Fact #148380

Nicky Hopkins : A lot of the promoters, quite naturally, were up in arms about the whole thing (because Jeff Beck often disappeared from live dates). We nearly all got into very serious trouble with the American Union We had to do a special 10-day tour for the States of May of '69. And I don't know who arranged the dates – they were good dates – we did the tour thank God. They got a hold of the Union and the Union stepped in and said, "Right, if you don't do this tour that's set up, then none of you will ever be allowed to come into the country to play ever again." I thought, "God, I hope you've got enough sense to not cop out of this tour." He did have that much, thank God, and we did the tour. But things, even after that, things just didn't get any better. For months I'd been hearing, "Oh, the money will be through next week, the account is still doing the books." And this is from the October to December tour and it's already June!
(Source : interview with Steven Rosen, 1979)