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I still think that Voodoo Child – the long version with Stevie Winwood and Jack Casady – is one of the most amazing pieces of rock music ever.” When I was at university, Electric Ladyland came out and I just used to listen to it every day. “I’d been a huge fan, right from the first time I heard Hey Joe. A student at Keele University (where he was social secretary of the student union and responsible for booking bands), he was also a Hendrix nut. But it was real.”Ī Hells Angel, complete with swastika, at the ironically titled Love And Peace Festival, September 6, 1970, Fehmarn, Germany (Image credit: Getty Images)ĭavid Butcher’s road to Fehmarn was a happy one filled with cheeky blags and happy coincidences. For a while afterwards I wondered if we’d imagined it. They weren’t in charge of security, but basically they kind of took over and there was a lot of trouble, including gunfire.

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“The Hell’s Angels were causing so much trouble – they were ransacking the office and giving free tickets to everybody. ”On the second day this English guy who was manager of one of the other bands decided to pull out,” remembers Butcher. Over-run by a German biker gang, battered by storms, plagued by cancellations from big-name acts like Emerson, Lake And Palmer, the festival was descending into chaos, violence and arson by the time Hendrix got there on September 6 for his last live performance.įrom his position onstage, UK student-turned-stagehand David Butcher was relatively sheltered from the chaos. Instead, it turned into a mini- Altamont. The ‘Love + Peace Festival’ on the Isle of Fehmarn, off the coast of northern Germany in the Baltic Sea, was intended to be the European answer to Woodstock.

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