Jimi Noel Mitch - Mannys Signed Pub Shot. Sad update 6-1-09: Manny's Music R.I.P.

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Publicity photo, signed by Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell as seen on P. 22, ("Jimi Hendrix was probably my best customer ..."):

The Wall of Fame: New York City's Legendary Manny's Music By Henry Goldrich, Holly Goldrich Schoenfeld Contributor: Paul Simon Published by Hal Leonard Corporation, 2007 ISBN 1423405552, 9781423405559 188 pages

Manny's Music R.I.P.:
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/nyregion/01mannys.html?scp=1&a... Music&st=cse

Mitch Mitchell, R.I.P.

Fly on my sweet angel ...

Mitch Mitchell, R.I.P. 11-12-08
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By Phil Gallo, Variety

Mitch Mitchell, R.I.P.

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience who had just finished a tour with a Hendrix tribute show, was found dead Wednesday morning in a hotel room in Portland, Ore. He was 61.

He apparently died of natural causes, the Multnomah County medical examiner told the Portland Oregonian. Mitchell was found dead at 3 a.m. in the Benson Hotel.

Mitchell, whose birth name was John, had been performing with the Experience Hendrix Tour, which made its 18th and final stop Friday at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Mitchell had been taking a vacation in Portland before returning home to England.

The tour had stopped in Los Angeles on Nov. 2 and Mitchell appeared on a handful of songs as did Billy Cox, the bassist in the final edition of the Experience and Band of Gypsys.

One of the best rock drummers of the 1960s, Mitchell was able to combine power, finesse and technique in following the lead of Hendrix, considered rock’s finest guitarist at the time of his death in 1970 as well as today. The trio’s debut album contains three prime examples of Mitchell’s inventive style: "Fire," "Third Stone from the Sun" and "Manic Depression."

Hendrix and Mitchell had reunited in 1970 after the Band of Gypsys broke up and the two were plotting their next move at the time Hendrix died. After that, Mitchell rarely recorded and only over the last decade was he active in promulgating the Hendrix legacy. At one point, Mitchell sold his rights to the Experience for about $200,000.

Prior to meeting Hendrix, Mitchell had been a child actor before taking up the drums in his native England. In 1964 and ’65, he played with the Riot Squad, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames and the Pretty Things, leaving them after about a dozen gigs to join Hendrix’s band.

His first post-Hendrix band was a jazz-rock supergroup with Jack Bruce and Larry Coryell that never recorded.

In 1972 he formed Ramatam with Mike Pinera and lead guitarist April Lawton but then limited his recording to very few sessions, most notably ones with Muddy Waters and Robert Wyatt.

And then there was the Dirty Macs …

... John Lennon on vocals and guitar, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Keith Richards on bass, and Mitch Mitchell on drums.

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There's more discussion about Jimi's relationship with Manny's in an interview with Manny Goldrich himself in the first of two historic volumes I produced for Guitar World, JIMI HENDRIX: THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE (GW September, 1985), which is pictured right here:

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and its companion piece, HENDRIX LIVES!: THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX, Vol. II (GW March, 1988).

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>"}}}}”> Noe Gold, aka Noe the G is the Founding Editor of Guitar World magazine. Among his most cherished achievements is the creation, with partner Bill Nitopi, curator of the Hendrix Collection Archives and an editor-at-large of Guitar World, of two humongous Special Issues: Vol. 6, No. 5 SEPTEMBER, 1985 SPECIAL JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE! and Vol. 9, No. 2 MARCH 1988 HENDRIX LIVES!: THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX, Vol. II.

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