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Mitch Ryder, Wilson Pickett, The Who, Cream and The Vagrants play the last of nine consecutive days as part of New York deejay Murray The K's season of concerts under the heading Music In The 5th Dimension, at The RKO 58th Street Theater, New York City, USA.Full article:
Eric Clapton (guitarist, Cream) : We had all these 14lb bags of flour and some eggs we were going to use on stage on the last night, but Murray got to hear about it and said we wouldn't get paid if we did. So we spread them all around the dressing rooms instead. The whole cast joined in and Pete Townshend ended up swimming around in his dressing room, fully clothed, when his shower overflowed. It was rumoured that Murray spent $30,000 on the show and lost $27,000. He was very distraught, wandering about, throwing his hands in the air.
Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : During the psychedelic era we (Townshend and Clapton) started to see quite a lot of each other because of the atmosphere that prevailed in London, UK. We were mixing with a lot of the same people. We socialised a fair bit and went to see Pink Floyd a couple of times together because we both had a passion for Syd Barrett. Then we got a bit closer during the Murray The K shows in New York, when The Who and The Cream were together on the bill. But, in 1969, after The Cream finished, he disappeared completely from my life.
(Source : not known)
Leslie West : Murray The K had a live show with Mitch Ryder, Otis Redding, Cream and The Who, and I was in The Vagrants, who also played on some of those shows. I remember seeing The Who come out with these huge Marshall cabinets and make a fantastic noise. Those Marshalls had a lot do with their sound. I knew right away I had to get some of them and eventually Manny’s, a great music store in the city, started bringing in Marshalls and I think I must have been the first guy in line to get them.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, January 2005)
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Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : During the psychedelic era we (Townshend and Clapton) started to see quite a lot of each other because of the atmosphere that prevailed in London, UK. We were mixing with a lot of the same people. We socialised a fair bit and went to see Pink Floyd a couple of times together because we both had a passion for Syd Barrett. Then we got a bit closer during the Murray The K shows in New York, when The Who and The Cream were together on the bill. But, in 1969, after The Cream finished, he disappeared completely from my life.
(Source : not known)
Leslie West : Murray The K had a live show with Mitch Ryder, Otis Redding, Cream and The Who, and I was in The Vagrants, who also played on some of those shows. I remember seeing The Who come out with these huge Marshall cabinets and make a fantastic noise. Those Marshalls had a lot do with their sound. I knew right away I had to get some of them and eventually Manny’s, a great music store in the city, started bringing in Marshalls and I think I must have been the first guy in line to get them.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, January 2005)