Mitch Mitchell in the Talk-In
Dick Meadows, Sounds, 11 December 1971
I FIRST SAW the Jimi Hendrix Experience in a cramped Norfolk cellar club. Then the coloured guy with the frizzed-out hair was a nobody in rock. He proceeded to play his guitar with his teeth and on the amplifier and we were all aghast and amazed. There was also a new song. It was called 'Hey Joe'.
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