Flashback: Jimi Hendrix Makes History in a Colorado Hotel Room

While the most iconic performance by late guitar god Jimi Hendrix is typically credited to his set at the original Woodstock festival in 1969, the Voodoo Child performed his last show with his original solo band in Colorado and even made history in his hotel room.

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Just over a month before history would be made at the original Woodstock, many of the bands that took the stage at that legendary festival also played what was known as the Denver Pop Festival which took place between June 27 and June 29, 1969.

However, more than just a music festival took place in Denver that weekend.

A Frustrated Jimi Hendrix Makes Music History in Colorado Hotel

The hotel that we now know as the luxurious Brown Palace was once known as the Cosmopolitan and is where Jimi Hendrix stayed for the Denver Pop Festival.

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While in his hotel room, Hendrix became so furious about the now-iconic artwork for the Jimi Hendrix Experience's final album Electric Ladyland which featured 19 nude women holding photographs of the guitar god that he penned a lengthy note upon some of the hotel's stationary.

This note gave explicit instructions on how he wished the album's artwork to look, as well as the verbiage he desired inside.

Unfortunately, the Denver Pop Festival would end up being the last performance by the Jimi Hendrix Experience as Hendrix and drummer Mitch Mitchell would form Band of Gypsys to perform at Woodstock.

Check out the full story and see photos of Hendrix's actual letter written on the Denver hotel's stationary here.