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mger Ki Cfopen-1 ■sdav inival:A'idly I i^ford' • the! SC to;Rock’ Stars to Perform In Stadium’s Triple Bill^ theI Headlined by The Jimi Hen jdrix Experience. a triple bill of2)5’ was r he ■ be-d atLartstop musical groups will pkiyBridgeport's Kennedy StadiumRobert Wyatt, lead-vocal, drum bass guitar, guitar, piano, trumpet, cello, modscupture, songwriter. arranger, jazz critic arcMonday night in a single, con- the. merr.hers of “The Soft Ma-cert beginning a: 8 o’clock. The:chine.Soft Machine and The Eire Ap-J Ireland contributes the thirdparent round out the “rock packnge.Just a little over a year ago, Jimi Hendrix returned from England where he had become such an important attraction promoters in his native America were clamoring for dates. He had left Iwme nine months before, aflcr some minor success in New York's Greenwich Village as a single after five years as lead guitarist with a variety of rock and rhythm and blues groups.Jimi and his two 21-year-old English partners in Experience— drummer Mitch MilchcU and lias-sist-guitarisl Noel Redding— were an overnight success nt the 3J lie Olympia in Paris. In Stockholm, they played to a record-breakingc pho-f and dance Rock called break * con-con-Os—in n in it Ha-l.aine jppor-im ineight is dis-rnina-d andKHi ingroup cn the Kennedy Stadium program. They arrived in America in January of this year to do a Iwo-month lour with the Animals.In 1%7 they were the lop group in Ireland. Their first appearance away from home was with Jimi Hendrix at the Olympia in Paris. Later, they toured England with Hendrix and will row tour America with him and the Soft Machine. Their first single record, Yes ] Need Someone was written by the lour members of the group and produced by Jimi Hendrix in England in June. It was released in America last week.Tickets for the Kennedy Stadium triple-header are available in14,500 persons in two shows; they;advance at the Bridgeport Musi-were SRO m the Sports Arena cal Theater in Seaside Park orn thisin Copenhagen, where only the Rolling Slones had chalked upthe s pho-sts byclt;l inan SRO evening before. At theSeville theater in London, they wore the first act to sell out both shows. Their return engagement at the Seville a month later was sold out the day seals went on duringjsale at the box office, on and Things were much the same imfordjwhen The Jimi Hendrix Experi-'d 13 cnee came home. A: the Montur-r com- ty Pop Festival, on tour with :Thc Monkees. in New York atmay he purchased at performance time at Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport.MIS' IN PIA UXWim4HMIW 1CSHARPDUDLEY. England (UPI)-Of-rr.any cd in eh as HuttonSalvation. Cafe Au Go Go and Sieve Paul’s Scene, the word spread.One of the few groups thaton tho’car. come near to Jimi HendrixI Soft Machine. It si arced for them i right 1*0 a discoteque in St. Troper, in fhlt;’France’s haven for non-corftc.the Futuristic Beatles.? ii'jm-1ct per-' ontinucnightlyc audi-Ayficials at Dudley 7.00 celebrated; the birth of the zoo's first porcu-i pine. Its name: Spike.PIStaveTHECandlelile Res!.24G River St., Bpl.Now Pieser.liaLimited Engagement ofThe Phil Massaro QuartetAR'Av‘J,Thun365-fT, at tiringJante Tulunjian1 -Kormi’rly the Bondsmen”lr,k• i Thurs. Fri. Niles5 9-1 at Thek rCandlelile Lounge► Fk.
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Bridgeport Post
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Thu, Aug 22, 1968
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