Bizarre openers (was Re: Hawkwind and Rush)

[Nik Lowenberg]

Oh, that's definately true.  He eventually got kicked off for being too
flashy.  Y'know, before that he opened for Engelberg Humperdinck (sp?),
which, IMHO, is worse than the Monkees.

-Nik

> Dunno, but a friend just told me that once, back in the late 60s,
> she went to see the Monkees somewhere in the NYC area, and the
> opening act was this complete unknown named Jimi Hendrix.