The Jimi Hendrix Experience (l-r): Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell and Hendrix
Drummer Mitch Mitchell, the last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was found dead Wednesday morning in his Portland, Oregon, hotel room, Billboard reported today. Mitchell, 62, most likely died of natural causes, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's office said.
Mitchell had just finished the "Experience Hendrix" tour with former Band of Gypsies bassist Billy Cox and several others including Buddy Gu
L-R: Waddy Wachtel, Keith Richards and Terry Reid
Who Dat?
Though unfortunately best known to rock trivia buffs for what he didn't do than for what he did, Terry Reid was (and is) an extremely well-regarded British blues-rock singer/guitarist. He began warbling as a toddler when his mother would perch him on a box to sing popular songs while she picked fruit.
He joined a school band, the Redbeats, and then Peter Jay's Jaywalkers, which issued the single "The Hand Don't Fit the Glove" in 1966
Photos by Craig Hlavaty
Last week, we railed on the big boys over at the Eagle and the Arrow for perpetrating hours and hours of Billy Joel and the Eagles on the ears of Houston. It seemed to us that between those two fighting for the same audience, it was in fact the listener who was losing.
But we didn't take into account the excellent work that is going on down Highway 35 every Friday afternoon on KACC (89.7 FM), Alvin Community College's radio station also known as "The Gulf Coast Rocker." D
