🌰 February, 17

1967.

🍇 Windsor, Ricky Tick, Thames Hotel, River Street, Berkshire, England, JHE

Concert (60 minutes).

Songs: unknown

Mitch: “The Windsor Ricky Tick was a barn of a place.”

🍇 Trafalgar Sq. photos

1968.

🍇 Fort Worth, Will Rogers Auditorium, 3301 W. Lancaster Avenue, TX, USA, JHE.

Concert at 19:30 (55 minutes).

Support: Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory light show; The Moving Sidewalks; Neal Ford And The Fanatics

Promoter: Bob Cope

Songs:

♡ Sgt. Pepper´s Lonely Heart´s Club Band ♡ Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window ♡ The Wind Cries Mary ♡ Fire ♡ Catfish Blues ♡ Foxy Lady ♡ Hey Joe ♡ Purple Haze ♡ Wild Thing ♡.

Noel: “There was plenty of time to chat because the state seemed full of girls who didn't fuck. Instead, with so much building up inside, we hit the booze to avoid conversing. It was hard to know how to start communicating.

I did better communicating with the locals. My Englishness in America also gave me a certain license, a certain protection. If I went to the hotel bar in places like Texas, the minute I walked in all these big, dangerously drunk guys would start in with the usual, 'Who's the fag?' (Fag is a word that brought many awkward moments until I figured out that in America it meant homosexual, not cigarette.) Having hair was still risky in some places. In my most English accent - which saved my ass as many times as Jimi’s American accent had saved him in England – I’d order, ‘Give us a beer mate.’ And the barrier would be broken. ‘Say you ain’t from here. You sound English. What you here for?’ ‘I’m playing the Stadium tonight.’ At which point we’d start talking about the gig, then music or whatever and someone would buy me the beer.

In my mind, Fort Worth, Texas, was the beginning of the end of the band. It was the first time we'd been assigned separate dressing rooms. When I chanced to go into Jimi's room to see how he was doing, I was met with: 'What are you doing in here?' This separatism guaranteed we went on stage cold as ice.

.....Jimi and I argued openly and bitterly during the show till Mitch said something so funny that we had to relax. But the feeling persisted.

.....Promoter bought me some cowboy boots. Jimi smashed his equipment and said to me, he doesn’t need anyone to talk to. I got very upset. Talked to Chas about Jimi, I want to get away from the cunt.

During one show he freaked, smashing his equipment and shouting, 'I don't need anyone to talk to!' This hurt, because Jimi was obviously in pain and I only wanted to help. But it was more than Jimi bringing us down. It was the management. We never saw them. I was dying to get us all together for a good, long, air-clearing talk. I'd had three or four good chats with Chas and a couple with Mike. But nothing had changed.”

1969.

🍇 Olympic Studios London, England.

Songs: ♡ Fire ♡ I Don’t Live Today ♡ Spanish Castle Magic ♡ Hear My Train A Comin’ ♡ Lover Man ♡ Red House ♡.

The Experience recorded an inspired rehearsal for their February 18 Albert Hall performance on this night. Two recordings from this session, 'Spanish Castle Magic' and 'Hear My Train A Comin' were highlights of the Jimi Hendrix Experience box set.

1970.

🍇 Juggy Sound, New York.

Studio Recording. Jimi and Eddie Kramer completed the final editing, mixing, and sequencing for the Band Of Gypsys album.