Footnotes

• The Experience arrived in Gothenburg on 3rd January for several dates in Scandinavia. After a concert in the city that night, Jimi and Mitch went out clubbing and returned to their hotel, the Opalen, in the early hours. Around 4am, after complaints about noise, the night receptionist, Per Magnusson, let himself into Mitch's room and found almost everything in it had been damaged and Jimi himself lying on the bed with his right hand bleeding quite badly. The police were called and several officers were needed to calm Jimi down. He was handcuffed, taken to the police station and charged with damage to the hotel room. He claimed that he had not drunk a great deal but believed his drinks must have been spiked and this caused him to become agitated enough to smash the room up.
  
  After concerts in Copenhagen and Stockholm, Mitch and Noel went back to England whilst Jimi returned to Gothenburg, and on the 16th he appeared in court. He was fined 3,200 Swedish Crowns, equivalent to about £200 at the time.
  
  Literature:
  'Jimi Hendrix Electric Gypsy', Harry Shapiro & Caesar Glebbeek, William Heinemann Ltd., 1990, pps. 238-240.
  'The Hendrix Experience', Mitch Mitchell & John Platt, Pyramid Books, 1990, p. 86.

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