📚 1967.
Hey Joe, 51st Anniversary, the first single of the JHE is published in the USA.
📚 1968.
Record Plant, New York City – no gig.
Jimi & Mitch. No Noel
Producer: Chas Chandler
Engineer: Eddie Kramer
Chas: “The song ‘Tax Free’ had stuck in Jimi's mind, and he wanted to complete a definitive version. We must have done that eight times, all instrumentals, but he wanted to find a vocal and a melody for it."
Mitch: “Not just the album tracks, there were loads of out-takes that are now surfacing as well. We also did 'Tax Free', which is probably the version that came out on one of those posthumous albums. That cropped up live several times over the years, and I hope Hansson and Carlsson have got some royalties for it. Unlikely, but who knows?"
Jim McCarty: “Jimi managed to evoke a feeling of the ocean. He told me that was the way he approached a song, especially if it was a specific thing like a house burning down or an ocean or a waterfall. His whole thing was visual. He visualised; ‘What do I have to do on the guitar to create a house burning down?’ That’s how he viewed the guitar, basically the same way as Picasso would view a canvas. He had an ability to pull it off because he was so brilliant.”
Kramer: “Jimi was playing a lot of bass and Noel felt a bit left out. I think Noel felt the pressure and sensed he was being shoved out. Jimi was a great bass player. If he wanted something that Noel couldn't give him, he would play it himself. Noel felt really put out when this would occur, so there was that tension between the two of them. But Jimi's perspective was to make the track and the album the best it could be. I understood Jimi's thinking on this because, beyond this one issue, I thought that when they played together they were still incredible."
📚 1969.
Interview with Jimi by journalist Sharon Lawrence of United Press International, Beverly Rodeo Hyatt House, 360 North Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
📚 1970.
Milwaukee Auditorium, Wisconsin, USA. JHE [II]
Concert at 20:00
Tape: audience, 60:00 minutes, reasonable, by unknown
Support: Oz
Audience: ~ 3,000
Hey Joe, 51st Anniversary, the first single of the JHE is published in the USA.
📚 1968.
Record Plant, New York City – no gig.
Jimi & Mitch. No Noel
Producer: Chas Chandler
Engineer: Eddie Kramer
Chas: “The song ‘Tax Free’ had stuck in Jimi's mind, and he wanted to complete a definitive version. We must have done that eight times, all instrumentals, but he wanted to find a vocal and a melody for it."
Mitch: “Not just the album tracks, there were loads of out-takes that are now surfacing as well. We also did 'Tax Free', which is probably the version that came out on one of those posthumous albums. That cropped up live several times over the years, and I hope Hansson and Carlsson have got some royalties for it. Unlikely, but who knows?"
Jim McCarty: “Jimi managed to evoke a feeling of the ocean. He told me that was the way he approached a song, especially if it was a specific thing like a house burning down or an ocean or a waterfall. His whole thing was visual. He visualised; ‘What do I have to do on the guitar to create a house burning down?’ That’s how he viewed the guitar, basically the same way as Picasso would view a canvas. He had an ability to pull it off because he was so brilliant.”
Kramer: “Jimi was playing a lot of bass and Noel felt a bit left out. I think Noel felt the pressure and sensed he was being shoved out. Jimi was a great bass player. If he wanted something that Noel couldn't give him, he would play it himself. Noel felt really put out when this would occur, so there was that tension between the two of them. But Jimi's perspective was to make the track and the album the best it could be. I understood Jimi's thinking on this because, beyond this one issue, I thought that when they played together they were still incredible."
📚 1969.
Interview with Jimi by journalist Sharon Lawrence of United Press International, Beverly Rodeo Hyatt House, 360 North Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
📚 1970.
Milwaukee Auditorium, Wisconsin, USA. JHE [II]
Concert at 20:00
Tape: audience, 60:00 minutes, reasonable, by unknown
Support: Oz
Audience: ~ 3,000