1966. ๐ London, Blaises, Jimi (plus Chas Chandler) attend the Young Rascals concert.
1967. ๐ No Newsโฆ
1968. ๐ The Experience perform at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan with support from Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys. Concert at 20:30. Audience: 10000 Noel: โNovember 30 is the date Jimi nearly missed. Mitch and I caught the plane and Jimi never showed. We were met in Detroit by people from Warners and taken to the hotel. Jeffery then phoned; โJimi has freaked outโ he says and is refusing to come. I donโt know what Michael said to Jimi but it must have been heavy, for Jimi decides to come at the last minute, though they have to hire a Learjet to get him there on time. In spite of it all, the show is a good one. Probably played well out of sheer relief.โ Details โช๏ธ: http://univibes.com/JimiPlaysDetroit.html
1969. ๐ No Newsโฆ
๐ Born on this day โก Robert Nighthawk (Nov 30, 1909 - Nov 5, 1967) Nighthawk boogie: https://youtu.be/Rp-KG68YE_s
1967. ใฐ On 29 or 30 November The Electric Prunes visited Jimi at his flat. The band had arrived at London airport on 23 November to do a short tour of the UK.
1968. ใฐ Noel is interviewed by Donna Lawson for the January 1969 issue of Eye magazine.
1967. ๐ธ Flying from Aldergrove Airport, Belfast, Northern Ireland, to London Gatwick Airport, Surrey, England.
1968. ๐ธ Philharmonic Hall New York, N.Y. Two Shows. A very prestigious gig. JHE were the first โrockโ band as such to play there.
Noel: โThe plush velvet comfort of the Philharmonic Hall was a dream come true... The acoustics were impeccable. The subtlest nuance carried distortion-free to the furthest corners... It was sobering to follow the New York Brass Quintet and harpsichordist Fernando Valenti, and difficult to adjust to the thought that every vibration of every note would be heard!โ
1966. ๐ฏ Jimiโs 24th birthday. Kathy gives Jimi a black shirt with red roses for his birthday.
1967. ๐ฏ Jimi's 25th birthday. โช Flying from Ringway Airport, Manchester, to Aldergrove Airport, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Apparently Jimi's management had asked for the JHE to be picked up in a white American limo, but the best the 'Festival Of Arts' people could come up with was a black Humber! Accommodation: "Grand Central Hotel", Royal Avenue, Belfast.
โช 'Festival Of Arts'/"Whitla Hall"/"Queens College", University Road, Belfast Concert (two shows - 19.00 and 21.15). Offstage, Jimi is incongruously mild, affable and unassuming. He sat in the dressing room, temporarily detached from the bevy of road-managers, and munched birthday cake. He constantly strummed a guitar covered in psychedelic patterns.
โช โWhitla Hallโ - Interview with Jimi conducted by B.P. Fallon for Melody Maker (published 23 December 1967)
1968. ๐ฏ Jimi's 26th birthday. Rhode Island Arena Providence, Rhode Island. Concert at 20:30. Noel: โWe played a two hour. Good sounding gig.โ Rhode Island Auditorium: https://youtu.be/Kn-mAu6HDZQ
1969. ๐ฏ Jimi's 27th birthday. Jimi celebrates his 27th birthday backstage with The Rolling Stones as they perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City. While backstage, Jimi jams with Mick Taylor of The Stones, a jam that is caught on 16mm film. Afterwards, Jimi joins The Stones at Mont Keyโs home where they continue Jimiโs birthday celebrations.
1966. ๐ London, โI.B.C. Sound Recording Studiosโ, 35 Portland Place Chas took the group to visit The Who during a recording session.
Noel: โKit Lambert and Chris Stampโฆto impress us they took us โround their studio to meet their group, The Who, who had just struck lucky.โ
โช Hounslow, Middlesex, โRicky Tickโ, High Street - JHE concert (30 minutes), supporting The New Animals. JHE were not advertised.
1967. ๐ London, BBC Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Ave, St Jamesโ, England, JHE BBC Radio 1 โTop Gearโ show. JHE portion was a re-broadcast from 15 October, originally recorded on 6 October. With: The Kinks, J.J. Jackson, The Herd, Family, Elmer Gantryโs Velvet Opera
Noel: โIn Manchester we got stoned in the afternoon and nearly got thrown out of the hotel. In Manchester, a thin three-fan welcoming committee presented me the gift of โPleaseโ written 5,000 times. These days the bands werenโt the only ones sniffing pure methedrine crystal and living off a rainbow of diet pills.โ
Chris Liston (fan): โI think one of the best gigs I saw in Manchester was Jimi Hendrix at the Palace. As I remember he stayed on stage longer that the theatre wanted him to, in the end they unplugged him.โ
1968. ๐ No Newsโฆ
1969. ๐ No Newsโฆ
๐ Born on this day โก 1939, Tina Turner Tina Turner & David Bowie -Tonight (Private Dancer Tour 1985): https://youtu.be/Of1HV4b0ccg
โก 1945, John McVie John Mayall, Peter Green, John McVie & Mick Fleetwood - Stormy Monday Blues: https://youtu.be/5qMEEP84nfk
1966. ๐ฆ London, โBag โ0โ Nailsโ, Kingly Street
After the concert, Peter Jones conducts the first UK interview with Jimi: โBritain is really groovy ...We donโt want to be classed in any category. If it must have a tag, Iโd like it to be called โFree Feelingโ...โ [Record Mirror, 10 December 1966].
1966. ๐ณ London - โDe Lane Lea Music Ltdโ - JHE studio recordings from 14:00 to 17:00 Songs: Love Or Confusion // Here He Comes (aka Lover Man)
Noel: "Chas wouldn't tell us what to do, but he would advise, 'Well, that needs a little bit more work on it and we've got a demo of it now, so we can try it again next time.' That sort of stuff. That's where Chandler was so good."
1967. ๐ณ Bristol, Colston Hall, Colston Street, England. Concert (two shows - 18.30 and 20.45). Support: The Move, Pink Floyd, Amen Corner, Outer Limits, Eire Apparent, The Nice. Attended by Roger Taylor (later of โQueenโ) Accommodation: Grand Spa Hotel, Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol.
(Bristol Evening Post): There was a lot of broken guitars on the stage and glasses at the bar. Excited and drunk Welsh teenagers had to be deported after incidents at the auditorium bar. Others on the other side of the Severn Bridge came to support a Welsh band, Amen Corner. Screaming like patients, they insulted the other groups and threatened the police with brandishing stools and bottles. Then there was Pink Floyd and The Nice, who on their side destroyed an electric organ and shattered a few thousand pairs of eardrums before getting lost in a cloud of colorful smoke.
1968. ๐ณ Supported by Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, The Experience play at Miami Beach, Floridaโs Convention Hall. Afterwards, the group fly back to New York City where they move into the Pan Garden Hotel next to Madison Square Garden in midtown-Manhattan.
Noel: โIn Miami, we arrived to find the hotel ablaze.โ
