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Watch the Earliest Known Footage of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (February, 1967)
Note: If the video plays and you don’t hear sound, look for the volume control in the lower right hand corner of the video.
Within months of moving to London in autumn of 1966, Jimi Hendrix found himself a band, recorded a single, got himself a longterm girlfriend, and proceeded to take the UK by storm.
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His gigs were essential viewing by rock’s then-royalty–the Who, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Cream, all made sure they caught the American wonder. By the end of the year his first single “Hey Joe” landed him on British television and in the Top 10.
The above video is the first known footage of a live Jimi Hendrix Experience, though the band had been gigging for months.
It takes place at the Chelmsford Corn Exchange, in the City of Chelmsford, about 50 miles north-east of London. The date is February 25, 1967, and the gig had only been advertised in the paper