1966. 💣 Wembley, “Studio One”, Middlesex, TV recordings for “Ready, Steady, Go!”.
Noel: “Then on 13 December, only two months to the day since our first gig, we filmed our first TV, the last Ready, Steady, Go show. It featured the Mersey’s (two original Merseybeats, Tony Crane and Billy Kingsley), the Troggs and Keith Relf (lead singer of the original Yardbirds). Mitch had acted on telly before, but Jimi only had limited TV experience and I had none. We were extremely nervous, and in those days you played LIVE. You arrived at ten in the morning and rehearsed, returned at three for another run-through and did it live at seven. The hard part was staying sober all the boring day. [...] I think we just played ‘Hey Joe’. Right before the show my stage clothes were nicked from the van. Chas was probably happy. He hated my pink jeans. We dashed out and he bought me trousers and a terribly conservative striped jumper, for which he then billed me. We often finished the night at the Bag O’Nails because we could get in free. The £1.00 admission price would have been hard to come by.”
↪ London, “CBS Studios”, JHE studio recordings (three songs in three hours).
1967. 💣 London, “Olympic Sound Studios”, Studio recordings. Linda Keith, who was in a bad state according to Noel, attends the session.
1967. 💣 London ↪ Transmission of the 'Rhythm and Blues' radio show (hosted by Alexis Komer) recordings of 17 October 1967 on BBC World Service, between 14.45 and 15.00. Noel: "...with Alexis Korner who jammed on 'Hoochie Coochie Man' with us, playing brilliant slide guitar."
↪ Rehearsals for upcoming tour, possibly at Regent Sound Studios.
↪ JHE members get haircuts at Gary Craze's "Sweeny Todd Barber Shop" in London. Photocall with Bruce Fleming at around 18:30.
↪ "Olympic Sound Studios", 117 Church Road, Barnes. Studio recordings for "Angel" (aka "Sweet Angel"). Jimi guitars and bass, with a drum machine.
1966. 💣 Novelty (Cinema), Evreux - Concert First official concert of the JHE, supporting Long Chris, Les Blackbirds, and Johnny Hallyday. Jimi & Co. were on stage for 15 minutes and performed four songs.
1967. 💣 Borehamwood, "Elstree Studios", Hertfordshire TV rehearsal and recordings for the ATV program 'Good Evening!' Song: Little Miss Lover.
Noel: "Up at 10am to go to Elstree Studios for Jonathan King Show. I really felt ill by this time like the flu. And wouldn't you know, it's a live show – scheduled to go out next day. I slept for 12 hours that night! I only got up the next day to watch it on TV."
↪ Broadcast in Rhythm and Blues World Service of the recordings from 17-10-1967
1967. 💣 Göteborg, "Park Avenue Hotel" - "Britain's Ambassador to Sweden, Sir Archibald Ross, KCMG, MA, must surely now be in line for another helping of alphabet soup... He saved Princess Alexandra from a confrontation with the pop world's ultimate weapon. The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix - 21- year old guitarist-singer from Seattle whose hair resembles a demented fright wig - returned to the Park Avenue Hotel... With the other two members of his group he was standing in the foyer chatting. A somewhat nervous hotel executive asked them all to move. Because, he explained anxiously, Princess Alexandra was about to pass. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, paying guests one and all, refused. The executive insisted. Although they could have blasted him from Gofhenburg to eternity with a few chords, the Experience refused to budge... The situation looked nasty. Enter Sir Archibald, 65, with thirty-one years of dealing with difficult situations and well-used to even more eccentric types than the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He took the heat out of the situation immediately. "He invited us to have a drink," said Hendrix. "He was real cool. I guess the guy at the hotel thought we were a bit scruffy and tried to tidy the place up for the Princess." While the group members were having their drink, Princess Alexandra passed through the foyer without seeing them." (Daily Mirror, 14 September 1967).
↳ Flying from Torslanda Airport, Göteborg, SWEDEN, to London Heathrow Airport, Middlesex, ENGLAND.
1968. 💣 Oakland Coliseum (Arena), Nimitz Freeway/Hegenberger Road, CA, USA, JHE With support from Vanilla Fudge, Eire Apparent, and Soft Machine, The Experience performs a show at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California.
No gigs previous three nights. Leon claims he arrived in Beverly Hills, L.A. to visit Jimi. Jimi had’t left a message and is unavailable. Leon says the desk didn’t inform him that Jimi had booked a room for him. Eventually, after a change of staff at the desk, he was informed of the limo that was at his disposal. Having little cash he took the (free) limo downtown and spent the night in a cheap, trash motel. The JHE flew at 17:20 from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Concert at 20:30. Support: Vanilla Fudge; Soft Machine; Eire Apparent Audience: ~ 8,000 Songs: unknown Noel: “We really got smashed (understatement) with him (Owsley) and the show was a good one, we played well and went down well.”
1969. 💣 Boiceville, "Ashokan House", NY. Ephron jams. Ephron claimed, “Jimi wanted to blend rhythmic jazz with a free-form movement. I’m a free-formist, but Mike Jeffery... was opposed to my influence. We were joint composers, although in fact most of the ideas were mine. . . We had pre-set patterns; starting off points and endings and the middles were usually free. He infers the ludicrous titles for these meandering jams were dreamed up by him, “The titles were added later.”
1970. 💣 De Doelen, Rotterdam, Holland. Cancelled due to Billy allegedly having some kind of nervous breakdown, about which he has never spoken. Jimi is in London. Kirsten again at the Cumberland with Jimi. Angie Burdon & Co. visit.
💣 Born on this day ♡ Tony Russell "Charles" Brown (Sep 13, 1922 - Jan 21, 1999) Trouble Blues: https://youtu.be/CGtu2gMRIPU
❀❀❀ ❀ Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven Edward Riley "Eddie" Boyd (Nov 25 1914 – Jul 13 1994) was an American blues pianist, singer and songwriter, best known for his recordings in the early 1950s. You Got To Reap: Eddie Boyd with Fleetwood Mac https://youtu.be/BNoBX9jLttk
💣 1967. Jimi, Chas, Mike and Keith Altham fly from London Heathrow Airport, Middlesex, to New York City, U.S.A. It seems that Noel took a flight one day later.
Keith Altham (NME): We drove to London Airport in Mike Jeffery's Rolls Royce... We picked up Jimi Hendrix and Chas from their flat and continued to the airport where Jimi ransacked the book stall for a science fiction novel.
We were all on that plane, Chas, Jimi, Mike and I. First class, thank you very much! First trip to America, wonderful, terrific time it was. Arriving at Kennedy Airport, we were met by a long sleek black Cadillac. Without pausing to check into the Hotel, Jimi shot down to the Colony record centre, just off Broadway, and bought half a dozen LPs by people like The Doors and The Mothers Of Invention. The first thing we did, we booked into this dreadful, notorious Hotel called The Chelsea, then moved to the Buckingham Hotel instead. Of course there was supposed to be one murder every week. I found this out subsequently and I just thought it was a wonderful American Hotel. 💣 1968. Record Plant, New York City, New York, USA House Burning Down, Gypsy Eyes Jimi and Eddie focused on more mixing towards House Burning Down and Gypsy Eyes. The mix for House Burning Down served as the master until a new mix created on August 28th, 1968 replaced it. 💣 1969. No News... 💣 1970. Baltimore Civic Centre, Maryland, USA, JHE (II) Concert at 20:00 (see Debbie’s post for details) https://plus.google.com/u/0/109564805347348145270/posts/BdjeVoT37S7 Jimi Hendrix Baltimore 1970 Synced 8mm https://youtu.be/wjoZ7uobTqk
❀❀❀ ❀ Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven ❀ Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30 1909 - Jun 13 1986) St. Louis Blues: https://youtu.be/H5imTK6wZl8
💣 1967. Imperial College Union Hall, Kensington, England, JHE Audience unknown. Hall capacity ~ 800 Concert (45 minutes) Songs: unknown
Dave Dilloway (guitar – ‘1984’): “We were booked to play first for dancing downstairs on that occasion, and we stopped when we knew Hendrix was due on in the main hall. Brian Jones came out of the dressing room behind Hendrix and went with him to the stage, where he stood quietly watching Jimi perform from the wings. I don't think I'd ever seen anyone look so skeletal and ill as Jones did that night.”
