THE LIFE & TIMES OF JIMI HENDRIX - EPISODE 3

JIMI HENDRIX THE LIFE & TIMES - EPISODE 3 This episode explores the events of October 1966, with Hendrix barley a month in England. Topics include: JOHNNY HALLIDAY AND THE FRENCH TOUR - 13 TO 18 OCT 66 (On the twelfth of October 1966, and less than a month since Jimi arrived in England, the group departed for France as support act for Johnny Halliday) Here’s a link to one of their gig: MITCH DESCRIBES THE HALLIDAY TOUR (On the first few gigs they didn’t know how to take us. But it seems that we were going down quite well – we’d have been told pretty damn quickly if they really had hated us) THIS IS WHAT NOEL HAD TO SAY ABOIUT THE FRENCH TOUR (We all, including Chas, humped gear, counted pennies, fretted and prayed. We were so happy just to be playing and eating) HEY JOE (Shortly after returning from France, the band booked into Kingsway Studios in London, primarily to cut their first single. It was already agreed that this would be a version of ‘Hey Joe) THE SHOWCASE GIG AND LONDON DEBUT (25 OCT 66 Fuelled by their triumphant success in France, the group returned to England to prepare for their London club debut at the Scotch of St. James) STONE FREE (Stone Free, Jimi’s first original song, tackles Jimi’s pet subject – freedom of action from three points of view) FINISH #jimihendrix endrix #jimihendrixexperience #noelredding #mitchmitchell #celebrity #JanisJoplin #brianjones #jimihendrixlive #heyjoe #purplehaze #likearollingstone #voodoo #voodoochild #voodoochile #rockmusic #wildthing #montereypopfestival #monterey #beatles #sgtpepper #hendrix #rock #rockstar #rockmusic #johnnyhalliday #celebrity #celebrities #jeffbeck References: ‘JIMI HENDRIX - STARTING AT ZERO’ By Leon Hendrix, Bloomsbury 2013 ‘Jimi Hendrix – Electric Gypsy’ by Harry Shapiro & Caesar Glebbeek, Heinemann, 1990. ‘Hendrix – Setting the Record Straight’ By John McDermott with Eddie Kramer, Warner Books, 1992. ‘THROUGH GYPSY EYES – My Life, The 60s, and Jimi Hendrix’ by Kathy Etchingham, Orion, 1998. ‘Are You Experienced? – The inside story of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’ by Noel Redding and Carol Appleby, Fourth Estate Ltd, 1990. ‘Jimi Hendrix – The Inside Story’ By Mitch Mitchell with John Platt, Harmony Books, 1990. ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky - the Life of Jimi Hendrix, by David Henderson, Bantam Edition, October 1981. ‘The Inner Word of Jimi Hendrix’ by Monika Dannemann, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1995. ‘CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC: Jimi Hendrix and post-war pop’ by Charles Shaar Murray, Faber & Faber, 1989. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.