🌟 1967.
According to Tony Brown Jimi Hendrix - A Visual Documentary Jimi was interviewed on this day by Hugh Nolan for the April 22 edition of Disc & Music Echo at his Upper Berkeley Street flat. In the interview, Jimi explains:
"....there's so much I want to do. I want to get color into music - I'd like to play a note and have it come out a color. In fact, I've got an electricians working on a machine to do that right now."
As there is no actual proof this interview took place on this date, an alternative date could be the day before, on 17 April.
London W1, The Speakeasy, 48 Margaret Street, Fitzrovia, England
Jimi jammed with Georgie Fame on organ, Ben E. King on drums and Ben’s guitarist on rhythm guitar (unknown name).
Songs: unknown
🌟 1968.
Record Plant, NYC Studio. Recordings: Long Hot Summer Night
🌟 1969.
North Hall, Ellis Auditorium, Amphitheater, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Two shows at 19:00 and 21:30.
Support: Fat Mattress
The JHE flew to Memphis International Airport, Memphis, Tennessee from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York
Billy Cox reunited with Hendrix backstage at the concert. Three days after the backstage meeting in Memphis, Cox joined Jimi at the Record Plant recording studio in New York, effectively replacing Noel as his bassist.
When in Memphis, unable to find his old buddy Billy Cox himself, Jimi phoned Wright’s TV Shop and gave Wright the assignment of tracking him down.
Billy Cox: ‘Mr. Wright’s shop was right near my old place,... Jimi knew that telephone number was intact and asked Mr. Wright to find me. It was a small community, and he found out where I had moved to and told me Jimi had been looking for me.
I went over to the concert at the Coliseum and it was great to see him. He looked good, but he had changed since I had last seen him. He wasn’t the tall, chubby guy I knew. It looked as if he had dropped about twenty-five pounds. We sat down in his dressing room and talked and talked. He asked for my help...I told him I would do whatever I could to help him.”
“We met when the Experience played in Memphis. He told me that he wanted me to be his bass player. He said that things weren’t in the order the way he wanted them and would I come as a friend and help him out. He said he’d take care of me and everything would be okay and so I gladly accepted. I went back to Nashville, closed my publishing company, dropped everything else and left for New York.”
🌟 1970.
Jimi flies from New York City to Los Angeles, California in preparation for the upcoming US Tour.
According to Tony Brown Jimi Hendrix - A Visual Documentary Jimi was interviewed on this day by Hugh Nolan for the April 22 edition of Disc & Music Echo at his Upper Berkeley Street flat. In the interview, Jimi explains:
"....there's so much I want to do. I want to get color into music - I'd like to play a note and have it come out a color. In fact, I've got an electricians working on a machine to do that right now."
As there is no actual proof this interview took place on this date, an alternative date could be the day before, on 17 April.
London W1, The Speakeasy, 48 Margaret Street, Fitzrovia, England
Jimi jammed with Georgie Fame on organ, Ben E. King on drums and Ben’s guitarist on rhythm guitar (unknown name).
Songs: unknown
🌟 1968.
Record Plant, NYC Studio. Recordings: Long Hot Summer Night
🌟 1969.
North Hall, Ellis Auditorium, Amphitheater, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Two shows at 19:00 and 21:30.
Support: Fat Mattress
The JHE flew to Memphis International Airport, Memphis, Tennessee from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York
Billy Cox reunited with Hendrix backstage at the concert. Three days after the backstage meeting in Memphis, Cox joined Jimi at the Record Plant recording studio in New York, effectively replacing Noel as his bassist.
When in Memphis, unable to find his old buddy Billy Cox himself, Jimi phoned Wright’s TV Shop and gave Wright the assignment of tracking him down.
Billy Cox: ‘Mr. Wright’s shop was right near my old place,... Jimi knew that telephone number was intact and asked Mr. Wright to find me. It was a small community, and he found out where I had moved to and told me Jimi had been looking for me.
I went over to the concert at the Coliseum and it was great to see him. He looked good, but he had changed since I had last seen him. He wasn’t the tall, chubby guy I knew. It looked as if he had dropped about twenty-five pounds. We sat down in his dressing room and talked and talked. He asked for my help...I told him I would do whatever I could to help him.”
“We met when the Experience played in Memphis. He told me that he wanted me to be his bass player. He said that things weren’t in the order the way he wanted them and would I come as a friend and help him out. He said he’d take care of me and everything would be okay and so I gladly accepted. I went back to Nashville, closed my publishing company, dropped everything else and left for New York.”
🌟 1970.
Jimi flies from New York City to Los Angeles, California in preparation for the upcoming US Tour.
