Posted by brynb on February 25, 2013, at 12:20:28
In reply to Re: music tx » Phil, posted by brynb on February 5, 2013, at 18:53:29
> > Mitch Mitchell basically invented fusion. Two instruments sharing the lead. He and Noel Redding weren't even full band members.
> > About 6 months after Hendrix died Mitchell had to sell one of his guitars to pay rent.
> > Not too cool for one of the best drummers of our time.
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> crazy, huh? a lot of these guys were so tragic: syd barrett, janis, keith moon, brian jones, john bonham, morrison--all greats and so doomed and destitute by the end. they were pioneers, though, true music greats.I just thought of your comment above Phil, while listening to MD yet another time. Someone commented they should've been called the "The Jimi Mitchell Experience."
Touche. Was JH even bipolar? Or it's just figurative...?Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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