Morning memories, summer of 1967.
Bobby Dick and his band The Sundowners performed at
Forest Hills Stadium in July with Jimi Hendrix - who was not yet known across
mainstream America - and The Monkees, who had the second top-selling album in
the country, behind The Beatles' " Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band," which was released a month earlier.
“The Monkees
were being maligned at the time for being a bubble-gum group,” says Dick, a resident of Saratoga County, and who
can be found performing across the region.
"They thought they would get more credibility by having someone
like Jimi Hendrix playing with them. But when Jimi came on stage and started
playing the fans just wanted their Davey Jones. They started chanting , 'We
Want the Monkees! We Want the Monkees!’
"Well,
Hendrix looked right at them and gave them the finger. Then he threw his Stratocaster
into the audience,” Dick says. “Somebody must have caught it. It would be
interesting to know what ever happened to that guitar.”
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