1966.
🏂️ ‘Grand Gala Du Disque’, Amsterdam, Holland;
Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames play their last gig (televised). The line-up was: Georgie Fame (vocals/organ), Eddie Thornton (trumpet), Cliff Barton (bass), Colin Green (guitar), Mitch Mitchell (drums), Peter Coe (tenor sax), Glenn Hughes (baritone sax), Speedy Acquaye (conga’s).
1967.
🏂️ Olympic Sound Studios, London, JHE
Producer: Chas Chandler
Engineer: Eddie Kramer
2nd engineer: Andy Johns
One Rainy Wish
Jimi: “The piccolo sound on ‘If 6 Was 9’ was actually a Moroccan flute I bought for two shillings. You can get that same sound out of a guitar. We’ve got a gadget call the Octavia that we use on a song called “One Rainy Wish.” It boosts the guitar twice as high.”
Chas: “I was very keen on that song from the very first moment I heard him play it to me . Jimi recorded three guitars for that song - not counter playing as he had done with ‘The Wind Cries Mary.’ These guitar parts each picked up where the other one left off. We had some trouble recording it, as there were originally some gaps between the notes, which caused Noel to struggle a bit with the tempo, but it all came together nicely in the end.”
Eddie: “Jimi would sometimes say, ‘Make the guitar sound green or purple and I would adjust the sound accordingly. he would say, ‘Yeah, man, that’s it!’ To me green suggested reverb, while I always interpreted purple, a more regal colour, to mean rich distortion.
Roger Mayer: "I spent a lot of time with Jimi privately, hanging out and talking. We were normally using colours to describe the sounds.
Noel: "Did 1 number again today, Graham [Nash] came around."
1968.
🏂️ Jimi arrives from Los Angeles, arriving at the Honolulu International Airport. Upon his arrival in Honolulu, Hendrix was interviewed by Wayne Haradapour .
Then, the group moved into a rented house with a view of the sea. During the evenings in his house, Jimi took the opportunity to jam with a local group Times Music Co and to maintain relations with groupies.
1969.
🏂️ No News…
🏂️ Born on this day
♡ 1951, Sting, born as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner.
Roxanne: https://youtu.be/WXzFCS72QIA
