🎣 February, 09

🎣 1967.
↪ Bristol 1, Locarno Ballroom, Frogmore Street, Gloucestershire, England, JHE
Concert between 19:30 and 23:00 (45 minutes)

Bristol Evening Post ‘An Experience In Sound’ – review by Nicholas Williams:
“Jimi Hendrix Experience went to the New Bristol Entertainments Centre last night and left it reeling with the sound of his way-out guitar. Backed by a two-man group he bombarded his audience with an unbelievable wall of sound, which he somehow coaxed from his electric guitar. He played it in the usual way. He played it under his arm, over his shoulder and between his legs. He scraped it on the stage floor and over the amplifiers – he even plucked the strings with his teeth. Something had to snap - and it did. He broke a string at the end of the show. But that’s nothing unusual. “I buy several sets a week” said Hendrix.
He drove his way through Dylan’s ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, ‘Wild Thing’ and ‘Hey Joe’”

↪ Jimi is interviewed for the February 10th edition of the Bristol Evening Post.

🎣 1968.
↪ Radio spot promoting The Experience’s concert in Anaheim, CA.
↪ The Experience arrive in Los Angeles for two shows at the Anaheim Convention Center. The Animals, Eire Apparent and Soft Machine are also on the bill. During the second show, Hendrix blows an amp and plays only four songs, among them “Catfish Blues” and “Purple Haze.”

Anaheim Convention Centre, 800 West Katella Avenue, CA, USA, JHE
Concert.
Two shows, 1st at 20:30.
Support: Eric Burdon & The Animals; Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory light show; Eire Apparent.
Accommodation: Hollywood Sunset Hotel, Los Angeles.

Songs show 1: unknown
Songs show 2: Catfish Blues, Purple Haze and two others unknown

Neville: “Arrived L.A. 9:30. Drove down to Santa Anna to Fender factory. It took me about two hours to find it. Dropped all gear off for repair, then went for a meal. . .Went back to Fender factory to collect gear, then we took it down to hall. . .2 shows.”

Neville: “A lot of trouble with gear. Some guys from Sunn amplifiers at show talked to Chas.”

Hugh Hopper: “In fact a lot of things kept going and finally Hendrix sent for Sound City and Marshall amps from London, his favourite ones and ended up with all the odd gear anyway.”

Noel: “Jimi and I are still a bit at odds and I feel he’s a temperamental cunt when he fucks up the show…by only singing the occasional word, etc.”
“Jimi started pissing me off more and more as he became chronically temperamental. He fucked up a show in Anaheim by only half-heartedly singing the occasional word. Even the reviewers noted his changed attitude. I was wholly unsympathetic to his 'star' attitude and I deeply resented his refusal to play my song, She's So Fine, when audiences shouted for it. He kept saying: 'We never do anything new.' but refused to rehearse.”

🎣 1969.
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🎣 1970.

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