Jimi Hendrix Memorabilia
When Jagger and Jimi, Pink Floyd and The Cream, Rocked the Rafters at Ricky-Tick
By Ben Marks — The first time Colin Mansfield saw the Rolling Stones, he was 14 years old. Unlike other 20th-century kids, he didn’t have to wait in line for hours to score a ticket. Nor would he ever know the experience of his 21st-century counterparts, who would learn the hard way that the secret to hearing “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” echoing off the luxury boxes in a concrete football stadium was a perfectly timed mouse click, accompanied by a boatload of cash. “Apart from Brian Jones, they all...
Stephen M. H. Braitman on the British Invasion, from the Beatles to the Sex Pistols
By Dean Schaffer — I was a Hollywood kid. My father was a TV and radio editor in the San Fernando Valley, and he allowed me to do my first writing to review concerts and shows for the newspaper. But as a younger kid, I really hated rock ’n’ roll music and pop music, and I disliked the Beatles and all that. I have a younger sister who was a total Beatlemaniac. She started getting into the ’60s scene, but I was more influenced at that time by my father’s interest in classical music. I was, however,...