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These photos are from Montagu Square when we were just beginning the collection. The record player belonged to Ringo Starr                         Later on we built up a bigger collection.   This is an extract from an article in Guitar Player magazine (1 Apr 1996) Listening… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix Record Collection

This is an excerpt from my book. Musicians used to come to Brook Street, as they had to Upper Berkeley Street, to visit, and one frequent and welcome caller was Roger Mayer. Roger was an experimenter for the Royal Navy Scientific Service, working in the field of vibration and acoustic analysis systems. I never completely… Continue reading Roger Mayer and Jimi Hendrix

On 14 February 1969, the day after the Mary Hopkin party at the Post Office Tower, Jimi and I went to the Valentine’s Day music awards at Seymour Hall in Seymour Street. Jimi was to have a Disc and Music Echo newspaper World Top Musician award. Maurice Gibb was the person who would hand over… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix Valentines Day Award 1969

Angie King and I had been taken by the Animals to see the High Numbers at the Scene club. The dark, smoky, underground room, big enough to hold 200 people between its black walls if they stood close enough together, was exploding with noise as we came through the door. The walls were painted black… Continue reading Keith Moon and the High Numbers

People forget that in the music/fashion world of 60s London everyone was interconnected and knew everyone else. Of course I knew Brian Jones well before Jimi arrived in London. In fact I think I introduced them which was a mistake because they immediately bonded and used to goof around like a couple of naughty schoolkids.… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Tara Browne

I bought Jimi a puppy for his 25th birthday present. Jimi was delighted and Ethel Floon became a member of the family. He called her ‘Queen of Ears’. Everyone loved Ethel, despite the fact that she was quite incapable of actually hitting any newspaper we laid out for her to relieve herself on and always managed… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix and Ethel Floon

In January 1968 Jimi and I were invited to the press launch of a band called Grapefruit, who were associated with John Lennon and named after Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit. Jimi and I were not going to go, but at the last minute Brian Jones turned up at our flat and went to great lengths… Continue reading Grapefruit Launch Party

Today marks the 46th anniversary of the studio recording of Hey Joe. The following is an excerpt from my book, Through Gypsy Eyes Chas took the Experience into the studio to record ‘Hey Joe,’ the first single, just two months after Jimi set foot in England. We all went down together to Kingsway Studios, near… Continue reading 46th Anniversary of Hey Joe studio recording

This is an excerpt from my book. Jimi didn’t seem to have any clear-cut political ideas, just a vague belief that everyone should try to get along with each other. Some of the black activists, on both sides of the Atlantic, used to criticise him for having a white girlfriend, which made him very angry.… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix and Michael X

13 Oct 1966 was the first Jimi Hendrix Experience gig at the Novelty cinema in Evreux, France. 30 years later a plaque was installed to commemorate it at Evreux. C’est à Evreux que le Jimi Hendrix Experience a joué ses premières notes françaises! Un concert mythique qui fut joué au Novelty, à l’époque la plus… Continue reading Jimi Hendrix Experience Evreux anniversary plaque 1996