Jimi Hendrix - Hush Now

"These recordings were done over two days, 17 July & 8 August 1967, when for reasons unexplained Hendrix returned to Studio 76 twice in spite of an ongoing breach of contract law suit initiated by Ed Chalpin/PPX. All track titles except 'Ballad Of Jimmy', 'I Ain't Taking Care of No Business (aka No Business)' & 'Gloomy Monday' (and possibly 'Happy Birthday') are fictitious, the rest of the tracks are just segments of jam sessions that were given titles when Curtis Knight overdubbed vocals on them in 1967-68. Practically all of the date and personnel information about these sessions comes from Jimi's PPX court case deposition from 7 March 1968. Unfortunately Jimi mixes these two sessions up with each other, so it's not always clear which session he's talking about. He says there was a guitar player who's last name possibly was 'Shears' present in at least one of the sessions, and that he himself also played 12-string acoustic on occasion. Jimi maintains that he played bass and didn't do any overdubs during the 17 July 1967 session, and this is backed up by the recordings and pictures that we have - the people present match the instruments audible, there are no overdubs to be heard. It is possible that the unknown person visible in the pictures is the guitar player that Jimi recalled was named 'Shears', but this is unconfirmed. Ad Tingle ID'd the strange looking instrument that the 2nd guitar player can be seen playing in the pictures from the 17th of July session. It's a Danelectro Bellzouki 12-string semi-hollow body electric guitar (exact model number unknown). This is very likely the instrument that can be heard on the recordings and that Jimi says he also played during the course of the sessions. About the 8 August 1967 session Jimi says that he repeatedly told Ed Chalpin that he can't use Jimi's name for the recordings, again this is confirmed by available recordings. During this second session Jimi played guitar, "sometimes lead and I played sometimes melody and twelve string, I think, sometimes".