Tuesday 27 February 2018

🍯 February, 27

🍯 1967.
A second photo session with Bruce Fleming at his London studio is completed on this day. Where the first session focused primarily on black & white photos, this session focused on color photography. The results of which appeared on the cover for the UK pressing of The Experience's debut album Are You Experienced.

Jimi and Chas visit the Speakeasy club.

🍯 1968.
Accompanied by Soft Machine and Mark Boyle’s Sense Laboratory, The Experience play two shows at The Factory in Madison, Wisconsin.
1st show
Tax Free 🐞 Fire 🐞Red House 🐞Foxy Lady 🐞 The Wind Cries Mary 🐞 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? 🐞 Purple haze

🍯 2016.
The ‘Guitar Event Of The Year,’ the multi-artist celebration known as the Experience Hendrix Tour was set to return in 2016. Legendary artists joined together to pay homage to Jimi. The tour celebrated the musical genius of Jimi Hendrix by bringing together a diverse array of extraordinary musicians, ranging from blues legend Buddy Guy to Black Label Society and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, as well as Johnny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa and many others. Billy Cox, bassist for both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys, anchors a rhythm section that provides the foundation for exciting renditions of such signature Hendrix favorites as “Purple Haze” and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”.






🍯 Born on this day

1951. Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel)