🍀 December, 10

1966.
🍀 Publication of the first interview with Jimi in Record Mirror.
↪ London, “The Ram Jam Club”, Brixton Road, Brixton concert (40 minutes).
Supporting John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. The club had a small podium on one side, while gambling was going on at the other side of the club.

1967.
🍀 London, “Speakeasy”
“Moody Blues played to packed, enrapt audience... Among the celebrities: Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix.” (Disc and Music Echo, 16 December 1967).

↪ Still from the "Nights In White Satin" film clip, likely shot on the afternoon of 10 December 1967 (without an audience), for French TV programme "Bouton Rouge", broadcast 23 December 1967.

1968.
🍀 Mitch joins John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, The Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahall, Marianne Faithfull and several others for the Rolling Stones’ “Rock & Roll Circus” at the BBC’s Wembley Studios in London. Mitchell joins The Dirty Mac on their performance of “Yer Blues.”

1969.
🍀 Jimi’s trial for drug possession entered its third day. Both the Counsel for the Defense and the Counsel for the Prosecution made their final address before the jury. The Defense rested the case on the law that to be charged with the possession of a narcotic there has to be knowledge of its existence. Jimi’s attorney John O’Driscoll reminded the jury that a conviction cannot be handed down if there is any doubt. After a brief address by the Counsel for the Prosecution the jury left the courtroom and deliberated for eight hours before returning with a verdict of not guilty.

🍀 Born on this day
♡ Guitar Slim (Dec 10, 1926 - Feb 7, 1959)
I'm Guitar Slim: https://youtu.be/etZmdNgtRTk

🍀 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ Otis Redding (Sep 9, 1941 - Dec 10, 1967)
Tell The Truth: https://youtu.be/2ACNL6WUzqA

♡ Rick Danko (Dec 29, 1943 - Dec 10, 1999)
Janis Joplin, Rick Danko, Jerry Garcia & Friends: https://youtu.be/janHO9ps7Ck

🍀 November, 10

1966.
🍀 Munich, “Big Apple”: Rehearsals (the group learned 2 new songs in two hours). Concerts (two shows of 45 minutes each)
Supporting: The Drifters
Songs: ❔

1967.
🍀 Flying from London Heathrow Airport, Middlesex England, to Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Holland.

↪ Bussum, "Vitus TV Studio"
TV rehearsals and live recordings for the Dutch TV station VPRO program 'Hoepla' in the afternoon. (see Debbie’s post for details)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109564805347348145270/posts/GvyRDJHrTSX


↪ After the recordings, the group ate French fried potatoes across the street from the Vitus Studio. Thereafter, about five o'clock, they left by car for Rotterdam.

↪ Accommodation: "Hotel Centraal", Rotterdam. The group booked in at Hotel Centraal, and had dinner.

↪ 'Hippy Happy Beurs Voor Tieners En Twens'/"Ahoy Hallen", Rotterdam
Concert (see Debbie’s post for details)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109564805347348145270/posts/3mKv1MQKt8f

http://users.bart.nl/~basmveck/hendrix%20in%20holland1.htm
http://users.bart.nl/~basmveck/hoepla%20studio.htm

1968.
🍀 An appearance by The Experience on the Ed Sullivan Show was proposed by Sullivan’s son-in-law, Bob Precht; unfortunately, the event was snubbed before ever making it off the ground. In John McDermott’s “Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight,” Bob Levine recalls, “Sullivan Productions really wanted to have Jimi on. Ed Sullivan had to get him one way or another, so Sullivan, Precht, Jeffrey and I sat down to talk. Sullivan wanted to have the Vienna Ballet dance to his music, with Hendrix in front of a big orchestra, done on location in Europe. Jeffrey figured out the money he would need and agreed to the concept verbally. He left the meeting to speak to somebody - I don’t know who - and when, a day or so later, I told him he was supposed to follow up with Bob Precht her replied, ‘We aren’t going to do it.’ I asked if he had spoken to Jimi and he said, ‘No, I am not going to let Hendrix do that. I’ve got my reasons.’ Jimi would have loved to have done it.”

1969.
🍀 Record Plant, NYC Recordings: Shame, Shame, Shame // Lonely Avenue

↪ Jimi fails to appear at a previous scheduled meeting with his attorney Henry Steingarten where an update of Jimi’s broadening financial burdens were to be discussed. In a letter, dated Nov 11, 1969, Steingarten sent an outline of Jimi’s mounting debt and unfulfilled commitments to him.

🍀 Born on this day
♡ Mojo Buford
(Nov 10, 1929 - Oct 11, 2011)
Muddy Waters w/ Mojo Buford on Harp, Chicago 1981: https://youtu.be/Cf4REEMZUtE

Also:
♡ "Big Chief" Ellis (Nov 10, 1914 - Dec 20, 1977)
♡ Hip Linkchain (Nov 10, 1936 - Feb 13, 1989)
♡ James "Thunderbird" Davis (Nov 10, 1938 - Jan 24, 1992)
♡ Greg Lake (Nov 10, 1947 - Dec 7, 2016)

Other photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/FXXR6kqyBqBQEfvK2

🍀 October, 10

1966.
🍀 London
↪ JHE rehearsals. They practised all afternoon and it sounded good.
Producer: Chas Chandler
Songs: unknown.

Noel: “Practiced all afternoon. Sounds good. Get new gear tomorrow.”

Mitch: “I remember at one of the rehearsals Henry Mancini appeared at the door, with fingers in his ears. ‘Hey, you guys, can’t you keep it down a bit,’ and this was with the small amps.”

Noel: "It was Mike who came up with our name - The Experience. A lot of people say that Chas thought of, but actually Mike Jefferys thought of it."

1967.
🍀 Paris
↪ Unknown TV Studio. Recordings for the program "Un portrait de Marie Laforêt".
Song (mimed): The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp.
Broadcast date: 21 October 1967.

↪ "A La Tour De Nesle", 114, Rue Sèvres, 75015 Paris 15.
Noel and The Small Faces visit this club where English DJ 'Emperor' Rosko (real name Mike Prescott) works. It's possible that Jimi also went.

1968.
🍀 Winterland Ballroom San Francisco, California, two Shows.
Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady joined the Experience during the evening’s second show. Casady added bass guitar to “Killing Floor” and “Hey Joe”.

Jack Casady: "I think he was uncomfortable with the whole English re-invention tag with flowery uniforms and bell-bottoms. I think he was uncomfortable with the branding, that he would forever have to be the Jimi Hendrix Experience... It jump-started his career and the timing was right. But he broke away from all kinds of confinement."

1969.
🍀 No News…

🍀 Born on this day
♡ Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
(Oct 9 or 10, 1813 - Jan 27, 1901)
La donna è mobile (Rigoletto): https://youtu.be/M-_BhozB3JA

♡ Ivory Joe Hunter
(Oct 10, 1914 - Nov 8, 1974)
I'm Cuttin' Out (Popcorn Killer): https://youtu.be/-_0Q7IuBdqw

♡ Thelonious Sphere Monk
(Oct 10, 1917 - February 17, 1982)
Blue Monk: https://youtu.be/_40V2lcxM7k

Photos 🔻:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/W5eOW0g5J6A40rdH2