Fact #170734
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at The Carousel Theatre, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA, supported by Eire Apparent.Full article:
Johnny A (audience) : It was basically a tent, it was outdoors and the capacity was about 800 or so, it was very small.
My mother purchased tickets because she knew I was a fanatic about Hendrix. So we went to the show and being in a tent theater, it was a round stage so he played in the round. I was very excited because I had good seats, maybe 10 or 12 rows back. The problem however turned out to be behind the amplifier stacks. At the time of course Jimi was using two Marshall stacks and I was directly behind them and knew I wasn't going to see anything and I was very disappointed.
During the intermission between the bands, there were three playing that night, Soft Machine, a band called Eire Apparent and The Jimi Hendrix Experience I spoke with the guitar player from Eire Apparent, I don't remember his name but I know he used a white Stratocaster with a Telecaster neck on it. In any case, he was very friendly and he was very sympathetic to how much I wanted to see Jimi. Considering how unfortunate I was in seat locations, he was kind enough to walk me past all of the security guards and he put me right in the orchestra pit directly in front of where Jimi would be playing.
The only thing in the orchestra pit besides me was road cases and covers to amps. I remember seeing the cases marked with something like "J.H. Exp". I essentially sat with my chin on the stage right in front of Jimi Hendrix. I can remember he started with an instrumental version of Sunshine Of Your Love, he did all the essentials, Red House, Foxey Lady, Little Wing. I remember that he was wearing all black with a ruffled shirt and his bell-bottom pants flared at the knee. It was simply phenomenal.
(Source : not known)
Paul F. Kneeland (reviewer, Boston Globe) : One of the delights of watching Jimi Hendrix is that he is always at ease before his audience, enjoys and can communicate with his audience; also he really leads his combine, a highly talented trio of musicians....
Jimi is hip. And if some latter-day Ben Jonson gets around to compile a pop music dictionary, the primary definition of ‘cool’ should be Jimi Hendrix. However, at the concert the other night at The Carousel in Framingham, Jimi spent a lot of time between numbers apologizing for the fact that the amp system just wasn’t amping right.
‘Once we get this thing going,’ said Jimi, all loose, relaxed, and soft-spoken, ‘we’re going to play as loud as possible, if not as well as possible.’ Leaning against a mound of speakers, Jimi waited patiently. And so did drums and bass. (What Jimi needs is a reconstructed Tom-Swift- And-His Foolproof System-To-Amplify-Guitar- Music With).
Opening with Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode,’ which set the back row screamers aroar, he followed with ‘Hey Joe’ that resulted in, chorus after chorus, dozens of flash bulbs going off almost simultaneously.
‘The Cream is breaking up, you know, and it’s still one of the grooviest groups that ever came about,’ Jimi almost intoned. ‘We’re going to do something now that they do, but not as good or better.’ This offhand way of modestly introducing a number had the audience eating out of Jimi’s hand, of course, and it was just the way that Jimi planned it; actually, an old brand of showmanship that we thought would just never be revived. ‘Fire’ and ‘Purple Haze’ both from his current best selling album, were next to closing with ‘Wild Thing’ the show stopper and finale.
‘I know you liked the last number because it had a nice 1948 sound,’ said Jimi, tongue-in-cheek. ‘So I hope you’ll like the next one - it’s got a brand new, 1953 beginning. But you must all stand up - that’s part of the ticket,’ he explained. Dutifully, everyone did. Whereupon Jimi played the guitar turned around, upside down, behind his back, and then interpolated part of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ plucking the strings with his teeth. Stopping briefly to wipe the sweat from his brow with a great towel (a Confederate flag) he then played ‘Taps’ and ‘Reveille,’ if you can imagine such a combination in hard rock. The windup: switching guitars and using instrument number 2 as a battering ram to knock over a set of speakers. (Variety -circa 1921- would have described this as a socko finish).
Yes, ‘Wild Thing’ was The Big One, and the groupies are still staggering, as one of the latter called to tell us 12 hours after the concert was over.
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My mother purchased tickets because she knew I was a fanatic about Hendrix. So we went to the show and being in a tent theater, it was a round stage so he played in the round. I was very excited because I had good seats, maybe 10 or 12 rows back. The problem however turned out to be behind the amplifier stacks. At the time of course Jimi was using two Marshall stacks and I was directly behind them and knew I wasn't going to see anything and I was very disappointed.
During the intermission between the bands, there were three playing that night, Soft Machine, a band called Eire Apparent and The Jimi Hendrix Experience I spoke with the guitar player from Eire Apparent, I don't remember his name but I know he used a white Stratocaster with a Telecaster neck on it. In any case, he was very friendly and he was very sympathetic to how much I wanted to see Jimi. Considering how unfortunate I was in seat locations, he was kind enough to walk me past all of the security guards and he put me right in the orchestra pit directly in front of where Jimi would be playing.
The only thing in the orchestra pit besides me was road cases and covers to amps. I remember seeing the cases marked with something like "J.H. Exp". I essentially sat with my chin on the stage right in front of Jimi Hendrix. I can remember he started with an instrumental version of Sunshine Of Your Love, he did all the essentials, Red House, Foxey Lady, Little Wing. I remember that he was wearing all black with a ruffled shirt and his bell-bottom pants flared at the knee. It was simply phenomenal.
(Source : not known)
Paul F. Kneeland (reviewer, Boston Globe) : One of the delights of watching Jimi Hendrix is that he is always at ease before his audience, enjoys and can communicate with his audience; also he really leads his combine, a highly talented trio of musicians....
Jimi is hip. And if some latter-day Ben Jonson gets around to compile a pop music dictionary, the primary definition of ‘cool’ should be Jimi Hendrix. However, at the concert the other night at The Carousel in Framingham, Jimi spent a lot of time between numbers apologizing for the fact that the amp system just wasn’t amping right.
‘Once we get this thing going,’ said Jimi, all loose, relaxed, and soft-spoken, ‘we’re going to play as loud as possible, if not as well as possible.’ Leaning against a mound of speakers, Jimi waited patiently. And so did drums and bass. (What Jimi needs is a reconstructed Tom-Swift- And-His Foolproof System-To-Amplify-Guitar- Music With).
Opening with Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B. Goode,’ which set the back row screamers aroar, he followed with ‘Hey Joe’ that resulted in, chorus after chorus, dozens of flash bulbs going off almost simultaneously.
‘The Cream is breaking up, you know, and it’s still one of the grooviest groups that ever came about,’ Jimi almost intoned. ‘We’re going to do something now that they do, but not as good or better.’ This offhand way of modestly introducing a number had the audience eating out of Jimi’s hand, of course, and it was just the way that Jimi planned it; actually, an old brand of showmanship that we thought would just never be revived. ‘Fire’ and ‘Purple Haze’ both from his current best selling album, were next to closing with ‘Wild Thing’ the show stopper and finale.
‘I know you liked the last number because it had a nice 1948 sound,’ said Jimi, tongue-in-cheek. ‘So I hope you’ll like the next one - it’s got a brand new, 1953 beginning. But you must all stand up - that’s part of the ticket,’ he explained. Dutifully, everyone did. Whereupon Jimi played the guitar turned around, upside down, behind his back, and then interpolated part of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ plucking the strings with his teeth. Stopping briefly to wipe the sweat from his brow with a great towel (a Confederate flag) he then played ‘Taps’ and ‘Reveille,’ if you can imagine such a combination in hard rock. The windup: switching guitars and using instrument number 2 as a battering ram to knock over a set of speakers. (Variety -circa 1921- would have described this as a socko finish).
Yes, ‘Wild Thing’ was The Big One, and the groupies are still staggering, as one of the latter called to tell us 12 hours after the concert was over.