Happy birthday Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze from the Beat Club 1967. When Tommy Bolin heard Purple Haze in 1967 in Sioux City, Iowa  he learned it immediately and wound up using it to blow open all the doors he needed to have it blow open from the fall of 1967 to late 1968 after he moved to Denver, Colorado. He never played it again in front of people once 1969 began. It actually got him to where he jammed with Jimi at an after party at “The Dog” venue after The Experience concert at Regis Col