Jimi Hendrix – 41 years since the last goodbye

Jimi in New York 1967 by Baron Wolman

Says BP Fallon: “41 years ago my friend Penny Valentine from the music paper Disc rang me to say she’d just heard that Jimi Hendrix had died. Noel and Mitch from the Experience are gone now too… as is Penny. And Disc…”

“The story
Of life is quicker
Than the wink of an eye
The story of love
Is hello and goodbye
Until we meet again”
-Jimi Hendrix, The Story Of Life

The Jimi Hendrix Experience on ‘The Lulu Show’ (1969)

Jimi & Noel & Mitch and their majestic Voodoo Chile and a beautifully wild intro to Hey Joe before Jimi announces “We’d like to stop playing this rubbish” and launches into a spontaneous instrumental twang through Cream’s Sunshine Of You Love – with the producers of the live tv show freaking out as the show is running over time. Priceless.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze at The Marquee Club 1967

Jimi & Janis Fillmore West 1968 by Baron Wolman

Jimi Hendrix & Robert Wyatt of The Soft Machine & Henry McCullough of Eire Apparent on tour together USA 1968 by Linda Eastman

Eric Burdon & John Mayall & Jimi Hendrix & Steve Winwood and The Move’s Carl Wayne UK 1967

Brian Jones & Jimi Hendrix @ Monterey 1967. Brian introduced The Jimi Hendrix Experience live on stage, thus introducing them to America

Jimi Hendrix in Montagu Place, London 1967 by David Magnus

Jimi Hendrix Nov 27th 1942 – Sept 18th 1970
Noel Redding Dec 25th 1945 – May 11th 2003
Mitch Mitchel July 9th 1947 – Nov 12th 2008

God Bless you, Jimi. And Noel and Mitch too x

Noel Redding & Jaime Coon in Clonakilty,
West Cork, Ireland June 2002 by BP Fallon

Jaime Coon in Noel Redding’s garden, Dunowen House, Ardfield
near Clonakilty, West Cork, Ireland June 2002 by BP Fallon