๐ 1967. ↪ Jimi writes the lyrics to “The Wind Cries Mary” following an argument with live-in girlfriend Kathy Etchingham. "The Wind Cries Mary" is about her because her middle name is Mary and whenever Jimi wanted to make her angry he would call her by her middle name and she said that he wanted to call it the Wind Cries Kathy but thought that was too personal and according to her, the song was a result of a big fight they had. He hated her cooking and one day she made something like mashed potatoes and he took a bite and screamed, "WHEN will you learn to cook? This is horrible". She threw the plate of food across the room. He said, "What are you doing"? So, she throws a few more plates and is so angry that she leaves for a whole day. When she came back, he had written the song and he told her before he wrote it that he even had the song in his head and wanted to write it about her. (that's what he told her). Later he says, "The Wind Cries Mary is representing more than one woman"
↪ Interview by Nick Jones for the January 21st edition of Melody Maker.
๐ 1968.
↪ Interview by Nick Jones for the January 21st edition of Melody Maker.
๐ 1968.
Jimi and Gerry Stickells stay at the Esso Motor Hotel, Gรถteborg. Jimi reports at the “Report Room” of the Gothenburg police station at 14.00 hours.
๐ 1969.
๐ 1969.
Info from http://www.rockprophecy.com. “Miraculously, 15 of the 25 concerts have survived on recordings from those pre-cassette days with sound reproduction quality ranging from excellent to wretched. While it's true that the shows recorded during the first two nights are pretty bland, Jimi suddenly comes alive and sustains a groove of superhuman mania throughout a Copenhagen concert recorded on January 10, 1969. Of particular interest is the song Taxfree. At present, only nine live versions of the song have been collected, and the Copenhagen version is arguably the best. In addition to its complex flamenco-jazz movement, and viola sounding bow sustains, this Taxfree contains the very earliest recorded examples of two-handed tapping (later popularized by Eddie Van Halen - i.e. Eruption). Judging from the intensity of his improvisation, it seems probable that Jimi invented this liquid trilling technique right on the spot. The Copenhagen '69 recording also features an epic, spaced-out, rendition of I Don't Live Today, and a Purple Haze whose spine-tingling ending rivals the Woodstock version”.
Mitch meets with Keith Emerson and Greg Lake “in the early part of January 1970, I was starting to get together the group Emerson Lake & Palmer. But before I got Carl Palmer on board, Mitch came around to Greg's place in London. Mitch was a great drummer, and obviously worth considering. He said he's like to be involved in what we were planning, and even went so far as to say that he could get Hendrix interested in joining us too. Of course it never happened. I think Greg was a bit relieved, because Mitch had been talking about security and bodyguards, which sounded a bit paranoid to us”.
๐ Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ Howlin' Wolf born as Chester Arthur Burnett (Jun 10, 1910 – Jan 10, 1976)
