1967.
💢 London, "Saville Theatre", 135-149 Shaftesbury Avenue
Concert (two shows of 30 minutes each - 18.00 & 20.30).
Support: The Who; The Koobas; Thoughts; MC Mike Quinn.
Noel is back to using Chas’ four-string Gibson EB2 bass.
💢 Attending: Brian Epstein, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, The Cream, Brian May (later of ‘Queen’) and others.
💢 Songs:
Rock Me Baby (BB King)
Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Can You See Me
Hey Joe (Billy Roberts)
Wild Thing (James ‘Chip Taylor’ Voight)
and others unknown
Noel: “Bad amps.”
1968.
💢 Flying from London Heathrow Airport, Middlesex, England, to Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France.
💢 Paris - Radio interview (2:00) with Jimi for France-Inter Radio programme ‘Popclub’ of 4? February 1968.
💢 “Olympia”, 28 Boulevard des Capucines, 75009 Paris, France.
Concert (two shows of around 50 minutes each - 19.30 and 22.30).
Support: Eric Burdon & The Animals.
During these two shows, Jimi seems really inspired and in good humor, allowing himself some jokes, like the "Tune-Up Time", small improvisation while he grants his guitar. Because this is unfortunately the main problem of this concert, the guitar of Jimi really disagrees too quickly.
We can still note that this concert contains the recorded version of "Little Wing" the longest!
Finally, during a solo Mitch breaks one of his boxes.
Noel: “This was a welcome break and we received warmth and enthusiasm. We bought some of the latter ourselves in the form of methedrine, which gave an energetic and sociable high that helped pull the group together (temporarily).
Obviously, live I used the bass except for rare occasions like a Paris Olympia concert when Keith Richards had been hanging around backstage. I borrowed his guitar, plugged it into my bass amp and turned the control to full bass. Nobody planned on instruments then as part of the act too flash.”
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