# Help clear up my purple haze **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 23, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960 "2000-10-23T13:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960/1 "2000-10-23T13:13:48Z")
For reasons that shall remain mine alone, I need to find out information about Jimi Hendrix’ drummer. I don’t actgually know if he had more than one in his career, but I could definitely use some pointing in the right direction to find out where I can go to learn some more. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960/2 "2000-10-23T13:35:13Z")
The drummer with the Jimi Hendrix Experience was Mitch Mitchell, and with the Band of Gypsies (i.e. post-Woodstock) it was Buddy Miles. If that is any help. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960/3 "2000-10-23T13:35:55Z")
The drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience was Mitch Mitchell, but I don’t know much about him. Just a little trivia, I’ve heard he tried to get the job drumming for The Who (before Keith Moon came along) but was rejected. I thought he was great with Hendrix, though. I’m sure you can find a bunch if you search on his name. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960/4 "2000-10-23T13:51:09Z")
Here is what appears to be [Buddy Miles’ own website](http://www.buddymiles.com/index.html), and here is an [unofficial Mitch Mitchell site](http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/mitch). ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960/5 "2000-10-24T10:08:36Z")
Is it me, or are there two verions of this thread? ---
**Author:** ![monart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@monart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monart)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960/6 "2000-10-24T10:47:54Z")
Mitch wrote a book on the Experience [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306808188/qid=972384250/sr=1-2/102-1907915-2379365](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306808188/qid=972384250/sr=1-2/102-1907915-2379365) ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960/7 "2000-10-24T13:18:24Z")
Thanks all. That’s quite the good start you have set me off with. I appreciate it. And there may be two versions of this thread. I tried to start it once, but it never posted and the computer froze. I looked for it before reposting but didn’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-clear-up-my-purple-haze/37960/8 "2000-10-24T17:17:49Z")
Uh…you mean [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=43333)?