Fact #43176
When:
Short story:
During a tour as a support act for The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix throws down his guitar and quits the tour at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Queens, New York State, USA.
Full article:
Gloria Stavers (Editor, Sixteen magazine) : There was a girl singer, a blonde from Australia, who was on the tour too, and she was doing a diary of the tour for me. They were in New York, staying at The Warwick Hotel, and she called me and said Jimi was depressed. I went over to the hotel with her and Jimi was crestfallen. He was smoking joint after joint after joint and he was a heartbroken man. They'd kicked him off the tour.
Jimi Hendrix : Everybody is afraid of anything they don’t know anything about. I’m nothing but a human being just like everybody else. I’m scared of some of those people because they have such a tight grip on those obsolete laws, rules, and regulations that make America today... The way the country’s being run. You can see badness, you can see evil right in front of your face, as soon as you turn on the TV... There are so many things I want to say. I’d have to have a voice; I’d try to use my music as a machine to move those people, to get changes done. Because, if the people go too long when they get older, they’ll realize or they’ll get mediocre and fall right into that dead scene; rat race America. Right now, the only thing we’re trying to say to them, is with the music itself. Right now, the lyrics are a little more personal, because we’re trying to get ourselves heard first. We’re trying to get our start together; to get people to listen to us. Then we can say to them, ‘Come follow us; let’s knock on the White House door.”
(Source : http://jimihendrix.forumactif.org/t862-framingham-carousel-theater-25-aout-1968-premier-concert)
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Jimi Hendrix : Everybody is afraid of anything they don’t know anything about. I’m nothing but a human being just like everybody else. I’m scared of some of those people because they have such a tight grip on those obsolete laws, rules, and regulations that make America today... The way the country’s being run. You can see badness, you can see evil right in front of your face, as soon as you turn on the TV... There are so many things I want to say. I’d have to have a voice; I’d try to use my music as a machine to move those people, to get changes done. Because, if the people go too long when they get older, they’ll realize or they’ll get mediocre and fall right into that dead scene; rat race America. Right now, the only thing we’re trying to say to them, is with the music itself. Right now, the lyrics are a little more personal, because we’re trying to get ourselves heard first. We’re trying to get our start together; to get people to listen to us. Then we can say to them, ‘Come follow us; let’s knock on the White House door.”
(Source : http://jimihendrix.forumactif.org/t862-framingham-carousel-theater-25-aout-1968-premier-concert)