40th Anniversary of Jimi's Death

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Listen to HENDRIX LOUD!

[Droombolus]

Sorry m8, but I've got XTC's English Settlement blasting out of the speakers right now .......... 

[Highlander]

one that got away... he would have been 67...

Wow... it really is 40 years...

I wonder what he would be doing had he lived... Jazz or Blues... we'll never know...

[Hornisse]

[OldManC]

Saw this today. Jimi's last interview:

http://tiny.cc/Jimis_Last_Interview

[Chaser001]

I was already listening to "The Wind Cries Mary."  I didn't know it was the 40th anniversary of Jimi's death, though.

[Chaser001]

The shocked expression on that girl's face in the audience toward the end is amusing.  Obviously, seeing someone burn his guitar on stage was not something she had quite bargained for. 

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

I was already listening to "The Wind Cries Mary."  I didn't know it was the 40th anniversary of Jimi's death, though.

Coool!

I had just finished the 10th grade when I saw Jimi at Devonshire Downs in Northridge on Friday, June 20th, 1969 --kicking off a Summer of TRIPPING & I had just started my senior year after dropping acid once a week all Summer long in 1970-I even took acid my first day back to school Ha Ha & ran out of school to listen to him & get stoned when I was told on Sept. 18th, 1970 that Jimi had died.

Electric Ladyland hit Number One in America altho it's a Double Album!!
What a FANTASTIC album it was & still is!

He would have released another masterpiece Double Album for Christmas in '70 but instead it took a year for a single album to be released--Cry of Love.
The songs on that album were so DEEEEEP & full of LIFE it was AMAZING to us back then.
Study these songs & you'll see where he was heading....

Ezy Ryder:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBF1fERpoAAA

Ironically "DYING to be loved" & "trying to find his HEAVEN above"

FREEDOM:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcmCtPdsU84

This concert was filmed at the Isle of Wight just before Jimi died in London.

"FREEDOM---So I can LIVE
FREEDOM--So I can give"

I often wonder how many hundreds or even thousands of recordings Jimi would have been involved in if he was still with us.
He LOVED to play! He LOVEd to JAM!
Many of his friends & associates said that the best music they ever heard was performed on small stages & at parties when Jimi was JAMMIN'!

AMAZING how more recordings & info & pics keep surfacing....
Like this Muddy Waters cover from '64:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ZDNhO03Nk&NR=1


ROCK ON with HENDRIX!!!!

When Jimi died we knew that the 60s were over.
So was the whole Psychedelic Era that he was the KING of.

...but I kept dropping acid weekly for another year or 3. ha haaa haaaaa

I had a beautiful dream a few years ago.

I was walking down the street & Jimi pulled up in a white limo, dressed in white & with a white double bass drumkit set up in the back.
He & the car & the drums were all glowing like it was a spiritual vision.
He said "Come on! We've gotta get to the gig!"

My birthday is the same as Mitch Mitchell's--July 9th.
Saw him perform once with a Hendrix Tribute band on our birthday in the mid-80s.
Met him too!
Met him again in Hollywood in the early 90s at a bar & talked a long time.
I'd just read his biography Inside The Experience & knew what questions to ask.
Sad that Mitch is gone now too

I never got to meet Jimi. Alas
Still consider him a dear friend tho.

I wrote this song a year ago but still haven't recorded it:

Blues for Jimi


Well I will always remember
that sad day in September
I said I will always remember
that sad, sad day in September
When they told us.....
Jimi Hendrix is dead.


I ran out of school, got in my car & drove
Blastin' Jimi's great songs & music real LOUD!
I just RAN outa school, got in my car & drove
Blastin' Jimi's great songs & music on my 8 track stereo
Not knowing where to go
Not caring where I went.
Went to my connection, told him I needed something for my head.
I told him....with tears rollin' down my face.....
Jimi Hendrix is dead!


He put on Electric Ladyland & broke out his very best stash
We sat at his table rollin' spliff after spliff
While his Foxey Lady brought us drinks.
We got tore up & then we got tore down
We just couldn't believe....our good friend was no longer around
We smoked some Acapulco Gold & some Panama Red
We sat there fryin' & cryin'....
Jimi Hendrix is dead!


Decades later...the tears are still rollin' down
Playin' the Blues for our dear ol' friend Jimi
In a way he's still around. Yeah~ He's still around!
He's been with me more than most of my friends have over the years
Celebratin' when I'm up---& soothin' me with the Blues when I'm down


Waaaay ahead of his time....& yet the time was so right
Experimentation was in the air.....we all grew long hair
Pot an' LSD made music sound so gooood
We'd get together with our friends 'most every night
If that was wrong...we really didn't care
We'd blast Jimi's songs & music so LOUD & feel so FREE!
We thought that's how it would always be


Couldn't believe it when he stood onstage before us
Blowin' in the Wind.....Blowin' our minds!!!!
With a red bandana on his head
But before we even became adults....
Jimi Hendrix was dead.


Noel & Buddy are gone now tooo


No, no no.....He ain't really gone
In his songs & music he will live on....
He's been with me more than most of my friends have over the years
Excuse me...while I kiss the sky & wipe away my tears
I feel so weary when I feel my age...I'm driven to my bed
I hate to think....
Jimi Hendrix is dead. ....or is he?
Wish he could still be here.
Ah~ he can be. Just put on his great music
...& let it fill your ears.
Let it fill your heart.
Jimi LIVES!
Still REIGNIN', Still Dreamin'

Gotta add to the song that Mitch is gone now too

Still LOVE those fuggers!! They REVOLUTIONIZED ROCK!!
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[Chaser001]

Those are really good lyrics you came up with.  That describes the situation perfectly.  All I can say is that if I had to go into exile and take the music of only one band with me, it would definitely be the JHE.  This is in spite of the fact that I also think Cream's music is brilliant. 

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Thanks, Chaser!

Jimi inspired so many guys to play guitar but he also inspired every other musician & singer/songwriter on the planet....& probly some other planets too! heh

Jack Bruce went home & wrote Sunshine of Your Love after attending a Hendrix concert!

Can't say enuf about him on this sad day. I've been crying & crying.

Dug out all my Hendrix cds from storage today.
They've been in the back of my 10x25 space for a year!
Feeels SOooo goooood to hear all his great stuff again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pilgrim]

Hendrix was one of the greats as a performer.  A friend of mine went to high school with him in Seattle and said he didn't bathe very often.  I considered him one of that "front, outer fringe" of performers in the 60's.  I was surprised by his death but wasn't broken up about it.  Never met the guy.

[Chaser001]

I never took seriously the theory that Jimi Hendrix might have been murdered.  But this article presents some interesting facts.



http://www.thewrap.com/media/blog-post/man-who-murdered-jimi-hendrix-20964

[Dave W]

I never took seriously the theory that Jimi Hendrix might have been murdered.  But this article presents some interesting facts.



http://www.thewrap.com/media/blog-post/man-who-murdered-jimi-hendrix-20964

I wouldn't assume anything in that article is factual. It's wild speculation on top of supposed events that aren't corroborated by anyone else.

[Chaser001]

I found that article completely by accident while I was trying to look up something else.  I'm not really too interested in Hendrix's death, but I am researching some other stuff related to Hendrix strictly for my own purposes.  In case I do find anything else which may be significant, I'll post it.  Personally, I still do believe he most likely died of an accidental drug overdose.  But if anyone has anything credible to disprove that, I'll read it. 

[uwe]

If Jimi hadn't died in September 1970, he'd have died under pretty much the same circumstances a week, a fcouple of months or a few years later. He was an addictive personality and threw anything into him he got his hands on. Given the mindset of the late sixties, early seventies, there were not enough people or institutions there to take care of him as if this happened today. Looking ta him on pics during his last months, he did not look like he would have made it for another ten years to finally visit Betty Ford in the early eighties. He had it coming, ooohooo that smell, as Lynyrd Skynrd once sang.