1966. 🌳 The “Hey Joe” single gets reviewed in UK the music press.
Record Mirror: “Should justice prevail, this’ll be a first-time hit...flip is more urgent and equally soul-laden.”
New Musical Express: “Here’s a young man who could make a profound impression in the future...it’s guttural, earthy, convincing and authentic...this is a disc for the connoisseurs.”
1967. 🌳 Transmission of the ‘Top Gear’ radio show recordings of 15 December 1967 on BBC Radio 1, between 14.00 and 17.00, introduced by John Peel and Tommy Vance.
1968. 🌳 Jimi reportedly attends a poetry reading at St. Mark’s Church in New York.
1966. 🌳 London - “De Lane Lea Music Ltd” - JHE studio recordings from 14:00 to 17:00 Songs: Love Or Confusion // Here He Comes (aka Lover Man)
Noel: "Chas wouldn't tell us what to do, but he would advise, 'Well, that needs a little bit more work on it and we've got a demo of it now, so we can try it again next time.' That sort of stuff. That's where Chandler was so good."
1967. 🌳 Bristol, Colston Hall, Colston Street, England. Concert (two shows - 18.30 and 20.45). Support: The Move, Pink Floyd, Amen Corner, Outer Limits, Eire Apparent, The Nice. Attended by Roger Taylor (later of ‘Queen’) Accommodation: Grand Spa Hotel, Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol.
(Bristol Evening Post): There was a lot of broken guitars on the stage and glasses at the bar. Excited and drunk Welsh teenagers had to be deported after incidents at the auditorium bar. Others on the other side of the Severn Bridge came to support a Welsh band, Amen Corner. Screaming like patients, they insulted the other groups and threatened the police with brandishing stools and bottles. Then there was Pink Floyd and The Nice, who on their side destroyed an electric organ and shattered a few thousand pairs of eardrums before getting lost in a cloud of colorful smoke.
1968. 🌳 Supported by Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, The Experience play at Miami Beach, Florida’s Convention Hall. Afterwards, the group fly back to New York City where they move into the Pan Garden Hotel next to Madison Square Garden in midtown-Manhattan.
Noel: “In Miami, we arrived to find the hotel ablaze.”
1966. 🌳 London, Rehearsals. Jimi jams with Deep Feeling (managed by Viv Prince, who also owned the Knuckles Club) at the Knuckles Club, London. A very small club, in the basement of a Greek restaurant, owned by (Vivian) ‘Viv’ Prince, ex-drummer of the Pretty Things.
1967. 🌳 London ↪ Unknown hair salon - JHE photo call. ↪ "Marquee," 90 Wardour Street - Concert (40 minutes between 19:30 and 23:00). Sold out. Songs: unknown. Support: The Nice - Keith Emerson (keyboards); David O'List (guitar); Lee Jackson (bass); Brian Davison (drums).
Noel: “New amps, record crowd.”
Chas: "Keith Emerson was a guy Jimi should have done some work with. Jimi often sat in with The Nice, and Keith really played well with him. They could have really put something together, but I was under the gun to finish up the album and we couldn’t spare the time.”
1968. 🌳 TTG Studios, Hollywood, California, USA. Song: Peace in Mississippi Musicians/Engineers: Jimi Hendrix // Mitch Mitchell // Noel Redding // Angel Balestier // Mark Kauffman
With all work on Peace (now called Peace in Mississippi) scrapped from the previous night, 15 new takes were recorded with take 15 becoming the master.
1969. 🌳 NYC - Sound Center - Recordings for Organisms.
🌳 Born on this day ♡ Sonny Terry (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986) Whoopin' The Blues: https://youtu.be/u_4xQ20tM5g
1966.
🌳 London.
↪ Jimi, Chas Chandler and Terry McVay arrive at London International Airport. Entry stamp was cancelled because Jimi did not have a work permit. Later a new stamp was issued and a seven day non work permit issued after a lot of talking by Chas. Eventually they managed to get Jimi admitted into the UK on the grounds that Jimi, as the writer of several songs, had come to collect royalties due to him.
↪ On the way into London from the airport, Chas took Jimi to the house of Zoot Money, at 11 Gunterstone Road, Fulham, London W14.
↪ Jimi and Chas book into the Hyde Park Towers hotel, 41-49 Inverness Terrace, London W2.
↪ Scotch Of St. James, 13 Mason’s Yard, London SW1. Jimi’s first public jam in London.
↪ Here Kathy Etchingham meets Jimi for the first time. They spend the night together at the Hyde Parks Towers hotel.
1967.
🌳 London - Noel returns from his holiday in Spain.
Jimi, accompanied by Noel Redding and Eric Burdon, checks out Traffic and Tomorrow at the Saville Theater.
1968.
🌳 No News…
1969.
🌳 New York City, Penn-Garden Hotel, NY. Billy Cox leaves.
Billy appears to have given up after the hopless ‘JHE’ session the previous night.
Cox checked out of the Hotel and returned to Nashville (obvously pissed off).
BC: "The whole problem started as soon as we got to the house in Woodstock. There were people who just did not want this band to succeed. It was one thing after another. There was the shoot-out down at the front gate of the Boiceville house, the ‘infiltration’ of people into the house, drugs being put into people's food just a lot of unnecessary, underhanded things being done for no reason. I didn't have time to try and figure out who was behind all this and why were they doing so. When you get down to people fighting with guns out in front of the house, there is something seriously wrong. All I knew was that I was going to do the Woodstock gig, help out my buddy, and carry my ass back to Nashville. That was my focus. After Woodstock, I hung around as long as I could, but there was just too much bullshit going down all around him. Jimi had gone down into this well. He said, 'Man, I just can't get it together. I've gotta rest my head.' He told me that if he could, he was thinking of going off to Africa with Colette I wished him Godspeed and told him I was glad I had been able to help him. That was it. I didn't think I was ever going to be involved with him again."
1967. 🌳London W12, "BBC Lime Grove Studios", Lime Grove TV rehearsals and live show for 'Top Of The Pops' on BBC1. TV telerecordings (between 20.15 and 21.30) for the 'Top Of The Pops' edition of 7 September 1967. (see Debbie’s post for details) https://plus.google.com/+VassoK_vkoul/posts/WB3edoyAp7W
1968. 🌳 The Experience perform at Bushnell Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut supported by Eire Apparent. Henry B. McNulty interviews the Experience for the August 26 issue of the Hartford Courant. (see Debbie’s post for details) https://plus.google.com/+VassoK_vkoul/posts/1QGLtzMP6jj
1969. 🌳 No News...
1970. 🌳 This Electric Lady Studios session was devoted entirely to enhancements on the “Dolly Dagger” master.
🌳 Born on this day ♡ Arthur William "Big Boy" Crudup (Aug 24, 1905 - Mar 28, 1974) That's All Right: https://youtu.be/uxHQUvCkV20
♡ John Cipollina (Aug 24, 1943 - May 29, 1989) John Cipollina's Solo from Keeper of the Flame: https://youtu.be/A8QwCSPQxwc
🌳 Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven ♡ Noble "Thin Man" Watts (Feb 17, 1926 - Aug 24, 2004) noble "thin man" watts - hard time the slop: https://youtu.be/y-ZaD7GROGU
🌳 1968. Record Plant, New York City, New York USA Gypsy Eyes Musicians/Engineers: Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer
Jimi and Eddie prepared more mixes and made some overdubs for Gypsy Eyes, even deciding to abandon a second drum part added by Mitch in May. Eddie wrote "check with Jimi for usage" on the tape box of the mixes. (they were never used)
1967. 🈳 The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California USA Concert (two shows of 45 minutes each) With: - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Gabor Szabo - Jefferson Airplane
1968. 🈳 No News..
1969. 🈳 No News.. 1970. 🈳 Returning to Electric Lady Studios after a series of West Coast tour dates, Jimi jumped right back into a series of strong recordings kicked off by a playful series of takes of “Astro Man”. As the night progressed Jimi guided the group through recordings of “Rollin’ Stone”, “In From The Storm” and a rendition of Cream’s “Politician”. Jimi then tore into a 26-minute untitled jam before breaking into “Beginnings”, “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)”, “Straight Ahead”, “Midnight Lightning” and finally “Freedom”. ❀❀❀ ❀ Born on this day ❀ 1942, Mick Fleetwood - drummer for Fleetwood Mac ❀ 1942, Arthur Brown - vocalist / Crazy World Of Arthur Brown ❀ 1944, Jeff Beck - guitarist for The Yardbirds ❀ 1944, Chris Wood - sax / flute for Traffic (24 Jun 1944 -12 Jul 1983)
🌳 1967. Stockholm, 'TV-huset - TV recordings for the 'Popside' edition of 11 June. Live songs: The Wind Cries Mary 🚦 Purple Haze. 'Tivoli Gröna Lund, Stora Scenen', Stockholm, Sweden. Concert (30 minutes - 20:00). Songs: Foxy Lady 🚦 Rock Me Baby 🚦 Hey Joe 🚦 Can You See Me 🚦 Purple Haze 🚦 Wild Thing. 'Tivoli Gröna Lund, Dans In', Stockholm, Sweden.
Stockholm, backstage at Tivoli Gröna Lund. Live radio transmission of a JHE interview by Roger Wallis for an unknown AM radio station. King George a.o. attend a party. "En Till" club - JHE (with Jimi on bass) jam with various Swedish musicians. On his way to today's gig at the Tivoli Gardens, Hendrix asks a girl for directions. Her name is Eva Sundqvist. The band is turned out of its hotel. 🌳 1968. The JHE flew in from Linate Airport, Milano, to Leonardo da Vinci (aka Fiumicino) Airport, Roma. Perform two shows at Teatro Brancaccio in Rome, Italy supported by Doctor K’s Blues Band, The Triad, Balletto Franco Estill Group and Pier Franco Colonna. Among the songs performed were “Hey Joe,” “The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp,” “Fire,” and “Foxey Lady.” Jimi Hendrix is photographed on stage during The Experience’s second show on May 24, 1968 at Teatro Bracaccio in Rome, Italy. Mitch: “Rome was very pleasant. I remember that Jimi nearly got arrested. We had been to the Coliseum and were caught by the police at dawn with several young ladies.” Two shows at 16:30 and 21:30. Support: Pierfranco Collonna (backed by ‘Boa, Boa’), Doctor K’s Blues Band (newspaper ad has, ‘The Triad’); Il Balletto Franco Estill (a dance troup). Audience: 1,343. Accommodation: Hotel Fleming, 20 Piazza Monteleone Di Spoleto, Roma. Roma, Titan Club, 48 Via della Meloria, Italy Jam lasting a couple of hours; first just Jimi and Noel on bass, then Jimi alone, finally with some musicians in the room, inc. Gérard Feraud, bass (possibly some 8mm film exists). Songs: Some blues pieces 🚦 Foxy Lady 🚦 another song. Gérard Feraud (Michel Polnareff's ex-guitarist): "In Spring 1968, I was on tour in Italy with Arthur Conley. On May 24, we played the Titial Club in Rome when all of a sudden the bass player of The Folks points out to me that Jimi Hendrix is in the front row. I felt very intimidated. At the end of the set he came backstage to meet us and asked if he could have a little jam. I offered him my guitar but he said "No, you play very well, I'll pay bass." That's how I came to jam with Jimi Hendrix, it was great". 🌳 1969. San Diego, International Sports Arena, Sports Arena Boulevard, CA, USA, JHE With Fat Mattress. A superb set which yielded some of the guitarist’s best loved live recordings. The recent box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience features two such examples, an exquisite, twelve minute rendition of “Red House” along with an incomparable version of “Purple Haze”. 🌳 1970. Vets Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio, Canceled 🌳Born on this day: ❀ 1941: Robert Zimmerman: Bob Dylan. http://60sfolksintheir60s.com/jimi-and-bob-dylan-a-cosmic-friendship/ 🌳Gone to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven: ❀ Elmore Brooks: Elmore James (27 Jan 1918 - 24 May 1963)
