📌 March, 08

🉑 1967.

Gig at the Speakeasy, London.

Dick Taylor: “We used to see Jimi down at the Speakeasy quite regularly and we’d driven him down there and he must have taken some acid, because he seemed to be tripping when we took him home. One of our roadies was driving the car, going quite fast and swerving around corners and I think Jimi thought he was in a spaceship. 'Whoa, hold on there man! Slow down!'. He was cowering in the corner of his seat. A few minutes later he got up and said, 'Ha! I almost got ya!'. I was so relieved".

🉑 1968.

Gig at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

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

Mitch: “Needless to say the tour continued after we returned”

Songs: Purple Haze ❇️ Foxy Lady ❇️ Manic Depression ❇️ and others

Neville Chesters: “The crowd came in and everyone was drunk, a few fights broke out, there were no cops. We told the promoter that the group wouldn’t play unless he got some security, which he did. The Experience did their show, which went down very well. Jimi smashed up an old Stratocaster, everybody went mad”.

🉑 1969.

Jimi returns to Ronnie Scott’s Club to watch another night of performances by Roland Kirk. It has been reported but not confirmed that Jimi joined Kirk on stage for an extended jam session.

🉑 1970.

No News...

🉑 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven

♡ Ron "Pigpen" McKernan. (Sep 8, 1945 - Mar 8, 1973)

Founding member of The Grateful Dead who contributed vocals, organ, harmonica, percussion and occasionally guitar.

Ron Pigpen McKernan - Baby Please Don't Go, That Freight Train Up In The Sky