1966.
🌳 London.
↪ Jimi, Chas Chandler and Terry McVay arrive at London International Airport. Entry stamp was cancelled because Jimi did not have a work permit. Later a new stamp was issued and a seven day non work permit issued after a lot of talking by Chas. Eventually they managed to get Jimi admitted into the UK on the grounds that Jimi, as the writer of several songs, had come to collect royalties due to him.
↪ On the way into London from the airport, Chas took Jimi to the house of Zoot Money, at 11 Gunterstone Road, Fulham, London W14.
↪ Jimi and Chas book into the Hyde Park Towers hotel, 41-49 Inverness Terrace, London W2.
↪ Scotch Of St. James, 13 Mason’s Yard, London SW1. Jimi’s first public jam in London.
↪ Here Kathy Etchingham meets Jimi for the first time. They spend the night together at the Hyde Parks Towers hotel.
1967.
🌳 London - Noel returns from his holiday in Spain.
Jimi, accompanied by Noel Redding and Eric Burdon, checks out Traffic and Tomorrow at the Saville Theater.
1968.
🌳 No News…
1969.
🌳 New York City, Penn-Garden Hotel, NY. Billy Cox leaves.
Billy appears to have given up after the hopless ‘JHE’ session the previous night.
Cox checked out of the Hotel and returned to Nashville (obvously pissed off).
BC: "The whole problem started as soon as we got to the house in Woodstock. There were people who just did not want this band to succeed. It was one thing after another. There was the shoot-out down at the front gate of the Boiceville house, the ‘infiltration’ of people into the house, drugs being put into people's food just a lot of unnecessary, underhanded things being done for no reason. I didn't have time to try and figure out who was behind all this and why were they doing so. When you get down to people fighting with guns out in front of the house, there is something seriously wrong. All I knew was that I was going to do the Woodstock gig, help out my buddy, and carry my ass back to Nashville. That was my focus. After Woodstock, I hung around as long as I could, but there was just too much bullshit going down all around him. Jimi had gone down into this well. He said, 'Man, I just can't get it together. I've gotta rest my head.' He told me that if he could, he was thinking of going off to Africa with Colette I wished him Godspeed and told him I was glad I had been able to help him. That was it. I didn't think I was ever going to be involved with him again."
