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Fact #119962

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at The Saville Theatre, London, with The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Tomorrow. A second performance is cancelled when Jimi learns that The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein has died. Later, at The Speakeasy, Jimi jams with Fairport Convention.

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Arthur Brown : This was quite a significant gig for Hendrix because it was his first major public performance where all the underground people, from the UFO Club and so on, came out to see him. He'd never actually played at the UFO, and they represented a different kind of audience from the pop fans who had been buying the singles.

Andy Gray (reviewer, NME) : Jimi Hendrix coaxed unearthly sounds out of his guitar during his long act, including thumping the instrument to get one effect and rubbing it against the tall amplifiers to get another. He ended by playing it between his legs while sitting on the stage.

Tony Bramwell (manager, Saville Theatre) : I'd seen Jimi play so often that I could tell that his performances were already starting to get a bit out of control by this time. He'd go off into long, jazzy improvisations that made the set difficult to follow. I also knew that part of the problem was that he was mixing a lot with the boys (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) and doing a lot of LSD.

Chas Chandler (manager, Jimi Hendrix] : I didn't even know they were on acid. It was Tony Bramwell who told me - he was from Liverpool and was the youngest member of The Beatles' entourage, helping Brian Epstein to run the Saville. He was giving me hell in The Speakeasy for letting them do so much LSD. 'Don't you know how much acid they're doing?' I said, 'What the hell are you talking about?' 'Hendrix is with Lennon and McCartney and they're all pouring acid down their throats!' I said, 'What?' I was living in the same flat as Jimi, and I had no idea.

Noel Redding (bassist, Jimi Hendrix Experience) : We were spaced constantly. Chas stayed straight. He leaned towards whisky, his cure for anything, including stage nerves.

Chas Chandler : Between shows, we got a call that Eppy was dead. It was an almost hysterical scene and the second house was stopped. We couldn't believe Eppy was dead. Jimi and I had been to Brian's house a few times. When he died, he left a big gap on the music scene.

Andy Gray : When I came out of the first house, I saw hundreds of unhappy faces due to the sudden cancellation. Many told me they had travelled far, at considerable cost, to see the show … I could only imagine Brian Epstein being very angry.

Richard Thompson (guitarist, Fairport Convention) : Hendrix got up a few times at The Speakeasy. Jimi'd come in after his gig, he'd be on the road somewhere and he'd drive back and at two in the morning it'd be time to have dinner. So he'd be in quite a lot for dinner and most nights he'd get up to jam with whoever was playing.