46 YEARS AGO: JIMI HENDRIX JOINS MONKEES TOUR
by Dave Swanson July 8, 2013






What do you get when you cross a psychedelic guitar genius with one of the world’s bestselling pop bands? A frustrated guitarist, a disappointed band and a bewildered and confused audience.

As unlikely as the match-up sounds, the Jimi Hendrix Experience joined the Monkees during the summer of 1967 for a short run of concerts. The rising guitarist joined the tour on its first date in Jacksonville, Fla., on July 8, and stuck it out for six more shows, exiting after a run of three concerts at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York City on July 14, 15 and 16.

Both Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork had attended the Monterey International Pop Festival in June and saw Hendrix’s groundbreaking performance. Like everyone else, they were knocked out. “Micky said, ‘We gotta get this guy,’” recalled Tork in the documentary ‘The Monkees Story.’ “Micky was just enthusiastic about his music.”

“You can’t imagine what it must have been like for an act like Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees,” Dolenz wrote in his autobiography ‘I’m a Believer.’ “It was evident from the start that we were witness to a rare and phenomenal talent. I would stand in the wings and watch and listen in awe.”

Tales from the tour reveal that everyone involved got along great. “He was such a sweet guy,” said Tork. “It was really just a pleasure to have him around for company.” But the group’s young audiences, as well as their parents who often accompanied them at shows, didn’t feel the same way.

“[The parents] were probably not too crazy about having to sit through a Monkees concert,” said Dolenz, “much lees see this black guy in a psychedelic Day-Glo blouse, playing music from hell, holding his guitar like he was f—ing it, then lighting it on fire … Jimi would amble out onto the stage, fire up the amps and break into ‘Purple Haze,’ and the kids in the audience would instantly drown him out with, ‘We Want Davy!!’ God, it was embarrassing.”

Tork said that “it didn’t cross anybody’s mind that it wasn’t gonna fly.” But rumors began to surface that Hendrix was asked to leave the tour after the Daughters of the American Revolution complained about his “lewd and indecent” conduct during performances.

Legend has it that Hendrix flipped off the audience as he left the stage on that final date. Either way, Hendrix decided enough was enough, and asked to be released from his contract. “I was sorry to see him go,” wrote Dolenz. “We did have some great times, running around the New York City psychedelic scene like kids in a candy store, tripping at the Electric Circus and jamming until all hours of the night in the hotel room.”

Shortly after Hendrix left the tour, both ‘Purple Haze’ and ‘Are You Experienced?’ started to climb the charts, revolutionizing modern music in the process. And in certain parts of the world, the Monkees were viewed with just as much respect. While they were considered mostly a disposable pop band in the U.S., in the U.K. the Monkees were seen in a different, more kaleidoscopic light. A Melody Maker critic wrote about the band’s tour of England in 1967: ”I suddenly realized the Monkees were actually freaking out properly and much better than many of the much vaunted psychedelic groups.”


http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimi-hendrix-joins-monkees-tour/

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Well Voodooo I must disagree on a couple of points.

First :"one of the best rock musicians ever " - for me Jimi was much more than that - he was the most important (if not influential) musician of the 20th Century whatever the genre. the only rock musician that deserves the epithet "genius".

Second , "one of the worst pop acts ever". As far as pop bands go they weren't too bad (imho) see Last Train to Clarkesville, I'm a Believer, Daydream Believer, Listen to the Band and You Just Maybe be the One. Also their tripped out movie "Head" (with jack nicholson) was pretty hip/out there (although it did border on the incomprehensible) for a manufactured pop group.

Following on I think Mike Nesmith with the First National Band had some excellent stuff. see Joanne and Different Drum.

There's a lot more pop groups worse than the Monkees even amongst the "manufactured" ones like The Archies (not even real people) and let's not forget The Partridge Family - although as a "manager" Rueben Kincaid was hilarious. 

Ha!!

I am drunk.

Therefore I say that the Monkees were awesome when they were good, tiresome when they bad and awful very few of the times. They were a marketed band: try to picture a marketed band as that, today; impossible. I love them Monkees.


C'mon. Not everybody in this life has to be like Hendrix.

stonedinaustralia wrote on Jul 11^th, 2013 at 1:50am:

Thank you for your response I totally agree, and do not have anything to add, except
this was the weirdIEST combination of acts i think i have ever heard of!
Love you Voo!

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http://jimihendrix.forumactif.org/t850p15-the-new-york-rock-festival-singer-bowl...

Honky Tonk Man wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 1:43pm:


WOW, The Move, the early Pink Floyd and Jimi on the same bill!!!!

Pure "sike-ay-delia" you B&B

wanna go bak in time and space to be there

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Yes, very cool indeed. This tour included a stop in my hometown, too. On December 1 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at the Central Theatre in Chatham, Kent. Setlist :-

- Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Hey Joe
- Purple haze
- Wild Thing

Being such a short set, one can tel he was part of a package!

philgood wrote on Aug 25^th, 2013 at 4:08am:


I was born in Chatham, Kent, but raised in a neighbouring town called Gillingham. I think Stewed n Keefed - a friend and Gillingham neighbour - may have mentioned the Zemaitis connection with the area, actually. I didn't know the gentleman, but I certainly do know where Walderslade Road is!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/get-a-sneak-peak-of-jimi-hendrix-hear-m...

45 years ago tonight

http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/jimi-hendrix-1968-the-complete-winterland-r...

nice little shout out from Jeff Beck last night doing LITTLE WING......developing

The last photo ?





This photo of Jimi Hendrix was taken the day before his death on September 17, 1970.

56 Years Ago: Jimi Hendrix Gets Fired Halfway Through His First Gig
by Jeff Giles February 20, 2015 10:59 AM



Experience Hendrix / Legacy



If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And while you’re trying again, think about Jimi Hendrix, who made it halfway through his first guitar gig before being fired on Feb. 20, 1959.

The show was a bit of an odd fit from the start. Hendrix, 16 years old and living in Seattle at the time, had been invited to audition for a local band — whose name has sadly been lost to history — during its two-set performance at the Temple De Hirsch Sinai synagogue. As Jewish Currents notes, the future guitar legend wasn’t the person in the building who’d later go down in musical history: The temple’s music director at the time, Samuel E. Goldfarb, co-wrote “The Dreidel Song.”

Unfortunately, Hendrix and Goldfarb would never get around to bonding: Jewish Currents’ report recalls that Hendrix’s “wild playing and show-off style (dropping to his knees, sticking out his tongue, flailing his arms) got him fired before the second set.” This wouldn’t be the last time his flamboyant style cost him a paycheck, either; as the post goes on to note, he’d also end up being fired by Little Richard and Ike Turner. Clearly, he needed to be the star of his own show.

Of course, things worked out pretty well for Hendrix once he started his solo career — and while this show remains a little-discussed footnote in an amazing legacy, novelist Lily Brett may have opened a window into his feelings about the firing in her novel Lola Bensky, a semi-autobiographical book that drew on Brett’s own experiences as a teen music writer to tell the story of a young girl who rubs shoulders with some of rock’s biggest stars.

“It didn’t go well,” laughs Hendrix in the book after telling Lola that his first gig was in the basement of a synagogue. “I was fired between sets. … I was trying to play from my soul, and the other band members thought I was showing off.”


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"Jimi come baaaaack...come back and feedback in my knapsack...your haze was so purple; and your axis was bold as love...."

Released on this day in 1999.

maybe this will work????

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New Jimi Hendrix Documentary Focuses on Historic Atlanta Pop Concert

'Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church' film will be preceded by 'Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival' live album


BY DANIEL KREPS, August 3, 2015



Chris Walter/Getty



The Jimi Hendrix Experience's July 4th, 1970 performance at the Atlanta Pop Festival will be the subject of a new documentary and live album. Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, a film about the guitar god's Atlanta Pop set and the circumstances surrounding it, will premiere on Showtime on September 4th. The DVD/Blu-Ray release of the documentary will follow on October 30th with bonus content not shown in the televised version.

The documentary will feature interviews with band members Billy Cox and the late Mitch Mitchell as well as Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Kirk Hammett, organizer Alex Cooley and more. The Atlanta International Pop Festival also marked the largest American audience Hendrix ever performed in front of, as an estimated 300,000 people witnessed the rock great play in Byron, Georgia, 100 miles south of Atlanta.

The recording spans much of Hendrix's catalog, from Are You Experienced's "Foxy Lady" and "Red House " to posthumously released tracks like "Straight Ahead" and "Room Full of Mirrors." Since the concert took place on July 4th, Hendrix naturally delivered another stunning rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner."

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church will be preceded August 28th by Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival, featuring Hendrix's July 4th, 1970 16-song set. That live album will be released via Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings as a 2-CD or 2-LP vinyl set. The first 5,000 vinyl copies will be numbered individually.

Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival Track List

Disc 1

1. "Fire"
2. "Lover Man"
3. "Spanish Castle Magic"
4. "Red House"
5. "Room Full Of Mirrors"
6. "Hear My Train A Comin’"
7. "Message To Love"

Disc 2

1. "All Along The Watchtower"
2. "Freedom"
3. "Foxy Lady"
4. "Purple Haze"
5. "Hey Joe"
6. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return) "
7. "Stone Free"
8. "Star Spangled Banner"
9. "Straight Ahead"



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/new-jimi-hendrix-documentary-focuses-on-h...

Unseen photos of Jimi Hendrix's greatest performances

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/arts/jimi-hendrix-ed-caraeff-burning-desire/index....

I chased Jimi Hendrix on to his coach for his autograph and now it's made me thousands

Plucky Lynda Huckerby's 50-year-old autograph has been sold at Etwall auction

A rock fan who chased guitar legend Jimi Hendrix for his autograph at the height of the swinging 60s is thousands of pounds better off thanks to her teenage bravado - more than 50 years later.

Lynda Huckerby, 65, was with her step-sister at a concert in April, 1967, when the self-confessed groupie saw a "posh coach" pull up outside a Leicester concert hall and the rock star climb aboard.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Lynda, then 15, followed in Jimi’s footsteps. She said: "It was Sunday, April 16, 1967, and I had bought tickets to see The Walker Brothers at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall. It was a star-studded line up. Jimi Hendrix was a support act along with Cat Stevens, Nick Jones, The Quotations and Engelbert Humperdinck.



Lynda is pictured at the age of 17


"I was a bit of a groupie back then. In fact, I had tried to climb on to the stage at the concert that night but the security men got hold of my legs and pulled me off.

"I was at the concert with my step-sister Gaile Barrs, who was also 15 at the time. We lived nearby and were hanging around after the concert when this big, posh coach pulled up at around 10.30pm. We watched as it parked up, then Jimi came out of a side entrance and got on the back of the coach.

"I said to Gaile 'quick, I’m grabbing him'. I ran onto the coach, there was no-one else on board, met him in the middle and just plonked myself down next to him.



Lynda is pictured with her Jimi Hendrix autograph


"I said 'can you sign my autograph please?' He took it all in his stride and signed my concert programme 'To Linda – Love & happiness, Jimi Hendrix'. I didn’t have time to tell him it was Lynda with a 'y'. His bassist, Noel Redding, signed it too.

"It was all done in a few seconds and I dashed off the coach which was empty except for me, Jimi and Noel, and maybe one other person.

"I laugh about how cheeky I was back then – but I still am. Nerves? I don’t get nervous - I’m a Leo.

"I suppose I was a bit of a hardcore groupie in the 1960s. It was such an amazing musical era and I saw The Kinks, The Who, The Rolling Stones – many of the greats."

Lynda, from Leicester, now retired from her job as an NHS breast cancer worker at Glenfield Hospital and married to husband Michael, said she was prompted to dig out her Jimi Hendrix autograph after reading about Anthea Connell, who sold her Hendrix autograph for £5,700 at Hansons auctioneers in Etwall.



Lynda is pictured with her stepmum Jean Travel and stepsister Gaile Barrs


She said: "I didn’t realise it could be worth so much. It has been gathering dust in the loft and various cupboards over the years. It is the only celebrity autograph I have ever managed to get."

The rare signature sold for £3,800 - nearly double its £2,000 estimate to a music memorabilia collector, last month.

The Derby buyer, who wished to remain anonymous, was delighted to secure the autograph after missing out on a Jimi Hendrix love-note signature sold by Nottingham’s Anthea Connell for £5,700 in October at the same auction house.

He said: "I was a room bidder for that one but the price kept going higher and higher and I had to pull out. This time I managed to buy Jimi’s autograph and I am really pleased."

After the sale he met Lynda and explained why he wanted her autograph so much. He said: "I have been collecting music memorabilia for around 14 years and have around 200 autographs including 10 to 15 grade A ones – very rare star signatures.

"I have all the Beatles except John Lennon, Elvis and Led Zeppelin. Jimi Hendrix is part of the 27 Club, artists who died at the age of 27 such as Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.

"I plan to keep the autographs for posterity and pass them down to my relatives."

Despite Lynda’s fearlessness when it comes to approaching musical legends, she admits she was worried the sale would not go through.

She said: "I was nervous the sale might fall flat on its face and nobody would want it. To get £3,800 for something that has been gathering dust is amazing. I would have been delighted with £2,000.

"It was lovely to meet the buyer and know that the autograph is going to someone who will enjoy it. I plan to spend it on some nice holidays with my husband."

Clare Howell, music memorabilia valuer at Hansons, said: "Jimi Hendrix autographs are special because they are fairly rare. That is because he died young at the age of 27 in 1970. I love the fact that Lynda ran on to a coach to get to Jimi. Her cheek has proved to be a very valuable asset."


https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/news/burton-news/chased-jimi-hendrix-coach-autograp...

Mannish boy!

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Inside Jimi Hendrix’s blood-spattered record collection

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/jimi-hendrix-record-collection-2281529

To be released on November 9 in the 50th anniversary of this master piece with of course Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child, slight Return and of course with Brian Jones content





In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of The Jimi Hendrix Experience masterpiece Electric Ladyland, Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings present a special Deluxe Edition box set that gives the listener an amazingly intimate look into the making of the most fully realized, cohesive project of Hendrix's entire career. Spread across 3 CDs and 1 Blu-ray the set includes

CD1: the original album, now newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes.

CD2: Electric Ladyland: The Early Takes, which presents 20 never before heard demos and studio outtakes. Included are incredibly intimate demos for song ideas Hendrix recorded himself on a reel-to-reel tape at the Drake Hotel, as well as early recording session takes featuring guest appearances from Buddy Miles, Stephen Stills and Al Kooper

CD3:The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At the Hollywood Bowl 9/14/68, part of Experience Hendrix's Dagger Records official bootleg series. The recently unearthed soundboard recording captures the band and the mounting excitement that took place just weeks before the release of Electric Ladyland

Blu-Ray: includes the acclaimed full-length documentary At Last... The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland, the first 5.1 surround sound mix of the entire original album ever overseen by Hendrix s original engineer Eddie Kramer plus the original stereo mixes in uncompressed 24 bit/96 kz high resolution audio. Electric Ladyland Deluxe Edition includes a full color, 48-page book containing Jimi's handwritten lyrics, poem and instructions to his record label, as well as never before published photos from the recording sessions that were shot by Eddie Kramer himself. All contained in a luxe casemade book with new cover art which is true to Hendrix's original vision of the album s cover: a Linda (McCartney) Eastman photograph of the band and children at the statue of Alice In Wonderland in New York's Central Park.

Disc: 1
  1. ...And the Gods Made Love
  2. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
  3. Crosstown Traffic
  4. Voodoo Chile
  5. Little Miss Strange
  6. Long Hot Summer Night
  7. Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
  8. Gypsy Eyes
  9. Burning of the Midnight Lamp
  10. Rainy Day, Dream Away
  11. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
  12. Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away
  13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming
  14. House Burning Down
  15. All Along the Watchtower
  16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Disc: 2
  1. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
  2. Angel
  3. Cherokee Mist
  4. Hear My Train a Comin'
  5. Voodoo Chile
  6. Gypsy Eyes
  7. Somewhere
  8. Long Hot Summer Night
  9. Long Hot Summer Night
  10. Long Hot Summer Night
  11. Snowballs at My Window
  12. My Friend
  13. At Last...The Beginning
  14. Angel Caterina (1983)
  15. Little Miss Strange
  16. Long Hot Summer Night
  17. Long Hot Summer Night
  18. Rainy Day Dream Away
  19. Rainy Day Shuffle
  20. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)

Disc: 3
  1. Introduction
  2. Are You Experienced?
  3. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
  4. Red House
  5. Foxey Lady
  6. Fire
  7. Hey Joe
  8. Sunshine of Your Love
  9. I Don't Live Today
  10. Little Wing
  11. Star Spangled Banner
  12. Purple Haze

Disc: 4
  1. Prologue
  2. Burning of the Midnight Lamp
  3. ...And the Gods Made Love
  4. All Along the Watchtower
  5. Rainy Day, Dream Away
  6. Still Raining, Still Dreaming
  7. Voodoo Chile
  8. Crosstown Traffic
  9. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
  10. Little Miss Strange
  11. Gypsy Eyes
  12. South Saturn Delta
  13. House Burning Down
  14. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
  15. Long Hot Summer Night
  16. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
  17. Epilogue

NVoodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Sep 17^th, 2018 at 8:47pm:


Now this is a real déjà vu, or maybe a Déjà Voodoo!!

I added the "in wonderland" to my moniker "Voodoo Chile" and now this album cover  of the Voodoo Chile with Alice in Wonderland and my very first avatar of the mad hatter more than 20 years later!!

Also a 6-LP box set (180 g) and the Bluray, I think this is the one for me







In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of The Jimi Hendrix Experience masterpiece Electric Ladyland, Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings present a special Deluxe Edition box set.

Spread across 6 180 gram LPs in 3 gatefold jackets and 1 Blu-ray the set includes: LP 1 & 2: the original double album, now newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes. For the LP set, Grundman prepared an all analog direct to disc vinyl transfer of the album, preserving the authenticity.

LP 3 & 4: Electric Ladyland: The Early Takes, which presents 20 never before heard demos and studio outtakes. Included are incredibly intimate demos for song ideas Hendrix recorded himself on a reel-to-reel tape at the Drake Hotel, as well as early recording session takes featuring guest appearances from Buddy Miles, Stephen Stills and Al Kooper

LP 4 & 5: Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At the Hollywood Bowl 9/14/68, part of Experience Hendrix's Dagger Records official bootleg series.

The recently unearthed soundboard recording captures the band and the mounting excitement that took place just weeks before the release of Electric Ladyland

Blu-Ray: includes the acclaimed full-length documentary At Last... The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland, the first 5.1 surround sound mix of the entire original album ever overseen by Hendrix's original engineer Eddie Kramer plus the original stereo mixes in uncompressed 24 bit/96 kz high resolution audio.

Electric Ladyland Deluxe Edition includes a full color, 48-page book containing Jimi's handwritten lyrics, poem and instructions to his record label, as well as never before published photos from the recording sessions that were shot by Eddie Kramer himself.

All contained in a luxe casemade lift top box with new cover art which is true to Hendrix's original vision of the album's cover: a Linda (McCartney) Eastman photograph of the band and children at the statue of Alice In Wonderland in New York s Central Park.

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Sep 26^th, 2018 at 12:59pm:



those old ladies?

10 years later, in 1978, Queen did the same for their "Jazz" album (with reference to "Fat Bottomed Girls")

IN the movie about the making "Electric Ladyland" you can see that Brian was really out LOL

"3. Brian Jones tried (and failed) to play piano on “All Along the Watchtower.”
Hendrix often encouraged other musicians to join in on his recording sessions, and Electric Ladyland featured several guest contributors, including Al Kooper, Buddy Miles and three members of Traffic (Dave Mason, Steve Winwood and Chris Wood). But when a certain member of the Rolling Stones showed up at Olympic Studios during the recording of “All Along the Watchtower,” his enthusiastic attempts to add a piano to the track were quickly foiled by his level of inebriation.
“None other than Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones stumbled by the session, decided to help out and play some piano,” Eddie Kramer recalled in At Last … the Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland. “I think he valiantly tried for a couple of takes, but it was abandoned, and they went back to cutting the basic track without him.” Not wanting to hurt his friend’s feelings, Hendrix moved Jones over to percussion; the rattling that punctuates the song’s intro is the sound of Jones hitting a vibra-slap."

Edith Grove wrote on Oct 17^th, 2018 at 6:05am:



cannot wait for this to be delivered!!

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Nov 14^th, 2018 at 7:33pm:


Dude's wearing sunglasses




dude is wearing sunglasses.

Dude looks like he's at a star trek convention

with those sunglasses

Jaysus

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Nov 14^th, 2018 at 7:33pm:


Dude's lookin like he wants to hide the shadows behind his eyes

...with those sunglasses

JAYSUS