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When The Jimi Hendrix Experience fly to New York City, USA, the whole band is strip-searched for drugs as they go through customs.Full article:
Noel Redding : Spiking our morning orange juice with liquid meth, we set off to reconquer America.
(Source : https://crosstowntorrents.org/showthread.php?4861-1968-01-28-Olympic-Studios-London-England)
Neville Chesters (roadie) : It was a pretty riotous flight … we went up to 39,000 feet … we flew over New York for about twenty minutes. The whole plane was just a complete litter of gear and everybody was mucking about… bits of baggage everywhere. It got out of hand because everyone was cheesed off. Suddenly it came over the loudspeakers that we had a slot to land and, as I recall, we plummeted out of the sky down to about 10,000 feet in seconds. Everything in the plane went up the aisles and over the seats. We levelled out and some people were just green.
I was the only one who was smart. I'd got a white suit on and everybody else were complete hippies. We all went through customs and they said, 'Excuse me…' Strip-searched the lot of us.
Prior to going anywhere, Mitch used to go and get his stocks. He had an airline bag with three compartments for sleepers, leapers (amphetamine) and creepers (Mandrax, Quaaludes). The airline bag went everywhere - the pills cabinet.
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Noel Redding : By the time we had arranged [a limo] we were methed to to the gills.
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(Source : https://crosstowntorrents.org/showthread.php?4861-1968-01-28-Olympic-Studios-London-England)
Neville Chesters (roadie) : It was a pretty riotous flight … we went up to 39,000 feet … we flew over New York for about twenty minutes. The whole plane was just a complete litter of gear and everybody was mucking about… bits of baggage everywhere. It got out of hand because everyone was cheesed off. Suddenly it came over the loudspeakers that we had a slot to land and, as I recall, we plummeted out of the sky down to about 10,000 feet in seconds. Everything in the plane went up the aisles and over the seats. We levelled out and some people were just green.
I was the only one who was smart. I'd got a white suit on and everybody else were complete hippies. We all went through customs and they said, 'Excuse me…' Strip-searched the lot of us.
Prior to going anywhere, Mitch used to go and get his stocks. He had an airline bag with three compartments for sleepers, leapers (amphetamine) and creepers (Mandrax, Quaaludes). The airline bag went everywhere - the pills cabinet.
(Source : not known)
Noel Redding : By the time we had arranged [a limo] we were methed to to the gills.