🍯 January, 27

1918.

🏮 Born on this day, Elmore James, (Jan 27 1918 - May 24 1963) US blues guitarist, singer, known as the King of the Slide Guitar. Influenced Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King and Keith Richards.

1930.

🏮 Born on this day, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, (Jan 27 1930 - Jun 23 2013). Bobby was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

1965.

🏮 Texas bluesman Albert Collins jams with Jimi.

1967.

🏮The Experience perform at Chislehurst Caves, Old Hill, Kent, England.

Noel was probably using a 4-string Fender Telecaster bass

Many of the well known R&B/’rock’ acts of the day played this unusual venue.

After the show Jimi Hendrix meets up with effects maestro Roger Mayer where he provides Jimi some of his new experimental Octavia effects pedals to try out.

Audience: Noel: “Crowd of 2,000!”

JHE fee: Noel: “£50.”

Songs: unknown

Roger Mayer: “... Jimi said to me, “Why don’t you come down I’m playing a place called Chislehurst Caves. They’re actually caves where people hold rock concerts, famous historical caves in Kent. When I went down there I took some of the experimental electronics, some of the Octavia pedals I’d been working on. Jimi loved the pedals…so we got on like a house afire.” I spent a lot of time with Jimi privately, hanging out and talking about the sounds and maybe bringing a few [effects] boxes around the flat so he could jam in private. And we would get some general ideas of what we were trying to accomplish in the way of sustain and tone. We were normally using colors to describe the sound.”

cybcrez: When Hendrix performed there for a second time in January 67 the place was packed solid there were no fire exits. There's no way a concert like that would be allowed in that venue under today's Health and Safety regulations.

On that occasion I was with my girlfriend, she had a broken leg and was on crutches, so the crowd politely let us through and again I ended up right in front of the stage.

Johnnie Walker the DJ from the pirate station Radio Caroline was there, dressed rather imaginatively as a pirate.

Marc Denness, Blackpool: "Jimi Hendrix wedged the head of his guitar between the top of his Marshall amplifier stack and the jagged roof of the caves. He also played his guitar with his teeth. "

1968.

🏮 Hendrix is interviewed by Hugh Nolan for a February 17 Disc & Music Echo feature. Hendrix wins the publication’s award for “Top World Musician.”

🏮Otis Redding's "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay" is released, six weeks after he was killed in a plane crash. It will become the first posthumous number-one single in US chart history. Otis had intended to return to the studio at a later date to add lyrics in place of the whistling that is heard during the closing bars.