The summer of '69 marked a stage in Hendrix's career where it was time to start something new. By mid-May '69, rumors were running rampant on both sides of the Atlantic that Hendrix was about to take the next year off-a time to regroup, rethink and refocus his musical output. In reality, a year-long break would certainly be out of the question, but Hendrix was more than ready to start taking his life and music in a new and more expressive direction.
On May 25, 1969, Jim Brodey of the San Diego Free Press interviewed Hendrix at the San Diego Sports Arena. It was during this interview that Hendrix began to publicly define his desires to take his music in a new direction and what Hendrix himself dubbed his own "spiritual scene."
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The following interview with acclaimed Arranger, Producer, Composer and Musical Director Larry Fallon highlights his own personal experience with Hendrix, in the studio and in the height of one of his creative explosions. Taken from a second demo recorded on May 2, 1968 with drummer, Mitch Mitchell and bassist, Noel Redding, Hendrix and Fallon would deliver "South Saturn Delta" from their electrifying June 14, 1968 studio session.
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Last March, Experience Hendrix had the unique opportunity to sit down with Ernie Isley from the every popular Isley Brothers to talk shop. When Sony/Legacy released the acclaimed It's Your Thing - The Story Of The Isley Brothers box set in late 1999, complete with a collection of insightful mid-1960's recordings that featured a young, and yet unknown guitarist named Jimmy Hendrix. Although the recordings themselves are not considered rare, their inclusion in this popular Isley's collection once again spurred renewed interest in Jimi's early musical roots.
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He was an icon from within a rock 'n' roll era -- not as a musician, but as a personality. Dick Clark has excited generations of music lovers with his classic television broadcasts of "American Bandstand." For more than 1,700 broadcasts, Dick Clark fascinated audiences around the world with his approach to presenting the sounds of an era. We recently caught up with Dick Clark and talked about his association with Jimi Hendrix during The Monkees first American tour.
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