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The Jimi Hendrix Experience do a TV recording for Ready Steady Go, in London, England, UK, Europe.Full article:
Chris Britton (The Troggs) : When we used to frequent the greasy spoon up Denmark St in 1966, we knew Mitch Mitchell as a short-haired mod. At the end of the year, we were on the edition of Ready, Steady, Go! on which the Experience made their tv debut.
Marc Bolan : It was amazing to watch him for the first time. Everyone else used to use backing tracks, but he was going to play live because they got him on the show the same day. I was in the control room with the producer, just sitting about, when they started Hey Joe, and this old lady really freaked out and said, 'turn the backing track down!' because it was really loud. All the machines were shaking. And they said, 'But there is no backing track'.
Chris Britton : They were miming, but both the music and the act were stunning, though I hardly recognised Mitch with this alarming Afro, just like Jimi's. A few months later, you'd see that hairstyle everywhere, even back in Andover.
Mike Ross (engineer) : Jimi came in (to CBS studios) with four Marshall cabinets, which I couldn't believe. How was I to mike this? Jimi told me to stick a microphone eight feet away from the cabinets and it would sound great. He actually showed me where to place the microphone, and I put a U-67 valve mike where he had instructed me to.
Peter Green (guitarist, The Bluesbreakers) : John Mayall took me with him to the studio that night, because John had taken some photographs of Jimi playing and he'd blown one of them up to about 20 by 20 and he took it along to show it to Jimi. He seemed to be experimenting a lot in the studio, but we didn't stay to watch him actually record anything.
Mike Ross : Jimi didn't record a live vocal. I recorded Jimi's lead vocal as an overdub, as well as backing vocals from Mitch, Noel and Jimi. Jimi also recorded a second guitar as an overdub.
Chandler was very much in charge. Jimi was very shy and quiet and didn't have much to say. He seemed very much in awe of Chandler. What Chas said was law.
There was another aspect that very odd. I was used to the band being a team and having some input. My immediate reaction during the Hendrix session was, 'These two guys are being treated like shit.' It was very much like, 'Play, and do what you are told.'
Noel Redding (bassist, JHE) : There's no bass on the original recording (of Red House) released on Are You Experienced
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Marc Bolan : It was amazing to watch him for the first time. Everyone else used to use backing tracks, but he was going to play live because they got him on the show the same day. I was in the control room with the producer, just sitting about, when they started Hey Joe, and this old lady really freaked out and said, 'turn the backing track down!' because it was really loud. All the machines were shaking. And they said, 'But there is no backing track'.
Chris Britton : They were miming, but both the music and the act were stunning, though I hardly recognised Mitch with this alarming Afro, just like Jimi's. A few months later, you'd see that hairstyle everywhere, even back in Andover.
Mike Ross (engineer) : Jimi came in (to CBS studios) with four Marshall cabinets, which I couldn't believe. How was I to mike this? Jimi told me to stick a microphone eight feet away from the cabinets and it would sound great. He actually showed me where to place the microphone, and I put a U-67 valve mike where he had instructed me to.
Peter Green (guitarist, The Bluesbreakers) : John Mayall took me with him to the studio that night, because John had taken some photographs of Jimi playing and he'd blown one of them up to about 20 by 20 and he took it along to show it to Jimi. He seemed to be experimenting a lot in the studio, but we didn't stay to watch him actually record anything.
Mike Ross : Jimi didn't record a live vocal. I recorded Jimi's lead vocal as an overdub, as well as backing vocals from Mitch, Noel and Jimi. Jimi also recorded a second guitar as an overdub.
Chandler was very much in charge. Jimi was very shy and quiet and didn't have much to say. He seemed very much in awe of Chandler. What Chas said was law.
There was another aspect that very odd. I was used to the band being a team and having some input. My immediate reaction during the Hendrix session was, 'These two guys are being treated like shit.' It was very much like, 'Play, and do what you are told.'
Noel Redding (bassist, JHE) : There's no bass on the original recording (of Red House) released on Are You Experienced