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		By: Trevor G Deacon		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[shout out to Raymond Parker for the great memory. My future wife and I [we met 3 years later] were there and have similar memories of a great concert. Jimi did have a few choice words for    the cretins.  The concert still comes up in social conversation and though somewhat disappointed with Jimi the other bands more than made up for it.
Cheers]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>shout out to Raymond Parker for the great memory. My future wife and I [we met 3 years later] were there and have similar memories of a great concert. Jimi did have a few choice words for    the cretins.  The concert still comes up in social conversation and though somewhat disappointed with Jimi the other bands more than made up for it.<br />
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		By: G Kelly		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[G Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Great concert for $3.50 (about $40 today!).  Now most concerts want $140 to $1250.  They must be 4 to 30 times better and only 1 band.]]></description>
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		By: Raymond Parker		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-58992</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Parker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-57824&quot;&gt;Alan Kuhnert&lt;/a&gt;.

As above, I have a different perspective on the show. While, yes, Hendrix did cut the set short due to the flu, it was a great concert -- not just because we (read my girlfriend) got personal attention from the guitar god, but because some renditions were enough to stick with me through the intervening 55 years. Red House in itself was ecstasy, but I think I left my (16 y/o) body during the opening bars of Are You Experienced ... I was afterwards!
Hendrix was also miffed at the cretins who kept shouting for standards while he wanted to spotlight more new work from Electric Ladyland. I risked injury to tell them to STFU.
As for the support bands; they were excellent. Eire Apparent were good, Soft Machine were too short--so good I bought their album right after. Still have it. 
Vanilla Fudge were almost de rigueur, opening, it seemed, for almost every concert I saw in those days, including The Mothers of Invention and Led Zeppelin.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-57824">Alan Kuhnert</a>.</p>
<p>As above, I have a different perspective on the show. While, yes, Hendrix did cut the set short due to the flu, it was a great concert &#8212; not just because we (read my girlfriend) got personal attention from the guitar god, but because some renditions were enough to stick with me through the intervening 55 years. Red House in itself was ecstasy, but I think I left my (16 y/o) body during the opening bars of Are You Experienced &#8230; I was afterwards!<br />
Hendrix was also miffed at the cretins who kept shouting for standards while he wanted to spotlight more new work from Electric Ladyland. I risked injury to tell them to STFU.<br />
As for the support bands; they were excellent. Eire Apparent were good, Soft Machine were too short&#8211;so good I bought their album right after. Still have it.<br />
Vanilla Fudge were almost de rigueur, opening, it seemed, for almost every concert I saw in those days, including The Mothers of Invention and Led Zeppelin.</p>
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		By: Alan Kuhnert		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saw Hendrix in Vancouver but left disappointed. The support bands played too long and then Jimi played a short set and apologized for quitting early as he was not feeling well (flu or maybe drugs).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Saw Hendrix in Vancouver but left disappointed. The support bands played too long and then Jimi played a short set and apologized for quitting early as he was not feeling well (flu or maybe drugs).</p>
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		By: Joe chow past j c band.		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-57021</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe chow past j c band.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 07:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jimi Hendricks started off in vancouver downtown East end skid road vancouver the cabaret called the smilin Buddha.got fired cause played so loud! Lashman manager and his wife Nancy operated the club. My band the j c band came after he was gone. I still have photos when we played there. The stage jimi hendrics played. Now I&#039;m 
( solo Joe) Joe chow
My band as house band there 69-70s etc.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jimi Hendricks started off in vancouver downtown East end skid road vancouver the cabaret called the smilin Buddha.got fired cause played so loud! Lashman manager and his wife Nancy operated the club. My band the j c band came after he was gone. I still have photos when we played there. The stage jimi hendrics played. Now I&#8217;m<br />
( solo Joe) Joe chow<br />
My band as house band there 69-70s etc.</p>
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		By: Heather McAuley		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-22400</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather McAuley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 13:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-4391&quot;&gt;Eve Lazarus&lt;/a&gt;.

Zenora Rose Hendrix Moore also lived for a time in a small house on McGill and Wall
Street in Vancouver.
We lived across the street and ‘Aunt Rose’, as I called her, and my Mom were good friends; as children, Jimi and I played together.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-4391">Eve Lazarus</a>.</p>
<p>Zenora Rose Hendrix Moore also lived for a time in a small house on McGill and Wall<br />
Street in Vancouver.<br />
We lived across the street and ‘Aunt Rose’, as I called her, and my Mom were good friends; as children, Jimi and I played together.</p>
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		By: Caesar Glebbeek		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-5116</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caesar Glebbeek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;Shortly after Hendrix left the army in 1962, he hitchhiked 2,000 miles to Vancouver and stayed several weeks with Nora...&quot;

This is almost for sure fake info.  Jimi&#039;s moves after his army period are well documented, and there is no evidence to suggest that he went all the way to Vancouver. The only time Jimi was in Vancouver as a kid [usually with his brother Leon] was during summer periods. He did go  Dawson Annex but the only attendance record that could be found for that is for September 1949. According to Pearl Hendrix, Jimi was at school there the most &quot;for two months&quot; but I believe it must be longer as here is a gab between that Vancouver period and when Jimi went to school in Seattle. Records kept on schools in Saettle are very accurate and complete. The only period not complete [i.e. pre Seattle] deals with the kindergarten period.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Shortly after Hendrix left the army in 1962, he hitchhiked 2,000 miles to Vancouver and stayed several weeks with Nora&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>This is almost for sure fake info.  Jimi&#8217;s moves after his army period are well documented, and there is no evidence to suggest that he went all the way to Vancouver. The only time Jimi was in Vancouver as a kid [usually with his brother Leon] was during summer periods. He did go  Dawson Annex but the only attendance record that could be found for that is for September 1949. According to Pearl Hendrix, Jimi was at school there the most &#8220;for two months&#8221; but I believe it must be longer as here is a gab between that Vancouver period and when Jimi went to school in Seattle. Records kept on schools in Saettle are very accurate and complete. The only period not complete [i.e. pre Seattle] deals with the kindergarten period.</p>
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		By: Colin Preston		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-5019</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Preston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s a poor quality video of Terry David Mulligan interviewing Jimi, Noel &#038; Mitch backstage at the Coliseum (19:20), a hand pulling TDM out of the frame at 19:45 and Hendrix&#039;s query about Dawson Annex at 20:20. Sadly, TDM doesn&#039;t pick up on this great local angle. BTW, by 1968, Dawson Annex had been closed for several years. It was demolished April 1, 1969 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a poor quality video of Terry David Mulligan interviewing Jimi, Noel &amp; Mitch backstage at the Coliseum (19:20), a hand pulling TDM out of the frame at 19:45 and Hendrix&#8217;s query about Dawson Annex at 20:20. Sadly, TDM doesn&#8217;t pick up on this great local angle. BTW, by 1968, Dawson Annex had been closed for several years. It was demolished April 1, 1969 </p>
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		By: Raymond Parker		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-5017</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Parker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 15:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Missed this when you posted it, last year. I too was at that historic concert at the Coliseum, in 1968. When the stage was rushed at the first note, we made it to the very front of the crush. 

I can add another personal note to which can&#039;t be deduced from listening to the concert recording (I discovered it a couple of years ago and embedded it in my own story linked here). He kneeled on the edge of the stage and played Foxy Lady to my girlfriend, who was sitting in front of me, beneath the stage. I also have the ticket stub, a treasured memento.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Missed this when you posted it, last year. I too was at that historic concert at the Coliseum, in 1968. When the stage was rushed at the first note, we made it to the very front of the crush. </p>
<p>I can add another personal note to which can&#8217;t be deduced from listening to the concert recording (I discovered it a couple of years ago and embedded it in my own story linked here). He kneeled on the edge of the stage and played Foxy Lady to my girlfriend, who was sitting in front of me, beneath the stage. I also have the ticket stub, a treasured memento.</p>
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		By: Robert Still		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Still]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-4389&quot;&gt;Dave Byrnes&lt;/a&gt;.

.  .  .  saw Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground at the retinal circus, opening for the Collecters (became Chilliwack).  Howie Vickers and the Collectors performed a 2 hour version of their &quot;What Love Suite&quot;.  When we left the venue after they finished the sun was just coming up ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-4389">Dave Byrnes</a>.</p>
<p>.  .  .  saw Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground at the retinal circus, opening for the Collecters (became Chilliwack).  Howie Vickers and the Collectors performed a 2 hour version of their &#8220;What Love Suite&#8221;.  When we left the venue after they finished the sun was just coming up 😉</p>
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		By: Ken Bonner		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-4403</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken Bonner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I will never forget the concert.One of my 1st Big concerts 3 weeks before my 14 th BIRTHDAY]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will never forget the concert.One of my 1st Big concerts 3 weeks before my 14 th BIRTHDAY</p>
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		By: Richard Skelly		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-4397</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Skelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s well documented that Jimi played from Seattle to Alaska as he began performing after learning guitar when off duty in the army. That meant gigs in Vancouver with, apparently, bookings in at least one Downtown Eastside establishment  near his childhood stomping grounds. 

Circa 1975, while working part-time at the City Nights (aka Old Pantages) Theatre,  I&#039;d sometimes drop by the nearby Smiling Buddha Cabaret for a nightcap. A musician or three claimed they always had to negotiate hard with the owner who&#039;d try to persuade them to take less &quot;because Jimi (Hendrix ) played here on his way up.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s well documented that Jimi played from Seattle to Alaska as he began performing after learning guitar when off duty in the army. That meant gigs in Vancouver with, apparently, bookings in at least one Downtown Eastside establishment  near his childhood stomping grounds. </p>
<p>Circa 1975, while working part-time at the City Nights (aka Old Pantages) Theatre,  I&#8217;d sometimes drop by the nearby Smiling Buddha Cabaret for a nightcap. A musician or three claimed they always had to negotiate hard with the owner who&#8217;d try to persuade them to take less &#8220;because Jimi (Hendrix ) played here on his way up.&#8221;</p>
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		By: Aaron Chapman		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-4396</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aaron Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2018 09:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;d have to double check this with John Atkin, but I recall discussion or overhearing that while Jimi (and his brother Leon who was with him here) were in Vancouver, while their Grandmother was notably known in Strathcona, Jimi and Leon were more often staying with an Aunt, who lived closer to Dawson Elementary, and just a walk away, in the West End. 

If anybody can find a class photo of Jimi in his Dawson Elementary days, I&#039;d sure love to see it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d have to double check this with John Atkin, but I recall discussion or overhearing that while Jimi (and his brother Leon who was with him here) were in Vancouver, while their Grandmother was notably known in Strathcona, Jimi and Leon were more often staying with an Aunt, who lived closer to Dawson Elementary, and just a walk away, in the West End. </p>
<p>If anybody can find a class photo of Jimi in his Dawson Elementary days, I&#8217;d sure love to see it.</p>
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		By: Laurie Birdsall		</title>
		<link>https://evelazarus.com/jimi-hendrix/#comment-4395</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurie Birdsall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2018 01:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vi’s was a fabulous after hours restaurant. My parents had great tales of heading there late at night/ early in the morning for steaks after an evening at The Cave or Paloma’s. They clearly had more stamina then I ever had!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vi’s was a fabulous after hours restaurant. My parents had great tales of heading there late at night/ early in the morning for steaks after an evening at The Cave or Paloma’s. They clearly had more stamina then I ever had!</p>
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		By: James Hourston		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Hourston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Grandfather Ross was a caddy at Quilchena Golf Course till 1934 apparantly. No club house or much at all remains there. Vi&#039;s was a wonderful place where your BYOB was served in the most lovely English bone china.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grandfather Ross was a caddy at Quilchena Golf Course till 1934 apparantly. No club house or much at all remains there. Vi&#8217;s was a wonderful place where your BYOB was served in the most lovely English bone china.</p>
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		By: Doug Parks		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doug Parks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 04:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ive been to the Retinal Circus. One night me and a buddy (we must have been 14 or 15) were at the Circus to see a San Fran group called Notes From The Underground.  They were the first concert act Id ever attended that wasnt a local band. The Retinal Circus hosted many great artists. I love the concert ticket price of $3.50 to see Jimi Hendrix. In the early 70s I saw Led Zepplin at the Coliseum and the ticket cost about $12. Those were the days.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ive been to the Retinal Circus. One night me and a buddy (we must have been 14 or 15) were at the Circus to see a San Fran group called Notes From The Underground.  They were the first concert act Id ever attended that wasnt a local band. The Retinal Circus hosted many great artists. I love the concert ticket price of $3.50 to see Jimi Hendrix. In the early 70s I saw Led Zepplin at the Coliseum and the ticket cost about $12. Those were the days.</p>
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		By: Dave Byrnes		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Byrnes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 03:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Celebrities was also known as the Retinal Circus circa 1968. Didn&#039;t see Jimi there, but I did see the Grateful Dead. And I was at Jimi&#039;s concert at the Coliseum in 68!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Celebrities was also known as the Retinal Circus circa 1968. Didn&#8217;t see Jimi there, but I did see the Grateful Dead. And I was at Jimi&#8217;s concert at the Coliseum in 68!</p>
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