🌰 December, 17

1966.
🌰 No News… ❔

1967.
🌰 "Foxey Lady" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart.

1968.
🌰 No News… ❔

1969.
🌰 No News… ❔

🌰 Born on this day
♡ Paul Vaughn Butterfield
(Dec 17, 1942 – May 4, 1987)
Walking Blues: https://youtu.be/0v726syh2Ts

🌰 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor
(Apr 12, 1915 – Dec 17, 1975)
Freddie's Blues: https://youtu.be/gkA_4vFrO-A

♡ Captain Beefheart
(Jan 15, 1941 – Dec 17, 2010)
Upon The My O My Old Grey Whistle Test: https://youtu.be/dq6fCOGyVJg

🌰 November, 17

1966.
🌰 London - Rehearsals (Jimi and Noel, plus John Banks - drummer of the Merseybeats sitting in for Mitch -)

Noel: "Jimi and I worried that Mitch didn't care and in November sneakily auditioned Merseybeats’ drummer John Banks (bless him). But John was tired of touring and he was nervous. Mitch's brashness worked better."

↪ Jimi and Chas Chandler visit the Cromwellian Club in London.

1967.
🌰 Sheffield, "City Hall", Yorkshire - Concert (two shows - 18.20 and 20.50).
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.

Noel: “Sheffield was terribly enthusiastic about us and we got torn apart coming out of the hall, losing clothing, glasses, hair. I always wondered what would happen if the detachables and semi-detachables (like hair) ran out.”

1968.
🌰 The Experience perform at Yale University’s Woolsey Hall in New Haven, Connecticut. They are supported by Terry Reid and Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys. The Jimi Hendrix Experience are photographed in concert on Nov 17, 1968 at Woolsey Hall at Yale University in New Haven. Connecticut.

Concerts Vol. 13: Jimi Hendrix « The Trick Is To Keep Going (thetrickismusic.com)

Thanks to Hank Green

1969.
🌰 Joined by Billy Cox, Jimi and Miles returned to the Record Plant studios in New York City to continue work on several new tracks. During this session, Jimi brought in Albert and Arthur Allen (the Ghetto Fighters) to provide backing vocals for “Room Full Of Mirrors.” The basic track of “Room Full Of Mirrors” is the foundation for the recording heard on 1997’s First Ray s Of The New Rising Sun. Afterwards, Jimi and the Allen twins visited Studio B where Mountain was recording their latest hit, “Mississippi Queen”. Thrilled by the chance meeting, Jimi invited Leslie West back to his studio for a jam.

🌰 Born on this day
♡ 1967, Tab Benoit (pronounced ben-wah)
Matchbox Blues: https://youtu.be/-lC62RPL70E

♡ Jeff Buckley
(Nov 17, 1966 - May 29, 1997)
Last Goodbye: https://youtu.be/8II4oKMvudk

Album
https://photos.app.goo.gl/xTSlvywKR5z4R7gj2

🌰 October, 17

1966.
🌰 Olympia, Paris Rehearsals

1967.
🌰 London
↪ Hyde Park photo session by Joel Elkins.
http://brumepourpre.hendrix.free.fr/Hyde-Park-photos.htm

↪ Photocall and interview for American magazine.

↪ "Aeolian Hall" / Studio 2, 136 New Bond Street
Live radio recordings for the BBC World Service program 'Rhythm and Blues' of 13 November 1967 hosted by Alexis Korner.
Host: Alexis Korner
Producer: Jeff Griffin
Engineer: 'Mighty' Joe Young

Noel: "...with Alexis Korner who jammed on 'Hoochie Coochie Man' with us, playing brilliant slide guitar."

↪ Jimi jams with the group of John Mayall at Klooks Kleek, Hampstead, London.
(see Debbie’s post for details)
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/a6sH6FDifhu

1968.
🌰 No News…

1969.
🌰 No News…

🌰 Born on this day
♡ Rita Hayworth, born as Margarita Carmen Cansino
(Oct 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987)
https://youtu.be/YnBmbsDan5s

🌰 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
♡ Frédéric François Chopin
(Mar 1, 1810 - Oct 17, 1849)
Spring Waltz: https://youtu.be/a0hFZPvanMs

🌰 September, 17

1967.
🌰 No News…

1968.
🌰 No News…

1969.
🌰 Mitch is interviewed by June Harris in New York for New Musical Express, released on October 25.

June Harris: Jimi, of course, is one of the owners along with manager. I understand that much of this new album will be put together there as they have kind of turned it into an impromptu studio.

Mitch: We're recording there, we have to have 200 tapes, we'll use it for the new album. It's been about a year since the last one and there's all these things lying around. Later when we finish this album, I'll go back to London to do things to myself.

1970.
🌰 Samarkand Hotel, London. Jimi writes his text "The Story Of Life". It is with relief that Jimi returns to London. Jimi wanted to spend the winter touring Mexico and Japan.

🌰 August, 17

🌰 1967.
House of Rudolf Valentino, Los Angeles. (Foxy Lady video clip in b/w: 3 minutes)

🌰 1968.
The Experience travel to Atlanta where they perform at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium at 3 p.m. and again at 8 p.m.. They are supported by Amboy Dukes (for the first show only), Eire Apparent, Vanilla Fudge and Soft Machine.
https://vimeo.com/93524264

Comment by Keith Strickland (Vimeo): ….I went to the matinee concert. I was fourteen years old. I met Jimi, Mitch and Noel after the show. They were sitting in their limo waiting for the driver. I shook Jimi's hand and told him it was a great concert, he said, "Ahhhh, it wasn't soooo good."
Concert (see Debbie’s post for details)
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/h82BrqBq9Hg

🌰 1969.
Woodstock…
Sunday, August 17 – Monday, August 18
Joe Cocker and The Grease Band 💮 Country Joe & the Fish 💮 Ten Years After 💮 The Band 💮 Johnny Winter (Edgar feat.) 💮 Blood, Sweat & Tears 💮 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 💮 Paul Butterfield Blues Band 💮 Sha Na Na 💮 Jimi Hendrix / Gypsy Sun & Rainbows

Jimi relocated to Shokan, a quiet upstate New York village near Woodstock for the balance of the summer. Here Jimi was accorded sufficient time to relax and refine his new musical direction. In time, the rustic summer retreat served to rejuvenate his creative spirit.
“Jimi was taking a kind of vacation out in the country, trying to get his act together,” explains Eddie Kramer. “It was all part of his developmental process, wood shedding if you want to call it that. With Billy Cox in tow, Jimi revisited his Tennessee roots once more, reaching back to guitarist Larry Lee, another old friend and veteran of the chitlin’ circuit. Where Cox had been actively involved in various music projects prior to heeding Jimi’s call, Lee had just returned from a stint in Vietnam. Also invited to Jimi’s vacation retreat were percussionists Jerry Velez and Juma Sultan. Jimi met Velez at Steve Paul’s Scene Club prior to the breakup of the Experience.
“I had just finished jamming with The McCoys,” explains Velez. “When I walked over to my table, Jimi and his entourage were sitting behind me. A little later, I joined the band on stage again for a few more tunes. When I came back to sit down, he leaned over and said, ‘Listen, I’m recording this jam over at the studio tonight. We’ll be starting around four, after this thing ends tonight. Do you want to come down and jam?’ I said sure. I went over that night and jammed with Jimi and Buddy Miles, and we seemed to hit it off.”
Juma Sultan was actively involved with the Aboriginal Music Society in Woodstock, New York, and was a highly respected percussionist who would performed regularly at the Tinker Street Cinema. Both were received well during their jam’s back at the house and were invited to join Hendrix’s expanded ensemble, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows.
In the weeks prior to the Woodstock festival, Jimi jammed at his rented home, as well as the Tinker Street Cinema in downtown Woodstock. Making its first and only official public appearance, Hendrix’s expanded ensemble Gypsy Sun and Rainbows performs at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in Bethel, New York. Jimi takes to the Woodstock stage on Monday morning with the support of Mitch Mitchell (drums), Billy Cox (bass & backing vocals), Larry Lee (rhythm guitar), Juma Sultan (percussion), and Jerry Velez (percussion). His extended set includes his magnificent rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner”.

🌰 1970.
No News...

🌰 July, 17

🌰 1967.
♡ New York City - Interviews all afternoon.
♡ Jimi attends The Seeds' gig at The Electric Circus, New York.

Jimi: We all went out to see the Electric Circus club in the Village, which just completely blew my mind.

♡ Studio 76/Dimensional Sound, New York City,
Jam session with: Jimi – 8-string fuzz bass, unknown (Shears?) – electric 12 string Danelectro ‘Bouzouki’ guitar, Ed ‘Bugs’ Gregory – bass, Ray Lucas -drums

Producer: Ed Chalpin
Engineer: unknown

Apart from ‘Day Tripper’ and ‘I Ain’t Takin’ Care Of No Business’ all the song titles were made up after the recording. ‘Taking Care Of No Business’ was mentioned in his 1968 deposition as being his own composition.
All four are instrumental jams which were much later overdubbed with vocals, rhythm guitar, tambourine etc. and remixed with various amounts of echo, delay etc. Day Tripper was cut up to make three separate songs: Day Tripper, Future Trip and Flashing.

🌰 1968.
No News...

🌰 1969.
No News...

🌰 1970.
'New York Pop Festival' Downing Stadium, Randall's Island, New York USA
Concert (see Debbie's post for details)
https://plus.google.com/109564805347348145270/posts/Ma1iHVSjPPe

The Experience perform at New York Pop with John Sebastian, Grand Funk Railroad, Steppenwolf, and Jethro Tull. The event at Downing Stadium on Randall’s Island on the outskirts of New York City featured The Experience.

https://youtu.be/u2-m6QRiEO0

❀❀❀
❀ Born on this day
1941 - Spencer Davis
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out: https://youtu.be/WQEZQDKGLh4

❀❀❀
❀ Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven
Eleanora Fagan (Apr 7, 1915 – Jul 17, 1959), known as Billie Holiday
Summertime: https://youtu.be/uYUqbnk7tCY

Chas Chandler (Dec 18, 1938 – Jul 17, 1996)
The man who discovered Jimi Hendrix: https://youtu.be/Wowkz1WL-RA