NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Drummer Mitch Mitchell, the last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, died Wednesday of unknown causes. He was 62.
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Mitch Mitchell, the drummer with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, is found dead in a US hotel room.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
The jazzy and versatile British drummer for Hendrix died Wednesday in a hotel in Portland, Oregon. The cause was unknown, a publicist said.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
I hate to be a slag and talk about my birthday again, but it's necessary. See, my birthday has always been the day that I share with Neil Young, Charles Manson, Bob Holness, Grace Kelly and The Official Birthday of...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Mr. Mitchell, a jazzy and versatile drummer, was one of two Englishmen in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
I just got this from the Hendrix publicist (Bob Merlis) and I’m passing along: MITCH MITCHELL 1946 – 2008 Mitch Mitchell, the innovative drummer who anchored the Jimi Hendrix Experience, has died at the age of 62. Mitchell passed away on November 12 in Portland, Oregon of natural causes. The London native had completed an 18 city American [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
There's nuthin' like a reunion tour to polarise opinion. I've been to these reunion gigs and come away pleased, while others have had all their dreams shattered. Likewise, I've been to some and just about clung on to the fact...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
The first record I bought was... There were two records I bought with my own money when I was 12 year's old. Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits and Cream Disraeli Gears.
HollYarns (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
Big, rather new, life-pattern observed (two years strong now): Whenever a new school year starts (a la teacher-mode), I sort of lose part of myself to teaching. I pretty much stop doing any thing crafty (no knitting, no sewing, no...
GaragePunk.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Host: Nick On this episode Nick digs up some rarely heard live recordings from the ’60s. You’ll hear The Pretty Things in Amsterdam in ‘69 as well as The Twilights and Easybeats from Festival Hall in Melbourne in ‘67. It’s a steep contrast with an audience of stoned hippies to a horde of screaming girls. The [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
In a career spanning more than 40 years, the pop impresario Bryan Morrison worked with some of the biggest and most influential acts of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. Starting out as the manager of the Pretty Things, the self-styled bad boys of Swinging London, he set up the Bryan Morrison Agency and looked after the affairs of Pink Floyd in 1968 as the psychedelic group struggled to reinvent...
music like dirt (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
In part one Glass Shark & The Superimposers had each other dreaming of cover versions. Glass Shark heard echoes of Dusty in Citizen Helene while The Supers imaged Stevie Nicks reworking the pared down beauty ...
Gizmodo UK (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Yeah, it's true. Apple has decided to completely change how laptops are put together by ditching old skool stamping, layering and welding manufacturing with carving the pretty things from solid aluminium blocks with lasers and water jets. The new MacBooks sport what Apple is calling a 'unibody', crafted from a single block of aluminium that also makes them thinner, more durable and prettier. Not only...
Listen Up (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
My turn on the Great Rotating Wheel of Weekly Playlists. No further ado needed, if ado say so myself. > Pick of the week: Honey Bee, Lucinda Williams: Guitar stings and buzzes a while as Lucinda snarls her way through...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
A peek into life — and death — in a small embalming room at the Owens Funeral Home on Lenox Avenue and 121st Street in Harlem.
