Jesus Jellett RIP – Post your memories of this fabulous mainstay of 60s and 70s rock shows here
Know that there is an obit thread, but as almost ever UK-based ATMer of a certain age will have run into this genuine one-off at some point, it seems a nice time to look back at gigs we went to in the 60s and 70s.
For those callow youths who’ve never heard of him, JJ was as ubiquitous a feature of gig-going forty and fifty years ago (Jesus – the other one – is it really that long ago?) as army great coats and shouts of “Wally” or “Albatross!”
Pretty sure the first time I first saw him was at The Who’s May 74 Charlton gig – certainly remember his being at loads of big shows thereafter. He was such a fixture on the music scene at that time there’s even brief footage of him talking to Neil Young in Jim Jarmusch’s Year of the Horse and three decades later onto a Chemical Brothers album cover.
Anyone care to share their own recollections – fond or otherwise -of JJ?
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