Mitch Mitchell - Out the House

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Hendrix, found dead.

This Aug. 21, 1967 file photo shows Noel Redding, left, Jimi Hendrix, center, and Mitch Mitchell, of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, at Heathrow airport in London. Authorities say Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s, has been found dead in his Portland, Ore. hotel room.

Chagz editorial comment:

Hendrix was the greatest guitar player of all time and it's not even close.

As Neil Young once said "there's nobody even in the same building with that guy".

DMB:

I don’t like the Dave Matthews Band.

I know I know I probably should. Its decent music but I just can’t get, you know, into it. It’s not as though I haven’t tried.

Take now for instance… I’m listening to a song right now…

I got nothin’...

The year was 1986. It was spring in our senior year and our high school's "senior service" program had just started. Senior Service was a program by which high school seniors go out into the community and help others in need. Some guys were sent to convalescent homes and hospitals to help care for sick and elderly folks which I heard was very rewarding.

As it happened Me, Rosco & Stubby all got assigned to a middle school not far away where we proceeded to play street hockey, football, flirt with the teachers and 8th graders and generally make a mockery of the entire program. Our high school let us carry over our 3rd quarter grades into the 4th quarter without doing a stitch of school work.

(I’ll pause just to let that sink in…)

We'd go out for lunch with the windows down and the music on good & loud.
This tape had just been released and we wore it out that spring. To this day I can't listen to any song from this album without thinking of that moment in time. Oh yes…

Top 5 Hard Rock Albums Ever:

25 million people can't be wrong.

This album absolutely rocks. My personal favorite is 'Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution' which is the last cut. It's a hard drivin' song that kicks ass. This is the quintessential 'flying down the highway with your top down' (this is a reference to a convertable car for those who aren't sure) type music.

Top 20 Best Songs Ever:

On this date in 1959 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper all died in a plane crash in Iowa during a snowstorm on their way to Fargo, ND.

Don McLean later wrote - The Day the Music Died - a song about that event and the state of Rock n' Roll in the years that followed.

Go to this link to read about what all the different verses in the song were refering to. Interesting reading if you're so inclined. Great tune.

Top 20 Best Songs Ever:

Foreigner: Foreigner 4 - Jukebox Hero

Maybe the greatest piece of music ever written for a kid who happens to be 13 years old in 1981. I played this album until the needle broke off my parent's turn-table.

Weren't we all the Jukebox Hero in our own minds, standing in the rain by the backstage door... Oh yes...