Mitch Mitchell

You go off and you play and then maybe you discover, wow, that paradiddle is pretty cool.

I heard Mitch Mitchell doing that with Jimi Hendrix.

Wow.

And you can identify things by knowing that that particular sticking or whatever it is you're working on.

You need to get like a little rock sensibility.

And for those guys who were only just rock guys, I'd go like, you got to start to listen to a little bit of jazz and kind of, you know, give some more roundness to your time feel and bring a little bit of that bounce like a John Bonham who was, you know, influenced by Max Roach.

Previous guys to that period and all the Motown drummers, of course, but all those guys had like a jazz input in their youth, like a Carl Palmer or a Mitch Mitchell.

I would always say Mitch Mitchell sounded just like the rock and roll Elvin Jones.

And he was like, oh, well, I've been playing this song.

So he then teaches it to the bassist, Mitch Mitchell, the drummer, and Noel Redding, the bassist, and sings it.

And they record it in that 20 minutes.

But it's like, well, then that recording is what he tries to be consistent with when he's playing it later, if you see what I mean, because he's not...

He didn't get the guitar job, but Chandler really liked his personality and offered him the bass player part.

Now, Redding... had never really played the bass seriously, but he said yes.

Then there's Mitch Mitchell, a gifted jazz-influenced drummer who played with Georgie Fame, joined in October 1966.

Mitchell could play with Hendrix Fluidity, filling in spaces the way a jazz drummer would, and the three really clicked, and they named themselves the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Okay.

Well, listening to the Sprout and Layer recordings, I hear Mitch Mitchell, for sure, speaking of Hendrix.

And I hear some Keith Mooney.

Thank

Good question.

Yeah.

Well, Mitch Mitchell's an incredible drummer, so I really appreciate your suggesting that I may have even sounded a tad like that guy.

He was good.

You know what I mean?

Just think if I was, cause I posted that, just imagine being Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding, and not even being close to being the biggest virtuoso in your band.

That's insane.

That is

complexity.

Hendrix had hits with Jimmy, with, with Mitch Mitchell going, Mitch Mitchell going, Oh man, I still love those records.

That for me, that is, by the

way, with the kick drum, that's this big.

Yeah.

That, you know, Jimmy Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell, that is the, you know, humans are like ducks.

You know, and they break out of their shell.

The first warm body they see is mama.

to a lyricist and so they are well this isn't an accident you know what I'm saying these cats can tell you how they did every line that they did you know what I'm saying and what was the process and how many syllables and why they put like they are students and they can they can you know, they can tell you why, you know what I mean? And so it ain't just a bunch of good punch lines and not just long for the ride.

Like I think I once said back in the day about working for Dell and this goes for everyone is like, I must feel like Mitch Mitchell, you know what I'm saying? Which was the drummer for Jimi Hendrix experience.

You know what I'm saying? And where he's playing, he's playing drums for fucking Hendrix, you know what I'm saying? And he's just, just keep the beat, you know what I'm saying? Like, that is genius, you know what I'm saying? That is genius.

you know, let his genius shine and just don't fuck it up.