Cheers
Give a Cheer
Give a Cheer
I am not a Jimi Hendrix fan. There is no doubt in my mind that he was a very talented guitarist, but his music style was too drug induced for my taste. That said...
In late 1969 or early 1970 (shortly after the famed concert at Woodstock) a similar event was held in Miami without the drugs (or they weren't obvious) and the event lasted only one day. And it was a very tame event compared to Woodstock. Many of the same performers or bands were there. Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane were two of the scheduled performers and I cannot remember who else was on the program. Judy, one of my sorority sisters, and I arrived bright and early. We got a spot very close to the stage and proceeded to spread out our blanket and pull out our cooler and soft drinks and our sticks of incense. We were all set.
We were really enjoying the program until this large man came and sat on our blanket with us, helped himself to our incense and started flirting with us. I told him very clearly, "This is our blanket and we did not invite you to join us so you really need to leave." He asked us, "Do you know who I am?" I told him, "No, and it doesn't matter, you can not sit on our blanket!" He told us he was Jimi Hendrix. I told him I didn't care who he was - he would have to find somewhere else to sit.
After about 15 minutes of getting completely frustrated because he wouldn't leave us alone it was announced that Jimi Hendrix would be performing next and everyone started applauding wildly! I'll be darned if he didn't get up off our blanket and walk up to the stage.
To this day, I still laugh about throwing Jimi Hendrix off our blanket and refusing to talk to him! However, if I had realized who he was it wouldn't have mattered, I still found him rude and arrogant and didn't want him on our blanket!
"Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in musical history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era.
After initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival where he gave a 2-hour performance. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.
Hendrix won many of the most prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime, and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in 1994. Rolling Stone Magazine named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time in 2003.
Hendrix got into trouble with the law twice for riding in stolen cars. He was given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the Army. Hendrix chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961. After completing basic training, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. His commanding officers and fellow soldiers considered him to be a substandard soldier: he slept while on duty, had little regard for regulations, required constant supervision, and showed no skill as a marksman. For these reasons, his commanding officers submitted a request that Hendrix be discharged from the military after he had served only one year. Hendrix did not object when the opportunity to leave arose.
Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London. He had spent the latter part of the previous evening at a party and was picked up by a girlfriend and driven to her flat at the Samarkand Hotel on Notting Hill. Dannemann, the girlfriend claimed in her testimony that once at her apartment, Hendrix, unknown to her, had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping pills. The normal medical dose was half a tablet, but Hendrix was unfamiliar with this very strong German brand. Autopsy showed his death a result of asphyxiation and an overdose on the sleeping pills mixed with red wine.
Hendrix is widely known for and associated with the use of psychedelic drugs, most notably lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Amphetamines are also recorded as being used by Hendrix during tours along with smoking cannabis. He was notorious among friends and bandmates for sometimes becoming angry and violent when he drank too much; he beat one girlfriend while drunk with a public telephone handset and beat another until with a liquor bottle until she required stitches. Alcohol was also cited as the cause of Hendrix's 1968 rampage that badly damaged a Stockholm hotel room and led to his arrest.
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