Classic Rock

The Black Crowes/Jim Jones All Stars

A rock’n’roll master class shakes the capital to its core.

Just under 33 years ago, Jim Jones, then frontman with garage testifiers Thee Hypnotics, learned a valuable lesson from The Black Crowes. Having secured the support for the UK leg of the Crowes’ Shake Your Money Maker tour after Chris Robinson fell for their charms while reportedly tripping to their debut album Come Down Heavy, they soon found out which was the vital corner of the sex and drugs and rock’n’roll triangle.

“They’d be: ‘You’re on at eight-thirty p.m. and you’ve got forty-five-minutes,’” Jones tells . “The first

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