Legendary Producer Eddie Kramer Remembers JIMI HENDRIX
October 15, 2008, 16 years ago
On October 16, 1968, THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE released their third and final album, Electric Ladyland. To commemorate 40 years of Electric Ladyland, MusicRadar presents Jimi Hendrix Week.
MusicRadar: To start, MusicRadar presents the memories of Jimi Hendrix's right-hand man in the studio, the legendary producer/engineer Eddie Kramer. What was Jimi really like behind the wild man of rock image?
"He was great. He was one of the funniest guys I ever worked with, too. He was always taking the piss out of me, Mitch [Mitchell, drums] and Noel [Redding, bass], and himself. He had a lot of self-deprecating humour. And he was fast. He had an acerbic sense of humour – very cutting. Besides that, he was a very shy guy and he could only open up to you once he trusted you. I got as close as I could – as close as anybody could – in a working relationship. He trusted me, and I admired him and what he did so much that I was just really happy to be part of the crew."MusicRadar: Does that mean Jimi deliberately cut himself off from others when he wasn't working?
"Well, he was very private in that sense. His private life was his private life. I wasn't involved in that. This was a man who kept himself to himself… although he did have lots of girlfriends. He had a very active social life! My relationship with him stopped outside the studio door, to a certain degree."Read more here.
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