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At Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, UK, Europe, the two-day long Woburn Music Festival kicks off, starring The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pentangle, Alexis Korner, Family, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Roy Harper, Al Stewart, Shirley And Dolly Collins and Geno Washington. Tickets cost £2.Full article:
Pearce Marchbank (graphic designer): I went to see Hendrix at Woburn. It was the second Festival of the Flower Children. I was recruited as a litter picker-upper. After a morning of picking up stuff, they were in a terrible state backstage and I suppose I looked relatively together and intelligent, and I was recruited to be an assistant stage manager, which meant knocking up Donovan and Hendrix out of their little encampments behind the stage. They were staying in these little marquees, sitting on the floor, reading books with feathers as bookmarks. Hendrix arrived with two Transits. Really big stuff! He went straight on stage. He had these guitars, you could hear the equipment buzzing. The roadies just touched these guitars and it was instant feedback. Hendrix appeared, really beautiful, a physically beautiful man. He picked them up and nothing happened. the guitars didn't make any noise at all but, if anyone else went near them, they would start howling with feedback.
Emperor Rosko : We were just hanging. You'd try interviewing Jimi and you'd get mono answers. 'Are you all ready for this big event?' 'Yes.' 'Are you looking forward to it?' 'Yes.' 'Did you get any last night?' 'No.' He was very difficult to interview.
Tony Wilson (Melody Maker review ) : People standing in their gardens two miles away from Woburn Abbey could hear strains of pop music floating on the air. As dusk fell, along with the temperature, the Festival attendance reached a peak of over 14,00. Emperor Rosko compered the evening session and swung things along with records and tapes in between sets from Little Women, New Formula, Geno Washington, Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Family and Jimi Hendrix blasting his way into the midnight hour.
Nigel Clinkscale (fan) : The Hendrix performance was as you'd expect but you got the impression he was rushing through it. It was quite a short set. When some bands rush through songs it's poor, but with them it was still classy stuff.
Pearce Marchbank : He was playing the entire stage, this wall of Marshall amps, thirty feet long, with roadies at the back holding them up, and he was jabbing them and hitting them with the guitar.
Fred Frith (guitarist with Henry Cow) : I can well remember a breathtaking and unusually disciplined eight chorus solo in Red House.
Mike Griffin (fan) : I remember an extended version of Red House with some fantastic blues instrumental parts, just straight blues. I mean, it was just beautiful, because Hendrix was so hyped up at the time with the whole psychedelic thing, it was really nice to hear him play some really, really good blues. By that time it was certainly dark.
Jimi Hendrix : It was really only a jam. We hadn't played for so long.
Tony Wilson : Already fires were being built and lit all over the field. With the end of Jimi's set, everybody headed for homes, temporary or permanent.
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Emperor Rosko : We were just hanging. You'd try interviewing Jimi and you'd get mono answers. 'Are you all ready for this big event?' 'Yes.' 'Are you looking forward to it?' 'Yes.' 'Did you get any last night?' 'No.' He was very difficult to interview.
Tony Wilson (Melody Maker review ) : People standing in their gardens two miles away from Woburn Abbey could hear strains of pop music floating on the air. As dusk fell, along with the temperature, the Festival attendance reached a peak of over 14,00. Emperor Rosko compered the evening session and swung things along with records and tapes in between sets from Little Women, New Formula, Geno Washington, Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Family and Jimi Hendrix blasting his way into the midnight hour.
Nigel Clinkscale (fan) : The Hendrix performance was as you'd expect but you got the impression he was rushing through it. It was quite a short set. When some bands rush through songs it's poor, but with them it was still classy stuff.
Pearce Marchbank : He was playing the entire stage, this wall of Marshall amps, thirty feet long, with roadies at the back holding them up, and he was jabbing them and hitting them with the guitar.
Fred Frith (guitarist with Henry Cow) : I can well remember a breathtaking and unusually disciplined eight chorus solo in Red House.
Mike Griffin (fan) : I remember an extended version of Red House with some fantastic blues instrumental parts, just straight blues. I mean, it was just beautiful, because Hendrix was so hyped up at the time with the whole psychedelic thing, it was really nice to hear him play some really, really good blues. By that time it was certainly dark.
Jimi Hendrix : It was really only a jam. We hadn't played for so long.
Tony Wilson : Already fires were being built and lit all over the field. With the end of Jimi's set, everybody headed for homes, temporary or permanent.
(Source : not known)