Name the mystery artist

[Kooperman]

Not many clues because it's too easy to use search engines to match them with the answer....however....

this artist was a friend of Jimi Hendrix and actually played the same gigs with him for a while. The last time he saw Hendrix was at a press conference in London which Jimi attended just to help this artist publicize his new solo album...soon afterward, Hendrix died from too much partying.

[method77]

no clue

[DudeAsInCool]

Dave Mason?

[Kooperman]

Dave Mason?

Nope....but he does play guitar. He was a member of an incredibly successful band...who rivaled the Beatles and Stones in sales when they were at their peak.

[DudeAsInCool]

Nope....but he does play guitar. He was a member of an incredibly successful band...who rivaled the Beatles and Stones in sales when they were at their peak.

Yardbirds, John Mayal & the Heartbreakers?

[Kooperman]

Yardbirds, John Mayal & the Heartbreakers?

No....but this mystery artist also was involved in the movie business, like yourself, and also like yourself, is involved with the internet.

[DudeAsInCool]

No....but this mystery artist also was involved in the movie business, like yourself, and also like yourself, is involved with the internet.

Damn - guitarists from the late 60s...Genesis was big in the seventies, but youve stumped me?

[Kooperman]

We'll see if anybody can put the clues together and guess the old guy's identity. If not, I'll reveal the answer by Sunday night.

[Kooperman]

I'll add this final clue, and it's a big one....this mystery artist actually appeared in the same movie with actor Jack Nicholson. There you go, so put your thinking caps on.

[Hemoglobin Harry]

Is that Cher?

[Warflower]

To me he looks like Peter Tork from the Monkees..

Don't laugh! Just a guess

[Kooperman]

Nope...not Peter Tork...and Harry, I'm not sure, but maybe Cher looked like this after her marriage to Gregg Allman.....

[Warflower]

Damn! Look how similar they look! Ok...this is gonna bother me...

Edited December 30, 2006 by Warflower

[Kooperman]

Damn! Look how similar they look! Ok...this is gonna bother me...

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[Warflower]

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;)

[DudeAsInCool]

According to Wikipedia, Hendrix played in a Motown band named, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers with Taylor and then aspiring musician Tommy Chong (of Cheech and Chong fame) around 1965...

It's hard to tell by the picture...but how about Eric Burdon, he's acted in films?

[Kooperman]

Well, no....and I never said that the mystery artist was in the same band as Hendrix. But he did know him well, and played on the same stage that Hendrix played on, on the same nights. And like Hendrix, he also served a tour in the Air Force as a young man. But unlike Hendrix, he later played The Troubador as a folk singer...although he didn't know any folk songs, so he had to write his own. That was just step one in his career...but needless to say, that would never get him on MTV.....

Another big clue here: the mystery artist would have been a millionaire even if he had never played a note of music...or been executive producer of one of the favorite cult movies of the 1980's.

[Kooperman]

Here's an account of the mystery artist's first exposure to the music of Jimi Hendrix:

original guitarist XXXXXXXX was also deeply affected by Hendrix. XXXXX heard him for the first time at a dinner party in London, and there inlies a tale: "I was having dinner in London with John Lennon, Eric Clapton and a group of people," remembers XXXXX. "in the middle of dinner, John produced this portable tape player and requested that the restaurant turn down the piped-in music, and then proceeded to play 'hey Joe' on his recorder, saying, "you gotta check this out.".

[Kooperman]

and by the way...today is the mystery artist's birthday..... :rolleyes:

[rainbowdemon]

To me he looks like Peter Tork from the Monkees..

Don't laugh! Just a guess

I was thinking it was one of The Monkees too. Hendrix opened for them on one of his early tours.

[Kooperman]

Peter Dork!!

...or Peter Torque...

[DudeAsInCool]

Michael Nesmith. The original question seemed to suggest the the mystery person was English...he played on a stage with the Monkees a year before this. The last stage he was on was with Eric Burdon and War. I havent found the press conference info--where is the source

[Kooperman]

BINGO!!! It is Michael Nesmith, guitarist for the Monkees. It wasn't suggested that he was British, only that the press conference was held there....and Hendrix never played on the same stage WITH the Monkees.

Nesmith's mother was the inventor of liquid paper, used to white out mistakes in typing back in the old days before computers did that stuff for you. Nesmith inherited the patent for it at his mother's death and sold it for many millions of dollars.

Nesmith is much more than a Monkee though...he thinks way beyond the box, coming up with a unique idea called PopClips, used on the cable channel Nickelodeon, which incorporated video clips of music being played. It was so popular that Nesmith sold the idea of an entire channel devoted to this...you might remember the inception of MTV....Nesmith's idea. Nesmith also branched out into film, as executive producer for the cult hits Repo Man and Tapeheads in the 1980's. He's an ideas and concepts man.

Warflower, I had to howl when you picked Peter Tork...who truly did resemble the mystery artist even more than Nesmith did at that age.

[Kooperman]

different stages of Nesmith's life

[Kooperman]

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