The reverberations of the 60's counterculture may well have made their way into to the mainstream psyche.
But, that's the way of the world any which way you cut it.
The Bible, Nostradamus, Plato, Buddah, Socrates, Nietzsche, Twain!
Stuff gets handed down through the ages....old wives tales, etc.
Here's a memory Ed KIng shared on Facebook about Hendrix.
Ed King An old story of mine...
Nov 29, 2009 at 9:40am
Post by ekforum on Nov 29, 2009 at 9:40am
Ed, Jimi, And The Hendrix Snickers Bar Incident
The show was on July 1st, 1967. (The poster is on the website on the "Strawberry Alarm Clock" main page.) Strangely enough, we were the only band pictured on the official poster! Hendrix had just finished playing the infamous Monterrey Pop Festival a month earlier, so he was big news.
We finished playing our set at the Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara. Hendrix shared our dressing room. I took a seat in the corner of our dressing room and sat there watching Jimi change the strings on his white Stratocaster. He only had ONE roadie. This one guy set up the drums, the amps, drove the equipment truck and collected the money. ONE guy. He walks in with a case of Snickers bars...24 to the box...and starts unwrapping them and handing them to Hendrix, who was downing them in two bites each while turning the tuning keys on his guitar. He probably ate three quarters of the box in about 10 minutes. Energy.
That was the only time I ever heard Hendrix play. His amp buzzed and crackled the whole show. I guess what that roadie could NOT do was fix amplifiers. I had never seen a Marshall amp up close before, but these were the most beat up pieces of furniture I had ever seen. Beautiful.
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November 6 at 2:04pm via mobile--Previous Message--
: Hey guys!
: I was watching a rather captivating
: program about Jimi Hendrix on PBS's
: wonderful "American Masters"
: series.Every time I see one of the network's
: exciting '60's documentaries,I am always
: deeply engrossed in the socio-politico
: expressions of not only the musical
: artists,but also the decidedly
: countercultural fan base.Some say that the
: music was merely reflection of the times
: while others claim the music actually
: changed the world.From what I can tell,the
: attitudes and messages contained within the
: tunes may have affected youthful minds so
: deep in matters of perspective,some of these
: youths may have maintained these idioms in
: their minds all the way to elected public
: office or maybe all the way to teaching
: positions where they may have passed on
: these radical ideas to the next generation
: therefore quite possibly affected the course
: of human events.Do you think music actually
: CHANGED the world.Also,I saw I couple of old
: concert posters promoting shows with you and
: the masterful Mr. Mr. Hendrix.It's mind
: blowing enough watching him in old films.I
: imagine it was an absolutely earth
: shattering moment to watch him live,as you
: previously told me it was when you saw John
: Entwistle weave his bass magic....
:
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