VINTAGE THE MONKEES JIMI HENDRIX 1967 CONCERT POSTER NR

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eBay's largest sellers use AuctionLynxx to increase sales... shouldn't you? VINTAGE THE MONKEES JIMI HENDRIX 1967 CONCERT POSTER NR Click Image for Larger Preview VINTAGE OLD STYLE EXCELLENT CONDITION CONCERT POSTER MEASURES 14" BY 22" ON VERY HEAVY CARDBOARD STOCK, ink-screened multi-colored reproduction........SAYS THE MONKEES IN CONCERT...SPECIAL GUEST JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE JULY 8 1967 JACKSONVILLE COLISEUM FLORIDA...OPENING CONCERT U.S. SUMMER TOUR...One of the more bizarre pairings in pop music history (perhaps surpassed only by David Bowie's peforming a duet of "The Little Drummer Boy" with Bing Crosby on the latter's "Merrie Olde Christmas Show" in 1977) occurred in the summer of 1967, when guitar great Jimi Hendrix served as one of the supporting acts on the Monkees' American tour. Yes, that Jimi Hendrix. As late as mid-1967, Jimi Hendrix still wasn't a household name in America. The Seattle-born guitarist was known to music's inner world as a touring musician and session player, and he had developed a strong following as a performer and a recording artist in England, but stardom in America still eluded him. His electric and fiery performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 (which he ended by lighting his guitar on fire and holding it over his head) brought him a great deal of notoreity, but he still lacked the chart hit (and its attendant radio airplay and media exposure) necessary to make the breakthrough to pop music's upper echelon. Into this breach stepped the most unlikely of benefactors: the Monkees. A couple of members of the "pre-fab four" were already familiar with Jimi Hendrix and his music. Micky Dolenz later recalled: The first time I'd seen Hendrix was in New York at some club in the Village. He was playing lead guitar for the John Hammond band. I'd been invited down to hear "this guy play with his teeth." Sure enough, t was this young Black guy who, besides being an extraordinary guitar picker, would occasionally raise the instrument up to his mouth and play it with his teeth. I was in London visiting John Lennon, and I was having dinner with him, McCartney and Clapton. And John was late. When he came in he said, "I'm sorry I'm late but I've got something I want to play you guys." He had a handheld tape recorder and he played "Hey Joe." Everybody's mouth just dropped open. He said, "Isn't this wonderful?" So I made a mental note of Jimi Hendrix, because Lennon had introduced me to his playing. When Dolenz and fellow Monkee Peter Tork caught up with Hendrix again at the Monterey Pop Festival, the idea of a Hendrix-Monkees tour was born: It just so happened that we were due to begin our summer tour in a couple of weeks, and we still needed another opening act. When I got back to L.A. I mentioned Hendrix and his impressive theatrics to [our producers]. The Monkees was very theatrical in my eyes and so was the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It would make the perfect union. Jimi must have thought so too, because a few weeks later he agreed to be the opening act for our upcoming summer tour. What could have possessed the Monkees to make such an offer, or Jimi Hendrix to accept it? After all, although the Monkees had moved away from merely providing vocals for pre-recorded teenybopper pop songs cranked out by professional songwriters to creating their own more sophisticated and relevant music, their concert audience was still largely composed of prepubescent white girls (and the mothers stuck with the thankless task of chaperoning them). Hendrix's target audience, on the other hand, was a bit more mature, more heavily male, and more racially diverse -- a difference underscored by a comment Hendrix had made about the Monkees to Melody Maker several months earlier: Oh God, I hate them! Dishwater. I really hate somebody like that to make it so big. You can't knock anybody for making it, but people like the Monkees? All of this makes it sound as though Jimi Hendrix would have been the last musician to agree to tour as a supporting act for the Monkees. Nonetheless... read more

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