LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Jimi Hendrix: Chas Chandler
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Hendrix retreated to London, where he reached out to Chas Chandler, Eric Burdon, and other friends in a renewed attempt to divorce himself from manager Michael Jeffery. He caught up with Linda Keith, an old flame he still admired, and gave her a brand new black Fender Stratocaster as a token of his appreciation for her discovery efforts years earlier. Included in the guitar case was a stack of letters--all of their mutually written correspondence. Jimi's last public performance was an informal jam at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho with Burdon and his latest band, War.
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In 1966 Jimi formed a band called Jimmy James and the Blue Flames and elected to sing for the first time. The band had a regular spot in Greenwich Village. One night, while they were playing at Cafe Wha?, Chas Chandler checked out the show. He had been the bass player for the Animals but was trying to form a business. Chandler was overwhelmed by Jimis performance. By the end of the set he invited Hendrix to London.
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For the next three years, Hendrix backed up many of the biggest names in R & B--the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Ike and Tina Turner, King Curtis, Sam and Dave--though he made no significant recordings. Anxious to make his own music, he settled in New York City in 1965 and by early 1966 was focusing his efforts on his own band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. They performed in the Greenwich Village folk-rock club Café Wha? for a pittance in front of a scant audience, but his astonishing command of blues, soul and rock guitar styles greatly impressed fellow musicians like Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond Jr., and a small group of cognoscenti. In September of 1966, Animals bassist Chas. Chandler, who was looking to make his mark as a manager and producer, signed Hendrix and took him to England.
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Hendrix finished his third album, called Electric LadyLand, in 1968. In this year, Chas Chandler (Hendrix’ manager) decided to leave Hendrix and so did Noel Redding. When Chandler left, Hendrix changed everything in his music. He began using different musicians and instruments. He used guitars with flutes and trombones all with distortion to get strange sounds.
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Hendrix began experimenting with different combinations of musicians and instruments, and modern electronic effects. For example, Dave Mason, Chris Wood, and Steve Winwood from the band Traffic, drummer Buddy Miles and former Bob Dylan organist Al Kooper, among others, were all involved in the recording sessions. This was one of the other reasons that Chandler cited as precipitating his departure. He described how Hendrix went from a disciplined recording regimen to an erratic schedule, which often saw him beginning recording sessions in the middle of the night and with any number of hangers-on.
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While in New York in the late summer of 1966, Hendrix played the many Greenwich Village clubs as Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. It was a performance at Cafe Wha! that was seen by Chas Chandler of The Animals that would change Jimi's life forever. Chandler was so floored by Jimi's performance that night that he immediately approached Hendrix about representing him. In September of 1966, Chandler was successful in convincing Jimi to move to England where he believed his talents would be more appreciated.
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