JH 34 Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club 47 Frith Street



Onstage at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, two days before Hendrix died of a reported drug overdose
 


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You are at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, the site of Jimi Hendrix's last live appearance before his death - 16 Sept 1970.

"On September 16, Hendrix performed in public for the last time during an informal jam at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho with Eric Burdon and his latest band, War. They began by playing a few of their recent hits, and after a brief intermission Hendrix joined them during "Mother Earth" and "Tobacco Road". His performance was uncharacteristically subdued; he quietly played backing guitar, and refrained from the histrionics that people had come to expect from him."

Hendrix tragically died on September 18th, 1970, of an unintentional self-administered overdose of barbiturates.

The Experience's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography states: "Jimi Hendrix was arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music. Hendrix expanded the range and vocabulary of the electric guitar into areas no musician had ever ventured before. His boundless drive, technical ability and creative application of such effects as wah-wah and distortion forever transformed the sound of rock and roll."

He was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Renton, Washington, on September 29th, 1970.

Continue walking south along Frith Street.

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"On September 16, 1970, Hendrix performed in public for the last time during an informal jam at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho with Eric Burdon and his latest band, War. They began by playing a few of their recent hits, and after a brief intermission Hendrix joined them during "Mother Earth" and "Tobacco Road". His performance was uncharacteristically subdued; he quietly played backing guitar, and refrained from the histrionics that people had come to expect from him."

- Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix#European_tour

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