💥 1967.
↪ Following an afternoon performance in Mouscron, Belgium, The Experience drive south to Lens, France where they perform at Twenty Club.
↪ Mouscron, Twenty Club, 18 Grand Place, Hainault, Belgium, JHE
Concert (40 minutes). Evening show.
Rikki Stein: “…We also presented him At the Twenty Club in Mouscron which was our home base and where the reaction was altogether different - they loved him to bits!.”
↪ Twenty Club, Lois sous Lens, Picardie, France
Loison-Sous-Lens (in the heart of the coalmining district.
Concert (40 minutes) afternoon show starting at 16:00
Mitch: “Most of the places we played in Europe were small theatres, there were no real blues-clubs, I don't think they existed as they did in England. We did do a couple of really weird gigs on the outskirts of Paris, though. They were almost like biker bars, really awful places. I don’t know about those, but a lot of our early European gigs came from promoters seeing us at the early London showcase gigs.”
Noel: “Not such a good gig.”
Rikki Stein: “On the 5th March 1967 we opened the doors. Our first show was with Jimi Hendrix who we were touring at that time. It was his first European tour where he was totally unknown, despite being No 1 in the UK at the time with ’Hey Joe’. The place was packed but the reaction to Jimi was one of stupefaction. At the end of ’Wild Thing’, his first number, there was total silence. The entire audience just stood there, open-mouthed. They’d never seen or heard anything like it in their life. It was as if he’d just landed from Alpha Centauri.”
💥 1968.
↪ Mitch & Noel in Bahamas
↪ Jimi stayed in his home town, New York City
↪ Melody Maker’s Frank Simpson interviews Hendrix for a March 16 piece.
💥 1969.
Valerie Mabbs of Record Mirror interviews Jimi at his Brook Street apartment for the March 15th issue.
💥 1970.
No News...
💥 1973.
The former US manager of Jimi Hendrix Michael Jeffrey was one of 68 people killed in a plane crash in France. Jeffery was en-route to a court appearance in London related to Hendrix.
💥 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ John Belushi Joliet 'Jake' Blues. (Jan 24, 1949 - Mar 5, 1982)
'Sweet Home Chicago' from the film Blues Brothers: