tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post4423194362676560726..comments2024-01-22T11:10:44.947+01:00Comments on OUTTAKES: MEETING JIMI HENDRIX, 1967Michael Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01717701464512635145noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-34488697807541420912012-02-29T23:08:34.794+01:002012-02-29T23:08:34.794+01:00The Hendrix Concert was a Langwith Junior Common R...The Hendrix Concert was a Langwith Junior Common Room affair - organised by College Social Secretary Pete Clarke, who had heard Hendrix in London over the Christmas holiday 1966-67 and booked him to appear at Langwith in about May 66 - Hey Joe was big in the charts when he turned up in York and his fee was then £600 although we only paid him £60.<br />Not surprisingly the show sold out quickly - in fact we had an audience of around 1,250 with a fire limit of 900 - so God knows what would have happened if he'd failed to show up. He was famously late because their van broke down in Nottingham and he put them all in Taxis to get to York and he wouldn't let us pay for the taxis - very relieved when he made it. Splendid fellow I thought.David Wnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-47623557445794162322012-02-26T18:50:01.567+01:002012-02-26T18:50:01.567+01:00Good stuff, Judas. Thank you. The payoff after &qu...Good stuff, Judas. Thank you. The payoff after "I took my leave" made me laugh. But I only tell my own story of meeting him - way back in 1978 - at occasional gigs of mine, when audiences have been especially warm. I've always avoided putting it in print. It just doesn't seem right somehow - just a personal decision.Michael Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01717701464512635145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-76969744851835832762012-02-26T18:01:15.356+01:002012-02-26T18:01:15.356+01:00Tell us about your Bob encounter Michael.. Finally...Tell us about your Bob encounter Michael.. Finally bumped into him myself this year in a Dublin hotel car park. He walks as awkwardly in real life as he does on stage and was hiding under his hoody. Wished him luck with the Nobel which was due to be announced the following day and in respect of which there was a breaking story online that he was favourite. Told him I had heard rumours and hoped it would work out well for him (it didn't!) Our eyes locked as I was speaking and he didn't utter a word but instead jerked his umbrella in the air in acknowledgement. I waved back, took my leave and immediately got very drunk. A brief encounter but a huge thrill to be that close and more than a little surreal.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Judas PriestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-63862614472451981432012-02-23T10:08:11.707+01:002012-02-23T10:08:11.707+01:00McHenry! How very good to hear from you. I thought...McHenry! How very good to hear from you. I thought you'd abandoned me when you offered no comment of any kind about my killing off <i>bobdylanencyclopedia.blogspot.com</i>. Hope all well with you, and thanks for your memories of that Hendrix night, especially the barmaid bit.Michael Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01717701464512635145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-29949543515721759002012-02-23T09:57:00.751+01:002012-02-23T09:57:00.751+01:00I wouldn't know about the facts regarding timi...I wouldn't know about the facts regarding timing or fee (and they seem fairly irrelevant to me) but that night is certainly one that has remained vivid in my memory. And I remember the barmaid in Langwith, who had delivered a bottle of whisky to Jimi, saying what a "nice young man he was".<br /><br />If my memory serves me correctly (it rarely does nowadays) the booking was for a dance, not a concert, but few if any danced. Certainly it was a standing-room only venue.<br /><br />Happy days!McHenry Boatridenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-69886003176346101842012-02-22T17:04:28.563+01:002012-02-22T17:04:28.563+01:00Caesar: I dispute these details. Noel Redding was ...Caesar: I dispute these details. Noel Redding was wrong (about a lot of things).Michael Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01717701464512635145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-62042600947990516962012-02-22T16:48:02.777+01:002012-02-22T16:48:02.777+01:00How much that single word 'perilous' conve...How much that single word 'perilous' conveys...Rambling Gambling Gordonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-91783546355348928092012-02-22T12:23:52.895+01:002012-02-22T12:23:52.895+01:00The JHE were not late for the gig as it not due un...The JHE were not late for the gig as it not due until 1 in the morning (goes to show, students spent little time studying in the sixties!) . The fee was not well below 100, it was 150 (as duly written down to Noel Redding in his diary).<br /><br />You should have RECORDED the gig! ;)<br /><br />Caesar GlebbeekAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-75600994105890896992012-02-21T17:30:34.931+01:002012-02-21T17:30:34.931+01:00Hendrix: easy & relaxed
Dylan: perilous & ...Hendrix: easy & relaxed<br />Dylan: perilous & tense<br /><br />I think the only thing these memorable meetings had in common was their length...Michael Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01717701464512635145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7295152976515631639.post-47021172278070102392012-02-20T18:02:40.286+01:002012-02-20T18:02:40.286+01:00A good story. (One, as they say, to tell the grand...A good story. (One, as they say, to tell the grandchildren.)<br /><br />I’ve read before how restrained and self-effacing Hendrix was, despite the scale of his talents. <br /><br />Hmmm. How did your time with him compare with your meeting with Dylan?Rambling Gambling Gordonnoreply@blogger.com