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Originally Posted by vienna
Absolutely agree on Mitch Mitchell: very much one of the very best drummers in rock music.....
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Thanks Vienna for that interesting stuff. More. Supposedly Mitchell got the job with Hendrix after auditioning on a coin toss. He beat out Aynsley Dunbar who went on to play with John Mayall. In 1974, he auditioned for Paul McCartney's band Wings but lost the part to Geoff Britton in another coin toss. Now that is funny.
One of my favorite guitarists, Eric Johnson on Mitchell...
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“To me, he was a master painter because he didn’t just play drums, he painted beautiful orchestrations. Jimi Hendrix’s music would not have been the same without Mitch. The beautiful parts he wrote on ‘Manic Depression,’ ‘Little Wing,’ and ‘I Don’t Live Today,’ for example, helped make those songs what they are. He made the music swing, and many times his drum parts were as important as the guitar parts. There cannot be enough said about the magic, chemistry, and alchemy—the simpatico— that Jimi and Mitch shared, and we are all the richer for it.
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http://www.guitarplayer.com/miscella...mitchell/16928