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Fact #171353

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience end their current Tour of North America at the Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California, USA, supported by Vanilla Fudge and Soft Machine.

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Ron Newark (fan) : He had, by then, figured out what he thought we wanted to hear and see. By then the other guys in the band had become almost puppets for his hi-jinks, both visual and musical. While there were some brilliant improvisational moments, by and large it was a sideshow kind of a gig - the tongue bit, the feedback, every trick came out that night and it left me with an empty feeling afterwards. So much talent wasted on goofing around to please who knows whom.

Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine) : When I look back now, I think, 'Great! I was on tour with Hendrix.' But I never got to see much of the music and, even when I did, I couldn't appreciate it because I was so knackeredā€¦ It did Hendrix's roadie's head in completely. He abandoned the van in the streets of New York at the end of it.

Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine) : Mitch (Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell] was very good to me. At the end of the tour he said, 'Robert, please have my kit", a really nice Maplewood custom-built thing he'd had made. He said, 'I can't bear the thought of you playing that crappy drumkit you're playing any more.' And ever since, all the drumming I did in Soft Machine and Matching Mole, was on Mitch's kit.
(Source :Public Q+A session at the Purcell Room, London, October 15, 2007)