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Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Nirvana on Saturday Night Live. Warren Zevon on David Letterman. Sometimes, late-night TV musical performances live on forever. Most don’t. But we still want to talk about them.
Each week on “Tonight’s Musical Guest, Today”, long-time friends Alex Beaton and Jon Hillman dive in on the music and cultural memory of a band through the arc of their late-night TV performances. Watch along with Alex and Jon as they examine and react to these musical history moments preserved in the amber of time alongside two celebrity guests and a talk show host.
From Conan to Colbert, Letterman to Leno, or SNL to MadTV, there is no shortage of iconic late-night musical moments. And no end to the ones you don’t remember.
Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
Jimi Hendrix
In just 4 year's time, he created the modern version of American rock music and reinvented the guitar. And broke the brains of whoever saw him do it. It's JIMI HENDRIX week!
Jimi breaks through on the southern Chitlin' circuit with his first ever TV appearance backing up Buddy & Stacey on Nashville's Night Train in 1965. The Jimi Hendrix Experience immediately explodes in the UK and Europe with performances on Germany's Beat! Beat! Beat! and Sweden's Popside. Jimi gets banned from the BBC when he refuses to sing Hey Joe with Lulu. And Jimi makes his American network TV debut with appearances on The Dick Cavett Show right before and after his era-defining appearance at Woodstock.
Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!
Shotgun backing up Buddy & Stacey, July 1965 on Night Train
Stone Free/Hey Joe/Purple Haze, 5/18/1967 on Beat! Beat! Beat!
The Wind Cries Mary/Purple Haze, 5/24/1967 on Popside Stockholm
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)/Hey Joe/Sunshine of Your Love, 1/5/1969 on BBC's Happening for Lulu
Hear My Train a Comin' (1:19:43 mark), 7/7/1969 on The Dick Cavett Show
Izabella/Machine Gun (1:31:23 mark), 9/9/1969 on The Dick Cavett Show
