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Saw "Cream" play in a sleazy nightclub in Fort Worth. Supposedly the owner of "The Cellar" was connected. Would have been something to have seen Hendrix or Joplin. No one knew prior to Woodstock, it would be "THE" concert of a generation. I was of age and had several friends that would have tagged along. If we were ever allowed a "Do Over".... You and I are some of the few who ever saw Cream. I watched them in concert at Chastain Park in Atlanta, October 1968. What a show! Cream was one of the greatest groups ever, only existed for about 18 months.
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Saw them both in Tuscaloosa. Hendrix was amazing; though did not play that long. Janis was so wasted I actually left early. Both were dead within the year. Was fortunate to see the most amazing music ever during those days. Did not miss many of the great bands of that era.
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I allegedly was at an event where Janis Joplin's band played, but I was about three years old at the time, in a stroller, and certainly can't recall a damn thing (it was an event in Golden Gate Park in the late 60s and my uncle had a store on Haight Street near the venue).
While I never saw Jimi live, his father was my grandparents' gardener in Seattle and he was a really nice guy to us kids. We had no idea who he was until much later and just knew him as "Al the gardener" at the time.
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I allegedly was at an event where Janis Joplin's band played, but I was about three years old at the time, in a stroller, and certainly can't recall a damn thing (it was an event in Golden Gate Park in the late 60s and my uncle had a store on Haight Street near the venue).
While I never saw Jimi live, his father was my grandparents' gardener in Seattle and he was a really nice guy to us kids. We had no idea who he was until much later and just knew him as "Al the gardener" at the time. Is that how you describe Northern Lights and Acupulco Gold?
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Saw Joplin perform in San Francisco in 1969. She was great. John I never would have guessed. She might have been a musician of sorts, put on a good show, but her voice was a shrill, raspy Meatloaf. Only worse. A tragic end for both her and JH for sure.
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My aunt saw Hendrix open for the phking Monkees. She said the teeny boppers didn't know what to make of him. Word is he about got booded off the stage. He was relatively unknown at that time and the fans that were there for the Monkees had no clue to he real artist opening up for them.
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Saw em both at Woodstock in Aug 69 by Sept 69 I was a US Marine and by Dec I was in Viet-Nam. All that flower-power dont help much when your trying to draw a bead on a pesky gooner. Used lots of drugs for the next 20yrs. Glad to have survived it all. Glad you decided to hang around, klatchy.
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Cobain not my cup o tea, lotsa people die at age 27, those 3 deaths were relatively close if I recall. Purely coincidence
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I saw Hendrix at Red Rocks. Lit the amps on fire.
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I saw Hendrix when I was 17 at the Seattle Coliseum on September 6, 1968.
It sounded like more than one guitar.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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That would have been Southern Comfort. I wish I could have seen them both along with Grace Slick. I like the music from the 60's.
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" She might have been a musician of sorts, put on a good show, but her voice was a shrill, raspy Meatloaf. Only worse."
George I agree, her voice sounded like sh*it.
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I drove the Big Rig through east Texas about 800 times, from South Carolina to Beaumont, sometimes to Houston or Laredo. Every time I passed the Port Arthur exit I thought about Janis Joplin. They were proud of the home town girl. Here is a billboard that they had there on I 10. I guess, they also had a dinosaur exhibit there.
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Who saw Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin?? I wont go see things I'm not interested in.
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