IN PICTURES: JIMI HENDRIX IN 1967
When the Jimi Hendrix Experience played the Roundhouse on 22 February 1967, the band had yet to release an album or undertake a full British tour. Read more in this article by Christian Lloyd or take a look at images from the legendary night below.
Jimi Hendrix mid-set at his Roundhouse gig with his band The Experience in 1967.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience, backstage at the Roundhouse in 1967.
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Jimi Hendrix backstage at the Roundhouse before his 1967 gig, at which his Fender Stratocaster guitar was stolen from the side of the stage.
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Hendrix played around with his guitar off stage before playing for the excited audience. It's said that before he performed, he watched the support acts from the crowd.
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Hendrix mingles with the audience at the 1967 Roundhouse gig. He told the support act, the Flies, how much he liked their harmonies and played back one of their songs that he had heard to the radio the week before.
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The day of The Experience’s Roundhouse gig was freezing cold. Here, Hendrix warms up pre-gig with a cigarette.
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No set list has surfaced for this gig, but in this early period, the Experience usually played a cover-heavy set with Hey Joe, Wild Thing, Like a Rolling Stone, Rock me Baby and Killing Floor.
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The Roundhouse and the band were using new, higher wattage Marshall amps for this gig, so the sound would have been the loudest and possibly weirdest ever heard by the audience.
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Hendrix wore his most flamboyant clothing - his famous dress uniform jacket, and all three members of the band had now grown their hair into huge Bob Dylan-influenced dos.
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