![]() Latterly however, with the family back in control of the estate, there has been a fine and considered reissue programme of his studio albums and the live Band of Gypsys, as well as the reconstructed "final" album First Rays of the New Rising Sun. It was a remarkably grueling schedule but Hendrix seems to have undertaken most of it in good humour, and managed to find time to jam, do interviews and get into the studio.Īll this explains why there are so many posthumous Jimi Hendrix albums.Īs Elsewhere has previously noted, there was a time you felt it was "another week another Jimi album", then over time as the pace slowed a little it became "another month another Hendrix album". Within weeks of the Experience's first UK tour - 30 dates in as many days, mostly playing two sets a night - the band didn't get much chance to celebrate the release of their debut album Are You Experienced because they were back in Europe (France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, then back to Sweden and Germany). ![]() They played in France and Germany a few days later and within two months he had been interviewed, had supported John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and borrowed $50 from his old band leader Little Richard, recorded Hey Joe. He played his first jam in London the night he arrived, and a fortnight later - after jamming with the Brian Auger Trinity, the VIPs at the famous Scotch of St James and Cream - the Jimi Hendrix Experience had been formed. From the moment Jimi Hendrix arrived in London in the early hours of Septemto his death in the same city just a few days short of four years later, he seemed to be constantly moving, playing and recording.
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