He went from rocking out with Jimi Hendrix to gallerist, and the path was anything but linear.
is keeping cool on a sweltering summer afternoon, surrounded by the sleek sculptures and oil paintings in his white-walled eponymous gallery at 1040 Cherokee Street. It's worlds away from where he was 56 years ago to the month, eating dinner with Jimi Hendrix and his bandmates at his Dupont Circle apartment in Washington, D.C., then drumming for Hendrix at a show the next night.
Hendrix had just left a tour with the Monkees, the ’60s pop-rock band created for a TV show of the same name, after playing only six shows. When Hendrix's manager called the Ambassador, the venue booked the band for five nights, from a Wednesday to a Sunday, with the Natty Bumppo opening."On Wednesday there were maybe twenty people, and by that Friday, there was a line around the block," Havu remembers. Word was spreading fast: The first three shows were $1.
Not long after she stole the band's thunder, the members of Natty Bumppo parted ways; Havu moved to San Francisco to join a seven-piece chamber-rock orchestra that also simmered out. But he still looks back on those days fondly."It was heady times. It was a lot of alcohol and a lot of drugs," he says with a chuckle.
"Then the winter was pretty brutal. We made it through...and then we had no money, we had no food," Havu says. He moved to town and held a variety of odd jobs that also provided housing, painting the newly renovated St. Moritz and then working as a busboy at the Red Onion, where he lived above the kitchen. In 1970, he moved to Telluride, where he worked on a ranch, caring for cattle and plowing fields, before returning to Aspen six months later.
"And then LoDo started happening," Havu says."Jim [Robischon] moved and built his gallery at Wazee Street in ’90, and a space came up there. I took that space in late ’90 and opened in ’91." As he looks forward to his upcoming show, which opens on September 8, Havu is also looking back on decades of art history. Sixty-eight artists are connected to his gallery; he'll display works from at least fifty of them, so curatinghas been laborious."I'm still trying to figure out who and what to put on the walls, because it's covering six decades: ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, 2000, 2010, the brief period of the 2020s," Havu says.
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