Paris (Olympia) : 9 octobre 1967

Yazid a écrit:

Cette fois je m'incline : Caesar Glebbeek (dans son prochain ouvrage Jimi Hendrix In France) apporte les preuves irréfutables de la participation de John Drevar's Expression à la grande soirée du 9 octobre 1967 avec The Peebles, Eire Apparent et Perkins !

I'm glad you found confirmation! My dad was part of John Drevar's Expression, playing tenor sax. Opening for Jimi Hendrix in Paris was a story I've known from a very young age. Like Derek Edmonds said, they were too busy being a professional band and 'rock stars' to collect memorabilia - my dad always said it was something you just didn't do. So it makes sense that Derek Endmonds wouldn't have a program from the concert. My dad doesn't have any of those things either. Only on one occasion did he ask someone famous for an autograph; and that was from Ringo Starr, when JDE played the Revolution Club and Ringo was in attendance. The autograph is on the back of a torn piece of the food menu for the club!

Thank you for your research.

Martin Bennett

M Bennett a écrit:

I'm glad you found confirmation!

Hello Martin. Thanks for your message. We learn something new every day ! It's true that articles mentioning your father's band's participation in the famous October 9 event were extremely difficult to find, but the irrefutable proof (photos) found by the great specialist Caesar Glebbeek have removed any doubts I had.

7 years ago, I revealed to everyone that the French artist Perkins was also part of the opening groups. We found out simply because he decided 50 years later to post a tip on his FB page !

Never be too sure with Jimi !