🌰 March, 17

1967
🐈 The Experience’s second single “Purple Haze” b/w “51st Anniversary” was released by Track Records in the United Kingdom.
Track List: Purple Haze 🍪 51st Anniversary
🐈 The Experience fly from London, England to Hamburg, Germany.
🐈 Photographer Gunter Zint arranges for a Press Reception to greet The Experience when they arrive in Hamburg.
🐈 Hamburg, Star Club, 38 Grossfreiheit, West Germany.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform their first show of what is a three-night stand at Hamburg’s famed Star-Club.
Concert, two sets of 30 minutes.
Songs:
Foxy Lady 🍪 Hey Joe 🍪 Stone Free 🍪 Fire 🍪 Purple Haze 🍪 possibly others

Noel: “I put my German to good use, scoring the leapers, doing the interviews, and announcing. I’d picked up German very quickly when I’d worked there - if you didn’t, you didn’t get laid.”

Mitch: “The thing that always amazed me with the German fans was how much information they had about us. They knew stuff about Jimi from years back, not just the standard press-release info.”

1968.
🐈 Jimi jams at New York’s Café A Go Go with Buddy Miles drums, James Tatum sax, Herbie Rich organ and Paul Butterfield harmonica. Featured are “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” “Stormy Monday,” “Three Little Bears,” and “Little Wing.”

1969. 🐈 No news….

1970.
🐈 Olympic Studios, London Studio Recording Hendrix returned to Olympic Studios, the recording facility where his first two albums Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love were recorded to record with Love. Invited by Love founder Arthur Lee to contribute to their album, Hendrix and percussionist Remi Kabaka joined Love in recording “The Everlasting First,” which would later be issued as part of False Start (Blue Thumb, 1970). In addition, Hendrix took part in an extended instrumental jam session as well as a version of his own composition, “Ezy Ryder.”