🌴 March, 31

🌴 1967.
London N4, Astoria cinema, Finsbury Park, England. JHE
Two shows at 18:40 and 21:10. The first night of the first JHE tour of Britain, on The Walker Brothers (farewell) package tour.
Supporting The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck
With: The Californians, The Quotations
Songs 1st show: unknown
Songs 2nd show: Foxy Lady // Can You See Me // Hey Joe // Purple Haze

Noel: “The month-long Walkers Brothers farewell tour which began in late March was our real turning point. We had to crack England now or never, as Jimi’s work permit was running out. We paid for it. It was hell.”

New Musical Express Interview by Keith Altham
Jimi: “Most will come to see The Walkers. Those who come to hear Engelbert sing ‘Release Me’ may not dig me, but that’s not tragic. We’ll play for ourselves – we’ve done it before, where the audience stands about with their mouths open and you have to wait ten minutes before they clap.”

Disc and Music Echo:
Jimi: “I’m a bit worried about the type of people who’re gonna see the tour. If they come to see The Walker Brothers, then they’re not going to want us. I just hope they listen – but if they do scream for The Walkers during our act I’ll just ignore them and play for myself.”

🌴 1968.
The Experience, Soft Machine, and Woody’s Truck Stop play the Arena in Philadelphia.
Concert at 20:00
Support: Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory light show and Woody’s Truck Stop
Songs: unknown

Neville: “Very good, went down a bomb.”

The Village Voice Eric Barrett interview by unknown: “Do you think the generation gap applies to Hendrix’s music?”

Eric Barrett: “After the Hendrix concert in Philadelphia, an older lady who had just come from the concert gushed to me, ‘Isn’t it wonderful, all those young people coming out to hear Harry Belafonte!’ Belafonte was scheduled to appear the week after.”

🌴 1969.
No News...

🌴 1970.
No News...

🚗 March, 30

🚗 1967.

'Top of the Pops' BBC TV, Lime Grove Studios, London, England. BBC 1 TV broadcast between 19.30 and 20.00. Performance mimed to 45 backing track with live vocals.During the appearance by Jimi on Top Of The Pops, a technician put on the backing track of Alan Price's 'Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear', to which Jimi responded 'I don't know the words to this one man'.

🚗 1968.

Toledo, University Of Toledo Fieldhouse, OH, USA.
JHE Concert at 20:30.
Support: Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory light show.Songs: unknown

🚗 1969.

Teen Age Fair, Pop Expo 69, The Palladium, Hollywood, California. Jimi attends the Delaney and Bonnie concert and jam with them (Room Full Of Mirrors).

Behind the scenes is an interview with KAA1 by Jay Harvey.

🚗 1970.

No News..

🚗 Born on this day
♡ 1945, Eric Clapton
♡ 1964, Tracy Chapman.

Tracy Chapman with Eric Clapton:

https://youtu.be/YIXh0JNvuHs

💫 March, 29

💫 1967.

유 The Experience returned to De Lane Lea Studios in London to focus attention on “Manic Depression.” In between takes of “Manic Depression”, Jimi lead the band through an instrumental take of Michel Polnareff popular 1966 single, “La Poupée qui Fait Non.”

Tape Log: Manic Depression ♡ La Poupée qui Fait Non

유 Jimi is interviewed by Penny Valentine for Disc and Music Echo, publication April 1, 1967

💫 1968.

Chicago University, Chicago, Illinois USA, JHE

Neville: “Woke Hugh up at 9:30 had breakfast got ... set off about 10:30. Drove across Cincinatti through INDIANA. Stopped off at INDIANA had a look ‘round went into a couple of music shops... then carried on up to CHICAGO arrived...very tired. Had a big hassle to get organ... finally got a couple of guys to help”

Jimi: “S.O.S”

Noel: “It was really a drag when our second gig in Chicago fails to come off due to electrical trouble after we have already come all the way from Cincinnati. But Cynthia and Pam of the Plaster casters fill the gap nicely.”

Neville: “Had a lot of trouble with amps, buzzing terrible. Finally Jimi stormed off without even doing one number. Jimi went on stage after the Soft Machine but the amps buzzed so badly he walked off and refused to play, so the rest of the gig was cancelled.”

💫 1969.

No News...

💫 1970.

No News...



🎸 March, 28

🎸 1967.

London Wl, "BBC Broadcasting House", Great Portland Place.

Live radio recordings for 'Saturday Club' (transmitted 1 April).

Songs: ♡ Killing Floor ♡ Fire ♡ Purple Haze ♡.

Aylesbury, "Assembly Hall", Buckinghamshire

Concert (45 minutes).

Organized by the Ricky Tick club chain.

🎸 1968.

Cincinnatti, Xavier University Fieldhouse, OH, USA, JHE

Two shows at 19.00 and 21.30.

Support: Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory light show.

Songs 1st show: unknown..

Songs 2nd show: unknown..

Noel: “Went down well.”

Neville: “...first not bad... second very good, packed gear up loaded truck. Went back to hotel. Went to Noel’s room had a smoke. Stayed up all night. Caught up with diary.”

Jimi wrote: “We played in Cincinnati. Bought a new Jazzmaster here and a practice amp. Got the guitar for recording.Wow, I’m stoned as Hell in this hotel room with Mitch in Cincinnati. The Gig? Oh yeah, groovy”.

🎸 1969.

No News...

🎸 1970.

No News...

🍯 March, 27

🍯 1967.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience record “Purple Haze” for the April 4th episode of the BBC television show Dee Time. Cat Stevens, Kiki Dee, Libby Morris, Mike Newman and Lance Percival are also guests on this episode. Unfortunately, no tapes of this episode remain in the BBC archives.

Set List: Purple Haze

🍯 1968.

The Experience, Soft Machine, Glass Calendar, and Mark Boyle’s Sense Laboratory play the Teen America Building, Lion’s Delaware County Fairgrounds, in Muncie, Indiana.

🍯 1969.

No News...

🍯 1970.

No News...

Jeff Carter (the manager) asks Jimi to stop smoking a joint, and Jimi asks him for a cigarette.

Jimi with Larry McKay (newsman and voice on the radio http://www.larrymmckay.com/Photo%20Gallery.html) 

🍓 March, 26

🍓 1967.

Stockport (Manchester), Tabernacle Club, Hillgate, Cheshire, England, JHE

A converted church. Advertised As ‘Jimmi Hendrix’

Concert

Songs: unknown

🍓 1968.

Jimi and Noel are interviewed on-air by Chuck Dunaway at WKYC in Cleveland. They also answer questions from callers. Jimi, known for his love of fast cars, buys a blue Corvette Stingray at Blaushild Chevrolet in Cleveland. In an interview with John McDermott, Leon Dicker (attorney & US representative for Yameta, the Animals’ parent company), recalls “I knew he didn’t have a driver’s license… He drove it once – down a one-way street. He was cited for that, as well as not having a driving license. The next day, Jimi left for Indiana, and Michael Jeffery had the car shipped to New York.”

That night, the band plays two shows at The Public Music Hall.

Songs:

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 💦 Fire 💦 I Don't Live Today 💦 Red House 💦 Foxy Lady 💦 Spanish Castle Magic 💦 Manic Depression 💦 Purple Haze 💦 Wild Thing

Noel recalls the evening was marred by “a very real bomb scare at the hall,” which reportedly delayed the second show for a while. Jimi is interviewed by Dick Wootten for The Cleveland Press (March 27); The Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine (April 28); and Bruno Bornino for The Cleveland Press (March 29). During the interview with Bornino, Jimi gives him a string of love beads.

🍓 1969.

No News...

🍓 1970.

No News...

Jimi Hendrix- Public Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio 3/26/68

https://youtu.be/e4gjzhZYNhk

💦 March, 25

💦 1967.

"Radio Luxembourg" - transmission of the (third) interview conducted on 21 March. During the interview it was announced that the JHE were performing at Boston that night...

Boston, Starlight Room, The Gliderdrome, Lincolnshire, England, JHE

Former roller rink, re-built into a very large dance hall. Many top acts have played here. 24,000 fairy lights in the ceiling gave the room its name.

Concert between 19:15 and 23:40 (40 minutes)

Support: Sons And Lovers; The Group; Charades; The Steel Band; Ray Bones

Songs: unknown

💦 1968.

Jimi is interviewed by Jane Scott of The Plain Dealer. The interview is published on March 29.

Cleveland, Otto’s Grotto (in Statler-Hilton Hotel), 1127 Euclid Avenue, USA

Jimi jammed with Good Earth, a local band from Cleveland.

Attended by Leonard Nimoy and DJ Chuck Dunaway

Songs: unknown

💦 1969.

Record Plant New York, N.Y. Jam With John McLaughlin Jam With Jim McCarty John McLaughlin, Jim McCarty, Buddy Miles, and Dave Holland join Jimi Hendrix at the Record Plant.

💦 1970.

Capitol Records released the eagerly anticipated live album, Band Of Gypsys. The album featured six tracks from the two Fillmore East performances on January 1, 1970. “Who Knows” and “Machine Gun,” were recorded during the evening’s first while all of the album’s second side was drawn from the second show. Despite the dramatic shift in sound and style - especially when compared with Electric Ladyland - Band Of Gypsys nonetheless enjoyed wide commercial approval. The album debuted on Billboard’s US Top 200 chart at 18 and climbed to its peak at 5. The album remained on the chart for sixty-one weeks. At the time of Jimi’s death, Band Of Gypsys was Hendrix’s most commercially successful album since Are You Experienced, his 1967 debut.

🌳 March, 24

🌳 1967.

London W1, 43 Upper Berkeley Street flat - Interview conducted by Keith Altham for New Musical Express ('Hendrix IS out of this world' - published 15 April).

Mitch Mitchell's hair is re-permed by Gary Craze at Sweeney's, London.

Mitch: Noel said there was girl he knew that could perm my hair and it would save money, rather than going to a hairdresser. After she had finished, it was a complete mess. I ended up having to go to the hairdresser anyway.

🌳 1968.

Flint, IMA Auditorium, MI, USA, JHE

Concert at 14:00.

Support: Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory light show; Fruit Of The Loom; The Rationals

Poster: Plain blue and white print of Karl Ferris band photo, designed by Gary Grimshaw

Audience: ~ 2,000

Songs: unknown

Jimi: “S.O.S. Same old stuff (?).”

Neville: “Place very good, audience good, Jimi was in very bad mood, played badly, did short time. Everybody disappointed.”

Anonymous: “I was at the Hendrix show. Great opening acts, except Soft Machine, A bloody bore. Jimi did not like the audience yelling for Purple Haze. ‘That song would be more of a drag for me than you’. After 4 or 5 tunes he blew out his amps. Did not return to the stage and listened to a 20 minute drum-bass solo. Was a great day of music nonetheless.”

🌳 1969.

No news...

🌳 1970.

Jimi began this session joined by an unidentified drummer and together the two players recorded a quick rendition of “Bleeding Heart”. This was followed by three takes of “Midnight Lightning.” Bassist Billy Cox joined the session and s the tandem ran through four takes of “Bleeding Heart,” the later of which was flagged as the master and later transferred to Jimi’s own Electric Lady Studios where additional guitar and a new drum part were overdubbed by Jimi and Mitch Mitchell. Although Jimi never fully completed “Bleeding Heart” prior to his death, it has since been issued as part of First Rays Of The New Rising Sun.

🏊 March, 23

🏊 1967.

♡The JHE are photographed at Jimi’s new London apartments (43 Upper Berkeley Street).

♡The JHE are interviewed by Keith Altham for an April 15th article in New Musical Express.

♡ Southampton Guild Hall, Civic Centre, Hampshire, England, JHE

Organised by the ‘Ricki Tick’ club chain.

One of several, oddly unsigned, Harold Davison contracts is for this gig.

Concert: 50 mins, between 20:00 and 23:00.

Support: Brother Bung

🏊 1968.

Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Lower Terrace and Lake Street, NY, USA, JHE

Originally booked for the Village Theater, New York City, NY.

Concert at 20:15.

Support: Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory light show and Jesse’s First Carnival – cancelled, replaced by local band the ‘Sinnermen’. So Jesse’s First Carnival, although billed, never played any of the three gigs they were booked for.

Audience: 1,600?

Songs: unknown

Neville: “Got up 7:00 had breakfast left Buffalo 8:00 Drove back up Massachusetts and right across N.Y. State. Just after there was a very bad snowstorm driving bad. Arrived BUFFALO 4:00 unloaded gear had to put it on small carts, then again tractor took it up to stage. Set gear, Local group on first. Very good show, despite shitty place.”

♡Jimi wrote: “Well we road through the most extreme weather today. From sunshine to blizzards and fog and everything. We’re in Buffalo now. Gonna take a nap.”“Played show – Great. Girls came round Oh no - must think of Catherina and write my songs. Goodnight everyone.”

🏊 1969.

No news...

🏊 1970.

♡ Jimi joined his former bassist to add guitar to Noel’s own “My Friend.” The song remains unreleased however, as despite his best efforts, Noel’s self-financed project never saw commercial release.

♡ Working alone, Jimi arrived at the Record Plant intent on realizing a more traditional Delta blues arrangement of “Midnight Lightning” than he had previously attempted. Singing and playing live as he sat on a chair, Jimi utilized a finger picking style he rarely incorporated on his recordings. The song’s slow beat was accented, in the tradition of such blues men as Lightnin’ Hopkins and John Lee Hooker, by the steady tapping of his foot on the floor. One of his favorite blues themes, Jimi would later make several attempts to complete a group version with Cox and Mitchell that summer at Electric Lady. Sadly, his untimely death in September 1970 came before “Midnight Lightning” and many other scintillating works in progress could be completed.