🏊 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.