{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F443ede1c-3976-4c41-bd65-4b088b470ece","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Episode 020\u2013Jimi Hendrix by Bruce Hilliard\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/443ede1c-3976-4c41-bd65-4b088b470ece\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 020\u2013Jimi Hendrix by Bruce Hilliard","description":"A long time ago in a 1960s Galaxy far,\u00a0far away there was a teen dance club between Seattle and Tacoma called the Spanish Castle Ballroom. Built in 1931, it was a caricature of an ancient Moorish fairytale storybook castle highlighted with neon lights.\u00a0 It was located an area known as \u201cMidway\u201d located just outside of city limits in unincorporated county land (now Sea-Tac) in order to escape the towns\u2019 efforts to minimize nightlife.<br />\r\n In late \u201850s through the \u201860s the venue featured touring attractions from Roy Orbison to Johnny Rivers and the Beach Boys.\u00a0 Several local bands, the Wailers, the Sonics, the Kingsmen (\"Louie Louie\") and the Amazing Aztecs (Merrilee Rush of \u201cAngel of the Morning\u201d fame on vocals and keyboards) also performed.<br />\r\nPat O\u2019Day, one of Seattle\u2019s legendary DJs of the era tells a story of a skinny little kid that hung out there and offered to help out.\u00a0 In those days guitar amplifiers were small, too small to crank up and play at the volumes the bands played.\u00a0 To make matters worse they would plug two guitars into one amp. Consequently, the amps blew up and that would be the end of the music for the night.<br />\r\nAccording to O\u2019Day, one night a skinny young kid came up to him and said, \u201cI always have my amp in my car. It\u2019s a big Gibson so if the amps ever blow you can use mine\u2026as long as I can stand in back and play.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry, I know all the licks they do.\u201d<br />\r\nO\u2019Day, recalling the incident in a 2011 interview goes on the explain that 2 or 3 weeks later, sure enough Tiny Tony and Statics were playing. They blew their amps. \u00a0So who came to the rescue?\u00a0 The skinny kid showed up and asked O\u2019Day if the band needed his amp.\u00a0 The up and coming promoter said, \u201cYeah, go get it.\u201d\u00a0 The band played on.<br />\r\nYears later Pat O\u2019Day, by this point one of the owners if Concerts West, the largest concert company in the world at the time, was sitting in a dressing room with client superstar Jimi Hendrix. \u00a0Jimi asked him, \u201cDo you remember where we first met?\u201d<br />\r\nPat asked, \u201cWith the attorneys?\u201d<br />\r\n\u201cDo you remember the kid at the Spanish Castle that loaned you the amp when the band\u2019s blew up?\u201d<br />\r\nThe kid was James Marshall Hendrix, a.k.a Jimi Hendrix, later the writer of \u201cSpanish Castle Magic\u201d from the album Axis Bold as Love.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/2b9f5e98-53e2-4dff-a990-0f977a308696/logo_squish_full_3000.png"}