🍒 1967.
> Top Of The Pops, BBC Broadcasting House, London
BBC 1 TV broadcast of a performances of "Purple Haze", mimed to 45 backing track with live vocals, recorded on 30th March.
With: The Monkees // The Truth // The Jimi Hendrix Experience // The Four Tops // Manfred Mann // Georgie Fame // Engelbert Humperdinck // Dave Dee & Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich // Lulu
> Glasgow, Odeon cinema, Renfield Street, Lanarkshire, Scotland. JHE
Two shows at 18:40 and 21:00.
Supporting The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck
With: The Californians, The Quotations
Songs: unknown
> Following their performance at the Odeon Cinema, Jimi Hendrix is interviewed backstage by Donald Bruce for an April 7th article published in The Dundee Recorder.
🍒 1968.
White Plains, Westchester County Center, Central Avenue, NY, USA, JHE
Concert at 20:00.
Support: Soft Machine with The Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory light show.
Audience: Sold out
Songs: Unknown
End of 1st JHE US Tour. Noel doesn’t list this date in his book for some reason. No one mentions it.
Neville: “Show went down very well.”
? (Professional Musician): “Jimi was the first concert I ever saw...White Plains, NY April 1968...he came 45 minutes late, walked on stage without saying a word and started wailing away on his Strat!”
🍒 1969.
Studio Recording: Record Plant Studios, New York
21:00 – 08:30, 11hr 30min
Jam With Electric Sitar // Ships Passing In The Night (embryonic Night Bird Flying) // Ezy Ryder.
Working without Mitch and Noel, Jimi enjoyed a night of jamming and experimentation. The evening’s highlight came when Jimi recorded an extended, untitled jam session playing an electric sitar, an instrument given to him by its inventor, Vinnie Bell.
The tape box for this session was marked as ‘Tape Of False Takes.’
🍒 1970.
No News….
