Jimi Hendrix: An Unpublished November 1967 Interview!

[JasO]

I’ve just posted a previously unpublished Jimi Hendrix interview done on November 8, 1967, with journalist Steve Barker. At the time, Jimi was in a flurry of activity. In the two weeks leading up to the interview, the Jimi Hendrix Experience had completed recording “Little Wing,” “Wait Until Tomorrow,” “Ain’t No Telling,” “Spanish Castle Magic,” “Castles Made of Sand,” “Up From the Skies,” “Bold As Love,” and “One Rainy Wish.” Jimi had also mixed the Axis: Bold as Love album with Chas Chandler and Eddie Kramer.

Jimi, who’d just come offstage at Manchester University, talked to Steve about many things, including the as-yet-released Axis album, his songwriting inspirations, his songs “The Burning of the Midnight Lamp” and “I Don’t Live Today,” hippies, the Marmalade, and Bob Dylan (“Ever since he’s been around, people have been kicking him around, saying, 'Oh, man, he sings like a broken-leg dog.'")

In one of the best parts, Jimi described his longing for America, where, he said, "you can buy a chocolate milkshake in a drugstore, chewing gum in a gas station, and soup from little machines on the road. It’s great, it’s beautiful. It’s all screwed up and nasty and prejudiced, and it’s great and beautiful. It has everything."

If you’re interested, I’ve posted the complete conversation here: http://jasobrecht.com/