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HENDRIX ALIVE PROJECT - ON TOUR!
The Dutch tribute to Jimi Hendrix,www.hendrixaliveproject.com
Proudly presents the HAPUK2 tour.
Thursday March 4:Westcoast Bar &Music Venue: Margate(Kent)
Friday March 5: The White Hart Inn: Chilton Polden : Bridgwater (Somerset)
Saturday March 6 :The Parkers Arms: Paignton.(Devon)
Thursday March 11: The Walrus , Plymouth(Devon)
Friday March 12: Livewire Youth Music Project: Saltash ( Cornwall.)
Saturday: March 13:Tintagel Arms: Tintagel,( Cornwall)
tuesday March 16: Charity Do ,Trethorne,nr. Launceston(Cornwall)
Thursday March 18: The Spinning Wheel: Paignton (Devon)
Friday March 19: Mr Kyps : Poole( Dorset)
Saturday March 20 : The Furnace : Swindon.(Wiltshire)
Sunday March 21 : Gastonbudget Showcase, The Shed , Leicester(Leicestershire)
VALLEYS OF NEPTUNE
8 MARCH 2010
The first shot in the transition of the Hendrix catalogue to Sony comes on 8 March with the release of Valleys Of Neptune. Twelve tracks which are claimed to be previously unreleased officially. On the same date Sony will be issuing deluxe CD/DVD versions of Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland, and First Rays Of The New Rising Sun.
Valleys Of Neptune contains the following:
Stone Free
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 9, 14, May 17,1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Billy Cox
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Backing Vocals: Roger Chapman, Andy Fairweather Low
Valleys Of Neptune
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, September 23, 1969, May 15, 1970
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Bass: Billy Cox
Percussion: Juma Sultan
Bleeding Heart *
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 24, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Billy Cox
Drums: Rocky Isaac
Tambourine: Chris Grimes
Maracas: Al Marks
Hear My Train A Comin’
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Mr. Bad Luck
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, May 5, 1967
Producer: Chas Chandler
Additional bass and drum recording, Air Studios, London, June 5, 1987
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Sunshine Of Your Love
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Percussion: Rocki Dzidzornu
Lover Man
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Ships Passing Through The Night
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 14, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Guitar, Vocals: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Fire
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 17, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass, Backing Vocal: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Red House
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 17, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Lullaby For The Summer
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Mixed By Eddie Kramer
Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Crying Blue Rain
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Additional bass and drum recording, Air Studios, London, June 5, 1987
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Percussion: Rocki Dzidzornu
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Ahead of the album will come a single of the title track. A USA only release we believe.
(Posted 11 January 2010
Updated 22 January 2010)
JP90 is currently shipping. Due to the millimetre of snow that has crippled Warrington we are shipping in small batches. All copies will be on their way in the next few days. It will be well worth the wait.
(Posted 8 January 2010)
One of the featured ice sculptures in Norwich town centre this week recalls Jimi Hendrix appearing at the Orford Cellar.
Experience Hendrix tour hits the road again
Following last year’s successful series of dates, the Experience Hendrix roadshow rolls across the USA once more. The format looks very similar to previous tours including Billy Cox, Joe Satriani, Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), Susan Tedeschi, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Ernie Isley, Sacred Steel featuring Robert Randolph, David Hildalgo & Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos), Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Living Colour, Doyle Bramhall II, Hubert Sumlin, and Chris Layton.
Friday 5 March 2010 - Gibson Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA
Saturday 6 March 2010 - The Joint, Hard Rock, Las Vegas, NV
Sunday 7 March 2010 - Ikeda Theater, Mesa, AZ
Tuesday 9 March 2010 - Table Mountain Casino Events Center, Friant, CA
Wednesday 10 March 2010 - Warfield, San Francisco, CA
Friday 12 March 2010 - Silver Legacy Casino, Reno, NV
Sunday 14 March 2010 - Paramount Theater, Denver, CO
Tuesday 16 March 2010 - Uptown Theater, Kansas City, Kansas
Wednesday 17 March 2010 - Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Thursday 18 March 2010 - The Chicago Theater, Chicago, IL
Saturday 20 March 2010 - Fox Theater, St. Louis, MO
Sunday 21 March 2010 - Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI
Tuesday 23 March 2010 - Akron Civic Theater, Akron, OH
Wednesday 24 March 2010 - Wellmont Theater, Montclair, NJ
Thursday 25 March 2010 - Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ
Saturday 27 March 2010 - Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA
(Posted 7 December 2009)
(Posted 2 December 2009)
6 Hour Thanksgiving Day Jimi Hendrix Radio Special
The annual Jimi Hendrix tribute radio show on WPFW 89.3 FM takes place on Thursday,Nov. 26th - Thanksgiving Day, 12 Noon to 6pm, hosted by Bob Daughtry & Guest Co-Host Cordell Dickerson.
You can listen live on the Internet at www.wpfw.org.
DUCKS CAN GROOVE PLAY "MACHINE GUN"
JIMPRESS 89 SPRING 2010
OUT NOW
New 68-page issue available now. See Current Issue page for full details and order via the order page if you are not a subscriber. All subscriber issues have been mailed but we have a postal dispute in the UK so receipt will take (significantly) longer than normal.
(News item posted 2 November 2009)
BROWN SUGAR
MARSHA HUNT'S HENDRIX SHOW IN DUBLIN
Singer, actress, author and now playwright Marsha Hunt takes to the boards next month in Brown Sugar On Jimi Hendrix… His Untold Story.
Accompanied by ex-The Incredible String Band guitarist Graham Forbes, Hunt promises to “revise our view of Hendrix, the ‘60s and ourselves, through images, nudity, music and story.” Originally from Philadelphia but now living in Wicklow, Marsha was a Track Records labelmate of Hendrix’s. “We arrived in England the same year, although I beat Jimi by about six months!” she laughs. “When I got signed in 1968 straight from the stage of Hair the musical, Track’s only other acts were The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Thunderclap Newman and Arthur Brown. It was a very small label with only a handful of people working for it, so everybody knew what everybody else was up to!”
Although it wasn’t until 1969 that they met properly – “I’m not going to tell you about that because it’s part of my show!” – Marsha first gigged with Jimi in 1967, and ran into Hendrix’s entourage regularly after that. “It was a business back then, but not an industry. Touring wasn’t the slick, professional machine it is now – everybody was flying by the seat of their pants and making the rules up as they went along. It didn’t necessarily make things easy, but it was interesting!” Hunt also had a relationship – and a child – with Mick Jagger, which was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones’ ‘Brown Sugar’.
Described recently by a critic as “original… thought provoking… poignant”, the show runs from November 2 to 7 in The New Theatre, which can be found in Temple Bar’s East Essex Street. Tickets priced €15 are available from the box-office at (01) 670 3361.
BILLY COX INDUCTED INTO NASHVILLE'S MUSICIAN'S HALL OF FAME
Check out the details at Experience Hendrix http://www.jimihendrix.com
and
The Hall of Fame http://www.musicianshalloffame.com/
SPRING IS SPRUNG
Coming Soon
"Spring is here and the sky is so very blue, birds all sing as if they knew..." Knew that the Spring issue of Jimpress is imminent, that is. In just three short weeks you will be able to banish those Winter blues with 68 pages of all the usual nonsense in Jimpress 89. Assuming we still have a postal service by mid-November that is.
(Posted 19 October 2009)
JIMI HENDRIX IN LONDON, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY
Copies of the new Jimpress publication Jimi Hendrix In London, New York, And New Jersey are expected at Jimpress Towers on Monday, 5 October. Two books in one detailing a mountain of trivia. Pre-orders will be despatched on Tuesday, 6 October. Full details can be found on the Our Books page and ordering via the Order page.
(Posted 4 October 2009)
BILLY COX INTERVIEW
http://www.nuvo.net/music/article/billy-cox-last-gypsy-standing
(Posted 20 September 2009)
MORE RE-ISSUES IT WOULD SEEM
Experience Hendrix, the family company that controls Hendrix's catalog and copyrights, has struck an eight-year, worldwide licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment for the master recordings of the legendary guitarist.
Sony plans to launch an ambitious reissue campaign in 2010 that will include deluxe editions of the three original albums by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, posthumous releases, the official Dagger Records bootleg line and previously unreleased archival recordings and filmed concerts.
The deal also includes licensing rights outside the United States for the 1970 live set "Band of Gypsys," which EMI Music will continue to distribute stateside. Universal Music Group had held the master licenses for the rest of the Hendrix catalog since 1997. Sony's licensing deal will take effect January 1.
In March, Seattle-based Experience Hendrix moved administration of the Hendrix music publishing catalog from Sony/ATV to Universal Music Publishing Group. At the time, Experience Hendrix president/CEO Janie Hendrix, the guitarist's sister, said she was planning a late-2009 release for a Dagger bootleg title and CD and DVD releases of live performances at London's Royal Albert Hall in February 1969, which would include behind-the-scenes footage. Those releases are now planned for 2010.
Sony's reissue campaign for the core catalog -- "Are You Experienced," "Axis: Bold As Love" and "Electric Ladyland" -- will encompass deluxe editions with extra material and enhanced packaging. Because plans are being worked out, Sony and Experience Hendrix can't yet provide details on the bonus material.
"There is an obligation that we have to fans that when we reissue material, you have to offer a substantial greater value in the content ... whether it be audio, visual or packaging," said Adam Block, Sony Music Entertainment Legacy Recordings senior vice president and general manager. "That is a core fundamental strategy here. I do know that in this case there is an enormous amount of material that Hendrix fans are going to be thrilled to have."
Although the artist's catalog has been repackaged extensively through the years, Hendrix points out one notable omission.
"We have never (released) the core catalog as a boxed set," she said. "That will be one of the next projects to come out under the Sony project."
To help promote the reissue campaign, Experience Hendrix will organize a concert tour next year. The company previously has sponsored tours featuring such contemporary artists as Carlos Santana, Paul Rodgers and Robert Randolph performing Hendrix's music.
The Hendrix catalog sells about 500,000 albums annually in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Billboard estimates worldwide sales average about 1.2 million per year.
Block said Sony Legacy and Experience Hendrix will work hard to bring new Hendrix fans into the fold.
"The beauty in an artist like Hendrix is that year after year, kids come of age and Jimi is a rite of passage," he said. "It is our role and responsibility to make sure that when they wake up on that morning that they have a chance to taste and hear the genius of this guy."
EVENTS IN INDIANA
Voodoo Child to host Jimi Hendrix tribute events in September
The Jimi Hendrix Information Management Institute (JIMI) is an organization designed to accumulate and disseminate information regarding the legend and the legacy of the late rock guitarist icon Jimi Hendrix. The organization was founded in 1985 by Ken Voss, former publisher of the Illinois Entertainer magazine and rock music historian, to satisfy the needs of Hendrix fans while working to maintain the factual story of Jimi’s life. JIMI maintains an archive of music and memorabilia, a library of books and published information, and publishes a quarterly fanzine Voodoo Child.
With this, the 40th anniversary of Woodstock and some 39 years since Hendrix’s passing, JIMI will be hosting two events this fall.
On Sunday, September 13 the JIMI Mobile Museum will roll out to be on display at the Rubino’s Annual Summerfest. That event will be held at the Rubino’s Exhibition Center at 8102 Georgia St. in Merrillville, Indiana (SW corner of I-65 and Route 30). Included will be a display of rare and unusual artifacts, photos and posters, videos and other memorabilia from the JIMI archives. The exhibition will run from 1-6 p.m. For more information: www.myspace.com/rubinosmusic.
On Friday, September 18, the JIMI Mobile Museum will be part of a Jimi Hendrix tribute concert featuring former Band Of Gypsys bass player Billy Cox, Kid Rock guitarist Kenny Olson and Indianapolis band Blue Earth Skeletons. That event will be held at the Irving Theater, 5505 E. Washington St., Indianapolis, Indiana. This will be a historic event as not only is September 18 the day of Jimi’s death in 1970, but Billy Cox is the only surviving member left of Hendrix bands the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band Of Gypsys. The concert will be a celebration of Jimi’s life. Tickets are $25. For additional information: www.myspace.com/blueearthskeletons.
On August 13th, 2009, legendary guitarist Les Paul died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, NY. His family and friends were by his side.
On July 14 at the Hildene pavilion between the Main House and the Visitor's Center, members of a string ensemble from the Manchester Music Festival, along with a couple of other musicians from a Jimmy Buffett tribute band, will take a shot at one of Hendrix's signature pieces, "Purple Haze." The performance will be part of a fund-raising event hosted by the music festival that offers dining, dancing and some wide-ranging entertainment. The music festival wants to reach out beyond its core audience and draw in other members of the community, and the unusual match up of a rock icon like Hendrix with a string ensemble seemed like an interesting way to do it, said Ariel Rudiakov, the artistic director of the festival.
"We wanted to do something that would raise money for the festival but also to try to bring more people into the fold," he said. "It's shaping up to be quite a party."
(Posted 26 June 2009)
EXPERIENCE HENDRIX WAKES UP WITH A JOLT
After what seems like an eternity Experience Hendrix appear to have their train rolling again. The rumours are getting ever stronger that the Royal Albert Hall show will be out on CD and DVD in late-2009/early 2010. Don't hold your breath yet though, we've been disappointed before.
In the meantime two releases are announced, the first of which has been anticipated almost as much as an official release of the Royal Albert Hall. The 6 July 1968 Experience show at the Woburn Music Festival, their only British appearance that year, will be the next release on the official-bootleg label, Dagger.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At Woburn is released on 28 July 2009 and, as usual, is only available mail-order from www.jimihendrix.com.
11 August 2009 sees a unique link-up between www.jimihendrix.com and Amazon in presenting a "fan pack" of the earlier Dagger release Paris/Ottawa. The publicity claims that the recording has never before been made available at retail, which is true, but extending availability to Amazon hardly makes it generally available and maintains online only ordering and only in the USA at that. Fan friendly? Not it Europe it isn't.
The press release:
"Paris/Ottawa Live, historic 'in concert' recordings from The Jimi Hendrix Experience, never before offered at retail, together with a unique and exclusive collection of Hendrix memorabilia are bundled together in a special offering to be released August 11th from Dagger Records, the official 'bootleg' label created by Experience Hendrix through Geffen Records/UMe.
This limited edition "fan pack" will be offered exclusively through AuthenticHendrix.com and Amazon.com and celebrates the fan/collector commitment of Experience Hendrix's Dagger Records label, the producer of these master recordings. Created eleven years ago to release primarily live and extemporaneous archival performances, Dagger's mission is to sketch in the detail of the Hendrix legacy and augment the mainstream titles that Experience Hendrix offers through UMe. None of the eleven titles previously released by Dagger have ever been sold in stores and have been available only at www.jimihendrix.com. The participation of Amazon.com and AuthenticHendrix.com, where pre-orders are now underway, continues the tradition of Dagger's online-only presence.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live 1968 Paris/Ottawa features sterling live performances of such Hendrix classics as "Purple Haze," "The Wind Cries Mary," and "Little Wing" recorded by RTE, the national French broadcasting company. The January 29, 1968 Paris concert was the band's third foray to the fabled L 'Olympia Theater where they had debuted as an opening act for the French pop star Johnny Hallyday's two years earlier.
The Ottawa performances were taped by Hendrix himself during the group's appearance at the Capitol Theater on March 19th of that same year and include a version of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band."
In a real nod to the bygone era, a similar, yet distinct, pack will have as its centerpiece a custom, swirled, colored vinyl album version of Jimi Hendrix Experience Paris '67. These recordings document Hendrix's wildly exuberant October 9, 1967 performance at L'Olympia originally recorded for French radio broadcast and never before released to the public. The album features performances of "Stone Free," "Hey Joe," "Wild Thing" as well as other notable Hendrix hits.
Materials specifically created for and exclusively included in both versions include a 'Jimi' poster, a postcard set replicating classic Hendrix concert posters, a set of badges reminiscent of the sixties era, a Hendrix iPod Skin and a "PikCARD" loaded, so to speak, with four guitar picks adorned with Hendrix artwork from the concert posters. The array of goodies is topped off with an "all access" laminated pass with an exclusive, secret code designed to unlock special Hendrix content online.
Janie Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, the family owned company entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, commented, "The concept behind this 'Fan Pack' is to throw a spotlight on Jimi as a live performer and give a glimmer of what it might have been like to encounter 'The Experience' when Jimi had the band at its peak. Jimi never failed to stun and leave audiences breathless with his performance and guitar virtuosity and we think fans today will be no less moved by the offerings included in these packs. This release highlights Dagger's role in serving fans who want all Jimi had to offer and can't get enough of his legacy and genius."
While the package will be available on August 11th, fans will be able to queue up outside the auditorium, so to speak by pre-ordering, Fan Pack: the Jimi Hendrix Experience Live 1968 Paris/Ottawa in advance of Father's Day, June 21st. "
New Issue of Jimpress will mail to subscribers on Monday 22 June.
Jimi Hendrix Murdered...yada, yada...
Tappy Wright claims, in his new book Rock Roadie, that Jimi was murdered by Michael Jeffery. Hardly a new conspiracy theory but Wright claims that Jeffery confessed to him in 1971. If this is the case let's hope the boys in blue will take time out from their attempts to close down music venues and take him into custody to enquire just why he has withheld such vital evidence for so many years. Could it be that he wants to sell a shedload of books? Surely not!
(Posted 3 June 2009)
Your chance to quiz John McDermott, Eddie Kramer and Billy Cox
The June 10 edition of the nationally syndicated (in the USA that is) radio show "Rockline" with host Bob Coburn will spotlight "Ultimate Hendrix", the book by author John McDermott, bassist Billy Cox, and sound engineer and photographer Eddie Kramer. Fans are encouraged to speak with McDermott, Cox, and Kramer by calling 1-800-344-ROCK (7625) beginning at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET. Fans in the UK should be able to listen online but we calculate it will be about 4.30 am. For more information, visit RocklineRadio.com.
(Posted 3 June 2009)
Jimpress 88
Coming soon
The new issue of Jimpress should be on its way to subscribers before the end of June.
(Posted 3 June 2009)
Billy Cox honoured in his own right
Steve Wariner and Felix Cavaliere announced the 2009 inductees to the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. The inductees are Chet Atkins, Billy Cox, Dick Dale, Charlie Daniels,Victor Feldman, Fred Foster, Paul Riser, and Toto.
The musicians will be officially inducted at the 2009 Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum Awards Show on October 12th at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Other 2009 inductees are Chet Atkins, Billy Cox, Dick Dale, Victor Feldman, Fred Foster, Paul Riser, and Toto.
(Posted 3 June 2009)
Legendary New York music store Manny's is to close at the end of May. Click image to read the Sunday Express article.
NOW! We might get something released.
Universal Music Publishing Group has become the exclusive administrator of the Jimi Hendrix catalog throughout the world outside the United States. The five-year agreement covers all commercial opportunities, including synchronization licensing for motion pictures, TV, advertising and other media. Universal replaces Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which had administered the Hendrix catalog outside the United States since 1998. The U.S. publishing rights will continue to be handled by Experience Hendrix.
"Janie [Hendrix] has done an amazing job of keeping the music and Hendrix's legacy alive," said Universal Music Publishing chairman/CEO David Renzer. "They have a great reissue program in place and they are doing a great job of protecting his legacy."
"Overall, it was a wonderful deal they offered us," Janie Hendrix said. "Everything has to come through me for approval." She added that she will ensure that any new opportunities "uphold the standard of the music. Currently, I am in the studio transferring tapes of Band of Gypsys performances that have never been released before," she said, referring to Hendrix's last band.
The Hendrix catalog remains a perennial strong seller. In the United States, the catalog sells about a half-million copies annually, putting worldwide sales at 1.2 million, Billboard estimates. Song downloads grew from 800,000 in the United States in 2007 to 915,000 last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Experience Hendrix expects to release two albums later this year, including one on Dagger. Hendrix also expects to release CDs and DVDs this fall that showcase live performances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience at London's Royal Albert Hall, as well as behind-the-scenes footage. When Hendrix performed February 18 and February 24, 1969, at Royal Albert Hall, a camera crew followed him for a month, yielding candid footage of him at home, about town and hanging out backstage. The result, Hendrix says, will be a "reality TV" glimpse of the legendary guitarist.
(Posted 23 March 2009)
More Hendrix Planed for Guitar Hero World Tour
Activision's Guitar Hero World Tour has a second set of downloadable tunes from Jimi Hendrix come 19 March. Included in this release are the Hendrix classics "Freedom," "Angel," and a live version of "Foxy Lady." Download will cost $5.50 regardless of platform.
(Posted 6 March 2009)
We may find this to be a recurring theme this year
Sites in New York and Berlin have been booked for August to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. The original ‘peace and love’ festival featured towering performances from The Who, Jimi Hendrix and many others. Woodstock is set to take place in New York on August 15-16, exactly forty years after the original. The Berlin event will follow on August 22-23 at an abandoned airport. In a step to distance itself from the thirtieth anniversary festival which was marred by violence and rioting, organisers intend to book bands that featured at the original festival. Details of the line-up have yet to be confirmed.
(Posted 6 March 2009)
Michael Lang, one of the "three young men with unlimited capital," behind Woodstock (and Miami Pop among other things) has two books forthcoming in this the 40th anniversary year of the watershed gathering in upstate New York. Lang's memoires "The Road to Woodstock" is due to be published July 14th. This will be followed by a Genesis (of Classic Hendrix fame) tabletop book for release on the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, August 15th. Both books include a selection of photographs by Ken Davidoff (see Jimpress 87).
(Posted 2 March 2009)
An iconic relic on the UC Berkeley campus has disappeared during the restoration of Sather Gate. The face of Jimi Hendrix, which had been imprinted on the northwest side of the Sather Gate Bridge railing since 1970, has been washed. Legend has it that in 1970, a poster was hung on the bridge to advertise Jimi's concerts in Berkeley. Rain caused the poster ink to sink into the concrete, according to campus tour guides.
John Fizer, a local character who can often be found playing guitar on campus, said he saw a worker using industrial solvent to remove the remnants of Hendrix's face from the bridge on Friday morning. Fizer said he notified a UCPD officer, but was told to leave the workers alone. "The workers laughed at me for objecting," he said.
"Everyone thought it was really cool. Parents who were alive during the time of Hendrix especially got a kick out of it," Student Ryan Tucker said. Fizer, who has been a regular presence on campus since 1965, said Hendrix's face has been pointed out by nearly every orientation group he has seen pass over Sather Gate Bridge. "They capitalized on it to get students to come here," Fizer said. "The irony is that now the university will never be able to use it again."
The university has refused the offer of a replacement image.
(Posted 2 March 2009)
"Were you looked after when you travelled? No! I had a knife in my pocket, a Fender amp in one hand, the two pedals, the fuzz and the wah-wah, three leads and a guitar. The left-hand side was very heavy. Unless you've run at full pelt down a train platform carrying a Fender Twin reverb, having been up all night, you've not lived, let me tell you! I loved it. It was cool just running around. No one came with me - it was a fresh time. I used to get on a train or a plane and roll joints on that old waxy toilet paper and just sit on the toilet and get high. It was a nice way to travel, I tell you."
In 1969 John met Beverley Kutner, who'd previously been part of The Levee Breakers as a teenager - they made a single with George Martin - and been a solo artist on Deram, where she'd released a single, Happy New Year, that featured Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Bert Jansch had taught her to play guitar.
"We were on the same bill at the Chelsea Art School," he says. "There was Jackson C Frank, Beverley and me. I just hopped up off the floor and played some really flashy things that made people shout out for me. We started talking after the show and she found out where I lived. Then she came round and gave me a big kiss on the lips. As soon as she did I was like, 'Uh-oh. This is it...' And it was and I was gone. Was it the great love story of our times? I don't know, she took me so much by surprise. She took me by surprise every day. I was slightly weirded out by the fact her manager [Joe Boyd] thought I was an idiot, but I had my own contract with Island anyway, I wasn't a passenger."
The pair moved to Woodstock for three months and recorded Stormbringer! with Boyd. It was initially to be Beverley's own album.
"Yeah, except I wrote most of the songs," John says. "But we worked together well. That was a great time. Every Thursday this purple helicopter would turn up and Jimi Hendrix would get out on the green across the road. I would always go over to talk to him. He was just there to lig, really. He had no idea who I was, but I knew who he was. Bob Dylan was up the road; The Band too. Jimi'd just turn up and play with whoever. He'd stay for a few hours then get back in the helicopter and leave. It didn't seem strange then. At that age nothing's hard, nothing's difficult."
(Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, 2008)
(Posted 2 March 2009)
Philip José Farmer, who was born Jan. 26, 1918, died 25 February 2009 at his home in Peoria, Illinois. He wrote more than 75 novels before his death including Night Of Light which allegedly inspired Jimi to write Purple Haze.
(Posted 2 March 2009)
HENDRIX VODKA BUS FORCED OFF THE ROAD
Two years after first filing in court Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix were victorious in their trademark infringement case against Craig Dieffenbach and his companies. United States District Court Judge Thomas S. Zilly entered a permanent injunction prohibiting Dieffenbach, Electric Hendrix Spirits, LLC and others, from using Experience Hendrix trademarks on their vodka and other products. The injunction also requires Dieffenbach to demand that all distributors and licensees immediately withdraw the vodka and other infringing products from the market and cease all related advertising. Judge Zilly entered a $3.2m judgment against Dieffenbach and his companies for their unlawful conduct.
In March 2007, Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix filed the lawsuit charging that Dieffenbach and his companies had infringed on Experience and Authentic's Jimi Hendrix trademarks in an unauthorized, tasteless promotion of "Hendrix Electric" brand of vodka. The suit alleged that Dieffenbach intended to deceive the public into believing that the Jimi Hendrix family companies had authorized this sale of vodka and other products.
(Posted 19 February 2009)
One of the most commonly asked questions here at Jimpress Towers is "Where is Black Beauty?" Black Beauty, as it has come to be known, is a black Fender Stratocaster, serial number 222625. Although the name Jimi Hendrix has become synonymous with white Stratocasters, mainly as a result of the Woodstock movie, this black model was played at many landmark gigs including Jimi's final UK appearance at the Isle Of Wight Pop Festival in August 1970. It is generally accepted to be the last guitar Jimi played since it was at the Samarkand Hotel apartment where he died.
As to its present location, there is no public confirmation. After Jimi died possession passed to Monika Danneman who kept is secure until her death. The two stongest and most credible theories about its whereabouts suggest it is now either with the Danneman family in Germany or in the possession of Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth, a long-time friend of Monika Dannemann.
(Posted 19 February 2009)
Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography
Portland Museum of Art
Rock & roll provided the soundtrack to American culture of the late 20th century. This exhibition, drawn from the largest private collection of photographs of rock musicians in the country, captures the intimate relationship between photographer and musician. Featuring 268 photographs—many rarely seen by the public—the exhibition includes studio portraits and candid outtakes of famous rock & roll stars from Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix to Madonna and Courtney Love. Classic images by photographers Lee Friedlander, Kate Simon, Laura Levine, Baron Wolman, Bob Gruen, Jim Marshall, and Lynn Goldsmith are included in this extraordinary survey of 20th-century music and popular culture. Showing until 22 March 2009.
(Two hours north of Boston, the Museum is located in the heart of downtown Portland, ME at the corner of High and Congress streets. To reach the Museum from I-295 (north or south) take exit 6A, Forest Avenue South. Bear right at the first light and drive through the park. At the top of the hill, take a left onto Congress Street and proceed 2/10 mile to the Museum, located on your right.)
(Posted 1 February 2009)
The Experience Hendrix website is currently carrying an open letter from Mitch Mitchell's family that you may like to be aware of.
http://www.jimihendrix.com/mitch_mitchell2.html
Publicans and managers of other small venues are being forced to comply with a new piece of bureaucracy called Form 696. The form demands that licensees give police a mass of detail, including the names, aliases, private addresses and phone numbers of all musicians and other performers appearing at their venue, and the ethnic background of the likely audience. Failure to comply could mean the loss of a licence or even a fine and imprisonment.
It applies in 21 London boroughs, but professionals in the music business fear that if it becomes accepted, it will be copied in other cities. Its use was recently the cause of cancellation for a New Years Eve event in Manchester. These new rules will make putting on live bands next to impossible for most small venues. An 'open mic' night could not happen under such rules. Please sign the petition against Form 696 or see small live gigs become a thing of the past.
Please sign the petition on the 10 Downing Street website against 696. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Scrapthe696/
Read what The Independent had to say about it here: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/how-form-696-could-pull-the-plug-on-the-capitals-music-scene-1028240.html
We have just learned that EMI is to close Olympic Studios in Barnes and has begun consultation with Olympic’s 11 staff. It is understood that the studio is not considered profitable. It was in Olympic that The Jimi Hendrix Experience came together with Eddie Kramer to produce some moments so far ahead of their time that most folk have yet to catch up.
The closure will leave EMI focussed on their one remaining studio, Abbey Road, a venue they have always favoured for its Beatle connection.
If you head over to JamsBio you'll find a competition that anyone seems to have a chance to win. Music fans can share Hendrix stories, reviews, and add lists from now until December 15 at http://jamsbio.com/contest/jimi-hendrix in order to enter to win the grand prize, a Gibson Flying V guitar. JamsBio and UME are celebrating Jimi Hendrix's remarkable legacy. Re-experience Hendrix with the Electric Ladyland CD+DVD Collector's Edition, Blu-Ray collections of Live at Woodstock and Live at Monterey, and vinyl reissues of Axis: Bold as Love and Are You Experienced. One Grand Prize winner will receive a special edition electric guitar from Gibson. Other winners will receive an exclusive Jimi Hendrix music/DVD prize pack containing selections from the UME reissue catalog. Share memories, write reviews and create lists in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the classic Jimi Hendrix Experience release at http://jamsbio.com/contest/jimi-hendrix. You could even write a review of Jimpress...or Ben Franklin. I might be sorry I said that!
Yet another Hall of Fame entry
A total of 28 new additions have been made to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Included this time around is Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner." This particular Hall Of Fame now has 826 titles, chosen by a members committee of historians and experts since its inception in 1973. Many of the titles will form part of the Grammy Museum, a four-floor exhibition centre which is set to open in Los Angeles on December 6. The 28 new titles added to the library also include Stevie Wonder's 'For Once in My Life', 'Sweet Home Alabama' by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'. BB King will perform another entry, Louis Jourdan's "Let The Good Times Roll," at the nomination ceremony at the Los Angeles Nokia Theatre on December 3.
Listen online to Electric Ladyland special radio show
Go to http://www.kkrw.com/pages/jimi08.html to listen online.
Jimi Hendrix - From The Benjamin Franklin Studios 3rd Edition
The trilogy is complete
Part 3 of From The Benjamin Franklin Studios is now available. This completes the third edition some six months ahead of schedule, a staggering achievement.
Jimi Hendrix - From The Benjamin Franklin Studios is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to every known Jimi Hendrix recording. Part 1 comprises alphabetical listing of every version of every song recorded by or contributed to plus comprehensive appendices and reference lists. This runs to 352 pages. Part 2 has 304 pages and contains full track listings and pictures of all officially released discs used as reference points in Part 1 plus the first part of the bootleg discography. Part 3 completes the bootleg discography, again with a picture of each release, and adds important updates to the first two parts.
(Posted 25 November 2008)
Mitch Mitchell, drummer with Jimi Hendrix for all but a few months of his time at the top, has died at the age of 61. Mitch was found dead in his Portland, Oregon hotel room where he was for the final date of the Experience Hendrix tour. A spokesman for the local coroner said it appeared he died of natural causes, although a formal finding had not yet been issued.
"We're all devastated to hear of Mitch's passing. He was a wonderful man, a brilliant musician and a true friend," Janie Hendrix, said in a statement on behalf of the estate. "His role in shaping the sound of the Jimi Hendrix Experience cannot be underestimated," she said. "Over the course of the recent tour, he seemed delighted with the interchange with the other musicians and the audiences. There is no question that he was doing what he loved."
Born 9 July 1947, Mitchell was a child actor (Ovalteenies, Jennings) before his Saturday job with Jim Marshall led him to a greater love, music. Having just left Georgie Fame’s band he joined the fledgling Jimi Hendrix Experience and his jazz-stylings, often compared favourably to Elvin Jones, brought much to the sound of the Experience recordings.
His support of Jimi Hendrix at Monterey, Woodstock, the Isle Of Wight, and so many other performances ensures that he will never be forgotten. Full obituary in next issue of Jimpress.
(Posted 13 November 2008)
Yep, Jimi is still a Guitar Hero
Jimi Hendrix will take to the virtual stage this November as downloadable content in Activision Publishing, Inc.'s Guitar Hero: World Tour, the company announced today. Already confirmed to take center stage as a playable character, Jimi Hendrix, one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, will return with three additional downloadable master tracks. "If 6 Was 9," "Little Wing," and a live version of the iconic Hendrix track "Fire" will all be available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour on November 13, 2008.
The latest installment in the #1 best-selling video game franchise of 2007, Guitar Hero: World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero's signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless controllers with new revolutionary online and offline gameplay modes including Band Career and 8-player "Battle of the Bands," which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online. The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar controller, drum kit controller and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock 'n' roll anthems. Music creators are also able to share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunesSM where other gamers can download and play an endless supply of unique creations. Guitar Hero: World Tour is now available for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Playstation 3 computer entertainment system, the Wii home video game system from Nintendo and the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system.
(Posted 4 November 2008)
Everyone at Jimpress is sorry to note, rather belatedly, the passing of Keith Shadwick. Keith finally succumbed on 28 July following a three year battle with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer. In the mountain of books written about Jimi Hendrix two biographies stand head and shoulders above the rest, Electric Gypsy and Keith's Jimi Hendrix Musician. Keith was a highly respected journalist and author across musical genres having penned books about artists as diverse as Bill Evans and Led Zeppelin as well as many jazz reference works. Most of all Keith Shadwick was a really nice guy.
(Posted 30 October 2008)
Hendrix guitar on display in Denver
Continuing its world tour of high performing Hard Rock Cafes, the white Gibson SG guitar played by Jimi Hendrix in a 1969 appearance on ABC’s Dick Cavett Show is to spend some time in Denver. Denver’s Hard Rock is one of twelve locations worldwide to be recognized by the chain this year for its financial performance, sales accomplishments and community contributions, the company announced.
Hard Rock Cafe Denver, located downtown on the 16th Street Mall, is the latest recipient of Hard Rock International Inc.’s “Top of the Rock” award, which each year goes to six company-owned outlets and six franchise locations. The guitar will be displayed at the Denver location for two months.Hard Rock International noted Hard Rock Cafe Denver’s efforts to raise funds for The Children’s Hospital of Aurora and other charity efforts.
(Posted 30 October 2008)
Attention all Jimi Hendrix Collectors
A London based publisher is producing an illustrated book on the instruments and effects (amps, pedals, etc) used by Jimi. Anyone out there who owns an original Hendrix piece (or identical replica), photographs of such, or can offer assistance in locating items is encouraged to contact:
Chris Stone
email: stone.megilley@ntlworld.com
Tel: 07876 704077
Items of memorabilia/other ephemera also welcomed.
Fees will be payable for items sourced and used.
(Posted 22 October 2008)
Experience Hendrix 2008 Tour
The Experience Hendrix 2008 Tribute Tour begins a 19-date nationwide tour on October 15 in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.
The 2008 Experience Hendrix Tour follows on the heels of successful mini tours in 2004 and 2007; this time featuring an expanded nationwide tour schedule and artist line-up that features Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Brad Whitford, Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Gales, Mato Nanji, Chris Layton and special guests at selected locations including Cesar Rojas and David Hidalgo, Bernard Allison, Robby Krieger and many more.
Notes Experience Hendrix tour producer John McDermott, "The line-up for this tour reflects the breadth of Jimi's ongoing influence that reaches down through the generations. The guests that have been attracted to participate are, to a man, enthusiastic about the proposition of performing with their counterparts. That mindset underscores the fact that the Experience Hendrix tour is all about musical camaraderie and the recognition that Jimi Hendrix, undeniably, casts the longest shadow in the realm of great music and great musicians."
The dates:
Oct. 14 - Hampton Beach, NH - Hampton Beach Casino
Oct. 16 - Albany, NY - Palace Theater
Oct. 17 - Providence, RI - PPAC
Oct. 18 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theater
Oct. 19 - Waterbury, CT - Palace Theater
Oct. 21 - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
Oct. 22 - New York, NY - United Palace Theatre
Oct. 23 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theater
Oct. 24 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theater
Oct. 26 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theater
Oct. 27 - Louisville, KY - Whitney Hall KY PAC
Oct. 29 - Omaha, NE - Orpheum Theatre
Oct. 30 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theater
Nov. 01 - Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl
Nov. 02 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theater
Nov. 03 - San Francisco, CA - Nob Hill Masonic
Nov. 05 - Spokane, WA - INB Performing Arts Center
Nov. 06 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater
Nov. 07 - Portland, OR - Schnitzer Hall
(Posted 7 October 2008)
New Release From Dagger
Experience Hendrix's official-bootleg offshoot brings us a new release of the '68 Paris show, once part of the Stages box set combined with three previously unreleased tracks. Information below from the press release.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Paris & Ottawa 1968 kicks off with a rousing performance at Paris, France's famed L'Olympia Theatre. The January 29, 1968 performance marked the third time The Jimi Hendrix Experience had performed at the venue in just over a year; having first made their French debut as a support act with legendary French vocalist Johnny Halliday in October 1966.
Originally released as part of the 1991 4CD box set Stages, The Jimi Hendrix Experience's L'Olympia Theatre performance makes it's return engagement to CD for the first time in more than 15 years. Like all previous recordings in the Dagger Records library, Live In Paris & Ottawa 1968 is once again highlighted by posthumous studio engineering and mastering by our dynamic technical team of Eddie Kramer and George Marino.
The Experience's Paris performance features nine fiery recordings, including two rousing Blues classics "Killing Floor" and "Catfish Blues;" six unforgettable live performances featuring some of Jimi Hendrix's most celebrated self-penned compositions including "Foxey Lady," "Red House," "The Wind Cries Mary," "Fire," "Little Wing" and the ageless "Purple Haze;" plus "Drivin' South," a composition Hendrix first recorded and performed in 1965 while serving as one of R&B/Soul musician, Curtis Knight's young guitarists.
The release of this celebrated January 1968 performance at L'Olympia Theatre is the perfect companion release with Dagger Records' sixth CD release The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Paris 1967 / San Francisco 1968 (originally released in April 2003), which featured The Experience's October 9, 1967 show at the same venue.
In addition to The Experience's French performance, Live In Paris & Ottawa 1968 is rounded out with the inclusion of three previously unreleased live recordings of The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing in concert at the Capitol Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The three, previously unreleased songs represented here include The Beatles' hit single "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" along with two classic Hendrix anthems including "Fire" and "Purple Haze." These new recordings were taped during The Experience's first show on the evening of March 19, 1968 and are sourced from a previously undiscovered tape.
Recordings from The Experience's second show on March 19, 1968 in Ottawa was the subject of Dagger Records' fourth release The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Ottawa and combine nicely with this new release to round out any Hendrix fan's music library.
(Posted 14 August 2008)
