Jimi Hendrix's estate preemptively sues the estates of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell

The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Jimi Hendrix's estate, Experience Hendrix, LLC, has preemptively sued the estates of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell – bassist and drummer of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, respectively – countering any future lawsuits in which the latter estates may attempt to claim historic royalties.

The lawsuit follows a letter received in December by Sony Music – through which The Experience's music is distributed – from British attorney Lawrence Abramson, which claimed the label owed the Redding and Mitchell estates performance royalties for around 3 billion streams of the band's material.

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Sam Roche

Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.