It was Mic Calder who reminded me of the 1969 Lulu show, in which, inconceivably, the Jimi Hendrix Experience was allowed over nine minutes on peak-time Saturday BBC TV to demonstrate to the entire UK why our lives and our music needed to be entirely different.
I remember the blue carpet, Brownie the dog, Stewart Howard, Jim McClurg and David Cowan being there...my mum being utterly shocked....and the bit you don't see in this clip, a truly flustered Lulu trying to get the show back on track...I was 13.
And listen to the sweetness of that solo...
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Is that Mic Calder a cheil I knew from Thurso High?
Only Alex Harvey doing Delihlah on the OGWT in '75 comes close.
Speechless.
I remember this!!! . . I was 15 I was staying at my Gran's in Dunfermline . . (I remember her tutting a lot) . . I didn't remember that it was on Lulu's show either though . . i just remember him playing and being in raptures. . val
Just fantastic - they don't make TV like that anymore.
I never saw it originally. I guess I was sent to bed with my Ribena by then. And no, they don't make TV like that anymore. Mind you they don't make TVs like that anymore - remember? You had to go to the front of the thing and grab the big cooker type knob and turn it to change channels - to no good purpose, since there weren't any other channels to turn it to...
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