Tuesday 28 August 2018

🎸 August, 28

1967.
🎸 London W2, "Hyde Park" - Photocall.
Interview for The Observer (published 3 December 1967). Possibly only with Noel.

1968.
🎸 Record Plant, New York City. New York, USA, JHE.
Noel: “Speeding and coked up we worked until ten the next morning. We blew the next day’s session, as a result.”
Later session that day cancelled.
Noel: “We were so done in by our previous marathon session we have to cancel this one..., we didn’t get up until 6pm."

🎸 Providence, Rhode Island Auditorium, RI.
‘Pop Music Festival’ – cancelled
With support act, The Zoo

🎸 New York City, Scene Club, NY
Noel: “Jam with Mitch and Larry Coryell. The words day and night had no meaning. Day was whenever we happened to be awake. I'd pry my eyelids open with a snort of coke just in time to go all-night jamming with friends like Robert Wyatt and Larry Coryell.”

1969.
🎸 Hit Factory, New York Studio Recording. Jimi returned to the recording studio for the first time in nearly three months. The guitarist was accompanied by his expanded ensemble Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, as well as engineer Eddie Kramer. Jimi had readied a slate of promising new material and looked to make progress on his next studio album. A number of recordings from this session were later issued on disc. The two most prominent were “Message To The Universe”, now a part of South Saturn Delta and “Izabella” from the box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience. While no longer in print, two other recordings from this session have been previously released. An edited version of “Easy Blues” was part of the 1980 compilation Nine To The Universe.

1970.
🎸 Jimi participates in a series of interviews at his suite at the Londonderry Hotel. Among the interviewees include Gillian Saich (New Musical Express, September 5), Bob Partridge (Record Mirror, September 19), and Norman Joplin (Music Now, September 12). Hendrix applies for a working visa at the Swedish Embassy in London so that he can perform there in the coming weeks. Later that night Jimi is joined by Steven Stills and Billy Cox at The Speakeasy.