The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s First Performances
The French Tour: October 12-18, 1966
At 7:00 AM on October 12th, 1966, the newly formed Jimi Hendrix Experience and their acting manager, Chas Chandler, boarded a plane to Paris. The day before Chas had presented Jimi with a tailored two-piece blue mohair suit to wear for the trio’s first public appearances. “Jimi hated it,” his live-in girlfriend Kathy Etchingham remembered. As they await…
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