🍓 December, 26

1966.
🍓 London, “The Upper Cut”, Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate - Concert (60 minutes).
Support: The Fantastic Freddie Mack Show.
Jimi writes “Purple Haze” in the dressing room of “The Upper Cut”, while he was waiting to go on to play.

https://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/357494/2/boomer-babes

1967.
🍓 London, home of Bruce Fleming, 38 Grays Inn Road - Jimi spends Christmas with Bruce Fleming and friends.

Bruce Fleming: “I had asked Jimi ‘What are you doing for Christmas, are you going back to the States?’ Jimi said, ‘No, I sort of don’t know what to do.’ And it occurred to us that the silly thing was... I mean nobody invited Jimi for Christmas... We got to talk about architecture, painting, all sorts. He was into everything, especially the arts. Yeah, so we just had a brilliant time, and a lot of laughs... with turkey, the whole thing... He stayed over night. He was very radical in his opinions and his ideas: a very original thinker, very laid back, very quiet, very funny. He had a beautiful sense of humor."

1968.
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1969.
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🍓 November, 26

1966.
🍓 London, “I.B.C. Sound Recording Studios”, 35 Portland Place
Chas took the group to visit The Who during a recording session.

Noel: “Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp…to impress us they took us ‘round their studio to meet their group, The Who, who had just struck lucky.”

↪ Hounslow, Middlesex, “Ricky Tick”, High Street - JHE concert (30 minutes), supporting The New Animals. JHE were not advertised.

1967.
🍓 London, BBC Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Ave, St James’, England, JHE
BBC Radio 1 ‘Top Gear’ show. JHE portion was a re-broadcast from 15 October, originally recorded on 6 October.
With: The Kinks, J.J. Jackson, The Herd, Family, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera

↪ "Palace Theatre", Oxford Road, Manchester, Lancashire
Concert (two shows - 18.00 and 20.25).
Accommodation: "Excelsior Hotel", Withenshaw, Manchester, Lancashire.

Noel: “In Manchester we got stoned in the afternoon and nearly got thrown out of the hotel. In Manchester, a thin three-fan welcoming committee presented me the gift of ‘Please’ written 5,000 times. These days the bands weren’t the only ones sniffing pure methedrine crystal and living off a rainbow of diet pills.”

Chris Liston (fan): “I think one of the best gigs I saw in Manchester was Jimi Hendrix at the Palace. As I remember he stayed on stage longer that the theatre wanted him to, in the end they unplugged him.”

1968.
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1969.
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🍓 Born on this day
♡ 1939, Tina Turner
Tina Turner & David Bowie -Tonight (Private Dancer Tour 1985):
https://youtu.be/Of1HV4b0ccg

♡ 1945, John McVie
John Mayall, Peter Green, John McVie & Mick Fleetwood - Stormy Monday Blues:
https://youtu.be/5qMEEP84nfk

🍓 October, 26

1966.
🍓 London, “Scotch Of St. James”, Rehearsals

1967.
🍓 London
↪ "Regent Sounds". Rehearsals of tracks for the upcoming Olympic studio sessions for Axis: Bold As Love.

Noel: "Thrown out after two songs for being too loud!"

James Baring (owner of Regent Sound): "Jimi was a lovely guy, but loud as you know, and he was the only guy that in the middle of the session a guy came round from next door at the Labour Exchange, and said: 'Guys, we can't actually carry on work at the Labour Exchange because we can't hear ourselves speak.'
"And it was a fact that Jimi was so loud that not only could they hear him in the Labour Exchange next door, but us in the control room had difficulty in distinguishing what came through the wall, and what came out of the speakers - so it was in fact [laughs] quite difficult to balance him.... So Jimi was very kind and very nice, and he said 'Okay guys, we've had a good rehearsal, we'd better find somewhere else to make our noise' and that was [laughs] it."

↪ "Olympic Sound Studios"
Studio recordings for "Wait Until Tomorrow" and "Ain't No Telling".
Noel: "Did 2 songs, also some vocals."

↪ Broadcast in Top Gear of the recordings from 17-10-1967.

1968.
🍓 Bakersfield, Civic Auditorium, Ca, USA, JHE
Concert (see Debbie’s post for details)
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/RF4dsWJVPun

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/hendrix-concert-in-bakersfield-the-stuff-of-legend/article_a84a9d82-8a03-5ae8-937d-f7b900829316.html

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/when-jimi-hendrix-came-to-bakersfield-part-ii/article_cd3b9d2d-0438-5600-a33b-4a57587129ab.html

1969.
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🍓 Born on this day
♡ Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972)
Summertime: https://youtu.be/5q4qwSzQXYo
Mahalia Jackson singing & Martin Luther King Jr preaching at Church: https://youtu.be/odHqG1rA4M8

🍓 September, 26

1966.

🍓 Jimi holds auditions at the Birdland, off Jermyn Street, Soho, London.
↪ Eric Burdon: “The first time I heard him play, I was in a rehearsal room putting together the New Animals, and this shadowy figure stepped into the room, and he just grabbed hold of Vic Briggs' guitar and in the same instant said, 'Do you mind if I have a jam?' you know, and cracked up into an uptempo blues jam with John Weider.”

↪ Note: an unlikely description by Burdon of this alleged Weider/Hendrix jam - only remembered by him. Vic Briggs later denied he was there, as he was still engaged with Brian Auger's band.

1967.
🍓 London.
↪ Jimi's flat, Upper Berkeley Street, interview conducted by Kevin P. Buckley for Newsweek (published 9 October 1967).

Jimi: "In five years I want to write some plays and some books. I want to sit on an island - my island - and listen to my beard grow. And then I'll come back and start all over again as a bee - a king bee."

↪ Jimi's flat - Photocall.

↪ Chas Chandler and Mike Jeffery fly to America to meet with Ed Chalpin.

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1969.
🍓 Record Plant, Studio C, NY.
Jimi – guitar, Mitch – drums
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Engineer: Bob Hughes, 2nd engineer Dave Ragno
Songs:
Message To Love [Including snippets of: Night Bird Flying, Valeys of Neptune, Sky Blues Today (Stepping Stone)].

🍓 August, 26

1967.
🍓 Jimi sees Dantalian's Chariot (Zoot Money's new band) at The Speakeasy.

1968.
🍓 The Experience perform at Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport, Connecticut with support from Eire Apparent and Soft Machine.
Concert (see Debbie’s post for details)
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/b4xasU3BEtP

1969.
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1970.
🍓 Electric Lady Studios officially opens with a grand celebration with Jimi in attendance. Reprise Records issues the LP Historic Performances Recorded At The Monterey International Pop Festival, which features the unique pairing of Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding from the 1967 event. Jimi’s involvement on the release came in the form of recordings of ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, ‘Rock Me Baby’, ‘Can You See Me’ and the incendiary ‘Wild Thing’.


🍓 Born on this day
♡ James Andrew Rushing (Aug 26, 1901 - Jun 8, 1972)
Good Morning Blues: https://youtu.be/7fNFyhqwGzI

Photos 1968

🍓 July, 26

🍓 1967.
㊅ New York City, unknown antique shop
Photo call with Jerry Schatzberg.

Noel: "Then to Pat Costello's office for biographies."

Jimi jams with John Hammond and his Screaming Nighthawks at The Gaslight.
Hugh Romney (later aka 'Wavy Gravy') was also billed.

John Hammond: Eric Clapton was in New York as well, and both of them jammed with us for two nights at The Gaslight. It was amazing. What were the two of them playing? Blues, man, straight, heavy blues.

🍓 1968.
㊅ Record Plant, New York City, New York USA
House Burning Down, Long Hot Summer Night

Musicians/Engineers: Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding, Gary Kellgren

A rough mix of House Burning Down was completed, and the group also did some overdubs and mixing towards Long Hot Summer Night.

🍓 1969.
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🍓 1970.
㊅ Seattle, Sicks’ Stadium, Rainier Avenue, Washington, USA. JHE (II)
Concert at 19:15
With: Grand Funk Railroad, Steppenwolf and Jethro Tull

Songs:
Fire // Message To Love // Lover Man // Machine Gun // Star Spangled Banner // Purple Haze // Hear My Train A Comin' // Voodoo Child (Slight Return) // Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) // Freedom // Red House // Foxy Lady

Jimi returned home for the next date, spending time with his family. The concert was subjected to a torrential downpour which flooded out the stadium, and Jimi wasn’t particularly keen to perform.



❀❀❀
❀ Born on this day
1943, Sir Michael Philip Jagger
Miss you: https://youtu.be/x7v65_oRbXs

❀❀❀
❀ Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
John Weldon "J.J" Cale (Dec 5, 1938 – Jul 26, 2013)
Call me the breeze: https://youtu.be/TlppIdtLw5A

🍓 June, 26

🍓 1967.
❇ San Francisco - Photo call.
❇ Travelling from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
❇ Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, Jimi moves into Peter Tork's (of The Monkees) mansion.
❇ Los Angeles, "Whisky A Go Go". JHE attend the Sam and Dave concert.

🍓 1968.
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🍓 1969.
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🍓 1970.
Jimi returned to Electric Lady where he revisited a number of previously recorded compositions for overdubbing. Work on this night included visits to “Message To Love”, “Earth Blues“, “Stepping Stone”, Valleys Of Neptune” and a rough demo of “Heaven Has No Sorrow”.


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❀ Born on this day
❀ 1942, Samuel Lawrence "Larry" Taylor, bassist for the Canned Heat
On The Road Again - Canned Heat - Harvey Mandel - Larry Taylor - Fito de la Parra : https://youtu.be/pF5CD63l0U4

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❀ Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
❀ Johnny Edward Jenkins (Mar 5 1939 – Jun 26 2006)
Johnny Jenkins & Duane Allman ~ ''My Love Will Never Die'' 1970 :
https://youtu.be/KRnTuGkudBk

🍓 May, 26

🍓 1967.
No News...

🍓 1968.
Bologna, Palazzo dello Sport, 8 Piazza Azzarita, Italy, JHE
The JHE drove from Roma to Bologna.
Two shows by JHE at 16:30 and 21:15.
Support: The Cliffters; Ivan & The Meteors; The Keith Anderson Band.
Accommodation: Hotel Alexander, 47-49 Via Pietramellara, Bologna.

Songs, 1st show: Fire 🔹 Hey Joe 🔹 Stone Free 🔹 Red House 🔹 Tax Free 🔹 Purple Haze 🔹 Foxy Lady
Songs 2nd show: Unknown

Mitch: “The last gig was in a modern sports stadium in Bologna, where we did an afternoon show. There was a riot, which I think had already started when we arrived -overpriced tickets or something, you never really found out about these things. We did our set, but had to leave pretty damn quickly. Very pleasant four days, more of a holiday really. Jimi and I really loved Italy.”

After their two concerts, the members of the JHE go to the Stork Club to participate in a jam session with the Boa Boa group.

🍓 1969.
The Experience traveled from San Francisco, California to the Honolulu International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Interview for Newsweek magazine: http://www.rockprophecy.com/madison.html


1970.
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🐱‍👓 Born on this day:
❀ 1926, Miles Dewey Davis III (26 May 1926 - 28 Sep 1991)
Fantasy: https://youtu.be/fdBTWbQEQ2s

❀ 1964, Lenny Kravitz
Hey Joe: https://youtu.be/08xxOJbj5Xk

🐱‍👓 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven:
❀ "Baby Face" Leroy Foster (1 Feb 1923 - 26 May 1958). An American blues singer, drummer and guitarist.
https://youtu.be/Wv6uLXtErEg

https://goo.gl/photos/yCg3datAFchsiUdJ8

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