Fact #156954
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Short story:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience have a gig at Robertson Gym, Santa Barbara, California, USA, supported by Soft Machine and East Side Kids. Jimi is interviewed for the Santa Barbara Argo by Bob White.
Full article:
Kevin Ayers (Soft Machine) : On the first part of that tour with Hendrix, there were moments of sheer magic. I found Hendrix a very gentle, very sad guy. He was being ripped off emotionally, financially, and he had to strap on an enormous amount of chemical armour before he could become Jimi Hendrix on stage.
Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine) : A kind of group hysteria starts very easily when musicians are on tour and it tends to escalate. Because you are travelling every day to a different town, the only reality is the tight-knit group around you. All outsiders, passers-by, airline and hotel staff, become like cardboard cut-outs with no real existence.
Jimi himself tended not to get involved in the hairier japes perpetrated by his sidemen. Most days he would lock himself into his hotel room, usually with a very willing new female friend, and not reappear until Gerry Stickells called him for the gig or the cab to the airport. On the first US tour, Neville and the others had given him the nickname The Bat, because of his daily routine of staying firmly in his motel room with all curtains tightly closed and not emerging until evening. He was actually a very retiring guy, in more ways than one. (Source : Hugh Hopper, September 19, 1980, Melody Maker]
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Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine) : A kind of group hysteria starts very easily when musicians are on tour and it tends to escalate. Because you are travelling every day to a different town, the only reality is the tight-knit group around you. All outsiders, passers-by, airline and hotel staff, become like cardboard cut-outs with no real existence.
Jimi himself tended not to get involved in the hairier japes perpetrated by his sidemen. Most days he would lock himself into his hotel room, usually with a very willing new female friend, and not reappear until Gerry Stickells called him for the gig or the cab to the airport. On the first US tour, Neville and the others had given him the nickname The Bat, because of his daily routine of staying firmly in his motel room with all curtains tightly closed and not emerging until evening. He was actually a very retiring guy, in more ways than one. (Source : Hugh Hopper, September 19, 1980, Melody Maker]
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