Fact #166713
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Short story:
The Grateful Dead make their first live appearance at Fillmore East, New York City, USA, supported by the Jeff Beck Group and The Seventh Sons.
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Jeff Beck : We (Beck and vocalist Rod Stewart] were like two peas in a pod the first six or seven weeks - but we went on the road, and I'd made some bad decisions about players. We had a couple of - not bad players - but personality clashes and so forth. He OK'd my idea of having Ronnie Wood, but from that point on they became thick as thieves, and I just sort of felt left out a bit. I felt the band was separated into two halves. They were like a couple of schoolgirls, which you could take for a couple of hours, but on a tour of America it could become a bit gutty, you know.
Every time something went wrong it was my fault, because it was called the Jeff Beck Group. And he played on that, and it really got faggoty - "Ah, it's your fucking band..." - when it was going great, it was big arms and hugging. But it was time to call it a day, because if that kind of element is there, you're not going to be happy.
And don't forget that Zeppelin was hot on our tail, and our manager was more interested in them, because of the potential with Plant, I mean Robert had everything, he had the bare chest factor, you know. And Rod was still being looked at as a bit of a faggot. No, he was definitely not looking too good, with the back-combed hair. But then people warmed to him, because he sang like no-one else. I just felt it was time that I got out of that - I knew that the band would come to an end sooner or later, so I nipped it in the bud.
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Every time something went wrong it was my fault, because it was called the Jeff Beck Group. And he played on that, and it really got faggoty - "Ah, it's your fucking band..." - when it was going great, it was big arms and hugging. But it was time to call it a day, because if that kind of element is there, you're not going to be happy.
And don't forget that Zeppelin was hot on our tail, and our manager was more interested in them, because of the potential with Plant, I mean Robert had everything, he had the bare chest factor, you know. And Rod was still being looked at as a bit of a faggot. No, he was definitely not looking too good, with the back-combed hair. But then people warmed to him, because he sang like no-one else. I just felt it was time that I got out of that - I knew that the band would come to an end sooner or later, so I nipped it in the bud.
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