Kathy Etchingham: Christmas Day 1966 at Montagu Square, London. I had just given Jimi a pair of socks (a traditional British gift) as a Christmas present and he seemed somewhat surprised by this! It's a nice photo of Jimi.
1967. 💦 Transmission of the JHE performing “Purple Haze” on ‘Top Of The Pops ‘67’ (BBC1 TV, between 14.05 and 15.00), tele-recorded on 16 December 1967.
London, Jimi’s flat - Due to Kathy Etchingham’s “limited cooking skills” Jimi was treated to a Christmas dinner consisting of “egg and chips”.
London - Jimi turns up in the evening for a party at Noel’s house, who’s celebrating his 22nd birthday, and stays until the early morning hours.
Noel: “Dropped acid on my 22nd birthday, [...] I found my trips were changing. First I lost my memory while up, and then the bad trips started. I couldn’t forget these, no matter how hard I tried. Gone were the days when we would play around, tossing energy and thoughts to each other like kids having a pillow fight. It was hard to even get coherent, because we weren’t leaving any time between trips to sort ourselves out. Only when we were working did I feel whole.”
After the concert, Peter Jones conducts the first UK interview with Jimi: “Britain is really groovy ...We don’t want to be classed in any category. If it must have a tag, I’d like it to be called ‘Free Feeling’...’ [Record Mirror, 10 December 1966].
1967. 💦 London ↪ "Regent Sounds". Rehearsals of tracks for the upcoming Olympic studio sessions for Axis: Bold As Love until 18:00.
↪ "Olympic Sound Studios" Studio recordings for "Little Wing" and 'Wait Until Tomorrow'. Noel: "Did 2 good tracks."
1968. 💦 Jimi buys a new Corvette Stingray (in “Cortez Silver”) to replace the one he wrecked.
1969. 💦 No News…
💦 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven ♡ Jack Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) We were playing Regents Polytechnic, just having a pre-gig pint in a pub across the road and in comes this guy who turns out to be Jimi Hendrix. Now, we had already heard about Jimi on the grapevine.
Jimi came up to me and said: “Hi. I would like to sit in with the band.” I said it was fine with me but he’d obviously have to check it out with Eric and Ginger. So we went across to the gig, and Eric immediately said yes and Ginger said: “Oh, dunno about that” [laughs]. So he came on and plugged into my bass amp, and as far as I can remember he just blew us all away.
1966. 💦 At 4am, Jimi telephones his father in Seattle. Kathy also spoke to Jimi’s father briefly.
Al Hendrix: “He told me, 'Well, I'm over here in England now and I'm auditioning for a bass player and a drummer. It's just going to be a trio and I'm going to call it The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and I'm going to spell my name J-I-M-I.' I said, "Well, that's, a little different.’”
Kathy Etchingham: “I spoke to his father and said, 'Hello, Mr Hendrix.' I spoke a few words and he said, 'Look, my boy's in England? You tell my boy to write me. I'm not paying for collect calls.' We were woken up in the hotel by a girl who burst into the room, grabbed Jimi’s guitar and walked out... Jimi told me she was an English girl [Linda Keith] he’d been sleeping with in America. Later after we were up, she came back, took off all her clothes and climbed into the bed. She said Jimi could have his guitar back on condition that he got into bed with her. For once he refused such an offer and sent her on her way. All Jimi had was a guitar in a case, a couple of satin shirts, a jar of Noxema and a bag of rollers. I used to set his hair in rollers.”
1969. 💦 New York City, Record Plant, NY. Jimi–guitar, Buddy Miles–drums. *Juma “Sultan” (Lewis)-percussion Producer: Jimi Hendrix, Engineer: Jack Adams, 2nd engineer Dave Ragno Keep On Groovin (Midnight Lightning) // Room Full Of Mirrors // Message To Love // Machine Gun // Sky Blues Today (Stepping Stone) // Jam, unreleased.
💦 Born on this day ♡ Roosevelt Melvin "Booba" Barnes (Sep 25, 1936 - Apr 2, 1996) No Place To Go: https://youtu.be/L5zk8ZLE6Gw
💦 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven ♡ John Henry Bonham (May 31, 1948 - Sep 25, 1980) Moby Dick: https://youtu.be/cRuTcnd8YLU
💦 1967. Photo session at Jimi's apartment in Edgeware Road for the Sunday Observer (published 3 December 1967). Mitch gets engaged to Carolyn Kinsey, a former 'Hanwell Carnival Queen'!
💦 1968. The Experience perform two shows at the Carousel Theatre in Framingham, Massachusetts with support from Soft Machine. Jimi drives back to New York City immediately following the show. Concert (see Debbie’s post for details) https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/AY2M8WuAmBX
💦 1969. No News…
💦 1970. No News…
💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦 💦 Born on this day ♡ 1954, Declan Patrick MacManus known by his stage name Elvis Costello Watching The Detectives: https://youtu.be/snPDoXl9ZPs
💦 1967. New York City - Photo call with Noel for Hagstrom's 8-string bass publicity.
💦 1968. The Experience fly from Heathrow International Airport to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
💦 1969. No News...
💦 1970. Back on the West Coast, The Jimi Hendrix Experience are joined by Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys for tonight’s performance at the Sports Arena in San Diego, CA. Concert (see Debbie's post for details) https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/ipgzJDZGbzM
