1957.
🅰 Fats Domino sings ‘Blueberry Hill’ and ‘Blue Monday’ on Perry Como's television show.
1967.
🅰 London W1, 34 Montagu Square flat
Likely the day Steve Barker interviewed Jimi for West One (student newspaper for 'The Polytechnic', London), publication date 6 February 1967.
🅰 Backstage interview and photo session with Jimi by Charles Westberg from the Northern Echo [published 3 February].
🅰 BBC TV’s ‘Top Of The Pops’ broadcast 19:35 that evening, included a pre-recorded version of JHE playing ‘Hey Joe’. They have been featured on the most popular ‘pop’ TV and radio shows since Dec. ’66, even earlier on Radio London and regularly featured in all the ‘pop press’, so claims that almost no one had heard of them in Darlington at this point are, quite frankly, unbelievable. ‘Hey Joe’ was at #4 in the Melody Maker chart, #6 in Record Mirror and #8 in Disc, all on sale that day.
🅰 Imperial Hotel, Darlington, Co. Durham.
Concert at 20:00
Noel was probably using Chas’ 4-string Gibson EB2 bass.
Support: West Coast Promotion.
Audience: 200
Afterwards, party at the Club A Go Go with The Moody Blues.
Kathy: "In the van Jimi and I got places of honour in the front seat and Mitch and Noel had to sit on the equipment in the back. We ended up in a place called Darlington"
Northern Dispatch, advert:
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The Greatest Experience of your life, you have to see it to believe it. Thursday Nite at the lmperial Hotel, Darlington, the biggest rave on the London scene.
The fantastic JIMMIE HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Don’t miss this man who is Dylan, Clapton and James Brown all in one.
No 7 in the charts with “Hey Joe”.
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Noel: “Two amps broke down. Mains fused. Crowd fantastic.”
Ian Wright: “The performance lasted three minutes before his powerful amps blew all the fuses plunging the hotel into darkness."
Kathy: “Nobody took a blind bit of notice of him. And when we got outside the bloody van had broken down, we had to push it in the snow.”
Carol Argyle: “My husband and I were only 17 at the time of the gig. We were not together then and were at the concert separately. We never thought he'd come, he'd just been in the charts immediately before and we thought he might cancel. At the end of the night, they were throwing things up in the air and I caught the drumstick. There was quite a rush for the drumstick, but I managed to get up and was quite lucky. Everyone goes on about how loud it was, but the thing that stays in my mind was that we'd never seen anything like it before in Darlington. Here was a man playing guitar with his teeth. It was also the first time I realised Top of the Pops wasn't live as I saw him play Hey Joe on TV and then an hour later he was playing in Darlington."
🅰 Newcastle, Club A Go Go, Percy Street, Northumberland, England.
The JHE & Kathy drove up after the gig in Darlington, less than two hours distant.
Alexis Korner band.
Support: [unknown]
An advert has The Moody Blues playing nearby at La Dolce Vita.
Noel: “Club-a-GoGo. Party with the Moody Blues.”
John Wood: “I saw him once relaxing in the Club A’Gogo in Newcastle. The DJ was trying to get him to play with Alexis Korner who was on stage but he said he was shattered and couldn’t play."
1968.
🅰 San Francisco, California, Interview with Jimi conducted by Jann Wenner for Rolling Stone (published 9 March 1968).
🅰 Possibly on Feb 2: California, short radio interview with Noel Redding conducted by Harry Harrison for the United States Army. The band remains in San Francisco but moves from the Fillmore East to perform two shows at the Winterland Ballroom.
🅰 Winterland, San Francisco, California
Concert (two shows).
Support: Albert King; John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers; Soft Machine.
Lights: McKay’s Head Lights
Promoter: Bill Graham
🅰 Feb 2 or 3. San Francisco, unknown venue, CA, USA. JHE
It is claimed that Mick Taylor and members of the Bluesbreakers jam with Jimi Hendrix. Songs: unknown
Noel: “In San Francisco, where everyone was as stoned as us and very receptive, we just jammed all night. One night Mitch tried to do a Keith Moon trick jumping onto his floor tom-tom. Only Mitch was getting rather thin (his arms looked more like matchsticks flailing half-hidden behind, behind his kit.) and when he jumped upon it, the drum bounced him right off.”
Mick Taylor: “One night Jimi Hendrix came down to the Speakeasy in London when I was playing with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, and he sat in with us. Mayall used to have a recording, but it was destroyed in that fire in Laurel Canyon. And after our show at Winterland with Albert King and Jimi, we went and played somewhere until about five in the morning. It was kind of like The Grateful Dead meets the blues. Jack Casady from Jefferson Airplane was there. I don‘t think we played songs we just played riffs and notes, anything. Jimi was always playing the guitar, he was absolutely obsessed. Sometimes when he got to a show, he’d go to the dressing room, plug the guitar into an amplifier, and play until his show started. He actually always liked my guitar playing, and in those days I was just a beginner. But he was very modest, very humble, in a very genuine, sincere way, too. I think he realised he had an incredible gift, but he was kind of reluctant to take too much credit for it himself.”
Baron Wolman: "Before his San Francisco concerts in February, 1968, we met Jimi at his motel on Fisherman's Wharf. As the writer was interviewing a surprisingly quiet Jimi, I shot some informal portraits, one of which appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine No. 26. It was impossible to take a bad photo of Hendrix; he was the most photogenic musician I ever encountered whether he was in motion on the stage or at rest with his friends."
1970.
🅰 Juggy Sound, New York Studio Recording Mixing sessions for Band Of Gypsys resumed. Before the evening session began, Hendrix engaged in a jam session with the Rosicrucians, a Queens-based group whose album Eddie Kramer had been producing at the studio. Two separate recordings were made before Hendrix concluded the jam.
🅰 Jimi and Mitch Mitchell jamment ensemblent in the New York apartment. (Jimi played on an acoustic guitar Martin D-45, serial No. 239387 a model 1968)
1979.
🅰 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven. Sid Vicious
🅰 Fats Domino sings ‘Blueberry Hill’ and ‘Blue Monday’ on Perry Como's television show.
1967.
🅰 London W1, 34 Montagu Square flat
Likely the day Steve Barker interviewed Jimi for West One (student newspaper for 'The Polytechnic', London), publication date 6 February 1967.
🅰 Backstage interview and photo session with Jimi by Charles Westberg from the Northern Echo [published 3 February].
🅰 BBC TV’s ‘Top Of The Pops’ broadcast 19:35 that evening, included a pre-recorded version of JHE playing ‘Hey Joe’. They have been featured on the most popular ‘pop’ TV and radio shows since Dec. ’66, even earlier on Radio London and regularly featured in all the ‘pop press’, so claims that almost no one had heard of them in Darlington at this point are, quite frankly, unbelievable. ‘Hey Joe’ was at #4 in the Melody Maker chart, #6 in Record Mirror and #8 in Disc, all on sale that day.
🅰 Imperial Hotel, Darlington, Co. Durham.
Concert at 20:00
Noel was probably using Chas’ 4-string Gibson EB2 bass.
Support: West Coast Promotion.
Audience: 200
Afterwards, party at the Club A Go Go with The Moody Blues.
Kathy: "In the van Jimi and I got places of honour in the front seat and Mitch and Noel had to sit on the equipment in the back. We ended up in a place called Darlington"
Northern Dispatch, advert:
🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽
ENTERTAINMENT
The Greatest Experience of your life, you have to see it to believe it. Thursday Nite at the lmperial Hotel, Darlington, the biggest rave on the London scene.
The fantastic JIMMIE HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Don’t miss this man who is Dylan, Clapton and James Brown all in one.
No 7 in the charts with “Hey Joe”.
Plus your own WEST COAST PROMOTION.
🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽
Noel: “Two amps broke down. Mains fused. Crowd fantastic.”
Ian Wright: “The performance lasted three minutes before his powerful amps blew all the fuses plunging the hotel into darkness."
Kathy: “Nobody took a blind bit of notice of him. And when we got outside the bloody van had broken down, we had to push it in the snow.”
Carol Argyle: “My husband and I were only 17 at the time of the gig. We were not together then and were at the concert separately. We never thought he'd come, he'd just been in the charts immediately before and we thought he might cancel. At the end of the night, they were throwing things up in the air and I caught the drumstick. There was quite a rush for the drumstick, but I managed to get up and was quite lucky. Everyone goes on about how loud it was, but the thing that stays in my mind was that we'd never seen anything like it before in Darlington. Here was a man playing guitar with his teeth. It was also the first time I realised Top of the Pops wasn't live as I saw him play Hey Joe on TV and then an hour later he was playing in Darlington."
🅰 Newcastle, Club A Go Go, Percy Street, Northumberland, England.
The JHE & Kathy drove up after the gig in Darlington, less than two hours distant.
Alexis Korner band.
Support: [unknown]
An advert has The Moody Blues playing nearby at La Dolce Vita.
Noel: “Club-a-GoGo. Party with the Moody Blues.”
John Wood: “I saw him once relaxing in the Club A’Gogo in Newcastle. The DJ was trying to get him to play with Alexis Korner who was on stage but he said he was shattered and couldn’t play."
1968.
🅰 San Francisco, California, Interview with Jimi conducted by Jann Wenner for Rolling Stone (published 9 March 1968).
🅰 Possibly on Feb 2: California, short radio interview with Noel Redding conducted by Harry Harrison for the United States Army. The band remains in San Francisco but moves from the Fillmore East to perform two shows at the Winterland Ballroom.
🅰 Winterland, San Francisco, California
Concert (two shows).
Support: Albert King; John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers; Soft Machine.
Lights: McKay’s Head Lights
Promoter: Bill Graham
🅰 Feb 2 or 3. San Francisco, unknown venue, CA, USA. JHE
It is claimed that Mick Taylor and members of the Bluesbreakers jam with Jimi Hendrix. Songs: unknown
Noel: “In San Francisco, where everyone was as stoned as us and very receptive, we just jammed all night. One night Mitch tried to do a Keith Moon trick jumping onto his floor tom-tom. Only Mitch was getting rather thin (his arms looked more like matchsticks flailing half-hidden behind, behind his kit.) and when he jumped upon it, the drum bounced him right off.”
Mick Taylor: “One night Jimi Hendrix came down to the Speakeasy in London when I was playing with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, and he sat in with us. Mayall used to have a recording, but it was destroyed in that fire in Laurel Canyon. And after our show at Winterland with Albert King and Jimi, we went and played somewhere until about five in the morning. It was kind of like The Grateful Dead meets the blues. Jack Casady from Jefferson Airplane was there. I don‘t think we played songs we just played riffs and notes, anything. Jimi was always playing the guitar, he was absolutely obsessed. Sometimes when he got to a show, he’d go to the dressing room, plug the guitar into an amplifier, and play until his show started. He actually always liked my guitar playing, and in those days I was just a beginner. But he was very modest, very humble, in a very genuine, sincere way, too. I think he realised he had an incredible gift, but he was kind of reluctant to take too much credit for it himself.”
Baron Wolman: "Before his San Francisco concerts in February, 1968, we met Jimi at his motel on Fisherman's Wharf. As the writer was interviewing a surprisingly quiet Jimi, I shot some informal portraits, one of which appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine No. 26. It was impossible to take a bad photo of Hendrix; he was the most photogenic musician I ever encountered whether he was in motion on the stage or at rest with his friends."
1970.
🅰 Juggy Sound, New York Studio Recording Mixing sessions for Band Of Gypsys resumed. Before the evening session began, Hendrix engaged in a jam session with the Rosicrucians, a Queens-based group whose album Eddie Kramer had been producing at the studio. Two separate recordings were made before Hendrix concluded the jam.
🅰 Jimi and Mitch Mitchell jamment ensemblent in the New York apartment. (Jimi played on an acoustic guitar Martin D-45, serial No. 239387 a model 1968)
1979.
🅰 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven. Sid Vicious