Jimi Hendrix's drummer, Mitch Mitchell, found dead at Portland hotel

[laststeamtrain]

Source: The Oregonian

Jimi Hendrix's drummer, Mitch Mitchell, found dead at Portland hotel
by Stuart Tomlinson,The Oregonian
Wednesday November 12, 2008, 11:19 AM

Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and longtime fixture in the music business, was found dead this morning in his Portland hotel room.

Mitchell, 61, apparently died of natural causes, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner said. Mitchell was found dead at appoximately 3 a.m. in his room at the Benson Hotel in downtown Portland.

Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/jimi_h...

[lazyriver]

1. Listen closely and you will hear some epic jams coming from

the afterlife tonight. RIP Mitch, fire one up with Jimi for me when you see him.

[T Wolf]

2. Sad. Those three could really rock the house. RIP Mitch. nt

[slackmaster]

3. Oh crap, that's the worst news I've read all day

RIP Mitch.

[ET Awful]

4. RIP Mitch.

Damn.

[Tikki]

5. Mitchell was an excellent drummer....understood Jimi's...

concept perfectly.

Tikki

[Ishoutandscream2]

6. Damn, another dead one

Didn't he play drums in the super band on the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus? You know, the one with Lennon, Clapton, and Richards?

The 1960's, all of a sudden, are getting farther and farther away from us...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus, "The Dirty Mac"...

Lennon, Clapton, Richards & Mitchell. Their songs were "Yer Blues" & "Whole Lotta Yoko."

R.I.P. Mitch.

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Yep, couldn't remember the name of their "band"

Reading Bill Wyman's memoirs - he was so pissed that Keith got to play bass.

[Blue State Bandit]

7. RIP Mitch. This is for you!

Angel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCNQdEtV2_8

[TomInTib]

18. That is one strange video.

Where was the vocalist and keyboard player? They were sure as hell on the track.

[Taverner]

8. Now all three of the Experience are dead

RIP Jimi, Mitch and Noel

[marylanddem]

9. I saw Jimi & his band at the Washington Hilton in 1968

Also saw the Doors there around the same time. May all of our lost rock and roll stars rest in peace.

[Desertrose]

21. I saw Jimi at the Electric Factory in Philly...spring of '68

Will never forget him playing that damn guitar with his teeth....


....and Janis & Big Brother.....


OMG...this really dates me...but I don't care. They were some times to be young in.....

[DFW]

27. I was at that show too!!!

The Soft Machine opened for the Experience, right?

[GreenTea]

11. All the original Experience is gone...Jimi who that first night at the club, Bag O' Nails in London

where everyone had heard the rumors about the American born Hendrix (but no one had heard him play)....Jimi just made every guitar player in England want to cry, all were in attendance at the club that night in London 1967, Clapton, Beck, Townsend, all the Beatles & the Stones and every other top British musician were all there, all were absolutely & completely blown-away by Hendrix - and all knew, they weren't even close, to being in his league, nothing like him before or since. Listen to any musician who was there that night, they have all said the same thing.

Egos were shattered that night and as Keith Moon half-jokingly put it to a fellow musician entering the club...."It's all wet up in front by the stage, from all the guitarist' tears", (crying).

And homeboy's British musicians, Mitch Mitchell & Noel Redding (the Experience) were a part of making it happen that night (and afterward).

[Ishoutandscream2]

15. Color me stupid. but I didn't know Redding had passed

Damn!

[GreenTea]

17. David "Noel" Redding (25 December, 1945 – 11 May, 2003)

[BootinUp]

12. Very talented drummer.

RIP Mitch.

[8 track mind]

14. FUCK!!!!

Man all of the good musicians are checking out. This sucks. Truly bad news indeed.

Mitch Mitchel was one of my all time favorites to listen to. He was one of the few rock drummers that could be in the same club as the jazz drummer Buddy Rich.

[ben_thayer]

24. Yep! I always thought Mitch was

WAAAY ahead of his time, and did as much for Rock drumming as Hendrix did for the guitar.

Damn shame. RIP...

[guitar man]

16. Damn

RIP Mitch

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

19. Mitch

Peace Mitch.........................

[Bonhomme Richard]

20. Damn. He was in town here just a couple of weeks ago and ....

came out to see a friend of mine play (blues guitarist) at a local club where our band plays. Signed my friends guitar and all.
Too bad. Another one bites the dust.

[Parche]

22. That is about 3blocks from here

[bobthedrummer]

23. He certainly influenced me, and many others-I'm glad I saw Jimi Hendrix and The Experience live. n/t

[JVS]

25. ROCK!!!!!

[brentspeak]

26. RIP, Mr. Mitchell

[ryanmuegge]

28. He was a fantastic drummer.

[VPStoltz]

29. He played in a Hendrix tribute here in Seattle a last week (?)

I did hear the concert but the review said he looked "frail" and his playing wasn't but a flicker of its former self.
I am still amazed at what he played on those early Hendrix "albums." His playing was so much more advanced and intricate compared with any of the drummers at the time - including Keith Moon who by comparison was basically a basher.

[maddogesq]

32. I just saw him about 3 weeks ago here in Detroit.

Dammnit. As a drummer, he stands as one of my main influences.

[Algorem]

30. Bob Dylan's grandmother?

[Chemical Bill]

34. No, she played bass. n/t

[progressoid]

31. Damn.

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[Dukkha]

35. wow and I just got two JHE albums on vinyl two weeks ago

he was a perfect match to Hendrix with his lightning fast triplet fills and complex jazz rhythms. So sad all of the Jimi Hendrix Experience is gone now.

[pepperbear]

36. one of the greatest drummers of all time n/t

[michreject]

37. That sux

RIP.

[Amonester]

38. Rest In Peace, Mitch.

There you were a(r)t work in Monterey in 1968. Great memories! Thanks!