🐩 April, 03

🐩 1967.

🔴 London, photo session for Daily Mirror.

🔴 Jimi and Chas are interviewed at their Upper Berkeley Street flat in London. Melody Maker and Disc & Music Echo publish the interviews on April 8th.

🔴 Olympic Sound Studios, London, JHE

Producer: Chas Chandler

Engineer: Eddie Kramer

Highway Chile ♡ ‘Waterfall’ (May This Be Love) ♡ Are You Experienced ♡ Fire ♡ Love Or Confusion ♡ I Don’t Live Today

Eddie about ‘Are You Experienced’:

“The structure of the song was recorded first, with Jimi’s rhythm guitar, Mitch’s drums and Noel’s bass recorded forward. Jimi had practised the opening riff at home, so he would know what it would sound like backward. At Olympic, we experimented with the sounds and placements to see what would work best. Jimi played octaves on the wonderful, old, out-of-tune, upright piano at Olympic. The piano sound, reminiscent of a bell tolling, was an essential part of the basic rhythm track.”

Chas: “Mitch had started to get uptight because Jimi would want him to play all of the different rhythms we had discovered by playing tapes backward at the flat. We’d play around with backward tapes to hear the rhythm, which was actually the drums backward. Jimi would want Mitch to play that rhythm.”

🐩 1968.

Virginia Beach Civic Dome, VA, USA. JHE

Support: Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual [“Sense”] Laboratory light show.

The JHE flew from J.F. Kennedy airport, New York City, to Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Noel: “We got to the airport with minutes to spare, I ran for the flight, but Jimi and Mitch refused to, so they missed the flight. Jimi disappeared and we were late getting to the airport the next day. Arriving with minutes to spare, we were told we could still make the plane if we ran. I ran and got on board. Jimi and Mitch were too groovy to run and ended up in Virginia Beach after changing planes five times.”

🐩 1969.

Olmstead Studios, New York Studio Recording

Midnight // Trash Man. “Midnight” had begun to take form two months earlier at the February 1969 sessions at Olympic Studios. The song was originally titled “Midnight Lightning” before Jimi shortened it simply to “Midnight”. “Midnight” is now available as part of the 1998 album South Saturn Delta.

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Engineer: Eddie Kramer

🐩 1970.

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