenz came up with the seemingly bizarre idea to hire Hendrix as the opening act for the Monkees’ first U.S. tour in 1967.
Hendrix ended up playing only seven of that tour’s 29 dates, dropping out after having to contend nightly with thousands of nasty, impatient, jeering teenyboppers. “Yeah, it was kind of embarrassing,” Dolenz admits to Yahoo Entertainment. “Jimi would go, ‘Purple haze!’ and the kids would be like, ‘We want Davy!’ He’d go, ‘Foxy lady!’ and they’d yell, ‘We. Want. The. Monkees! We. Want. The. Monkees!’ He was coming up against that very typical opening-act dilemma for anyone touring with a big headliner, really.”
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I saw them in Louisville at about that time. Actually that would have been the 2nd time, I saw them a year or two earlier when they did a show where everyone was falling down drunk, drinking Black Jack from the bottle, fighting with each other on stage. They were playing as the warm up for BOC.
Ha! Here’s an account of the earlier show.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/lynyrd-skynyrd-blue-oyster-cult-fight/
But I knew that despite that show, I needed to see LS when they came back through, and they were well worth it the 2nd time around. Probably a top ten all time best concert for me.
Zappa.
Agree 100%, Terry Kath was the best ever in my book.
Glen Campbell and Buck Owens would disagree.
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Blue Oyster Cult has a new album out, sounds good.
“There’s only one Hendrix like there’s only one Beethoven”
1983 (A merman I should be) is one of the finest recordings of the 20th century...and since.
Jaw dropping.
And it’s blocked on US youtube.
You have to buy the album to hear it. Or, in my case fire up the CD player and drive those Polk Audio towers lol
Similar drama and expertise can be heard on Machine Gun live.
What planet did that guy live on?
That show was a great one! Check out the 12/69 Amsterdam live show for another Chicago Transit Authority full throttle performance by Terry, (Especially Terry!), and the guys!
Loved Foot Stomping Music!
Too bad Duane Allman wasn’t with them.
Derek and the Dominoes light.
Glen Campbell, yes. Buck Owens, no. Don Rich played lead for Buck Owens.
Les Paul, Django Reinhardt, Eldon Shamblin, Merl Travis, Charlie Christian, Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Vince Gill, Roy Clark and Chef Atkins are my top ten.
Mike Nesmith’s mother was a secretary and she also invented WHITE OUT. He was an only child and he inherited a fortune when she passed.
He never aged. Page, Clapton, Beck, EVH all aged.
He supposedly said that about Rory Gallagher also.
In September of 1976, I saw "Rufus" with Chaka Kahn open for Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Beacon Theater in NYC.
It was awkward but we gave then their respect and they thanked us at the end of the show.
“Hey, Jimi Hendrix died the same way George Floyd did!”
Except that George Floyd and Jeffrey Epstein were murdered.
You got that right.
Ha ha it’s all coming back now.
Derek and the Dominoes were still absolutely amazing on that night when I heard them...and YOU did not.
Ritchie Blackmore should be in the conversation of the greatest guitarists.
My list would be:Terry Kath, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Eric Clapton and Prince.
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