Mitch Mitchell was one of the best drummers of all time, never really got the credit he deserved for the way his drumming changed the way the drums were played after he showed us what could be done on them. He was the best drummer for Jimi.
Mitch was an incredible drummer. His playing on the first two JHE albums was fantastic. His style (like Jimi's), was very unique. No one else from that time played like him. His contribution to the JHE sound can not be denied. He was the perfect drummer to complement Jimi and it clearly shows in songs like Manic Depression, Love or Confusion, Fire, Hey Joe and so many others.
Mitch was a very good drummer (RIP) but here’s the rub for me. I like his drumming but not Jimi. Ok man per man trio, is Jimi as good as Clapton? no was Mitch as good as Ginger? no. The bass, no contest, Jack Bruce will beat you & with a fretless bass at that.
@@r.d.sandman6474 This is all a matter of opinion and personal taste I liked Cream but I will take The Jimi Hendrix Experience over them any day. I always felt that Baker was overrated. He certainly wasn't as good as he thought he was. I will take Mitch over him. Jack Bruce was clearly better than Redding on bass. But Redding's style worked for the Exoerience. As far as Clapton vs Hendrix....it's easily Hendrix for me. No knock on Clapton. He is an excellent player.
Ginger baker influenced lots but he was not the best. Keith moon was very sloppy but he fit The Who’s band and was a legend. Bonham’s the best and Mitchell is amazing. Sadly anyone who plays with jimi will be in his shadow
When you see Mithchell talk about Hendrix, you know that Hendrix had a special place in Mitchells hearth, and that he saw Jimi's talent. The same cant be said about Noel. He did not value Jimi as he deserved, as a genius. The difference between Mitchell and Noel must be that Mitchell actually was a great being and a great drummer, but Noel he had no talent on bass, not even the guitar. He was lucky to be there because of he's hair.
@@xPowerShotx Redding was a solid , hard driving bass player and his playing was appropriate, it anchored the band and allowed Hendrix and Mitchell to fly. I saw the band play, they were a great BAND.
Even though Hendrix was so phenomenal. I still believe in your as good as the band is..the people you play with. Mitch Mitchell was one of those people.RIP
You could leave out the "rock" part. His creativity would have been welcome in many genres. You can hear that style of drumming on many recordings of the Jazz Avant Garde of the time.
@@farshimelt He was right. MM was a rock drummer. There are almost no rock drummers that had or have the technical ability or feel for real jazz. Carl Palmer the greatest rock drummer, like his almost father in law buddy Rich, has the chops. I doubt he has the feel. And ironically Rich was the greatest chopster of jazz. Too bad Carl didn't marry his daughter. I would love to have seen a baby born playing prog rock and jazz and then slapping the doctor back in a paradiddles.
Mitch Mitchell & Jimi were EQUALLY talented. It was hard not to look at Jimi the whole time, but Mitch was creating phenomenal art in his Experience performances too, like a man possessed behind the kit. They were magic together. R.I.P. Mitch & Jimi.
When Mitch was talking about bacon & eggs ... Exactly how he looked & talked about his Friend "Jimi" when I got to know him in Nashville, Tn. 3/98 He was in a Vehicle w/me & a Engineer from Tulahoma, Tn. Hey Joe came on the radio and the Young Driver Cranked it up ... Swear to God, Mitch 's eyes bugged out. He was clean and we all were ~ a 12pass. van, all ages Heads Banging, singing lyrics best we could and he was the "Dude" banging the F#*K outta those drums FOR REAL ! I know he'd played for MASSIVE Audiences, however all 3 generations were jammin and he dam near had tears in his eyes ... Had to be odd to be hearing yourself and most people in the van had no idea Who He was ! True Story Chip R (on my moma )
WHAT an era of rock drummers - Mitch, Clive Bunker of Tull, Ginger of course, Bonham, Moon in his inimitable insanity, & the much underrated Ringo, among others .......... GLAD I was there to EXPERIENCE it
Mitch played the drums as I believe they should be played - as a highly nuanced, yet powerful musical instrument. Too many drummers are content to be simple time keepers for the rest of the band.
one of my idols along with Bonham, as a teen growing up playing drums in the 80's. He'll go down in history as a member of one of the most important and influencial bands of all time
Mitch's playing on Fire ,has always fired me up!, it just drives the song to a different place, and makes me wonder if anyone else could have done it any more perfectly!
As much as I liked Buddy Miles rock style drumming, Jimi needed a swing style jazz drummer like Mitch. I think he was perfect for keeping time with Jimi's style of playing. My favorite drum intro is on "I don't live today", and my favorite drum solo is on "1983 a Merman I should turn to be" on the Electric Lady Land" album. R.I.P. Mitch, Jimi, Noel, and Buddy...
Mitch was so freaking great of a player and interpreter of the song's form. He was a game changer for the world of percussion and invented new ways to create grooves within songs far more diverse than ever before conceived. He was an innovator but, then again, he was being inspired by one of the greatest innovator's of music on the planet earth.....Mr James Hendrix.
sundancefan1 This goes out to Jerry D who ask "Who is the drummer in this interview, Anybody know his name?" Jerry, clean your ears. Seb Rochford. His name is given seconds after he first shows up on camera. Sorry, sundancefan, there's no "reply" button under the other guy's name.
Mitch was vastly underrated as a drummer, but the truth is that his drumming played a very integral role in the success of the JHE. Few drummers could play the fills he did, and it made the sound of the group unique.
@@farshimelt Mitch doesn't have da fanboyz, like Bonham has, 4 nstance. There were very few music magz/Drum ragz, xamining Mitch Mitchellz playing, or conversating about his style. Perhapz itz cause he did not die @ 27, wit Hendrix. ( Actually, if they died 2gether, Hendrix @ 27, I BLIEVE, Mitch woulda been 24! FREAKING AMAZING YOUNG MAN! )
noel just wasn't created for a always play and no sleeplife, neither mitch, 61 is not very old. fact is mitch added something to the hendrix-sound,meaning, exquisite and original drummer
It was jimi's music, Jimi layed down most of the bass tracks later on in the band that's one of the reason noel left every time he put down a track jimi would come back and re record it playing the bass himself
@@runrabbitrun4342 Noel & Mitchell were just hired side session guys in the Experience Band. They weren't entitled to any of the royalties, even though they were both a Huge part in the success of Jimi in the beginning. Total shame, i would be hitting the pub getting drunk like Noel did.
@@runrabbitrun4342 Don't remember where, but it was common knowledge for many years. Jimmy McCarty might have told me, after Buddy Miles told him, i just don't remember, it was a long time ago. But, it's around if You sniff around. Chas Chandler had a lot to do with it, and talked Jimi into it after the Animals were screwed by the same manager~Michael Jeffery. And he is another crook you could fill books with~and have!
Drummers don't hang around with musicians. Only a non musician would try and say that. The drummer is the glue of the band, it holds everything together. I am speaking as s lead guitarist here.
When I was a college student, I heard Purple Haze for the first time and I could not believe what I was hearing. That guitar sound was so wiked and unheard of before to me. But, Mitch's loud, scary, unrock like drumming that something more powerful than anything I could remember, made the song something no one else could have made it. I'venever heard a cover of Purple Haze, but it probably would sound flat next to Mitch and Jimi. Couldn't be recreated. For me, so began a new chapter in rock music.
i covered it for years back in the 70's and 80's...and we did it WELL.....people LOVED it....about 5 years ago someone came up to me and said, man, i was a kid, but i heard you play it at some party and i was mesmerized....and he NEVER forgot it......of COURSE it was flat compared to Jimi and Mitch , but we gave it HELL!!!!
Mitch was so good i think his talent went OVER SOME PEOPLE'S HEAD NOT REALIZING JUST HOW TALENTED HE REALLY WAS R.I.P GOD BLESS YOU MITCH A GREAT DRUMMER INDEED!!!!!!!
Nobody copies you because they can't, but I'm still trying to play if 6 was 9 scary cause if 6 was 9 Mitch would've been 91 yrs old instead of a very young 61
Very sad ... saw them in 1969 at Devonshire Downs in Los Angeles... I interviewed Mitch Mitchell on the phone for my column in Guitar School Magazine ‘Out To Lunch’ with Guy Mann-Dude
@@jamesderoc6717 "Modern music" is a big term. Maybe modern commercial music would be closer. After all, Stockhausen's music owes nothing to the "black man."
Where did Mitch Mitchell get his talent and abilities from? both he and Noel Redding just seemed to have appeared as Jimi's rhythm section, I thing they somehow fed off each other to become something so much greater. RIP guys you will always be with me, and thank you for all the music.
Mitch went to acting 🎭 school at the age of seven and played “Oliver” on stage and started to make a name for himself at ten years old. Around 13 or so, he had a television 📺 show for two years. After that, he found it difficult to find acting or movie 🍿 roles, and his career was uncertain. His father suggested that he find an alternative path to success and mentioned music. When Mitch mentioned drums,🥁 his father enrolled him in a drum school 🏫 where he learned to read percussion and play “Swing” Jazz. At eighteen, he began to play with ‘Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.’ 🔥 One night, being the opening act for ‘The Animals,’ Mitch meets Chas Chandler and tells Chas that he wants to leave the ‘Blue Flames’ and get into rock. Chandler was leaving the Animals and was starting a new career as a band manager. Several years later, Chas discovered Jimi Hendrix in New York City, and both flew back to England. 🏴 Once there, Chandler set up an office with a studio and read in the newspaper 📰 that Mitch Mitchell was no longer playing with Georgie Fame. Chas found Mitch drinking 🥃at a local Jazz Bar and asked him if he wanted to play with Hendrix. Noel Redding was a lead guitarist who switched to bass to play with Jimi. Chandler & Hendrix taught Redding how to play bass, and Hendrix showed him the notes to “Hey Joe.” Their first jam lasted for over three and a half hours. After getting exposure from the London Club Scene, they were signed up with a record label and began a European tour, and the rest is history! thank you 🧑🎤 🏁 👩💼👩🎓
I knew every Mitch lick growing up.the songs were like the alphabet.seen Mitch with ramatam.his recording with Jimi were legendary.those studio recordings were brilliant.
Billy Cox ended up being Jimi's favourite bassist, but Mitch was his favourite drummer. those jazz fills that Seth Rochford talks about were the perfect foil for Hendrix's improvisational leanings. It is a pity that Jimi only sorted out what his core band looked like just before his death. It's apity
His brother Leon said the same about Jimi, when he had a thought, no one could get his attention, until he grabbed the notes and thoughts in front of him...TIP Jimi...
Most great drummers die young. A sad truth, really. Some, at age 50. I saw & Heard Mitch playing with a band at the SF Civic Auditorium In 71 or 72. I don’t remember enjoying that band but I loved Mitch doing what he did, with his great, undeniable, unmistakeable rhythm on the skins!
@@farshimelt yes, sir! Police & Firemen get to retire age 50, this is because they die sooner than the average age of 76 for men. drummingcorner.com/13-famous-drummers-who-are-no-longer-with-us/ and there ya go, sir!
Mitch played the Drums Psychedelic, If U listen to his Drum Rolls on I don't live today "WOW" what a TRIP. Also his Drum Rolls on She's so fine are second to none.
The first time I heard him I thought Wow - he's playing like Elvin Jones - who was my favorite drummer - and it turned out to be intentional, or that's my understanding. He was definitely the first rock drummer to show that influence.
It's so sad to hear another has past on! Mitch Mitchell. Now join with Jimi Hendricks playing again together up where we wonder? They'll be playing like lightning blowing up a storm with thunder!!!!
The British adopted Jimi like he was an Englishman, the Experience were a British invasion band. The British though pretty much adopted Buddy Holly too and made him a superstar way before Texas.
Mitch Mitchell was one of the best drummers of all time, never really got the credit he deserved for the way his drumming changed the way the drums were played after he showed us what could be done on them. He was the best drummer for Jimi.
Gary Clark Agree....100%..He Mixed Jazz Rythyms Into Jim's Music. A True Master, Whom Was Completely Underrated. RIP
Glad I was able to see him (and Jimi Hendrix) live.
no way
Arthur F. Scaltrito you were indeed blessed....
Gary Clark j
Mitch was an incredible drummer. His playing on the first two JHE albums was fantastic. His style (like Jimi's), was very unique. No one else from that time played like him. His contribution to the JHE sound can not be denied. He was the perfect drummer to complement Jimi and it clearly shows in songs like Manic Depression, Love or Confusion, Fire, Hey Joe and so many others.
The only other drummers to play with that freedom of expression were Keith Moon and Robert Wyatt.
Mitch was a very good drummer (RIP) but here’s the rub for me. I like his drumming but not Jimi. Ok man per man trio, is Jimi as good as Clapton? no was Mitch as good as Ginger? no. The bass, no contest, Jack Bruce will beat you & with a fretless bass at that.
@@r.d.sandman6474 This is all a matter of opinion and personal taste I liked Cream but I will take The Jimi Hendrix Experience over them any day. I always felt that Baker was overrated. He certainly wasn't as good as he thought he was. I will take Mitch over him. Jack Bruce was clearly better than Redding on bass. But Redding's style worked for the Exoerience. As far as Clapton vs Hendrix....it's easily Hendrix for me. No knock on Clapton. He is an excellent player.
Hendrix was always better than Clapton ask Eric himself, actually there was else like Hendrix now, before or after.
Hendrix was always better than Clapton ask Eric himself, actually there was else like Hendrix now, before or after.
I'm a guitar player, not a drummer. But just listening to Mitch play you can tell he"s a talent. He's incredible on Manic Depression .
Keith Moon was great, John Bonham was awesome, but Mitch Mitchell was better. RIP dude, your drumming will always blow my mind.
Keith moon sucks, sloppy drummer Mitchell and Bonham are awesome !
Ginger Baker was the best!
@@DogTrekker you're full of shit.
@@hendrixandmitch Nah he is a legend
Ginger baker influenced lots but he was not the best. Keith moon was very sloppy but he fit The Who’s band and was a legend. Bonham’s the best and Mitchell is amazing. Sadly anyone who plays with jimi will be in his shadow
Jimi Hendrix was my favorite musician of all time , when i saw Mitchell cry while talking about Jimi , i knew then that he was a special person !
Where you saw him cry?On youtube?or anywhere else?
When you see Mithchell talk about Hendrix, you know that Hendrix had a special place in Mitchells hearth, and that he saw Jimi's talent. The same cant be said about Noel. He did not value Jimi as he deserved, as a genius.
The difference between Mitchell and Noel must be that Mitchell actually was a great being and a great drummer, but Noel he had no talent on bass, not even the guitar. He was lucky to be there because of he's hair.
@@xPowerShotx Redding was a solid , hard driving bass player and his playing was appropriate, it anchored the band and allowed Hendrix and Mitchell to fly. I saw the band play, they were a great BAND.
Very underrated. Great musician.
I'm sticking up for noel here I think his bass playing is up there with the best in fact the jhe were the best of the best fact.
On Hendrix albums, Mitchell's brilliant drumming is a vital part of the sound.
THE BEST DRUMMER EVER FOR JIMI
no way
Um no....buddy miles!
Best drummer ever* with anyone
Buddy Miles better? Never
As Stewart Copeland said
Jimi Hendrix was Mitch Mitchell's guitarist
Just listen to let me stand next to your fire. Nobody played like that back in the day. Amazing Drummer 👏
Even though Hendrix was so phenomenal. I still believe in your as good as the band is..the people you play with. Mitch Mitchell was one of those people.RIP
One of the best rock drummer of all time. RIP
You could leave out the "rock" part. His creativity would have been welcome in many genres. You can hear that style of drumming on many recordings of the Jazz Avant Garde of the time.
@@farshimelt He was right. MM was a rock drummer. There are almost no rock drummers that had or have the technical ability or feel for real jazz. Carl Palmer the greatest rock drummer, like his almost father in law buddy Rich, has the chops. I doubt he has the feel. And ironically Rich was the greatest chopster of jazz. Too bad Carl didn't marry his daughter. I would love to have seen a baby born playing prog rock and jazz and then slapping the doctor back in a paradiddles.
Great Musician. Love those jazzy 60s drummers. Jimi and Mitch had a special communication.
Yeah ! Me too.
Mitch Mitchell & Jimi were EQUALLY talented. It was hard not to look at Jimi the whole time, but Mitch was creating phenomenal art in his Experience performances too, like a man possessed behind the kit. They were magic together. R.I.P. Mitch & Jimi.
When Mitch was talking about bacon & eggs ... Exactly how he looked & talked about his Friend "Jimi" when I got to know him in Nashville, Tn. 3/98 He was in a Vehicle w/me & a Engineer from Tulahoma, Tn. Hey Joe came on the radio and the Young Driver Cranked it up ... Swear to God, Mitch 's eyes bugged out. He was clean and we all were ~ a 12pass. van, all ages Heads Banging, singing lyrics best we could and he was the "Dude" banging the F#*K outta those drums FOR REAL ! I know he'd played for MASSIVE Audiences, however all 3 generations were jammin and he dam near had tears in his eyes ... Had to be odd to be hearing yourself and most people in the van had no idea Who He was ! True Story Chip R (on my moma )
great drummer one of the best and my favorite
The experience...beyond words. Beyond worlds.
WHAT an era of rock drummers - Mitch, Clive Bunker of Tull, Ginger of course, Bonham, Moon in his inimitable insanity, & the much underrated Ringo, among others .......... GLAD I was there to EXPERIENCE it
Mitch Mitchell was a great drummer
His drumming on 1983 mid musical fantasy section is incredible.
Mitch played the drums as I believe they should be played - as a highly nuanced, yet powerful musical instrument. Too many drummers are content to be simple time keepers for the rest of the band.
That's what most bands want. And certainly what most producers want.
Like Mitch or not you can't deny his contributions to Hendrix's music.
I wrote to Noel, have a postcard from him and albums and books signed. We will never see the likes of them again
I believe that Mitch Mitchell should have co-writing credits on "Fire" since the drums are so key to that tune.
sadly, drums were considered part of the song arrangement only.
..and "Manic Depression" also.
one of my idols along with Bonham, as a teen growing up playing drums in the 80's. He'll go down in history as a member of one of the most important and influencial bands of all time
The Mitch Mitchell - Noel Redding rhythm section just drives the song "Fire!"
Mitch's playing on Fire ,has always fired me up!, it just drives the song to a different place, and makes me wonder if anyone else could have done it any more perfectly!
As much as I liked Buddy Miles rock style drumming, Jimi needed a swing style jazz drummer like Mitch. I think he was perfect for keeping time with Jimi's style of playing. My favorite drum intro is on "I don't live today", and my favorite drum solo is on "1983 a Merman I should turn to be" on the Electric Lady Land" album. R.I.P. Mitch, Jimi, Noel, and Buddy...
T-ROY B My Favorite As Well...All Of Them Were Musical Geniuses..Not Just Jim...Ahead Of Their Time...Light Years Ahead!!
Ladyland, side 3, what could be better....nuthin', but Slight Return is close to as good.
you know Jimi played drums on 1983 right?
“I don’t live today” is one of the best examples!!!
@@edwhite7475 Really?? Where did you get that info?
hate to hear they are all gone now because of these guys, I started playing guitar way back in 1968....52 years later I am still playing....
They say you're only as good as your drummer. Rip Mitch you were the greatest!
Mitch was so freaking great of a player and interpreter of the song's form. He was a game changer for the world of percussion and invented new ways to create grooves within songs far more diverse than ever before conceived. He was an innovator but, then again, he was being inspired by one of the greatest innovator's of music on the planet earth.....Mr James Hendrix.
no doubt the most spontaneous, jazziest and influential rock drummer Ever.
sundancefan1 This goes out to Jerry D who ask "Who is the drummer in this interview, Anybody know his name?" Jerry, clean your ears. Seb Rochford. His name is given seconds after he first shows up on camera. Sorry, sundancefan, there's no "reply" button under the other guy's name.
Mitch was vastly underrated as a drummer, but the truth is that his drumming played a very integral role in the success of the JHE. Few drummers could play the fills he did, and it made the sound of the group unique.
Why do say he was "vastly underrated?" By whom?
@@farshimelt
Mitch doesn't have da fanboyz, like Bonham has, 4 nstance.
There were very few music magz/Drum ragz, xamining Mitch Mitchellz playing, or conversating about his style. Perhapz itz cause he did not die @ 27, wit Hendrix. ( Actually, if they died 2gether, Hendrix @ 27, I BLIEVE, Mitch woulda been 24! FREAKING AMAZING YOUNG MAN! )
I've always believed that Jimi Hendrix' 2 band members were too cool for other bands, talent on all levels. thanks for sharing this vid. Aaron
"Jimi Hendrix' 2 band members were too cool for other bands" Except for Noel, yes.
noel just wasn't created for a always play and no sleeplife, neither mitch, 61 is not very old. fact is mitch added something to the hendrix-sound,meaning, exquisite and original drummer
Mitch Mitchell, wuz THE MAN!!!!
RIP, my friend
Mitch and Noel were really an excellent rhythm section, and allowed Jimi to create his magic over their music.
It was jimi's music, Jimi layed down most of the bass tracks later on in the band that's one of the reason noel left every time he put down a track jimi would come back and re record it playing the bass himself
@@runrabbitrun4342 Noel & Mitchell were just hired side session guys in the Experience Band. They weren't entitled to any of the royalties, even though they were both a Huge part in the success of Jimi in the beginning. Total shame, i would be hitting the pub getting drunk like Noel did.
@@dennymcfastlane8530 Hmmm, i didn't know this & I'm not really sure how much truth is in it, do you have a link that states such?
@@runrabbitrun4342 Don't remember where, but it was common knowledge for many years. Jimmy McCarty might have told me, after Buddy Miles told him, i just don't remember, it was a long time ago. But, it's around if You sniff around. Chas Chandler had a lot to do with it, and talked Jimi into it after the Animals were screwed by the same manager~Michael Jeffery. And he is another crook you could fill books with~and have!
Jimi and Noel call Mitch home to jam to the heavens.
I stand in awe of Mitch's work with Jimi.
Loved Mitch...rip..
The man(Mitch) was both a Beast and a poet on drums!!! - in the top 3 ever!!!
There is no one like Mitch.He was my favorite when i was a kid and still is.They rated him 21st on the all time list.But to me he will always be #1.
thank you for being a huge influence for me to start playing, leading me to the universe of the love that is music... Rest In Peace!!
Drummers don't hang around with musicians. Only a non musician would try and say that. The drummer is the glue of the band, it holds everything together. I am speaking as s lead guitarist here.
You obviously hang around with drummers then !
When I was a college student, I heard Purple Haze for the first time and I could not believe what I was hearing. That guitar sound was so wiked and unheard of before to me. But, Mitch's loud, scary, unrock like drumming that something more powerful than anything I could remember, made the song something no one else could have made it. I'venever heard a cover of Purple Haze, but it probably would sound flat next to Mitch and Jimi. Couldn't be recreated. For me, so began a new chapter in rock music.
i covered it for years back in the 70's and 80's...and we did it WELL.....people LOVED it....about 5 years ago someone came up to me and said, man, i was a kid, but i heard you play it at some party and i was mesmerized....and he NEVER forgot it......of COURSE it was flat compared to Jimi and Mitch , but we gave it HELL!!!!
@@edwhite7475 It's always easier to recreate than create. However, props to you for learning the parts.
@@farshimelt i didnt say we WROTE it.
But thanks for the backhanded compliment.
You have an excellent grasp of the obvious.
Jimi, Mitch and Billy were the best combo.
Mitchell was an amazing drummer. Loved his odd style.
I met John aka 'Mitch' in the 606 . . . at ease with the creative jazz groove and still moving in ever evolving circles. R I P
RIP, MM. We'll miss you.
He was my main influence when I started playing drums 13 years ago when I was 5 years old. BETTER THAN KEITH MOON!!!
Different than Keith Moon. Moon was the right drummer for the Who and played with the same type of creativity as Mitchell.
NO FUCKING WAY!!
SO LUCKY TO HAVE PLAYED WITH SUCH AN ICON IN HIS LIFE TIME. I AM SURE THAT HE APPRECIATED IT TILL THE END.
He was an integral part of the J H Experience, a perfect foil with his busy jazzy fills for Hendrix's wild unconventional style.
The drums in "Manic Depression" were completely original. Mitchell thought all of that up. There is no other drum riff like it in rock, blues or jazz.
All you have to do is listen to fire and you can hear the genius of ALL three members. RIP experience.
Mitch was so good i think his talent went OVER SOME PEOPLE'S HEAD NOT REALIZING JUST HOW TALENTED HE REALLY WAS R.I.P GOD BLESS YOU MITCH A GREAT DRUMMER INDEED!!!!!!!
Mitch ..you will be missed .....K.Rj B.
A drummer is a musician. He does more than keep the beat. Mitch knew this. Very speedy drumming too, I must say. Great style.
It's profound when you realise the music survives but the players are all dead...strange world we live in.
Why is it strange? Humans have a life span.
But Mitch is not dead his artistry still vibrates in are souls.
is that All they have to say about Mitch Mitchell.?...very sad indeed...r.I.p. the only man ever to compliment Jimmy Hendrix.
Our band played The Hendrix Experience. I practiced to Mitch's off the charts drumming!!
One of the finest of a pretty damn fine generation of drummers.. the perfect combo of jazz chops, rock punch and funky nuance.
Thnx, and Thank-you , Mr. Mitch Mitchell.
One of the best of my generation.
Of all generations.
Nobody copies you because they can't, but I'm still trying to play if 6 was 9 scary cause if 6 was 9 Mitch would've been 91 yrs old instead of a very young 61
I was impressed by the way he played the top of his set like a jazz drummer, and solid and syncopated like a rock drummer.
Well they used to hang out in central park, that was part of the chemistry that made the trio great. Then to rest but they will go on forever.
Anybody who wants to understand Mitch has to listen to Third Stone from the Sun, Fire, and Manic Depression.
Mitch was simply...
SENSATIONAL!
Oh no, such a sad loss of a great drummer. RIP Mitch🙏
LONG LIVE JIMI HEN....AND BAD ASS PERCUSSIONS!!
Another of rocks most underrated talents. God bless you Mitch.
Who underrates him?
Very sad ... saw them in 1969 at Devonshire Downs in Los Angeles... I interviewed Mitch Mitchell on the phone for my column in Guitar School Magazine ‘Out To Lunch’ with Guy Mann-Dude
Yes, Mitchell was a nice drummer, good fit for the Experience. He and Jimi grew musically together during 1966 - 1970.
All good things in Rock is derived from Jazz and Blues!
all modern music comes from the black man,
All good music comes from nature!
@@jamesderoc6717 "Modern music" is a big term. Maybe modern commercial music would be closer. After all, Stockhausen's music owes nothing to the "black man."
@@farshimelt i overstated a bit but the their finger prints can be seen almost everywhere
Michael Shrieve, Ginger Baker, Bonham, Keith Moon are all great but Mitch is the man!!
He is as iconic as Jimi
I'm very fortunate to have met Mitch, and Noel.
God bless you Mitch. Up there with Jimi and Noel now........there's one heck of a a gig going on in Heaven.
Mitch i will miss you very much...thanks for all the good times the world had with your contribution.
we lent Noel a fender jazz bass when he played here in new Zealand about 1994, my number 1 band
A perfect match, truly made before “we were created “RIP Mitch, thanks for some great Music, I’ll always have in my Heart.
Absolutely with out a doubt
One of the best
Where did Mitch Mitchell get his talent and abilities from? both he and Noel Redding just seemed to have appeared as Jimi's rhythm section, I thing they somehow fed off each other to become something so much greater. RIP guys you will always be with me, and thank you for all the music.
One is born with certain abilities and if inspired will develop them. It's no mystery.
Mitch went to acting 🎭 school at the age of seven and played “Oliver” on stage and started to make a name for himself at ten years old. Around 13 or so, he had a television 📺 show for two years. After that, he found it difficult to find acting or movie 🍿 roles, and his career was uncertain. His father suggested that he find an alternative path to success and mentioned music. When Mitch mentioned drums,🥁 his father enrolled him in a drum school 🏫 where he learned to read percussion and play “Swing” Jazz. At eighteen, he began to play with ‘Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.’ 🔥 One night, being the opening act for ‘The Animals,’ Mitch meets Chas Chandler and tells Chas that he wants to leave the ‘Blue Flames’ and get into rock. Chandler was leaving the Animals and was starting a new career as a band manager. Several years later, Chas discovered Jimi Hendrix in New York City, and both flew back to England. 🏴 Once there, Chandler set up an office with a studio and read in the newspaper 📰 that Mitch Mitchell was no longer playing with Georgie Fame. Chas found Mitch drinking 🥃at a local Jazz Bar and asked him if he wanted to play with Hendrix. Noel Redding was a lead guitarist who switched to bass to play with Jimi. Chandler & Hendrix taught Redding how to play bass, and Hendrix showed him the notes to “Hey Joe.” Their first jam lasted for over three and a half hours. After getting exposure from the London Club Scene, they were signed up with a record label and began a European tour, and the rest is history! thank you 🧑🎤 🏁 👩💼👩🎓
One of the greats for sure and one of the best!
Spent a week with them in December '66 at the Hillside club Folkestone, Noel's home town.
I knew every Mitch lick growing up.the songs were like the alphabet.seen Mitch with ramatam.his recording with Jimi were legendary.those studio recordings were brilliant.
go down into history a legendary group.
Mitch was is and will be one of the greatest drummers to ever beat a kit and when he played manic depression he bout set that kit on fire
Billy Cox ended up being Jimi's favourite bassist, but Mitch was his favourite drummer. those jazz fills that Seth Rochford talks about were the perfect foil for Hendrix's improvisational leanings. It is a pity that Jimi only sorted out what his core band looked like just before his death.
It's apity
One of very few videos on RUclips around the Jimi Hendrix experience
Mitch really was one of the greats! This is quite a good overview and tribute from Newsnight.
Mitch ::: Up From The Skies; Manic Depression; One Rainy Wish; he was a very good drummer.
my favorite hands down
Eggs and bacon in the kitchen. Jimi decides mid way through cooking he has a riff bacon cooks perfectly. Eggs on the way. What a day in the kitchen.
His brother Leon said the same about Jimi, when he had a thought, no one could get his attention, until he grabbed the notes and thoughts in front of him...TIP Jimi...
Most great drummers die young. A sad truth, really. Some, at age 50. I saw & Heard Mitch playing with a band at the SF Civic Auditorium In 71 or 72. I don’t remember enjoying that band but I loved Mitch doing what he did, with his great, undeniable, unmistakeable rhythm on the skins!
please include parameters for "young."
@@farshimelt yes, sir! Police & Firemen get to retire age 50, this is because they die sooner than the average age of 76 for men. drummingcorner.com/13-famous-drummers-who-are-no-longer-with-us/ and there ya go, sir!
Mitch played the Drums Psychedelic, If U listen to his Drum Rolls on I don't live today "WOW" what a TRIP. Also his Drum Rolls on She's so fine are second to none.
What do you mean by "Drum Rolls?" That term has a different meaning to drummers.
The first time I heard him I thought Wow - he's playing like Elvin Jones - who was my favorite drummer - and it turned out to be intentional, or that's my understanding. He was definitely the first rock drummer to show that influence.
Good observation.
Such a natural, Hendrix's
Choice, that's enough for me!.
"wasn't fair in Mitchell's case". Wasn't fair in any drummer's case. The backbone of the band.
MITCH MITCHELL WAS THE SHIT BACK THEN SOLID DRUMMER WITH A JAZZ FEEL AWESOME !
one of the most underrated drummers ever in Rock history . 🥁
Underrated by whom?
No witness of Hendrix's murder left
It's so sad to hear another has past on! Mitch Mitchell. Now join with Jimi Hendricks playing again together up where we wonder?
They'll be playing like lightning blowing up a storm with thunder!!!!
Absolutely one of top ten drummers of rock ever
Jimi was amazing, but it wouldn't have been the sound package that it was (is) with out Mitch.
Absolutely no disrespect to Jimi.
Best rock drummer of the 60s and most soulful.
The British adopted Jimi like he was an Englishman, the Experience were a British invasion band. The British though pretty much adopted Buddy Holly too and made him a superstar way before Texas.