[2] The club's initial popularity waned, resulting in a period of closure until reopened with the assistance, financial and otherwise, of such persons as Peter Yarrow, Allen Ginsberg and Tiger Morse.
[3][4] The first New York performances of the Jimi Hendrix Experience were at The Scene, on June 3 and 4, 1967, subsequent to Steve Paul seeing the band at the Monterey International Pop Festival.
[1] Other acts featured included The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Traffic, Fleetwood Mac and The Chambers Brothers.
[6] According to Sterling Morrison, of the Velvet Underground, the closure was prompted by Steve Paul's refusal to pay protection money to the New York Mafia.
[9][10] She is said to have died in 1969, corresponding to the closing year of "Steve Paul's The Scene", and that she was married to a man associated to the location, with Detective Ryan Glas stating "At this point in the investigation, what I can say is, he does have a connection to where she was found.