Mitch Mitchell: where you going with that drum in your hand?

I only met Mitch Mitchell once, a few years back, in a bar. He was somewhat inebriated and talked fairly incessantly about the Jimi Hendrix Experience with a mixture of love and bitterness (the love was for Jimi, the bitterness towards the Hendrix estate). I suspect this was not an unusual occurrence. But he was good company, and it was a pleasure just to meet a man who had been in the engine room of some of the greatest rock records ever made.

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