🐟 1967.
> London W1, Saville Theatre, 135-149 Shaftesbury Ave, Soho, England, JHE
Jimi shatters his 1965 Stratocaster at the end of the show Are You Experienced. A guitar he painted in red and decorated with arabesques. Here is what Jimi had written on the back of it before the sacrifice: May this be love or just confusion born out of frustration wracked feelings of not being able to make true physical love to the universal gypsy. My darling guitar ... please Rest In Peace, Amen. (Whether this is love or just confusion, born of frustration, destructive feelings of not being able to make true physical love to the universal gypsy queen of pure and freely expressed music. Please rest in peace my dear guitar Amen). A ritual act that the musician performed religiously, as at the Saville Theater in London, June 4, 1967, just before flying to California and creating the event at the Monterey Festival.
That evening, at Saville, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are in the room and the Experience plays Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in tribute to the Beatles. This concert takes place three days after the release of Famous album of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which will be the artistic and popular summit of the psychedelic era. While the eponymous song that opens the album is in every head, the Jimi Hendrix Experience starts the show with its own version of the title.
The public of Le Saville, including Paul McCartney and George Harrison, can not get over it. Paul acknowledges, elsewhere publicly that the version of Jimi is excellent. There was mutual respect between the two groups at the time. The Beatles and the Experience were friends and especially George Harrison who will introduce Jimi to Oriental sounds and Paul McCartney who will personally recommend Jimi to the organizers of the Monterey Festival.
Show program Procol Harum opened the program.
> Speakeasy, London: Jimi and Mitch attend the Turtles concert (Peter Asher, Brian Jones, Danny Laine and Terry Stamp are also present).
> Neville Chesters who temporarily worked with the Who becomes Road manager of the JHE.
🐟 1968.
ATV Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, England, JHE
The Experience rehearse for their upcoming recordings for Dusty Springfield’s television program ‘It Must Be Dusty’ at ITV Television Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
🐟 1969.
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🐟 1970.
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