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During a Jimi Hendrix Experience gig at the Waikiki Shell, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Hendrix is plagued by buzzing amplifiers.Full article:
Tom Hulett (tour promoter, Concerts West) : The audience was dead. They seemed stoned and gave no reaction. Jimi spoke to the crowd and excused himself, saying that he had to have this problem fixed. He went and got into his limousine.
Eric Barrett and Gerry Stickells (Hendrix road crew) ran around trying to fix the problem. I was getting nervous. We were sold out and all of a sudden nothing was happening. Then Stickells came up to me and said that Jimi didn't want to go back on.
I told Stickells to keep people playing with the wires while I went out to the car and spoke with Jimi. Stickells and I must have tried for about half an hour but he was not going back on. Jimi said to tell everybody to come back tomorrow night. He would more than make up for it then.
I tried to explain that they were all here now and we had already torn their tickets in half, but I knew him too well. He wasn't going back on. Knowing this, we got hold of the building manager, ran down to the old Honolulu arena used for wrestling matches, and picked up rolls of tickets. We made an announcment that the sound system couldn't be repaired and Jimi Hendrix wouldn't want to perform with sub-standard equipment - all of which was bullshit - and that if they all left quietly and picked up a ticket stub, they would be admitted to the next night's concert.
Everybody was pissed off. These people were all fucked up on drugs and little more than 1,000 picked up their stubs. The rest were yelling, 'Fuck you!'
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Eric Barrett and Gerry Stickells (Hendrix road crew) ran around trying to fix the problem. I was getting nervous. We were sold out and all of a sudden nothing was happening. Then Stickells came up to me and said that Jimi didn't want to go back on.
I told Stickells to keep people playing with the wires while I went out to the car and spoke with Jimi. Stickells and I must have tried for about half an hour but he was not going back on. Jimi said to tell everybody to come back tomorrow night. He would more than make up for it then.
I tried to explain that they were all here now and we had already torn their tickets in half, but I knew him too well. He wasn't going back on. Knowing this, we got hold of the building manager, ran down to the old Honolulu arena used for wrestling matches, and picked up rolls of tickets. We made an announcment that the sound system couldn't be repaired and Jimi Hendrix wouldn't want to perform with sub-standard equipment - all of which was bullshit - and that if they all left quietly and picked up a ticket stub, they would be admitted to the next night's concert.
Everybody was pissed off. These people were all fucked up on drugs and little more than 1,000 picked up their stubs. The rest were yelling, 'Fuck you!'
(Source : not known)