the family-owned company that is responsible for safeguarding the legacy of Jimi Hendrix. Janie Hendrix is, of course, the sister of Jimi Hendrix and heads Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. Tickets to the reception are available now at They will sign copies of the book and Billy will sign his LA Forum liner notes for attendees.
The historic guitar, part of Hard Rock International’s collection, is being flown to Los Angeles for the occasion.įollowing the Thursday Kimmel taping, Billy and the iconic Flying V will make their way to LA’s Musichead Gallery where a ticketed reception for Janie Hendrix and John McDermott, authors of JIMI, a visually stunning and specially curated deluxe hardcover book from Chronicle Books’ Chroma imprint will take place. He’s set to perform Jimi Hendrix material on the actual Gibson Flying V guitar that Hendrix played at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. The long-anticipated album is officially released this Friday, November 18 and will be preceded by an appearance by Gibbons sitting in with the band on Jimmy Kimmel Live the previous evening (Thursday, November 17). I stood standing with arms folded and I remember Jimi looked over and gave me a nod, the same not that he gave me the first night that we played together when the Moving Sidewalks had to flesh out their opening set with “Purple Haze” and “Foxey Lady.” He wrote/spoke, “VIP seating was yet to be, so we angled over to side-stage. Gibbons recently recorded his narration at a studio in Nashville and that audio was matched to evocative animated imagery that compliments his very specific recollection. The ZZ Top front man recounts bearing witness to the show to which he was invited by Jimi after his pre-ZZ Top band The Moving Sidewalks shared concert bills with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The evocative liner notes Billy F Gibbons contributed to Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969, chronicling his personal “experience” witnessing that performance more than five decades ago, are the basis for an animated short film that debuted earlier today via. LIVE PLAYING JIMI’S FLYING V GUITAR ON THURSDAY FOLLOWED BY JIMIĪUTHORS’ RECEPTION AT MUSICHEAD GALLERY IN LA Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969 Out This FridayīILLY GIBBONS’ LINER NOTES ANIMATED AS HE APPEARS ON JIMMY KIMMEL
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