Fact #189932
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New York City-based folk trio The Big Three release their eponymous debut album. The group includes Cass Elliott (later to join The Mamas And The Papas), Tim Rose (later to find solo success) and Jim Hendricks (later to disappear into obscurity, because he's not a black guitarist from Seattle.)Full article:
Tim Rose : As The Big Three , we played at the Bitter End, the Bottom Line, places like that. The Night Owl, Cafe Au Gogo - all of them. They were good places to play at the time. Naturally the legend is much more interesting than the fact. They were places that allowed us to do our own thing, and paid shit; absolute piss. They paid five dollars a set so, if there were five guys in a band you made a dollar each, and you did three sets a night so hopefully you made three dollars. But you could do original material and they always took an option on you, so if you made it they could get you back at five hundred dollars a week or something. So all the early people like Dylan all had options from these places to come back to Greenwich Village and get three hundred dollars a week or something.
They did give exposure, not so much the club owners because they were just taking advantage; we were doing them a favour, they were doing us a favour of work. But the quality musicians that came to New York at that time, that's what it was all about, that was the attraction. It was Steve Stills, myself, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Felix Pappalardi, Eric Weisberg, Clapton coming over as an unknown, Hendrix started down there, so it was a fucking all-star list. All these guys were working for two or three dollars a set and a hamburger or something.
We would all go and listen to each other, so they might be in my audience, and I might go see them. And furthermore, at the end of a night we would have our guitars and we would go to a coffee shop and we would play and trade off and things.
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They did give exposure, not so much the club owners because they were just taking advantage; we were doing them a favour, they were doing us a favour of work. But the quality musicians that came to New York at that time, that's what it was all about, that was the attraction. It was Steve Stills, myself, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Felix Pappalardi, Eric Weisberg, Clapton coming over as an unknown, Hendrix started down there, so it was a fucking all-star list. All these guys were working for two or three dollars a set and a hamburger or something.
We would all go and listen to each other, so they might be in my audience, and I might go see them. And furthermore, at the end of a night we would have our guitars and we would go to a coffee shop and we would play and trade off and things.
(Source : not known)