Thursday, November 13, 2008

Sad milestone: Jimi Hendrix Experience, RIP

I’m saddened and honored that I’ve now buried two-thirds of the Jimi Hendrix Experience — who, with the passing of drummer Mitch Mitchell on Wednesday, are now extinct. (That’s my unbylined Noel Redding obit from 2003.)

I think of a Simpsons gag from way back with Jimi and Bach up in the clouds playing air hockey. “That’s game, Hendrix!” Bach says.

... and I mean that in the most hallelujah-the-boys-are-up-in-heaven kind of way.


Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970), Noel Redding (1945-2003) and Mitch Mitchell (1946-2008), RIP.

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1 comment:

  1. tresiderNovember 13, 2008 at 7:14 PM

    ringo starr had better watch his back. that's two major sixties drummers you've written obits for in the past week and we all know these things come in threes.

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