Jimi Hendrix Hussar pelisse

[greeny]

Something a little different! Here is my replica of the (7th?) Hussars pelisse worn by Jimi Hendrix. I searched for years for a similar one but eventually gave up and comissioned this replica from a uniform specialist in England. He got pretty damn close I think!! Scuse me while I kiss the sky!!

 

[Adcurium]

'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.

 

[too much coffee]

Hey greeny, you gonna wear this out in public?

"drink my wine, come and dig my herb"

 

[Navin323i]

Wow... that jacket will definitely draw attention to whoever that's wearing it.

 

[TheModernLife]

Cool interview about the jacket from 1967 here, also contains the earliest known footage and sound recordings of the Experience.

 

[DBLIII]

Wow, that is nice. Great work. Yes, I bet it will sure draw attention. And it should.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Cool interview about the jacket from 1967 here, also contains the earliest known footage and sound recordings of the Experience.

Paris Olympia Oct. 18, 1966 for audio recordings.
There is footage of Jimi Hendrix, Oct. 66, hanging out with Johnny Hallyday.

 

[TheModernLife]

Ah. I was just going off of what it says on the Hendrix at Monterey DVD. Maybe they just meant the first video of the Experience playing together.

 

[captaincaveman1]

Great jacket. Like most people who have any appreciation of music I really like JH.

So is this something that sits as a display piece or do you wear in public?

 

[Cane Rod Maker]

HENDRIX

:eusa_clap
Like he said.....

Man...I'd have to slip into Electric Lady Land and lose myself for a day wearing that. Dig it man....lol

Hey greeny, you gonna wear this out in public?

"drink my wine, come and dig my herb"

 

[PoohBang]

I like it a lot. I think it's pretty close. The rope that runs through it should be thicker though....

Jimi was THE man....

 

[Stearmen]

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Cool interview about the jacket from 1967 here, also contains the earliest known footage and sound recordings of the Experience.

Fantastic jacket, always wanted one expecially when I was a kid back then! Great video, reminds you that his first album was mono, kind of like doing the Sistine Chapel in Crayon, same colors, but just doesn't cut it! Interesting that Jimi had to go to England to get recognition. On a side note, I now have respect for the Monkees who I despised back in the day! Seems they were instrumental in getting Jimi back over here. They even toured with him, whish I could have been at one of those concerts. Needless to say, he didn't go over big with the mothers of the young girl bubble gummers! He had to quit, they said it was the Daughters of the Revaluation, but they had never even heard of him, great story though!

 

[HadleyH]

'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.

well said.



hey greeny.... jacket what jacket.



I'm blind, can only hear... :eusa_clap
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[greeny]

Thanks for the nice comments. This won't be a display piece - I'll wear it! Possibly not as my everyday, go to work jacket, but certainly to events and special occassions - and on stage, of course!

 

[Edward]

Was that from Sutlers, by any chance? Beautiful jacket.... I've long been a bit tempted to do exactly the same thing myself, but given the cost measured against the slim likelihood of me earing it (though I'm sure I could get it into as steampunk outfit...).

I gather the different braiding patterns represented different ranks and branches of service. I do remember reading that it was rumoured Jimi's jacket had belonged to a doctor of Vetinary Medicine in the Hussars.... no idea how accurate that is, though. Amazing to think how old the jacket was already when Jimi started wearing it.... the guts of forty years ago, close on... Anyone know what happened to that jacket? Shy of his guitars, it surely has to be one of the most valuable pieces of Hendrix memorabilia.... arguably more iconic than any single one of his guitars, too.

 

[SGB]

Jimi in person

I have seen a lot of Jimi's clothes and guitars on display at NAMM over the years, in the Fender booth. NAMM is the North American Music Merchants Trade Show. Jimi's brother used to have a booth promoting his magazine and always sold all the t shirts at the end of the show. I have one with a pic of Jimi and his guitar, and when you press on the strings it plays a few bars of Purple Haze.
I also saw him live a few times. The first time was when he opened for the Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore in SF, before Monterey Pop. We had our chins literally on the edge of the stage. I tried to get my friends to go with me early because he was opening, and nobody knew who he was yet. We got there after he played one song but pushed our way to the front. Memorable night.

SGB

 

[Spitfire]

Wow! Somebody finally did it!
Didn't we just all want a jacket like Jimi's back then. And here is someone who just did it! Great work!

 

[Lone_Ranger]

Wow! Very nice work, on the repro!

Of course, if you really want to look cool. You'll need a matching dolman. So you can wear the pelisse, properly slung over your left shoulder! (to protect your bridle arm, of course)

 

[Edward]

I have seen a lot of Jimi's clothes and guitars on display at NAMM over the years, in the Fender booth. NAMM is the North American Music Merchants Trade Show. Jimi's brother used to have a booth promoting his magazine and always sold all the t shirts at the end of the show. I have one with a pic of Jimi and his guitar, and when you press on the strings it plays a few bars of Purple Haze.
I also saw him live a few times. The first time was when he opened for the Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore in SF, before Monterey Pop. We had our chins literally on the edge of the stage. I tried to get my friends to go with me early because he was opening, and nobody knew who he was yet. We got there after he played one song but pushed our way to the front. Memorable night.

SGB

Seeing him live must have been quite an experience... Jimi must have been like a visitor from another planet when he arrived on the scene. Just look at the live footage of the Experience in the video above.... the audience in suits and ties (bunch of squares - just like us! lol ), and Jimi being... well, Jimi. My mother saw him live in Belfast during her Uni days, about 66 or 67, I think - she's not clear on the details. Closest I've ever been were the couple of occasions I was lucky enough to get to play the Black Angel, Jimi's custom Gibson Flying Vee that he played, most famously, at the IoW festival. Being a southpaw myself, that was a big deal - not often I get to handle a guitar hero's instrument, let alone one oriented for me to play.... The Hendrix guitar I'd love to get my hands on most of all, though, is his black '68 Strat - the sister guitar to the white, so-called Woodstock Strat. It was the one he played the day he died, and reportedly was his favourite of all the instruments he ever had. If Squier put out a 68 Strat in the Classic Vibe range, I may well pick one up to Hendrix...

 

[kampkatz]

That jacket might be useful for Napoleonic period re-enactments.lol lol lol