{"id":56,"date":"2013-12-19T02:08:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T02:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrzeros.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2016-08-11T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T23:12:07","slug":"jimi-hendrix-like-no-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrzeros.com\/blog\/jimi-hendrix-like-no-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimi Hendrix like no other"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jimi Hendrix: The One & Only
\n\u201cBUZZ: Newspaper Article: Mar -Apr 2011 (#1-A)<\/strong><\/p>\n

As this is my first article for this publication I would like to cover (and dispel some misinformation on) the greatest musician of all time:<\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix:<\/strong>
\nI discovered Jimi by the songs \u201cPurple Haze\u201d & \u201cFoxey Lady\u201d in 1972 I believe, it was, my Dad bought a 4LP Set By: WB. I could not believe the sounds I heard from these records. So the 1st album I bought by Jimi Hendrix was \u2018Smash Hits\u2019 I loved the cover and the songs it contained was out of this world for me. The stand outs for me from this LP: (besides the 2 already mentioned) \u201cFire\u201d \u201cHey Joe\u201d \u201cStone Free\u201d and what I feel may be the greatest song of all time \u201cAll Along The Watchtower\u201d<\/p>\n

I did not get to see Jimi in my lifetime, However I have met people who knew Jimi or did see Jimi in concert A friend of mine Dan was able to catch Jimi on Sun 3 May 1970 in St.Paul @ Civic Center, tickets #5.50, he said \u201cAfter every other song, Jimi would say \u2018I have a question for you? \u2026\u2019 then at the very end of the show he said \u2018Why?\u2019<\/p>\n

The Setlsit:
\nFire
\nRoom Full of Mirrors
\n*Lover Man
\n*Hear My Train a Comin’
\n*Ezy Ryder
\nMachine Gun *Freedom
\nFoxy Lady
\nRed House
\nThe Star-Spangled Banner
\nPurple Haze
\nVoodoo Child (Slight Return)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have listened to & watched untold hours of Jimi\u2019s music in studio & in concert. It seems live in concert Jimi liked to play covers (*) and unreleased songs as much as songs from his released albums.
\nJimi\u2019s history goes like this;<\/p>\n

>Stone Free: 1942 <<\/strong>
\nBorn: Johnny Allen Hendrix on 27 November 1942 Seattle, Washington.
\nHis Father Al changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix on 11 September 1946.
\nJimi Died on 18 September 1970. A coroner\u2019s inquest ruled \u201cInhalation of vomit due to barbiturate intoxication\u201d on 28 September 1970.<\/p>\n

Jimi started playing acoustic guitar in the autumn of 1958 and then electric guitar by Summer 1959.Jimi joined the 101st Airborne Division as a paratrooper, after a few run ins with the local law enforcement authorities in May 1961. Jimi gave the story he \u201cBroke his ankle during a parachute jump\u201d & was let out of the Army on 2 July 1962. Jimi and his Army buddy Billy Cox (18 Oct 1941 Wheeling, WV.) start playing as musician\u2019s for hire in Oct 1962.<\/p>\n

In Mar 1963 Hendrix & Cox form \u201cThe King Kasuals\u201d with Larry Lee By late 1963 Jimi is playing and recording with Lonnie Youngblood. Jimi was playing a Silvertone\/ Danelectro guitar painted red with the name \u201cBetty Jean\u201d on it, this was Jimi\u2019s childhood sweetheart Jimi traded this guitar into a music store in Clarksville, TN. for an Epiphone Coronet. Interesting note Jimi did not always use a black or white Fender Stratocaster, his was also know to use a white SG Custom (Les Paul type) & a Black left handed Flying \u201cV\u201d<\/p>\n

In early 1964 Jimi is touring and recording with the Isley Brothers & Jimi recorded 6 songs on the T-Neck label with the Isley Brothers \u201cTestify Parts 1 & 2\u2033 \u201cThe Last Girl\u201d \u201cMove Over and Let Me Dance\u201d \u201cLooking For A Love\u201d & \u201cHave You Ever Been Disappointed\u201d but quits in Oct 1964. However Jimi then begins backing Sam Cooke & Jackie Wilson until Jimi is hired by Little Richard for his backing band in Dec 1964 Jimi is later fired in July 1965 for either \u201cMissing a bus in New York\u201d or \u201cUpstaging Little Richard on stage\u201d They record \u201cI Don\u2019t Know What You\u2019ve Got But It\u2019s Got Me\u201d & b\/w\u201cDancin All Around The World\u201d together for a single release.<\/p>\n

It is well known Jimi, Billy Cox & Larry Lee played the \u201cChitlin Circuit\u201d for many years honing their craft of R&B, Jazz & Early Rock N Roll Standards such as Chuck Berry.
\nOn 27 July 1965 Jimi signs a 2 year record deal with Sue Records in New York City & then signs yet another \u201cExclusive\u201d record deal on 15 Oct 1965 with PPX Records with then fellow band mate Curtis Knight of \u2018The Squires\u2019. This will come back to haunt him later on both contractually and financially.<\/p>\n

>51st Anniversary: 1966<<\/strong>
\nIn June 1966 Jimi\u2019s first true band \u2018The Rainflowers\u201d\u2019get rechristened as \u2018Jimmy James & The Blue Flames\u2019 On 29 Sep 1966 guitarist David Noel Redding (25 Dec 1945 Folkestone Kent, UK \u2013 Died: 11 May 2003 County Cork, Ireland) is hired to be the Bassist for Jimi\u2019s new band & this time the Drummer is Ansley Dunbar (10 January 1946 Liverpool, UK.) not John \u201cMitch\u201d Mitchell (9 Jul 1947 Ealing, UK, \u2013 Died: 12 Nov 2008 Portland, Or.), who will eventually be hired on 5 Oct 1966.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is worth noting that Noel Redding was a guitar player first, this would explain why Noel\u2019s Bass playing is so different than his peers of that time. Noel\u2019s playing is more melodic and brighter as a rhythm instrument closer to say John Entwhistle than Paul McCartney. I would have loved to hear some sessions with Ansley who went on to play everyone from Bowie, Zappa, Flo & Eddie to Journey. However it cannot be denied that Mitch Mitchell\u2019s jazzy drum style as probably the most complimentary to Jimi\u2019s entirely new direction of music. That being said it was Mitch who played with Jimi the 2nd longest only next to Jimi\u2019s army buddy Billy Cox.<\/p>\n

The first ever gig of the \u2018Jimmy Hendrix Experience\u2019 is on 13 Oct 1966 in Evreux (near Paris) France, the Experience make their first TV appearance on 13 Dec 1966 on ITV\u2019s \u2018Ready, Steady, Go\u2019. The Experience record a version of \u201cDay Tripper\u201d on 15 Dec 1967 for BBC\u2019s \u2018Top Gear\u2019 contrary to popular belief without Paul McCartney or even John Lennon. This rumor has circulated for many years having heard as much as I have of The Experience it is clearly Noel & Mitch on backing vocals.<\/p>\n

>Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice: 1967<<\/strong>
\nThe Experience\u2019s first US appearance is on 18 Jun 1967 at \u2018The Monterey International Pop Festival\u2019 where Jimi does his most famous antic by setting his Stratocaster on fire during \u201cWild Thing\u201d. Pete Townshend once said about this performance \u201cHe\u2019s not stealing my act he\u2019s doing my act\u201d It has been written that Jimi single handedly saved the Fender Stratocaster as \u201cHe needed a new one practically every night\u201d On 7 Jul 1967 Jimi sits in with Frank Zappa on stage and discovers the \u2018Wah-Wah pedal\u2019, Jimi is later this same day photographed with Zappa for the LP Cover \u2018We\u2019re only in it for the Money\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Experience then open for TV Pop stars The Monkees for just 8 concert dates from 8-16 July 1967. While on tour in a hotel room Jimi jams with Stephen Stills of the \u2018Buffalo Springfield\u2019 & Micky Dolenz of The Monkees. Micky Dolenz had seen Jimi at the Monterey Pop Festival, it has been rumored that Micky saw Jimi in a club in England or even New York prior to the Monterey Pop Festival. Michael Nesmith of The Monkees once said \u201cI would sneak down front every night The Experience opened for us, the music was celestial the band all had Afros, and were back light so when the lights came on it looked like they\u2019re hair was on fire\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was Micky Dolenz\u2019s idea to pull some strings to get Jimi on the Monkees \u2018Summer Tour\u2019 so Jimi could get some real exposure to the rest of the world, which lead to this odd pair touring together. Micky once said \u201cIt became all too much for Jimi & the band, every night to try and do their thing only to be drown out by that chats on the kids in the audience of \u201cWe want the Monkees, we want the Monkees\u201d It is rumored on the last night in Forest Hills, New York, Jimi had had enough threw down his guitar & flipped off the audience and walked off the stage. However I can find nothing to confirm or deny this event. Jimi jams & records with his former band leader Curtis Knight on 30 Jul 1967 which will be released as the LP \u2018Get That Feeling\u2019 on PPX Records.<\/p>\n

>Burning Of The Midnight Lamp: 1968<<\/strong>
\nOn 21 Jan 1968 Jimi records Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cAll Along The Watchtower\u201d reportedly before Dylan can release his own version. It\u2019s been said Jimi had some concerns about Dylan\u2019s potential reaction to Jimi\u2019s version of Bob\u2019s yet to be released composition. One of Jimi\u2019s early Girlfriends from his New York Village days once said \u201cJimi came home one day, said he had spent our last $5.oo on a surprise, so what was it a Bob Dylan record! (she laughs) who\u2019s Bob Dylan? I ask. \u201cJimi loved Bob Dylan specifically his lyrics\u201d Also, asked to, & obliged, Jimi, Noel & Mitch are immortalized for all time in plaster casts by the legendary \u2018Plaster Casters\u2019 on 25 Feb 1968.<\/em><\/p>\n

On 13 Mar 1968 Jimi himself has a recording made of a jam at The Scene Club in New York City one of Jimi\u2019s favorite hang outs with a drunken Jim Morrison of The Doors. This is later released in many Un-Official releases under several titles. It was once stated that Jimi took an open reel recording deck with him everywhere he went, so he could record everything he did.<\/p>\n

The Experience regroups on 14 Feb 1969 to work on an aborted 4th album. There is a photo session for this event pictured Jimi, Mitch & Noel , the caption reads \u201cNo one told Noel he is no longer in the band\u201d. As Chaz Chandler walked out on Jimi as his manager during the \u201cElectric Ladyland\u201d sessions from frustration due Jimi\u2019s lack of focus and direction (& most likely drug use)
\nIn Mar 1969 Jimi produces several songs for his friend Buddy Miles (George Allen Miles Jr. 5 Sep 1947 Omaha, Neb. \u2013 Died: 26 Feb 2008 Austin, TX.) for the album \u2018The Buddy Miles Express: Electric Church\u2019. Buddy will jam with Jimi over the next few months and eventually become the Drummer for \u2018The Band Of Gypsys\u2019<\/p>\n

The last concert performed by The Experience will be on 29 Jun 1969 at the \u2018Denver Pop Festival\u2019, the opening band \u2018Zephyr\u2019 features a young Guitarist from Sioux City, Iowa one Tommy R. Bolin (more on Tommy at a later date). Jimi headlines the \u2018Woodstock\u2019 festival in Bethel, New York on 18 Aug 1969 as \u2018Gypsy Sons & Rainbows Band\u2019 An expanded and short lived experimental band with former \u2018Kasual\u2019 Larry Lee (Lawrence H. \u201cLarry\u201d Lee, Jr. Mar 7, 1943 \u2013 Oct 30, 2007)<\/p>\n

>Message Of Love: 1969<<\/strong>
\nMy personal favorite period of Jimi\u2019s career begins on 7 Nov 1969 \u2018The Band of Gypsys\u2019 is born. Unfortunately \u2018The Band of Gypsys\u2019 dissolves on 28 Jan 1970. They were only able to release one 45 single and one live album, a contractual obligation LP from Jimi signing with PPX Records in 1965, during their existence.<\/p>\n

Some tracks that were recorded for a potential \u201cStudio\u201d album were: \u201cEzy Rider\u201d \u201cMessage to Love\u201d \u201cPower of Soul\u201d \u201cRoom Full of Mirrors\u201d \u201cAstro Man\u201d \u201cEarth Blues\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s Too Bad\u201d sadly no studio album will come from this soulful R&B oriented trio.
\nI love this period of time, for the reason while The Experience was great and a real trend setter with music and fashion. I still think they are the best dressed band of the 60s as well as the embodiment of the entire 60s movement. It\u2019s been said Jimi was really concerned with his appearance and cloths fashion. Personally I love the funk and R&B direction of The Band of Gypsys. True Buddy\u2019s drumming style is was not as busy as Mitch\u2019s, and Billy\u2019s playing was not as pronounced as Noel\u2019s.<\/p>\n

However The Band of Gypsys was to my knowledge the first all black rock band & Jimi created yet another new style of music. Buddy\u2019s voice blends unbelievably well with Jimi\u2019s voice filling a void (to me) that The Experience lacked. The rhythm & groove they created was a new refreshing direction to me. I can still remember the day my buddy Eric loaned \u2018The Band of Gypsys\u2019 Live LP in the fall of 1981.<\/p>\n

Comedian Phil Hartman (24 Sep 1948 \u2013 Died: 28 May 1998) was once a roadie for the \u2018Band Of Gypsys\u2019 he said in an interview \u201cJimi walked in though the back door of the club wearing hot pink pants and white leather boots and said \u201cHow you doin?\u201d Later during the performance my boss yelled at me \u201cPhil get up there and stop those drums from falling off the stage\u201d, the drummer at the time was Buddy Miles he was playing this double bass kit that kept moving forward as the night went on. So I ran up there and knelt down and held the drums in place with both hands, that\u2019s when Jimi spoke to me for the second time over the music he yelled \u201cWe\u2019re really rockin now aren\u2019t we, Mr. Roadie Man\u201d<\/p>\n

I met Buddy Miles through a friend of mine on 13 Jan 2001. I had him sign my \u2018Band Of Gypsys\u2019 album. I was most curious about his session work with The Monkees after Buddy had left \u2018The Electric Flag\u2019 Buddy said \u201cYes I was friends with Peter (Tork) and did some jamming and session work for them out in California\u201d Buddy also appeared with The Monkees in their 1968 (aired in 1969) TV Special \u201833 1\/3 Monkees Per Revolution\u2019.<\/p>\n

>Steppinstone:1970< <\/strong>
\nIn Mar 1970 Jimi will guest appear on sessions with Arthur Lee and long time friend Stephen Stills. The album \u2018Stephen Stills\u2019 1970 Atlantic #19140 the track \u201cOld Times, Good Times\u201d features Jimi on guitar released 30 Nov 1969 the last official studio recording released by Jimi during his lifetime.<\/em><\/p>\n

Buddy Miles had been let go in early 1970, however Jimi renegotiated with Billy Cox to keep Billy on. It seems Jimi and a real Billy had a real bond & unspoken connection, something that had seriously lacked between Jimi & Noel in The Experience.
\nOn 23 Mar 1970 Jimi\u2019s \u2018Cry Of Love\u2019 band is born with Mitch Mitchell & Billy Cox. Then on 30 Jun 1970 Jimi & Eddie Kramer (Edwin H. Kramer 1942 Cape Town, South Africa) christen \u2018Electric Lady Studios\u2019. Over the next year \u2018Cry of Love\u2019 will record numerous songs that will not be released until after Jimi\u2019s untimely death. Jimi & \u2018Cry of Love\u2019s\u2019 last US concert is on 1 Aug 1970. Jimi\u2019s final recording session is held at Electric Ladyland Studios where he records his final song \u201cBelly Button Window\u201d on the 22nd of Aug 1970. Eddie Kramer is still involved with all Jimi\u2019s posthumous releases. Eddie has said \u201cI was very close to Jimi in a working relationship, not much of a personal relationship; Jimi had a lot girlfriends you see\u201d Tommy Bolin once said in 1976 \u201cI wonder how Jimi would feel about all that incomplete stuff coming out, now that he\u2019s gone”<\/p>\n

I saw an interview once where Jimi\u2019s Guitar Tech said \u201cIn soundcheck one time Jimi was not happy with the \u201cWah-Wah\u201d that was set up, so he said \u201cBring me another one\u201d well we always carried 3 of everything on hand in case something broke or went wrong, so I brought another one and Jimi was not happy with that on either, so I brought a 3rd one and Jimi of course was not happy that one either so jimi said \u201cGet a different one\u201d so I brought him the original one we had set up in the first place and Jimi said \u201cNow that\u2019s more like it\u201d<\/p>\n

KISS Guitarist Paul \u201cAce\u201d Frehley (27 Apr 1951 NYC) also was once a roadie for Jimi, Ace \u201cI set up Mitch Mitchell\u2019s drums\u201d for the 4 May 1970 in New York City at the Village Gate. Ace said \u201cI got backstage, I guess because I had the right look, like I belonged back there\u201d Eddie Kramer produced 3 of Ace\u2019s albums and several KISS albums.<\/p>\n

> Crash Landing<<\/strong>
\nJimi is interviewed for the very last time by journalist Keith Altham on 10 Sep 1970. On 17 Sep 1970 Jimi makes what would be his final appearance on stage when he sits in with Eric Burdon & War at Ronnie Scott\u2019s Club in London, England.
\nJimi is found unconscious at the Samarkand Hotel in London on 18 September 1970, he is taken to St. Mary Abbot\u2019s Hospital after the ambulance men are unable to revive him. Just after midday he is officially pronounced dead. Jimi is buried on 1 Oct 1970 in Renton\/ Seattle, WA. at Greenwood Cemetery.<\/p>\n

What people do not realize is that Jimi only released 3 official albums while he was alive:
\n1. \u201cAre You Experienced\u201d 12 May 1967
\n2. \u201cAxis: Bold As Love\u201d 1 December 1967
\n3. \u201cElectric Ladyland\u201d 25 October 1968<\/strong>
\nYet he changed rock music for all time, in just 4 years and with 3 studio records.
\nAlso released while Jimi was alive was:
\n4. \u201cGet That Feeling\u201d with Curtis Knight in Late 1967
\n5. \u201cSmash Hits\u201d July 1968
\n6. \u201cBand Of Gypsy\u2019s\u201d June 1970<\/strong>
\nAs well as eight 45 Singles from 1966 to 1970
\nFeaturing the Non-LP \u201cB\u201d Sides:
\n\u201c51st Anniversary\u201d \u201cStone Free\u201d \u201cHighway Chile\u201d \u201cStepping Stone\u201d \u201cIzabella\u201d (until 1968 all 45 singles were in (compressed) Mono as well as usually edited down for radio and sometimes featured non-lp \u201cB\u201d sides)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Monkees song writer & session musician Bill Chadwick cut a demo with Jimi in 1967 for Dot Records titled \u201cShe\u2019s Living in Surrey\u201d also Bill\u2019s mother used to custom tailor Jimi\u2019s stage shirt\u2019s because \u201cJimi\u2019s arms were so long\u201d Bill informed me.
\nWhen Jimi walked he appeared very tall, yet walked slow and almost shuffled. When he spoke he was shy and humble and with a bit of a lisp from a slight overbite. It seems he tried to create images with his words much like he did with his music. However when took the stage make no mistake he took total control somewhat like Godzilla when it tore through Tokyo. He was a true performer in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n

There are hours and hours of unreleased material that Jimi recorded from 1966 to 1970 however Jimi did not release a 4th studio album in his lifetime he only recorded jams. demos and material for the remaining 2 years of his life 1969 & 1970. He did tell The Monkees; Michael Nesmith sometime in 1970 when asked \u201cWhy haven\u2019t you released an album in awhile\u201d Jimi replied \u201cWell I have been working on my singing, I have never been real happy with my voice\u201d
\nSo my advice is to seek out a copy of Jimi\u2019s \u201cSmash Hits\u201d put it on, lay back close your eyes, tune in and drop out and if this music doesn\u2019t change your life, well then, there\u2019s really something wrong with you.<\/p>\n

The reason I included birth dates and death dates is because to my knowledge The Jimi Hendrix Experience is the first 60s band that all members are now dead. In addition to the stories on other famous musicians included here the response is usually \u201cWas he old enough to be there at that time\u201d I used a myriad of sources for this article. I accept I have made some mistakes and welcome any and all corrections<\/p>\n

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By: Richard L. Schwinden
\n(rik@mrzeros.com)<\/strong>
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