Poster This – THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE In 1967
At the Astoria in Oldham, Lancashire, UK
31 March 1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
‘Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky’ – THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Released ‘PURPLE HAZE’ 56 Years Ago Today
Great 7″ singles from the past
17 March 2023
On 17 March 1967, this day 56 years ago the late genial guitar hero
(27 Nov 1942 – 18 Sept 1970) JIMI HENDRIX and his experienced tandem,
bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell released their second
single, the rad classic called PURPLE HAZE.
Hendrix about the song: “The song we had named ‘Purple Haze’ had about a thousand, thousand words. I had it all written out. It was about going through, through this land. This mythical land, because that’s what I like to do is write a lot of mythical scenes. You know,
like the history of the wars on Neptune.”
“Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don’t seem the same
Actin’ funny but I don’t know why
‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky”
Studio version.
Live version.
THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE: Story
THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Released Second Album ‘AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE’ 52 Years Ago…
1 December 2019
THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE released their second longplayer ‘AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE’ on 1 December 1967, 52 years ago today. It came out only 7 months after the critically praised and triumphant debut LP ‘Are You Experienced’ but it didn’t hurt the record’s sales. It peaked at #5 in the UK and #3 in the US where it was issued later.
Rolling Stone wrote at the time: “Jimi Hendrix sounds like a junk heap, very heavy and metallic loud. Rock’s first burlesque dancer, superman in drag, his music is schizophrenic. Axis: Bold as Love is the refinement of white noise into psychedelia, and (like Cream) it is not a timid happening; in the vortex of this apocalyptic transcendence stands Hendrix, beating off on his guitar and defiantly proclaiming “if the mountains fell in the sea, let it be, it ain’t me.” Such cocky pop philosophy shall not go unrewarded.”
Album in full here…
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Back sleeve
‘VOODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN)’ By JIMI HENDRIX – 50 Years Ago Today At Woodstock Festival…
Knockouts from the past…
17 August 2019
Band: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Song: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Released as a single in England in 1970,
after his death
Album: Electric Ladyland – 1968
Live: 50 years ago today, on 17 August 1969, the late great guitar hero
played the brilliant track at the legendary Woodstock Festival
Woodstock 50 years ago today – genius at work…
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An album of Hendrix’s Woodstock performance was released in 1994 – stream it here