1966.
🉐 London, “Speakeasy”, Official opening of the club.
↪ Recording at CBS Jimi (guitar), Noel (bass).
Foxy Lady 🉐 Can You See Me 🉐 3rd Stone From The Sun 🉐 Instrumental Demo
Noel: “Recording session turned into rehearsal because Mitch didn’t show. Chas finally docked him a weeks wages and he was never late again."
1967.
🉐 London, BBC Theatre “The Playhouse”, Live radio recording for BBC Radio 1 programme ‘Top Gear’ of 24 December 1967.
Producers: Bev Phillips and Bernie Andrews
Material: Interview conducted by Tony Hall. Lots of people, including Chas Chandler, attended the session. According to Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt of the Soft Machine also attended and helped out with some backing vocals but it’s impossible to determine during which song(s).
1968.
🉐 No News…
1969.
🉐 Record Plant, New York Studio Recording, BOG.
🉐 Born on this day
♡ Andrew Odom
(Dec 15, 1936 - Dec 23, 1991)
"I don't know" Live at the 1978 Montreux Jazz Festival:
https://youtu.be/NtfW4nrfuR0
🉐 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ Rufus C. Thomas, Jr.
(Mar 26, 1917 - Dec 15, 2001)
Bear Cat: https://youtu.be/loeadO8zu98
1966.
🉐 No News…
1967.
🉐 London, "Mayfair Hotel", Berkeley Street
Filmed interview for the Jonathan King TV show 'Good Evening!' on ATV, England. Transmission details: Show 8 - ATV London Saturday 18th November 1967, 5:50-6:15pm (Jimi Hendrix interview rec 15-Nov / Spencer Davis Group).
↪ Bournemouth, "Winter Gardens", Hampshire - Concert (two shows: 18.10 and 20.30).
Program in order of appearance: The Nice; Eire Apparent; Outer Limits; Amen Corner; Pink Floyd; The Move; The Jimi Hendrix Experience. MC: DJ Pete Drummond.
Mitch: "We moved back to New York after the Benedict Canyon phase.
Jimi: "I'd like to dedicate this song to the Andy Pandas and other minority groups. . . Yeah, American Indians too…. I'd like to thank the Cincinnati police for coming out to dig our gig. . . “
Noel: “Went down well... used new amps.”
1968.
🉐 The Experience perform at the Cincinnati Gardens in Ohio.
1969.
🉐 No News…
🉐 Born on this day
♡ 1954, Anson Funderburgh
Rockets: https://youtu.be/f-feOCNXb8M
1966.
🉐 Salle Des Fêtes, Villerupt, Concert
Near Luxembourg, 2 1/2 hours drive from Nancy. Same line-up as the 13th. This time the group played 25 minutes and did six songs, Jimi breaking a string after the 4th.
Noel: “After our Luxembourg gig we had a day off to look forward to. We got drunk together after the show and at half twelve we crawled into the coach, set off and promptly ran out of petrol. Was it cold! Mitch grabbed Chas’ raincoat for himself and went to sleep. Chas, Jimi and I huddled together and tried to keep from freezing through the long, long night.”
↪ Around this date Jimmy becomes Jimi, which was a suggestion from Chas.
His name was already spelt "Jimi" in the 15 October edition of L'Est Republicain newspaper's review of the Hallyday show:
"....and Jimi Hendrix heading his own band."
1967.
🉐 Crawley, Sussex, "Starlight Ballroom"
Concert (40 minutes).
Support: Jo Jo Gunne.
Noel used his Hagstrom eight-string bass guitar.
900 people attended.
1968.
🉐 Back in Los Angeles, the Experience listens to the recordings of Winterland.
1969.
🉐 No News...
1967.
🉐 London N4, "Bluesville '67"/"Bluesville Club". "The Manor House", Seven Sisters Road. Jimi jams with Eric Burdon & The Animals.
1968.
🉐 The Experience travels to Sacramento, California where they perform, with support from Vanilla Fudge and Eire Apparent at the Memorial Auditorium.
1969.
🉐 Record Plant, New York City, 'GSR' last sesh.
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Engineers: Jack Adams & Tom Flye (ex ‘Lothar And The Hand People’ drummer & later EL engineer)
Songs: Stepping Stone, Skyblues Today
Shortly after this hopeless session Lee returned to Memphis.
Mitch: The band was a shambles. Apparently, they'd been working for about ten days when I got there, but you'd never have known. We rehearsed up at the house for about a week or ten days. It was probably the only band I've ever been involved with that simply did not improve over that length of time.
Larry Lee: “I don’t know how much pressure the management put on Jimi, to be honest. I just know there was a conflict and that was the reason I told Jimi that I would leave. I was seeing that he was fighting a battle that maybe if I was gone it would be more like what they wanted. They wanted a three-piece group as far as I can gather. The Experience was a hit and a moneymaker for him so I just told him I was gonna leave. He said, 'Well, we'll get a drummer and we'll get back together.' I just came on back to Memphis. I was hoping that that would have taken some of the heat off Jimi."
Billy: "Larry just said, ‘l think I'm probably in the way,' and took it upon himself to leave on good terms. There was just too much bullshit around him to handle. He just decided that he had had enough."
1970.
🉐 Ronnie Scott's, London. Jimi attends Eric Burdon and War concert.
🉐 Born on this day
♡ Silas Hogan (Sep 15, 1911 - Jan 9, 1994)
I'm Gonna Quit You Pretty Baby: https://youtu.be/z0V9d1sXIWk
♡ James Edward "Snooky" Pryor
(Sep 15, 1919 or 1921 - Oct 18, 2006)
Snooky Pryor & Mel Brown - Let Your Hair Down, Woman: https://youtu.be/aroagIsrAdw
🉐 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ Johnny Ramone, born John William Cummings
(Oct 8, 1948 – Sep 15, 2004)
Pet Sematary Live David Letterman Show 1989: https://youtu.be/J4UqPC60p1c
🔆 1967.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, "Fifth Dimension Club"
Photocall by Tom Copi
Interviews (including one conducted by Loraine Alterman, published in the Detroit Free Press, August 1967).
Concert (two shows, first one 30 minutes).
Songs (unknown from which show): Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; The Wind Cries Mary; Foxy Lady; a.o.
🔆 1968.
No News...
🔆 1969.
Woodstock…
Friday, August 15 to Saturday, August 16
Richie Havens 💮 Swami Satchidananda 💮 Sweetwater 💮 Bert Sommer 💮 Tim Hardin 💮 Ravi Shankar 💮 Melanie Safka 💮 Arlo Guthrie 💮 Joan Baez
Woodstock 1969 Documentary: https://youtu.be/czFr_kJCdKQ
🔆 1970.
💨💥 No News...
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❀ Born on this day
♡ Buster Brown (Aug 15, 1911 – Jan 31, 1976), an American blues and R&B singer best known for his hit, "Fannie Mae".
Fannie Mae: https://youtu.be/pVNcqb2a3KA
🔆 1967.
🙊 Monkeys tour.
🔆 1968.
🙊 Palma, Sgt. Peppers, Plaza Mediterráneo, Mallorca, Spain, JHE
Concert (see Debbie's post for details)
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/ZAjrN3XJFF6
After Jimi and Mitch arrive in Palma, Majorca, Spain the group is scheduled to open the new Sergeant Pepper’s night club, which is the latest venture managed by Chas Chandler and Michael Jeffrey. Jimi and I swapped instruments, explains Noel in his diary. At the end of “Wild Thing,” Jimi raised his guitar towards the dropped ceiling and it went straight through the flimsy material. So he left it swinging there and the crowd roared.”
🔆 1969.
🙊 No News...
🔆 1970.
🙊 Additional sessions at Electric Lady saw Jimi revitalize previous work on “Come Down Hard On Me”.
In 1973 Electric Lady’s engineer John Jansen posthumously edited the track for inclusion on Loose Ends.
❀❀❀
❀ Born on this day
1948 - Thomas Delmer "Artimus" Pyle, drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd
https://youtu.be/EH-PcWsov6c
🔆 1967.
> Flying from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, to San Francisco International Airport, California.
Barry Jenkins: We (The New Animals) were on the same flight, and I'll never forget seeing Jimi sitting in his seat with his ear pushed up against the side wall of the plane. I asked him what he was doing and he said, 'I'm getting inspiration for the next album, man.' He was listening to the sounds of the engine vibrating inside the walls.
> A private party to celebrate the opening of the Straight Theater, San Francisco, CA: Grateful Dead/The Wildflower. Jimi was reputedly in attendance.
🔆 1968.
Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton join Jimi during a jam session at the Scene Club, New York.
🔆 1969.
Wally Heider Recording, Los Angeles, Ca. Studio 3, Mixing Eddie Kramer resumed mixing sessions for the proposed live album. Upon completion, the album was handed over to Jimi’s manager Michael Jeffery. Despite their work, however, Reprise Records shelved the live album in favor of the compilation Smash Hits.
🔆1970.
Electric Lady Studios, New York City, New York, US
All God's Children, Ezy Ryder, Pearly Queen, Valleys Of Neptune
Musicians/Engineers: Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, Eddie Kramer
Steve Winwood and Chris Wood sung on Ezy Ryder, Pearly Queen, and Valleys Of Neptune
🔆 1967.
West Berlin, Neue Welt, Hermannsplatz, East Germany, JHE
Two shows at 15:00 and 19:00
Support: The Beat Cats; Restless Sect; Shatters and Manuela
Songs: unknown
🔆 1968.
No News...
🔆 1969.
Record Plant, NYC -Recordings: Johnny Winter and Stephen Stills:
The Things I Used to Do 📔 Jam (Power of God) 📔 Slow Blues Thing With The Power 📔 Hey Baby 📔 Hallalua Untitled Jam - Blues Jam / Instrumental / Ships Passing In The Night 📔 Jam with Piano 📔 Blues Shuffle 📔 With The Power Of Gold 📔 Free Stone / With The Power Of God / Slow Blues.
🔆 1970.
No News...
