Fact #169122
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at The Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. Later, Hendrix visits a small club to see some aged bluesmen and jams with them.Full article:
Garry Howard (audience) : The opening act was Soft Machine. They were undoubtedly the loudest band I have ever heard in concert, and I have heard quite a few since then. When they started playing my brother broke out in hives with welts all over his chest and stomach. As soon as they stopped playing it went away.
The stage setting was sparse. No elaborate light show or sound equipment, just the amps sitting on the stage. Also...people were able to just walk up to the front of the stage to take pictures.
(Source : http://710keel.com/shreveport-history-jimi-hendrix-plays-municipal-auditorium-video/)
Jeff Wallace (audience) : The concert was in an old style theater, complete with a heavy plush red velvet stage curtain, which was closed while the stage was being set up for the Experience. I recall that it seemed to take a long time for SM’s equipment to be broken down and the JHE’s equipment to be set up, but I suppose I was rather impatient.
I remember hearing something from behind the curtain starting quietly, then building the opening to ‘Spanish Castle Magic’, repeating over and over.
Suddenly, the curtains open quickly, and there is Jimi running sideways across the stage with a very loony smile. The intro is repeated several more times and Jimi steps up to the mic’ to perform the vocals. I remember seeing Jimi’s two battered Marshall stacks. The basketweave grill cloth was pretty well ripped off the cabs and left hanging. I wondered if we would be treated to the ‘spearing’ of the amps, or the death of a Strat. Jimi seemed to be having fun - lots of pop eyed faces and tongue action aimed at the young ladies in the audience.
After about three songs (sorry, I can’t remember the exact set list), Jimi came to the mic’ and started up his standard mumbling rap and finally got something out like, ‘Uh, yeah, dig - right now Mitch and Noel are gonna do somethin’, a jam kind of thing, for a few minutes; I gotta go to the bathroom!’ The entire building erupted in laughter as Jimi grinned and exited the stage.
Mitch and Noel played a free-form jam [‘Stone Free’?] for maybe five or six minutes, when Jimi came walking back on the stage, seemingly much more relaxed with a freshly lit cigarette and the same goofy grin. More laughter from the audience. The roadie hands him his Strat and he straps it on, puts the butt on the headstock and proceeds to tell everybody it’s time to get back down to business. The rest of the show is just a blur, but I do remember that Jimi used the black Gibson Les Paul on ‘Red House.’”
(Source : http://crosstowntorrents.org/archive/index.php/t-4501.html)
Abe Jacob (road sound engineer) : Hendrix was sitting there (in a local club), listening to these old guys play. The youngest man on stage must have been fifty-five or sixty. He got up and played with them. It was a wonderful evening.
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The stage setting was sparse. No elaborate light show or sound equipment, just the amps sitting on the stage. Also...people were able to just walk up to the front of the stage to take pictures.
(Source : http://710keel.com/shreveport-history-jimi-hendrix-plays-municipal-auditorium-video/)
Jeff Wallace (audience) : The concert was in an old style theater, complete with a heavy plush red velvet stage curtain, which was closed while the stage was being set up for the Experience. I recall that it seemed to take a long time for SM’s equipment to be broken down and the JHE’s equipment to be set up, but I suppose I was rather impatient.
I remember hearing something from behind the curtain starting quietly, then building the opening to ‘Spanish Castle Magic’, repeating over and over.
Suddenly, the curtains open quickly, and there is Jimi running sideways across the stage with a very loony smile. The intro is repeated several more times and Jimi steps up to the mic’ to perform the vocals. I remember seeing Jimi’s two battered Marshall stacks. The basketweave grill cloth was pretty well ripped off the cabs and left hanging. I wondered if we would be treated to the ‘spearing’ of the amps, or the death of a Strat. Jimi seemed to be having fun - lots of pop eyed faces and tongue action aimed at the young ladies in the audience.
After about three songs (sorry, I can’t remember the exact set list), Jimi came to the mic’ and started up his standard mumbling rap and finally got something out like, ‘Uh, yeah, dig - right now Mitch and Noel are gonna do somethin’, a jam kind of thing, for a few minutes; I gotta go to the bathroom!’ The entire building erupted in laughter as Jimi grinned and exited the stage.
Mitch and Noel played a free-form jam [‘Stone Free’?] for maybe five or six minutes, when Jimi came walking back on the stage, seemingly much more relaxed with a freshly lit cigarette and the same goofy grin. More laughter from the audience. The roadie hands him his Strat and he straps it on, puts the butt on the headstock and proceeds to tell everybody it’s time to get back down to business. The rest of the show is just a blur, but I do remember that Jimi used the black Gibson Les Paul on ‘Red House.’”
(Source : http://crosstowntorrents.org/archive/index.php/t-4501.html)
Abe Jacob (road sound engineer) : Hendrix was sitting there (in a local club), listening to these old guys play. The youngest man on stage must have been fifty-five or sixty. He got up and played with them. It was a wonderful evening.