Monday 9 April 2018

🎣 April, 09

🎣 1967.
> Liverpool, The Empire Theatre, Lime Street, Lancashire, England. JHE
Two shows at 17:40 and 20:00.
Supporting: The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck
With: The Californians, The Quotations
Songs: unknown
Jimi meets Bil for the first time at the concert venue, while history has it that Jimi and Noel got thrown out the "Lord Nelson" pub when they tried (in their stage clothes) to get a drink in between the two shows.

> Final mixing for the Are You Experienced album completed at Olympic.

🎣 1968.
Jimi jams at The Generation with Elvin Bishop (guitar), Buzzy Feiton (bass), Phillip Wilson (drums), Don Martin (guitar), Al Kooper (organ), and Paul Butterfield (harmonica).

🎣 1969.
Record Plant Studios, New York Studio Recording 1)Hear My Train A Comin’ 2)Stone Free New attempts were made at “Hear My Train A Comin’” while Jimi added overdubs to the “Stone Free” master begun on April 7.
Noel says at one of the last sessions Jimi threw a wobbler, shouting at them (he hints it may have been due to PCP) after which Jimi sent him & Mitch an apologetic note. He also says Jimi was taking heroin, we are left to presume around this time. Herbie Worthington also says he used it, but Mitch says Jimi only tried it a few times but didn’t like it.
Kathy & Angie have to move to another hotel due to Angie & her man accidentally setting fire to their mattress, which they threw out the window into 5th Ave!!

🎣 1970.
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