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jimmywizz · Post by **jimmywizz** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:13 pm

wooha peace man

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gazza · Post by **gazza** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:06 am

hey joe.......................

allan · Post by **allan** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:08 pm

And the Wind Cries Mary from the Purple Haze of the Voodoo Chile All Along The Watch Tower while Burning Of The Midnight Oil. Jonny B. Goode

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offthewall · Post by **offthewall** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 11:48 pm

On that night when Hendrix played the Cellar I was one of the support band. We got to meet the man backstage and he shook my hand.

Do you think I could sell a hand on eBay? How much do you think I could ask for it?

curly · Post by **curly** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:39 am

How was Nigel Reading that night James (some of us are too young you know)?

Have you heard Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of Angel........particularly good!

offthewall · Post by **offthewall** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:03 pm

Curly, Noel Redding was, as usual, an essential part of the trio. I must admit that I never really rated him as a great bass player but he was perfect in that setting. All Hendrix needed was a reliable, steady powerhouse of a rhythm section to drive him along, and that is precisely what he got. Brilliant stuff. That particular concert was very early in their career and I feel that, as with many other bands, they were at their peak. (before the long tours and eventual commercialism set in!)
We were also very fortunate to have Cream play at the Cellar shortly before that. I was lucky enough to see them at their very first ever gig at the Marquee in London and at their second at the Reading Festival and, once again, I always felt that they were their best performances.......downhill after that!
Not really a Stevie Ray fan, I'm afraid.

memor · Post by **memor** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:43 pm

Splidge.......you a Jehovahs Witness by any chance

memor · Post by **memor** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:32 am

Never mind Snodge.

Happy New Year

jimmywizz · Post by **jimmywizz** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:41 pm

tripping or what? check the price out of that ticket now

offthewall · Post by **offthewall** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:06 pm

Sounds like a lot, Wizzy, but that's about the same value in today's money as the original 6 Shillings was back in '67, if you can remember that far back. When I started my apprenticeship in 1965 I was on £3.15 a week!!! I finished in 1970 on £20 a week.

offthewall · Post by **offthewall** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:57 pm

Yeah, I'm ancient.
That's why I'm 'off the wall'......cos I can'y keep my balance no more!

curly · Post by **curly** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:10 am

Your £20 a week in 1970 still beats the £17 a week I got in my first job in 1976!!

offthewall · Post by **offthewall** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:38 pm

Ah, but was that as a trainee?
Mine was as a time-served journeyman on piece-work!

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:16 am

I went to see Hendrix at the City Hall, I think in 1967. I was a schoolgirl and went to the 'matinee' performance...too young for the evening gig!! He didn't smash his guitar up in the afternoons, saving it for the evening performances, when he used to throw the remnants into the audience. But he still played with his teeth, bounced it off the floor and raked it across the loudspeakers. If I remember rightly, people like Cat Stevens, The Walker Brothers and such like were on the same bill. Several huge stars would play at the same gig in those days. I was in the 6th row and it was stunning! Never to be forgotten!! Nowadays, when I tell very young people about this experience, they almost don't believe me and, when they do, they are in awe of the fact that I was there and saw the great man live and so close-up. I can't quite believe it myself!!!

offthewall · Post by **offthewall** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:02 pm

HI Sandy,
On the night we were dicussing earlier, at the Cellar Club, Hendrix didn't smash his guitar up. Sure he bashed it around a bit and poked a pretty good hole in the ceiling with it. Even that was enough to shock the audience!
Your right about the status of concerts at that time. Even before that we used to regularly see bands at the GoGo in Newcastle, including many incarnations of John Mayalls Bluesbreakers right from when Eric Clapton started with them through to Peter Green and Mick Taylor(?)
Ah,.....those were the days.

memor · Post by **memor** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:20 am

I remember seeing.

Roxy music, S.A .A .B (Sensational Alex Harvey Band) Leo Sayer

& Sweet.

At "The Rainbow" Finsbury Park. Same night.

I also saw "Chicory Tips" (Son of my Father) and Screaming Lord Sutch

at the Woodville Hall at Gravesend.

Believe it or not they brought Lord Sutch on in a coffin. (He was rubbish)

everyone went home two minutes into his act.

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:49 am

Hi 'offthewall'...........I remember overhearing conversations about Hendrix's hole in the ceiling at the Cellar Club. Wish I could've seen it!! I started going to the Cellar the following year, with a borrowed membership card (still under age), and then when it also became the Chelsea Cat.

No-one has asked you the name of the support band you were in that night. Would love to know. I might remember it.

In 66/67 I was still quite young and going to the Saturday B.B. (Boy's Brigade) Dance at the top of Westoe Village. We were desperate to look old enough to sneak into the Cellar! But, in the meantime, the B.B. was 'the place to be' when you were 'little' and I saw great local bands there. I remember seeing John Miles, Les Gofton, Nigel Olsen, etc. and there used to be a very prominent band at the time, the name slips my memory, who had a drummer called 'Phyllis' and they did a fantastic version of Wild Thing, complete with smoke bomb, just before the half-time break. Also the obligatory Knock On Wood and Hold On I'm Coming. Ah, happy days! It was 2/6 to get in and 3d to hang your coat up. Couldn't afford anything to eat or drink after that.

captain beefheart · Post by **captain beefheart** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:57 am

Talking about venues, did anyone go to the Seaburn hall when John Peel did a (i think) Wednesday night session and it often had great up and coming bands, i saw The Who amongst many and Pete Townsend did smash his guitar up, a true pro. Also lets not forget the Purple Onion

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:39 pm

'off the wall',...........re my previous post. I've been going crazy trying to remember that band's name from the B.B. days.........I'VE GOT IT!!!

Animal Farm!!!!

offthewall · Post by **offthewall** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:56 pm

Hi Sandy,
When we did support for Hendrix we were The Bond. Les Gofton, Dave Bainbridge, Robin Thompson and myself. We also did stuff at the BB. I was there a few times before that as the Way In. That was a grand name for a band.......free publicity everywhere!
The Hendrix night was really stressful cos, apart from the fact of having to go on just before HIM, we were at that time doing most of his numbers. We had to have a last minute rehash of a whole new set just for the night!