Vibrations And Echoes Vibrations And Echoes London and The Jimi Hendrix Experience - a guide to the locations where Hendrix history happened. Articles
Hyde Park Towers (24-09-66)
2007-05-27 02:24:00 Following the jam session at Zoot Money's house, Chandler and Hendrix checked into the Hyde Park Tower s Hotel, in the Bayswater area of London.Hendrix wrote Stone Free and Love Or Confusion whilst staying here.I have no idea what grade the hotel was in the 60's, but today it's a 3 Star. On tripadvisor.com holidaymakers give the hotel very mixed reviews. There seems to an almost 50/50 split between those who consider it to be a filthy hovel and those who consider it to be pleasant enough for the price.It has to be said that some of the hotel's own publicty photographs do give the impression that the interior decor hasn't changed since 1966!You can find Hyde Park Towers Hotel at 47-51 Inverness Terrace, Bayswater, London.
Heathrow Airport 24-09-66
2007-05-19 17:55:00 Just after 9am on the 24th of September 1966, Jimi Hendrix set foot for the first time on British soil. He arrived from New York at Heath row Airport 's "Oceanic" Terminal, today know as Terminal 3, international departures.Hendrix was accompanied by Chas Chandler (ex-Animals bassist, and now his Manager) and Terry McVay (ex-Animals Road manager). He was travelling light, bringing only a small bag containing one change of clothes, a set of plastic hair curlers, and a jar of Valderma acne cream. He had no working Visa, so to avoid suspicion when passing through the Customs checkpoint, McVay had to carry his guitar.Pictured above, Hendrix photographed in 1966. More About: Throw , Heathrow Airport , Heathrow
Vibrations And Echoes....
2007-05-19 02:00:00 Welcome to "Vibration s And Echoes ", a blogged version of a website I never quite got round to finishing....or more accurately, properly starting! That site was planned to be a guide to the London of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. I got as far as creating various rough versions of menus and graphics, and gathering together all the relevant information. Then I got side-tracked with other projects, so "Vibrations and Echoes" was placed on the shelf to gather dust. Until now. Probably the best way I can think of to convert the site to a blog is to make the posts in chronological order - so the first entry will be Jimi's arrival at Heathrow. Each post will have the relevant date of the event in the title, written in the European fashion, Day-Month-Year. The blog also has a search function at the top of the page.Well that's all the boring stuff over with! Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy the blog.... More About: Brat |
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