Jimi Hendrix Original Concert Handbill

Original flyer/handbill for the 2 August 1968 concert of the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Size of the print: circa 22 x 28 cm.

Condition: Very Good. Each corner has some thumbtack holes.

Richard Tedhams (The Rag, 8 August 1968): “The performance started (naturally) about thirty minutes late. Then, after an introduction by the two San Antonio top-40 disc jockeys (they were booed), the Soft Machine, the Hendrix tour band, came on for about a forty minute set which consisted of one tedious and pretentious number that had the audience yelling for Hendrix after ten minutes. Well, the Jimi Hendrix Experience finally came on and, of course, they were fantastic. They did eight numbers in all (about thirty minutes for six dollars).”

Jimi Hendrix (diary entry): “Well back again and we are into the beginning of a change – San Antonio Texas – down the street about three blocks from this motel is the World’s Fair. Hope I get a chance to see it.”

Noel Redding: “By San Antonio, it’s more than Jimi’s moodies bringing us down, there’s management trouble, based from the fact that we never see them.”