Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames (Featuring Mitch Mitchell) - See Saw live [Colourised] 1966

Here's a rare sight of Mitch Mitchell shortly before joining Jimi Hendrix & the Experience with the legendary Georgie Fame on the Morcambe & Wise show back on the 19th February 1966. It's a good example of what a great performer Georgie Fame was!
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Mitch and the rest of the band where informed they were sacked by Georgie Fame in late Sept 66' as they went to pick wages up from the office, no explanation was given. Shortly after Chas Chandler made the call to Mitch's parents house in Ealing to ask Mitch to come and jam with a new guitarist...
In a 2015 interview, Fame said: "His main hero was jazz drummer Ronnie Stephenson and if you look at early film clips of Mitch, he had that Ronnie Stephenson look, the way he set his jaw. And he loved crashing around on the cymbals like Ronnie, but in my band I liked the arrangements pretty tight. When he started splashing around I'd say 'just play the hi-hat!'"
Mitchell auditioned for the Jimi Hendrix Experience on 6 October 1966 and was chosen over Aynsley Dunbar in a coin toss. Mitchell's fast, driving, jazz-influenced playing meshed well with Hendrix's open-ended, revolutionary approach to the electric guitar. He played on the three best-selling Experience studio albums, Are You Experienced (1967), Axis: Bold As Love (1968), and Electric Ladyland (1968).
Mitchell remained with Hendrix after the Experience broke up when Noel Redding quit in June 1969. He performed with Hendrix's expanded lineup at Woodstock (August 1969). Mitchell was replaced briefly with Buddy Miles for the Band of Gypsys album (1970), but rejoined Hendrix (with Billy Cox on bass) for the April-September 1970 the Cry of Love Tour. He recorded most of the material for the posthumously-released Hendrix studio albums The Cry of Love (1971) (also listed as a co-producer), Rainbow Bridge (1971), and War Heroes (1972).
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Love Mitch's self named kick drum 🤩

[@elmorevandodewaard544]

Mitch was already Experienced, before joining Jimi Hendrix 🙏

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very well done! do you have anything with the late Tony McPhee?

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Cheers I did on my old channel but lost it all when it was shut down I'll have to do them again. Sad loss...