Afton a écrit:
Oui mais tu sait, mes souvenirs son maigre. Ils ont joué sur un plateau de remorque (commes ils avaient l'abitude de faire dans les festivals) devant Canvas City. Je ne savais pas qui ils étaient a l'époque.
Je me souvient que de Pink Fairie ou Hawkwind c'étaient peint le corp avec de la peinture argenté, j'avais été très frappé par ce détail.
Whoputain ! Ca, ça fait vraiment partie des trucs que j'aurais aimé voir ! Mais bon, j'avais environ 1 mois à l'époque !
Il semble que le gars recouvert de peinture argentée était Nik Turner.
"The Isle of Wight Festival, 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, in his last performance on U.K. soil, dedicates a number to "the cat with the silver face", a character at the front of the stage ... said cat was none over than Hawkwind's Nik Turner. Unlike Hendrix, Hawkwind had a good festival, playing a number of free gigs outside the festival proper and cementing their reputation as the people's band. Turner, in fact, wandering around with his silver countenance, flute and star spangled trousers actually made the pages of Vogue (including the front cover) and Paris Match. Not bad for a stoned space rocking hippy peacenik. The Nik Turner case - or, he's a bit of a case, that Nik Turner, isn't he?"Et selon l'histoire, Hendrix, venu sans doute taper la discute avec son ex roadie, vit gars affalé là avec sa gueule peinte en argent, il lui dédicacera un morceau lors de son concert :
"'This next one's for the cat with the silver face."
D'après ce que j'en ai lu, ce fut une très longue semaine pour les Pink Fairies et Hawkwind ...
" On Saturday, after lengthy discussions, it was decided that we should play that evening in the Fairground Tent, another inflatable , the owner of which had shown himself to be bankrupt anyway and he kept the charges as low as possible , 6/- . He was still loving , but out of this money he was able to spike everybody - nearly 10.000 people in the tent -with acid in the coffee. Nice scene, seven hour non stop jam with all comers , Hendrix, who was there , should have joined in and still we got paid 5 pounds to cover our expenses. Too much!
Sunday, no afternoon jam . The Fairies having split the day before, and we were too spaced out to move the equipment, We did, however, start to play in the evening, but the winds started to get strong and the tent had to be deflated in the interests of safety."Un petit résumé sympa de la dite semaine ici :
http://members.fortunecity.com/timetortoise/iow-frendz-hawk.html