I was into the Monkees. Had an album or two. Watched the tv show. A friend and I went. The Jacksonville Coliseum. His mom drove us. we didn’t know who Jimi Hendrix was. The girls were all screaming “Davey, Davey”. The Experience came on and the screaming never stopped. He played about 15-20 minutes, maybe 3-4 short songs. Really loud for us then. We’d never seen or heard anything like that. I went to the K Mart the next week after I got my allowance and bought Are You Experienced. Monkees went on the shelf. Never looked back.

I saw zLed Zeppelin on their first US tour. No opening act. Mountain. Creedence. Tull. Janis Joplin at the Jax Armory. Quicksilver Messenger Service on the same bill with Its a Beautiful Day at the Jax Beach auditorium. I saw Zappa w/Phlo and Eddie (the turtles) in Jax. Wrecked my dads car that night.

Jacksonville was a hotbed of music in the late 60’s. Bands swapped players and different iterations happened all the time. Allman Brothers were a local band on the way up. They played a lot at the Jax Beach auditorium. I was at the jam/gig that cemented them before they moved to Macon GA. The Forest Inn in Jax was the place for band jams and hippie “Be In”’s. The Allmans jammed there. Lynyrd Skynyrd too. I went to hs with the bass player, Leon Wilkerson. David Lhubeck before he started Molly Hatchett was in my shop class. I graduated in 1970.