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Fact #101700

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Short story:

Jimi Hendrix is in The Record Plant, New York City, working on Earth Blues and Message To Love with the Band Of Gypsys.

Full article:

Paul Caruso (harmonica player) : Jimi was having Ronnie Spector do some vocal overdubs on Earth Blues and I was there to record with Noel Redding for Fat Mattress. Jimi was very quiet but seemed happy to see me. Rather than assume anything about our friendship, I just sat down on the sofa. There was a sofa in front of the control booth and he would jump up from time-to-time to see if I was still there by checking the reflection in the recording booth window. He was just like a little boy, jumping up out of the control seat. I was really touched by that.

So I thought there was still hope for our friendship and a musical collaboration in the future. I was there with my first wife, Janet, who was eight months pregnant with my son Avian.

I think Jimi was happy that I didn't appear so wild. Here was the possibility of a family and stability which he thought would somehow keep me together. So when I heard, months later, that Jimi had died, there was a strange contrast of my life [his newborn son] and the death of my best friend. When I left that session and said goodbye to Jimi, he was very cordial. I said, ''I'm going downstairs to record with Noel."That was the last time I ever saw him, the night I recorded an overdub for Noel's tune, My Friend.
(Source : interview by Kees de Lange in Experience Hendrix magazine, Vol. 3 Issue 6 Jan/Feb 2000)

Billy Cox (bassist) : We toyed with the tempo on that song (Message To Love). Buddy wanted to slow it down, but Jimi wanted it more upbeat. Jimi would say, 'If you can't see little kids skippin' on your fast songs, you got nothing.'

(Source : not known)