1968. 🐩 Mitch and Noel return to London for the Christmas Holidays. During this time, Noel teamed up with Jim Leverton and Eric Dillon to record 12 tracks for the upcoming Fat Mattress album.
1967. 🐩 London, Jimi's flat, 43 Upper Berkeley Street Noel: "Went to Jimi's. No photo session. He wasn't there!!" Possibly this was a photocall with David Montgomery, who claimed that he was supposed to do a session with the Jimi Hendrix Experience at which Jimi did not show up.
1968. 🐩 Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Concert. Audience: 8500 Little to no information is available, concerning this show in collectors and traders Circles. http://www.stlmusicyesterdays.com/Kiel%20Aud.htm
↪ All My Loving on Omnibus, broadcast, BBC 1 TV, UK Tony Palmer's controversial film All My Loving on the Omnibus arts program. It features short interviews with Jimi and Mitch, and Wild Thing recorded on 15 March at Atwood Hall in Clark University, Worcester, MA.
1969. 🐩 No News…
🐩 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven ♡ Laika A stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957. First Dog In Space: https://youtu.be/R9rG3fovOqI
1966. 🐩 Chas telephoned Noel to confirm that he has the job as bass player. Noel went to London by train, got there at 1 o’clock, and went to the Birdland. After that he went to the office, had a chat with the manager, and was told he was definitely in.
↪ Mitch: “...I was sacked from Georgie Fame’s Blue Flames on the Monday because George decided something, I don’t know what. I still don’t know what. Then on the Tuesday John Gunnell (Fame’s manager) mentioned to me that Chas Chandler and Jimi Hendrix, a friend of his, were over here, and would I care to go and have a play... Jimi said, ‘Okay, I will see you around’. Chas said there was a gig in Paris the next week with Johnny Hallyday and asked if we fancied doing it. So I said okay and spent three days rehearsing. Then off we went and that was how it started...”
1967. 🐩 London, "Olympic Sound Studios". Studio recordings for 'You've Got Me Floating' and 'Little Miss Lover'. Noel: "Trevor Burton and Ace Kefford sang on one of our numbers."
1968. 🐩 Mitch and Noel arrive from Los Angeles and land at Honolulu Airport.
1969. 🐩 Life magazine publishes an article on Jimi. Photos: Raymundo De Larrain. ↪ Jimi dissolves the Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. ↪ Interview with Mitch conducted by June Harris for the New Musical Express.
1967. 🐩 Flying from Tempelhof Airport, West Berlin, Germany, to Torslanda Airport, Göteborg, Sweden.
Konserthallen, Liseberg, Lisebergs Nöjespark, Göteborg, Sweden Two shows: 19:15 and 21:15 Both shows sold out [2,600 people] Support: Outsiders; Lucas. During the first show, Jimi finds that his material is bad and that irritates him. He then gives a kick in both amps after explaining to the public that it is annoying to play on material of poor quality.
1968. 🐩 The Experience travels to San Diego, California and later performs at Balboa Stadium with support from Vanilla Fudge, Eire Apparent, and Soft Machine.
Noel: “We got to San Diego plenty early so we all headed off to go out in boats - I choose a sail boat and everyone else was in speed boats. We had a great laugh, but somehow it didn’t help Jimi’s head, for even though we did a good show he was feeling very moody.”
1969. 🐩 NYC, 125th Street Harlem Restaurant Franck, press conference with United Block Association filmed by WTN-TV-NY, interview with Jimi.
1968. ⛷️🏂 Dallas, Moody Coliseum, Southern Methodist University, TX, USA, JHE Concert at 20:30. Support: Soft Machine. Songs: Dear Mr Fantasy // Rock Me Baby // Foxy Lady // I Don't Live Today // Hey Joe // Fire // Red House // Purple Haze // Wild Thing
Abe Jacobs (engineer): “Every time we set up, the fire department, police department and mayor’s office were saying, ‘You can’t do this, we don’t allow that kind of stuff in our town’. They all thought Jimi was going to bum the building down.”
1969. ⛷️🏂 (1-5 August) Morocco - Holiday Marrakesh - Essaouira - Casablanca Luna Douglas - Stella Douglas -Deering Howe - Colette Mimram - Michael Jason
🐩 1967. 🍑 Flying from Los Angeles International Airport, California, to John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City. The Experience is refused entry to a hotel in New York but they manage to book into Lowe's Motor Inn on 8th Avenue. 🍑 New York City, "Scene", 301 West 46th Street Concert (see Debbie's post for details): https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/XdhQ5FUiyUD 🐩1968. 🍑 Record Plant, New York City, New York USA All Along The Watchtower Musicians/Engineers: Jimi Hendrix, Gary Kellgren
Jimi attempted various mixes for All Along The Watchtower, even going so far as to mark one as 'master' on the tape box, but he ultimately chose the previous mix from January 1968 as the one to use on Electric Ladyland.
🐩1966-1967-1968-1969-1970.No News... ❀❀❀ ❀ Born on this day ❀ Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) Hard-On Blues: https://youtu.be/NcUPSWclSQ0 Broken Bone Blues: https://youtu.be/mdqXIpHH6OY ❀❀❀ ❀ Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven ❀ Koko Taylor (Sep 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) Born as Cora Anna Walton on a farm near Memphis, Tennessee, she was the daughter of a sharecropper. In the late 1950s she began singing in blues clubs in Chicago. https://youtu.be/ckFAdkGT8m4 Albert King-B.B King-Koko Taylor-Robert Cray-Ry Cooder-Etta James-Willie Dixon-Junior Wells: https://youtu.be/yI-Q3DJwo3A
