Mitch Mitchell died today. All members of the Experience have passed. Even Buddy Miles is gone, so most of the Band Of Gypsies are gone too. Stay safe, Billy Cox.
The stories are that Mitchell was the only real drummer for Hendrix. The only one that actually challenged him musically. Miles was more of a powerful player, more groove oriented, but Mitchell came from a jazz background and gave Hendrix the freedom to explore. Thanks to some shitty business dealings, Mitchell was close to broke in the seventies and was forced to part with a Hendrix guitar just to make ends meet. He died on the road today, in Portland, apparently of natural causes.
Here’s hoping they’re all doing a killer version of “Red House” in Heaven tonight.
2 comments:
Ben & I went and saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience show two weeks ago TONIGHT. The show was awesome with some great blues guitarists and Mitch was great. He seemed very happy go lucky, although the old drummer for Double Trouble did do a lot of the drumming that evening. Very glad to have seen him before he passed.
Vicki in Denver
That's awesome. I never even knew that tour was going on until Mitch died.
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