Following Hendrix's arrival in London, Chandler began recruiting members for a band designed to highlight his talents, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix met guitarist Noel Redding at an audition for the New Animals, where Redding's knowledge of blues progressions impressed Hendrix, who stated that he also liked Redding's hairstyle. Chandler asked Redding if he wanted to play bass guitar in Hendrix's band; Redding agreed Chandler began looking for a drummer and soon after contacted Mitch Mitchell through a mutual friend. Mitchell, who had recently been fired from Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames , participated in a rehearsal with Redding and Hendrix where they found common ground in their shared interest in rhythm and blues. When Chandler phoned Mitchell later that day to offer him the position, he readily accepted. Chandler also convinced Hendrix to change the spelling of his first name from Jimmy to the mor...
Following intermittent recording sessions between gigs for earlier albums, Deep Purple wanted a dedicated amount of time to record an album away from the typical studio environment that sounded closer to their live shows. They hired the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio for recording, and block booked the Montreux Casino as a venue, but during a Frank Zappa concert immediately before the sessions, it burned to the ground. The band managed to book the Grand Hotel, closed for the winter, and converted the hotel into a live room suitable for recording. These events, particularly the casino fire, became the inspiration for the song " Smoke on the Water ". Machine Head is cited as a major influence in the early development of heavy metal music . It is Deep Purple's most commercially successful album, topping the charts in several countries. The album reached number one in the United Kingdom and stayed in the top 40 for 20 weeks, whi...
We like to share our experiences with music here at 420. A staffer here attended a concert in 1976 (he's the old guy here) 😆 The band was Bad Co and the venue was the Civic Center in Houston Texas. After a stellar performance by Paul Roger's, Simon Kirke,Mick Ralph's and Boz Burrell the end of the show was near but after a few minutes of lighters in the air and 10k fans stomping the floor the stage lights went down for one last encore. When the lighting began to illuminate the stage a grand piano had been placed center stage and Paul began the piano intro to the song Bad Co. Needless to say the house erupted into pure excitement and nothing more was necessary from the band. They brought the house down that night.
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