notes

chapter 1

8: “Chas had made up …”: Charles Cross, A Room Full of Mirrors (London: Sceptre, 2005), 142–154.

15: “They were also …”: Harry Shapiro, Alexis Korner: The Biography (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), 81.

15: “It was a corny line …”: Kathy Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes (London: Victor Gollancz, 1998), 60.

chapter 2

19: “Jeffries had been …”: John McDermott with Eddie Kramer, Jimi Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight (London: Little Brown, 1993), 61–62.

23: “Kathy made several …”: Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes, 85, 68.

chapter 3

26: “Eric Clapton’s reputation …”: Shapiro, Alexis Korner, 80–83 and 103–104.

27: “Baker had had no formal …”: Michael Schumacher, Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton (London: Little, Brown, 1995), 69–72.

28: “Baker then insisted …”: Schumacher, Crossroads, 80.

chapter 4

35: “Actual Mods cared …”: Geoffrey Giuliano, Behind Blue Eyes: A Life Of Pete Townshend (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996), 53–55.

36: “In Britain’s industrial …”: Geoffrey Pearson, Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears (London: Macmillan, 1983), 92–101.

chapter 5

40: “It was not quite …”: Chris Welch, Hendrix, A Biography (London: Ocean Books, 1972), 9.

40: “Chris Welch was not …”: Giuliano, Behind Blue Eyes, 72.

41: “Jimi’s claims may …”: Richard Maloof, Jim Marshall: The Father of Loud (London: Backbeat Books, 2004).

43: “Ringo had fitted …”: Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes, 85.

46: “I have been watching …”: Welch, Hendrix, 17.

chapter 6

49: “Even the orthodox usage …”: Sharron Lawrence, Jimi Hendrix, the Magic, the Truth (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2005), 62.

chapter 7

53: “Hendrix appears at …”: Lawrence, Jimi Hendrix, the Magic, the Truth , 71.

57: “The onstage Jimi…”: Roger Mayer, interview with the author, at the Worcester Park pub, Park Terrace, Worcester Park, Surrey, September 20, 2005.

chapter 8

59: “Sometimes they found themselves …”: Lawrence, Jimi Hendrix, the Magic, the Truth , 72.

62: “For all his skills …”: Mayer, interview with the author.

65: “Kathy had no inclination …”: Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes, 89.

chapter 9

68: “Then things went more dramatically …”: Melody Maker, April 8, 1967, 1.

69: “Relationships were not …”: Mitch Mitchell with John Platt, The Hendrix Experience (London: Pyramid Books, 1990), 49.

69: “The hi-fi system was a bit …”: Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes, 99.

71: “Ambivalent as Jimi felt …”: Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes, 91.

72: “For three days …”: June Southworth, email to author, March 8, 2007.

72: “Fabulous, which devoted much space …”: Fabulous 208, June 26, 1967, 6.

73: “Southworth was charmed …”: Southworth, email to the author.

chapter 10

76: “The ancient music …”: Michael Hollingshead, The Man Who Turned on the World (London: Blond & Briggs Ltd., 1973), chapter 6.

78: “LSD was initially …”: George Melly, “Poster Power,” Observer Colour Supplement, December 3, 1967, 13.

79: “An anonymous …”: Melody Maker, May 20, 1967, 13.

80: “Naturally there were …”: Melly, “Poster Power,” 9.

80: “Drug taking for a time …”: Financial Times, December 28, 1967.

82: “The LP …”: International Times, no. 14, June 2, 1967, 12.

83: “We just used to chat …”: Mayer, interview with the author.

chapter 11

86: “Arrived in Belgravia …”: Joe Orton, The Orton Diaries, ed. John Lahr (London: Methuen, 1986), 73–74.

88: “One of Epstein’s …”: Noel Redding and Carol Appleby, Are You Experienced? (London: Fourth Estate, 1990), 52.

88: “It’s still obviously …”: Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (London: Secker & Warburg, 1997), 347.

89: “It was never a question …”: Mayer, interview with the author.

chapter 12

93: “At the junction …”: Joe Boyd, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2006), 143–149.

93: “Mark Boyle, who ran …”: http://www.boylefamily.co.uk/boyle/texts/journey2.html.

95: “Jimi was very interested …”: Mayer, interview with the author.

chapter 13

97: “‘Axis Bold as Love, that was the album for me, …”: Mayer, interview with the author.

98: “Chas and Jimi quarreled …”: Welch, Hendrix , 50.

99: “Olympic Studios now had …”: Mayer, interview with the author.

chapter 14

102: “Extreme crowd behavior …”: Nick Mason, Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd (London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2004), 96.

102: “Kathy had taken …”: Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes, 99–100.

104: “It seemed to Noel …”: Mayer, interview with the author.

105: “Underground London finished …”: Redding and Carol Appleby, Are You Experienced?, 72.

chapter 15

108: “Kathy never found out …”: Welch, Hendrix, 50.

110: “A lifelike rubber rat …”: Melody Maker, March 4, 1969, 12.

112: “Tucked away …”: Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes, 114–115.

112: “The ideas that …”: Eric Burdon with J. Marshall Craig, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001).

chapter 16

116: “Kathy’s gate-keeping …”: Independent on Sunday, March 22, 2009.

chapter 17

121: “Chas came to the first …”: McDermott with Kramer, Jimi Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight, 172.

chapter 18

126: “Jimi arrived…”: “Some Gave a Song, Some Gave a Life,” interview with Patti Smith, Guardian, June 3, 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jun/03/meltdownfestival2005.meltdownfestival.

126: “Ed Vulliamy was at …”: Ed Vulliamy, interview with the author at his home, January 4, 2006.

127: “Jimi must have been talking ….”: Norman Joplin, email to the author, November 8, 2005.

128: “Joplin asked Jimi …”: Music Now, September 12, 1970.

129: “Behind the bold face …”: Etchingham, Through Gypsy Eyes, 147.

131: “Chas did agree …”: McDermott with Kramer, Jimi Hendrix: Setting The Record Straight, 358.

131: “On the night …”: Lawrence, Jimi Hendrix, the Magic, the Truth, 215.

131: “That afternoon …”: Mitchell with Platt, The Hendrix Experience, 157–159.

131: “On the sunny afternoon …”: Vulliamy, interview with the author.

chapter 19

135: “Monika’s involvement …”: David Henderson, The Life of Jimi Hendrix: ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky (London: Omnibus, 1990), 278.

137: “On the same occasion …”: Lawrence, Jimi Hendrix, the Magic, the Truth, 219.

afterword

141: “I would like to think …”: Mitchell with Platt, The Hendrix Experience.