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Fact #164363

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Short story:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience are filmed by ABC-tv while recording Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) at The Record Plant, New York City, USA. In the evening Jimi sits in with Joe Tex at The Town Hall, New York City, USA.

Full article:

Jimi Hendrix : They wanted to film us in the studio. To make this film. 'Make like you're recording, boys.' … one of those scenes…. 'OK, let's play this in E there, one a-two and a-three,' and, you know, then we leapt into Voodoo Chile.

Eddie Kramer (sound engineer) : The idea that these jam sessions were informal is something that I completely disagree with. They may have seemed casual to the outside observer, but Jimi plotted and planned out nearly all of them. He'd reason that if he had his songs together , if he really wanted to pull off what he heard in his head, he needed the right mix of people…and that's what he did.

Listen to Voodoo Chile, possibly the greatest live recording of Jimi in the studio ever, and the playing of Steve Winwood and Jack Casady - what an incredible rhythm section!

Mitch Mitchell (drummer, Experience) : A call comes in from Joe Tex asking Jimi to come down and play at the Town Hall. Hendrix says, 'OK, but on one condition - I bring my drummer.' Tex agreed and Jimi says to me, 'Hey, come on, have a play with Joe Tex.' I'm going, 'Yeah, I'll have some of that!' What he hadn't told me, or maybe didn't know, was that it was some kind of black power benefit. I'm the only white person there out of about 4,000 people. Jimi's chortling away, sort of, 'Ho ho, got the sucker now.'

So we get up on stage and there's all of Joe Tex's band up there - about seventeen of them - and the drums are set up out front. It was like, 'OK, sonny, let's see what you can do.' I had to deal with it or get the hell out, so I did the best I could and it was OK. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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