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JIMI HENDRIX - THE STORY AS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE - EPISODE SIX This program comprisies the following: 1967 THE YEAR IT ALL CAME TOGETHER FOR ROCK MUSIC (In the year of 1967, a monumental shift occurred in the realm of rock music) MIKE JEFFERY AND HIS TRICKS (Once ‘Hey Joe’ had been released, Mike Jeffery used his armoury of dirty tricks to get the record noticed) OPERATING ON THE SMELL OF AN OILY RAG (While the Jimi Hendrix Experience continued to score minor triumphs such as placing “Hey Joe” on the charts and appearing on Ready, Steady, Go! Their lack of cash flow dogged Chandler and Jeffery) THE LOOK (Jimi had always worn flamboyant clothes, even as a kid. If Jimi’s appearance had attracted curious glances in London, he looked totally outrageous up north.) JIMI THE SEX SYMBOL HAD A STYLE ALL OF HIS OWN (Right from the beginning he had a style of his own, wearing satin shirts with voluminous sleeves, army jackets and bell-bottoms with scarves tied around the legs long before anyone else. Even Brian Jones was still wearing suits when Jimi first arrived in London.) PLAYING AT BRIAN EPSTEIN’S SAVILLE THEATRE (As was becoming customary, the Beatles visited Hendrix's dressing room before and after the show to offer encouragement. It was clear from the rapturous reception that the Experience had arrived as the next big thing in England after the Beatles and Rolling Stones.) CLAPTON DESCRIBES THE SAVILLE THEATRE GIG (I knew what Jimi Hendrix was capable of from the minute I met him. It was the complete embodiment of all aspects of rock guitar rolled into one. I could sense it coming off the guy. ) JIMI AND ‘WILD THING’ – HOW IT HAPPENED (As soon as they got back to London he bought a copy of Wild Thing by The Troggs and played it to himself a few times, deciding to make a cover version which he could use in the stage show.) Extremely rare footage: LET YOUR FANCY FLOW (‘I remember looking up the stairs and seeing Jimi – and the charisma – I couldn’t take my eyes off him. . . . he was so polite and charming and shy.’) THE MIXED BLESSING OF STARDOM (Even if you didn’t like us, at least you could be sure of seeing someone – Keith Moon, a Beatle, or a Stone, Liza Minelli, Eric Clapton, Jane Asher, Marianne Faithful – at our gigs. Last month we were playing to hundreds, this month, thousands.) PLAZA NEWBURY – CONCERT REVIEW (Last night at the Plaza, Newbury, the Jimi Hendrix Experience roared and romped their way through an hour and a quarter’s worth of music that shattered the senses both aurally and visually.) JIMI’S SONGWRITING (Mitch Mitchell: We really were a ‘band’ at that time. Hendrix would have an idea of chords and structure; he wrote the ‘songs’. When it came to the rhythmic structure, everything was left up to me and Noel.) JIMI CHANGED MUSIC BUT WHO INFLUENCED HIM? (One of the things that attracted Hendrix to working in England was that he’d heard the sounds that people like Jeff Beck – whose playing we all loved – were producing with fuzzboxes and wanted to work in English studios.) TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS – MIKE JEFFERY AND THE US DEAL (Mike Jeffery secured a record deal for the Jimi Hendrix Experience with Warner Brothers. With a $150,000 deal, a royalty advance of $40,000 and a promotional budget of $20,000 this was an excellent outcome – well, for Mike Jeffery and Chas Chandler at least.) #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 #beatles #celebrity #celebrities 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.
