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sonofabutch t1_iyeende wrote

Jimi Hendrix playing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" at The Saville on Sunday, June 4, 1967... the album had been released just three days earlier!

> “Jimi was a sweetie, a very nice guy. I remember him opening at the Saville on a Sunday night, 4th June 1967. Brian Epstein used to rent it when it was usually dark on the Sunday. Jimi opened, the curtains flew back and he came walking forward, playing 'Sgt. Pepper', and it had only been released on the Thursday so that was like the ultimate compliment. It's still obviously a shining memory for me, because I admired him so much anyway, he was so accomplished. To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it, because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you'd put it in, but he just opened with it. It's a pretty major compliment in anyone's book. I put that down as one of the great honours of my career. I mean, I'm sure he wouldn't have thought of it as an honour, I'm sure he thought it was the other way round, but to me that was like a great boost.” – Paul McCartney

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bolanrox t1_iyegaln wrote

they also wear like there is no way his guitar is still in tune after all that, and it was the first song of the night. What is he going to do?

Jimi asks if clapton can come up on stage and help him tune back up

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