... The more I see of these old Ed Sullivan clips , the more convinced I am that he only just remembers the name of the group seconds before he announces them .....
Jimi Hendrix discoverer / mentor / manager Chas Chandler on bass ...... ( Note how he holds onto the word " good " longer than the others ) ...... The Animals had split up whilst over in the USA , and Chandler and The Animals manager visited a club in New York where they saw Hendrix performing , and decided to bring him back to England .....
There was a story about a guy called Richard Hillman ( I think ) , who when Hendrix arrived in London , was instrumental ( sorry ) in signing Jimi into a recording contract with his agency ........ This Hillman bloke then fell asleep , or moved abroad , or fell into a coma , or something ..... then re-emerged sometime in the `nineties , and claimed that his original contract with Hendrix was still valid , and all Jimi`s subsequent dealings with Track Records and so on , were null and void , and he was the rightful claimant to Hendrix`s estate , performing rights , back cataloge etc ..........
........ Brief story in the newspapers , then never heard of again ............
....... Guitars held in the " teddy bear " position , which seemed to be the thing to do during the ` sixties ......... descended to waist level by the ` seventies and ` eighties , ( except for a brief time during the New Romantic period , when they returned to their former position of just under the chin ) ......
Of course some went the opposite way completely ...... New Orders Peter Hook ended up with his bass guitar somewhere down around his knees , hence the expression " Cor , watta strap length ...... " .... ( Copyright NME , sometime in the `eighties ...... ) .......
...... " You young people have all been very good tonight , I`m very proud of you ... " ....... Looks like the riot police can stand down , then ........
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