🍀 1967.
♡ London W12, "BBC Lime Grove Studios", Lime Grove
TV rehearsals and tele-recording for the 'Top Of The Pops' edition of 18 May.
The Experience occupied dressing room 66 and rehearsed around 16:30. Between 20:15 and 21:30 the JHE recorded "The Wind Cries Mary" (3:27 - studio version with live vocals).
♡ JHE Photo session by Harry Goodwin in the BBC dressing room, possibly between rehearsal and tv recording.
♡ Between 7 & 13 May London, Speakeasy - Jimi jams with Amen Corner.
🍀 1968.
New York City, Fillmore East, NY, USA, JHE
Rehearsal in the afternoon: songs unknown
Two shows at 20:00 and 23:30 both sold out.
Support: Sly And The Family Stone
Audience at each show: 2,845
Jimi smashed a sunburst Fender Stratocaster with rosewood neck at the end.
Noel: “3 o’clock, had a shower, went to Fillmore, had a practice. Came back to hotel, got stoned, got changed, went to gig.”
🍀 1969.
Charleston Civic Center, 200 Civic Center Drive, WV, USA. JHE
Concert at 20:30.
Interview (backstage) by Ray Brack
Support: Fat Mattress and Chicago.
Audience: 5,000 (capacity: 9,000).
Noel: “…And when we did get there, the audience wasn’t very good and to top it off no chicks afterwards. So Mitch and I headed to a bar to get drunk and talk business.”
🍀 1970.
San Antonio Hemisfair Arena, Texas, USA, JHE [II]
Concert at 20:00
Support: Country Funk
🍀 Born on this day:
♡ 1946, Donovan
♡ 1952, Lee Brilleaux, Dr Feelgood
♡ 1957, John Simon Ritchie known as Sid Vicious
(10 May 1957 - 2 Feb 1979)
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