Something In The Music I was on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle when my phone started ringing. It was a client and I was a salesman; a rock music agent, always on the lookout for clients and new bands. I was the kind of local agent who sold to rock clubs and taverns and the…
Something In The Music – Part 2 After Jimi Hendrix played Sacramento State on February 8’th 1968 life took a dramatic turn for me. A few weeks later I was approached by a radio salesman from K.R.O.Y radio, Sacramento’s leading rock station, who had sold us our ads for Jimi’s show, about meeting with a…
Something In The Music – Part 3 The name of the dance/concert hall ended up being The Sound Factory and it opened with great fanfare on June 28’th and 29’th , 1968 with Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Young Bloods and H.P. Lovecraft, all San Francisco acts. The summer rocked along and by August we’d booked…
Something In The Music – Part 4 After the The Sound Factory closed I kinda bounced around for awhile. That had been an intense 24 hour a day way to live and eke out a living but it was gone and I wasn’t sure what was next so I moved to Lake Tahoe for awhile…
Something in the music – part 5 Randy Hansen and Machine Gun captured Seattle’s attention and since Randy was a friend of Heart’s guitarist Rodger Fisher, seeing members of Heart and other name musicians and bands in the audience was a frequent sight as well as Heart’s manager Ken Kinner was also impressed by Randy,…
Something in the Music Seattle here we come! If the California trip had shown the band that they were getting hot it also showed the management group that there were several other parties interested in working with Machine Gun Music as promoters, additional agents, concert packagers, and one major company, Concerts West, wanted to sign…
The Paramount Theater in Seattle is an old style theater. A main floor and balcony with several side boxes. It was ornate and the stage was wide and deep behind a heavy velvet type curtain. Since it was an old building the dressing rooms and other rooms were downstairs and that’s where I found Randy…
The Beginning In late 1967 I joined with some fellow students at Sacramento State College to form a “social club” at the school. It was a rag tag bunch of students. There were several football players, several music students, and three guys in bands. We called it “The Students for the Appreciation of Pop Music”…
Are they on the plane? Wednesday February 7th 1968 wasn’t a normal day, you know, get up, get going, and take care of regular things, instead it was a day to take care of something which revolved around one thing; Jimi Hendrix and company were supposed to arrive at the Sacramento airport that afternoon for…
Let’s go hear some music! Well, Jimi passed on going down to the restaurant opting to stay in the his room with several of his new found friends and a couple of guys from our club so a few of us, their guys, and Mitch and Noel descended on the unsuspecting restaurant staff and proceeded…