Lemmy had roadied for the Jimi Hendrix Experience at their 1967 Royal Albert Hall show, getting the job from his flat mate, regular Jimi Hendrix Experience roadie Neville Chesters. Released just as Hendrix left Brook Street, this LP features a young Lemmy on guitar (he also wrote several of the songs). Kathy Etchingham remembers Hendrix bought it on a whim because of the cover. Even One Stop Records (Hendrix local record store when he lived at 23 Brook Street, Mayfair), where Jimi bought his copy, sold the album in a brown modesty bag.
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Two Virgins had to be distributed in the UK by Track Records EMI’s board declined to take the risk of an obscenity prosecution over the full frontal cover image.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono – Unfinished Music No. I just couldn’t handle it anymore.” One night on the tour bus Burke traded Hendrix to Otis Redding, exchanging him for two horn players. Burke struggled with Hendrix’s flashy playing: “five dates would go beautifully, and then at the next show, he’d go into this wild stuff that wasn’t part of the song. Jimi thought their harmonies were really great.”ĭuring 1963 Hendrix toured with Solomon Burke in a five-act lineup which also included Otis Redding. Kathy Etchingham describes this as “one of the first records in the collection. This rendition by the English Chamber Orchestra promised period sounds which would have been uncanny listening so near to where it was composed. Hendrix owned two copies of Handel’s Messiah, both of which show signs of wear and tear.
Handel – Great Choruses from Handel’s Messiah When told it was Muddy Waters’ latest, Hendrix at first refused to believe it, before smiling and saying “I used to follow him. When he heard it in Mr Love, the café below his flat in Brook Street, Hendrix asked the waiter what it was. Havens then demonstrated his anti-war anthem Handsome Johnny to a small party in the flat on Hendrix’s Epiphone acoustic guitar.Įlectric Mud attempted to “modernise” Muddy Waters via the addition of wah wah and other voguish sounds. Richie Havens, an old friend from Hendrix’s Greenwich Village days, dropped by Hendrix’s flat in Brook Street to present Jimi with this record, his latest album. Hendrix’s albums by Ravi Shankar were presents from Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, a great supporter, who was a ‘World Music’ listener, and knew Hendrix would be open to the different scales and structures of Indian classical music. The Brook Street copy of this LP has Hendrix’s blood on its sleeve, after he cut his hand on a broken wine glass then picked up the album. In 1965, as a struggling musician in New York, Hendrix was already enough of a Dylan fan to spend his last money on this album. Paul McCartney called the performance ‘one of the greatest honours of my career’. Pepper is the most worn he famously opened with a ‘killer’ arrangement of the title track at the Saville Theatre just three days after the album’s release and with the Beatles in the audience. Of the Beatles albums in Hendrix’s collection, Sgt. Here are our favourite stories behind some of the records in Jimi’s collection: The fact that even these capable speakers, specially reinforced by the manufacturers, occasionally blew during parties and had to be taken for repair shows how high the volume would get! Because Hendrix liked to listen to records very loud, he had to stick a coin with sellotape onto the turntable arm… Otherwise it would jump up and down the louder it got. This was a very expensive and powerful set-up for the time. We also know that Jimi would listen to this on top-notch equipment: a Bang & Olufsen turntable connected to a Leak-70 amplifier and two 30-Watt Lowther speakers. The records on show gives a unique insight into the tastes and influences of one of the greatest guitarists of all time and they cover blues, jazz, folk, rock, psychedelia and even a handful of classical LPs. Part of the exhibition of Jimi Hendrix’s former home here at 23 Brook Street is a display dedicated to his extensive record collection.īy January 1969, Jimi and his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham had around 100 LPs in their flat in Mayfair, but interestingly very few singles, as Jimi disliked their sound which was usually compressed for radio play. Even his favourite albums are covered in marks and fingerprints, showing that he saw his LPs as the means of delivering music, not a collection of precious artefacts. Jimi Hendrix was an impulsive record buyer.
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