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blahblahwoofwoof
Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 171
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: Mitch is gone.. |
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Quote: | 01:08 PM PST on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By DAVID KROUGH, kgw.com and AP Staff
PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s drummer Mitch Mitchell was found dead in a downtown Portland hotel Wednesday.
The Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s office said 62-year-old Mitch Mitchell likely died of natural causes. His body was found just after 3 a.m. at the Benson Hotel.
An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.
Mitchell had been playing with the Experience Hendrix tour that just made a stop in Portland at the Schnitz last Friday.
Mitchell along with bass players Noel Redding and Billy Cox backed Hendrix for the generation defining sounds of his electrified psychedelic blues. The Experience played behind Hendrix at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight festivals in the late 1960s.
Hendrix died in 1970, Redding died in 2003. Mitchell was with the group from 1966-69. |
Crap!!!
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_111208_news_mitchell_drummer_hendrix_dies.1a6f9664d.html |
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Georgina
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 235 Location: London
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: |
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This is bad news indeed, I just saw it this morning in someone's paper on the underground. But I don't think he looked well the past few years.. |
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Robert W
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 88
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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May he rest in peace. _________________ Robert L. Watson |
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Christopher X
Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 236 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:44 am Post subject: Mitch Mitchell -1946-2008 |
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Yea i meant to do a thread here yesterday on this but forgot,but no worries as one now.Yea a great drummer though i hardly herd to much,maybe one cd of him post hendrix's death.But on the hendrix albums on many great songs like bold as love,little wing,voodoo chile(sr),wind cries mary,manic depression etc...
And to be playing on this hendrix tribute shows too,though read some reviews saying he seemed in not good shape of his playing or health.See now portland was the last leg of the tour last week,not seattle i would think?,unless first place in started.But was on some vacation time before going back to the u.k,R.I.P Mitch Mitchell,1946-2008.
http://www.jimi-hendrix.com/ _________________ Christopher |
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batagy
Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Man, what a big loss again!
We'll never forget his inspired drumming!
RIP Mitch! |
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Georgina
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 235 Location: London
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: |
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I wonder if they will put out Albert Hall now...
It would be a good time I think. |
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batagy
Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Georgina wrote: | I wonder if they will put out Albert Hall now...
It would be a good time I think. |
I don't think they release the Albert Hall before 2009 Febr 24 (40 year anniversary), IMO. |
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blahblahwoofwoof
Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 171
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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batagy wrote: | Georgina wrote: | I wonder if they will put out Albert Hall now...
It would be a good time I think. |
I don't think they release the Albert Hall before 2009 Febr 24 (40 year anniversary), IMO. |
We get this for Christmas..
http://www.authentichendrix.com/pgi-ProductSpec?622-002-022
I'm not salty though, 40 extra minutes of interviews is good, but it would've been nice if they included those 40 minutes as a bonus feature on the original DVD. |
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Robert W
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 88
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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Mitch Mitchell was a great drummer. No doubt about it. His drumming was the perfect match for Jimi. _________________ Robert L. Watson |
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