1966.
📚 London - Jimi signs a contract with Yameta.
1967.
📚 Axis: Bold As Love, the second Jimi Hendrix Experience LP, released by Track Records in the UK.
↪ Chatham, “Central Hall”, High Street, Kent - Concert (two shows 18.15 & 20.45).
Noel: “Chatham was a terrible show, terrible place”...
1968.
📚 Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, JHE, end of 3rd US Tour in 1968.
Concert at 14:00.
Support: Cat Mother And The All Night Newsboys.
Doug Ketchum (fan): “The first time I saw him I was just 16. It was a very ‘black’ setting, because they only used white spotlights on the stage. Back in those days concerts were different because they didn’t have all the flash and laser beams. Hendrix didn’t need props and theatrics, he just played.
I remember Jimi had a hat on during the show. At some point he wanted to take off his hat. When he did take it off he jumped up off the floor and set it on top of his amplifiers. It was just something funny that I remember”.
1969.
📚 No News…
📚 Born on this day
♡ 1944, John Densmore
Drum Solo: https://youtu.be/892mRRmDBr0
📚 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ Magic Sam
(Feb 14, 1937 - Dec 1, 1969)
Sam's Boogie: https://youtu.be/wt91x0L70BQ
Album Dec 01
1966.
📚 London, Savile Row - JHE rehearsals
Chas: “I couldn’t afford to have the band learn the song in the studio, so I booked rehearsals at the Averbach House beforehand. Prior to that, we had rehearsed in nightclubs. A good mate of mine owned a string of clubs in London, and ‘The Animals’ used to be pretty big spenders in them, so he would let me bring the band into them when I needed to.”
1967.
📚 London, Olympic Sound Studios.
The A-side of Axis: Bold As Love has to be hastily remixed as Jimi left the original in a taxi while returning from a party.
1968.
📚 Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Concert.
The Experience performs at the Municipal Auditorium Arena in Kansas, Missouri where they broke the venue’s attendance record. Their show is supported by Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys.
Audience: 10000
Noel: “Mike’s around all the time now. We even got stoned with him in Kansas City. He seems intent on winning our goodwill. Perhaps because we had such a good audience that night breaking house records.”
http://kcrockhistory.com/2011/08/calling-all-shutterbugs/
1969.
📚 The original motion picture soundtrack for Easy Rider hits the shelves in 8-Track format, featuring the classic Hendrix recording “If 6 Was 9.”
Jimi Hendrix moves into an apartment at 59 West 12th Street in New York City.
📚 Born on this day
♡ Little Johnny Jones
(November 1, 1924 – November 19, 1964)
Hoy Hoy: https://youtu.be/pSADepJ6_6E
1966.
📚 “The Polytechnic”, Little Titchfield Street, London W1
Jimi jams with the Cream (support: The Washington D.C.’s) playing 'Killing Floor'. (see Debbie's post for details)
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/HWm1228do5b
Rex Collections – The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 2005
"Jimi first met Eric Clapton, arguably Britain’s greatest rock and blues guitarist, at a Cream gig at the London Polytechnic on Saturday 1 October 1966. ‘Jimi came on and stole the show,’ recalls Clapton. ‘He did his whole repertoire. He did a fast Howlin’ Wolf song. Very powerful. He played the guitar behind his head, between his legs, with his teeth, slapped it round on the ground a bit. I just went, “Yeah - this is it! This guy is bound for glory.”' Chas Chandler later found Clapton with his head in his hands. Clapton looked up and said, ‘You didn’t tell me he was that fucking good!’
Clapton and Jimi became friends, but a simmering rivalry remained."
Steve Barker: “As an eighteen year old arriving in London in September of 1966, I had already seen a whole series of American Folk Blues Festivals in the UK, with the likes of Sleepy John Estes, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and Willie Dixon. In May of that year I had sat behind an electrifying Bob Dylan and the Band at Manchester Free Trade Hall and clearly recall someone shouting a still unreported “Remember Selma Alabama!” So London was no big deal. I was there to study journalism at Regent Street Polytechnic; three of Pink Floyd were there at the same time in the Architecture School. October 1st was the event of the first term, Cream playing at the Students Union. I wasn’t a big fan of Clapton’s blues output, but Cream was different. The hall was packed. I’d broken my spectacles and couldn’t see very well, but around two thirds of the way through a special guest was brought on – someone called Jimi Hendrix!”
1967.
📚 London SW13, "Olympic Sound Studios", 117 Church Road, Barnes
Studio recordings of 'Little Miss Lover' and 'One Rainy Wish'.
Noel: "Graham [Nash] came round, did 1 number."
Jimi at the Olympic Sound Studios during the recording sessions for "Axis: Bold As Love". Photo by Eddie Kramer.
1968.
📚 Mitch and Noel return to Los Angeles. Jimi travels from Los Angeles International Airport to Honolulu, Hawaii where he is promptly interviewed by Wayne Harada for the October 3 issue of The Honolulu Advertiser.
1969.
📚 No News…
📚 Born on this day
♡ George "Wild Child" Butler
(Oct 1, 1936 – Mar 1, 2005)
Crack House Woman: https://youtu.be/c2SuRwNkefM
♡ Maria Elisabeth Ender, better known as Mariska Veres
(Oct 1, 1947 – Dec 2, 2006)
Venus: https://youtu.be/_tklTBPi2bk
📚 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ Albert J. "Al" Jackson Jr., a founding member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s
(Nov 27, 1935 – Oct 1, 1975)
Green Onions: https://youtu.be/WB5VD_Z5Zvg
1967.
📚 Berlin
↴The Experience visit the Checkpoint Charlie area on Friedrichstraße. Possible date: 1 September.
↴ "Hotel Arosa", Lietzenburger Straße 40.
↴ 21st birthday party for Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. Jimi, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich were among the guests.
↴ Press reception in the evening with Dave Dee & Co. (and other groups).
↴ After the party, Jimi goes to Playboy Club.
1968.
📚 The Experience travels to Denver, Colorado and performs a set at Red Rocks Park with support from Vanilla Fudge, Eire Apparent, and Soft Machine.
Jimi: “I had a lot of fun at that Denver, Colorado place. We played out there at Red Rocks. That was groovy. That was nice. ‘Cause people are on top of you there, or at least they can hear something. That’s where it should be, NaturalTheaterType things”
Mitch: “An absolutely beautiful and amazing place and by all accounts a wonderful gig”
Noel: “Denver is a really flashy gig. We were taken to and from the concert at Red Rocks Park by a police escort... Unfortunately, Jimi didn’t play very well that night and afterwards Denver had nothing to offer in after-gig entertainment, or even daytime entertainment.”
1969.
📚 No News...
1970.
📚 Storen Scenen, Liseberg Nojespark, Gothenburg, Sweden, JHE (II)
Concert see Debbie's post for details
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/MFVK1z1DTCh
1968
1970
📚 1967.
No News...
📚 1968.
Jimi, Mitch and Noel attend a Love-In at Beauregarde Square in New Orleans with music performed by numerous local groups. Jimi speaks to the crowd from a flatbed truck, asking people to attend their concert later that night at City Park Stadium. Jimi Hendrix is photographed on stage during The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s August 1, 1968 concert at City Park Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Concert (see Debbie's post for details)
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/NAEJD1skebd
📚 1969.
No News...
📚 1970.
Staying in Hawaii, The Experience travel to Oahu where they perform in The Arena at the Honolulu International Center in Oahu, Hawaii.
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❀ Born on this day
Jerome John Garcia (Aug 1, 1942 – Aug 9, 1995)
Rick Danko, Janis, Marmaduke, Jerry and Bobby - Ain't No More Cane (Live 1970): https://youtu.be/UVDDD9bScPk
1953, Robert William Cray
Robert Cray, Robben Ford, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller - Otis Rush's All Your Love I Miss Lovin': https://youtu.be/ZVmtF48DGXo
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HPXsKatXGh2VrTKa2
Photos from 1968
Photos from 1970
