Nov 14 2008
Mitch Mitchell, Drummer for Jimi Hendrix, Dead at Age 62
The final surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, drummer Mitch Mitchell, passed-away Wednesday:
Mitch Mitchell, the jazzy and versatile British drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, died Wednesday in a hotel in Portland, Oregon. He was 62 and had recently finished a national tribute tour, Experience Hendrix.
The cause was unknown, said Bob Merlis, a publicist for the tour.
Mitchell was one of two Englishmen in the Experience, the group that catapulted Hendrix to fame in the late 1960s.
Along with the bassist Noel Redding, who died in 2003, Mitchell was recruited in a rush in the fall of 1966, after the journeyman Hendrix had been discovered in a New York club and whisked to London by Chas Chandler of the Animals.
Rest in peach Mitch. I can only imagine the reunion tour that is happening in heaven right now.
