The last of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, drummer Mitch Mitchell, passed away yesterday at the age of 61. He was found in a hotel room in Portland, OR, and, while an autopsy is being done, the coroner suggests he died of natural causes. The Englishman had been drumming for the Experience Hendrix Tour, which performed Friday in Portland. It was the last stop on the West Coast part of the tour.

Hendrix died in 1970, and bassist Noel Redding in 2003, so Mitch was the last to leave us. I grew up on their music and, before I learned to play guitar, wore myself out playing air guitar and drums to their rockin' tunes. Damn. I feel like crap right now.

Swish