This day in music history.

July 8, 1967, The Monkees began a tour with The Jimi Hendrix Experience as the back up band. Hendrix was dropped after seven shows because "his act was not suitable for their teenybopper audience". Few of the Monkees fans cared to sit through an act they could neither comprehend nor appreciate. Micky Dolenz noted:
"Jimi would amble out onto the stage, fire up the amps and break into "Purple Haze" and the kids in the audience would scream "We want Davy!" God, was it embarrassing". After a few concerts Hendrix finally flipped the bird at the crowd in New York and stormed offstage.