🐟 February, 04

1967.
💦The Ram Jam Club, London, England

London SW9, The Ram Jam Club, 390 Brixton Road, Brixton, England, JHE

Concert between 19:30 and 23:30 (60 minutes)
Support: All Night Workers

Songs: unknown

Noel: “We totally freaked the regulars at the Ram Jam – an all reggae, black, smokers’ pub who had no idea what to make of us. The Ram Jam was upstairs. Once pass the Cashier (my friend Georgina) and the bouncers (usually amateur wrestlers) it led into the bar and seating area. At age 16 all you could get was soft drinks and the seating areas were banquettes, the lighting was dark, with lots of opportunity to roll the spliff without detection! The stage and dance floor was on a lower level leading from the bar. I remember seeing lots of top bill names of the 60's but none as big at Otis and the Turners. That rings no bells with me. John Mayall, Geno (of course) and Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames - oh happy days!

Dave Peverett (fan, vocals, guitarist Savoy Brown): The Ram Jam was a fairly large ex-dance hall/ballroom above Burtons (menswear) and occupied two floors. The second floor was a bar and the third was the venue. This Hendrix gig stands out in my memory. His set consisted of mostly blues material- ‘Catfish Blues’, ‘Dust My etc- and he ended the show by shoving his guitar through the ceiling and playing slide utilizing the remaining bits of ceiling as the ‘bottleneck’ I never saw him play a better show.”

💦 London W1, "Flamingo"
Concert (45 minutes - between 24:00 and 06:00).
Support: All Night Workers.

Michael Canning: “To what it must have been like in that small club in London that night 49 years ago though – this ragged recording certainly gives some clues. With what can be heard in the lo-fi murk the audience were going wild. They were seeing a new form of music being made in front of them, one that was perilous, heady, and a super-somatic experience with the band’s amps cranked to the maximum and Mitch Mitchell’s kick and snare drums thundering out. It had everything to do with the industrial scientific developments of the last war, and the social aftershock of the latter, that was still settling, not to mention another industrial slaughter going on in a place called Viet Nam”.

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1968.
💦 London, England. Re-transmission of Day Tripper, Spanish Castle Magic, Getting My Heart Back Together Again, and Wait Until Tomorrow during the BBC Radio 1 program ‘Top Gear’ (between 14.00 and 16.00).

💦 New York City. Transmission of a program (between “midnight to 5am”) by radio station ‘Realrock’ (105.9 FM) advertised as “This week: Jimi Hendrix & Mike Bloomfield - on tape.” Most likely the Jimi Hendrix item included an interview, taped during the press reception at the “Copter Club” in the Pan Am Building, Manhattan, New York City, on 30 January 1968.

💦 Winterland, San Francisco, California
The Experience play the same venue as the previous two nights, but Big Brother and the Holding Company replace Soft Machine.

1970.
💦Under the watchful eye of manager, Michael Jeffery Rolling Stone’s John Burks was invited to Jeffery’s office on West 37th Street in New York to interview Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding (who was recently brought in from England). Jeffery clearly wanted to present the original Jimi Hendrix Experience as a united group and that the disastrous Madison Square Garden performance by Hendrix with the Band Of Gypsys was a single, isolated episode. Rolling Stone was at the forefront of the counter-cultural press and Jeffrey desperately wanted to the benefit of positive coverage for his artist. In his interview, Burks made several attempts to pin Hendrix down on his present musical course, but Hendrix offered no definitive explanation or plan. Rather than lay out a comprehensive plan for the Experience, Hendrix alluded to possible future jamming and recording with Cox and Miles. The guitarist also described the recent Madison Square Garden performance as ‘the end of a big fairy tale’.

2013.
💦Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven: Reg Presley, the lead singer for The Troggs on their 1966 smash "Wild Thing".