Jimi Hendrix trivia Options

[angrezi]

Jimi Hendrix was arrested at Toronto International Airport airport in May 1969 after customs inspectors found heroin and hashish in his luggage. Hendrix, who claimed the drugs were slipped into his bag by a fan without his knowledge, was later acquitted of the charges.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/jimihendrixmug1.html

[metamorphosis]

Yeah, he had to travel back there at some point and face the charges, it bummed him out.

More trivia...

He was ("is" for those who see him as Shaktavesha) lefty, and would just restring the guitars upside down for his playing.

I also read that no one could touch his guitars without them screaming.

If you watch the last video images of him playing live on stage, you will see that when he is done with the concert, he says his usual goodnight's and then he took his guitar off his shoulder, and just drops it to the ground, where it slammed and makes the most horrible sound, as if saying this is it!

Anymore trivia? I like this thead.

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meaning: Jimi playing with his teeth.

[angrezi]

("is" for those who see him as Shaktavesha) lefty, and would just restring the guitars upside down for his playing.

I also read that no one could touch his guitars without them screaming.

I have to admit I do. There is a fantastic interview with Dick Cavett I believe (I'll look for it on youtube), where Jimi is discussing his idea of an 'Electric Church', and discusses what he predicted will be the demise of conventional religion. He said, very Vedically I might add, that in the future no one will experience love in modern churches, and the vehicle of sound would be the main source of peoples spiritual renewal. And said his music was meant to be a conduit of love to all peoples. He was way ahead of his time, and the founder-acarya of the Electric Church where I worship on occasion.

great post meta, that was new stuff for me...

[angrezi]

I couldn't find the Hendix interview by Cavett, but for those interested here's Janis Joplins final interview 2 months before death: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18bQ3HSxB2Q

and George Prabhu speaking about Bangladesh w/ Cavett: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHDJ_A9D8A4

[metamorphosis]

I have seen that Jimi interview on Dick C.

Dick says to Jimi about his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner that is "unorthodox" (i think is the word) and Jimi looks hurt, and says that he thought it was very beautiful and wonderful version of our national anthem. But then he says something like to some it is beautiful to others not, and he flashes the Peace sign at the audience, and then turns it upside down (sign of war) and looks like he is doing bad, rascal stuff!

Trivia: he died because there was incompitent ambulance drivers who came to see him after his girl called.

he was unconcious and barfing, something that was not that unusual for him, but because he was lying on his stomach, he was fine.

the knuckle heads turned him over onto his back and on the way to the hospital, he drowned in his own vomit.

[Kalisurfer]

More Hendrix trivia:

Jimi was born Johnny Allen Hendrix in Seattle in 1942. His father, who had been away on military service at the time he was born, disliked the name and renamed him James Marshall Hendrix in 1946. Hendrix's scorched Monterey Festival Stratocaster Guitar was later restored and used by Frank Zappa. Zappa's son Dweezil put the guitar up for auction in 2002, but refused to sell for the top bid of £300,000 (more than half-a-million dollars).

Has anyone here ever seen the film "Rainbow Bridge?" I saw it in the early 70's, and it had some interesting private moments of him speaking of his sprititual thoughts, reincarnation and higher states of consciousness, all while being extremely high on many things.

I really do wonder where he would of taken his music if he lived. I remeber reading where he was experimenting on Jazz/Rock fusion sounds before he died, but I don't think any of that, if recorded, ever made it to disk.

[Kalisurfer]

I found the Hendrix interview from the film Rainbow Bridge on YouTube, and he is a lot higher than my memory remembers from seeing the film many years ago.

Jimi Hendrix- Rainbow Bridge Interview



This video is interesting because someone took some back stage footage of Hendrix and the Stones and overlaid a jam session of Hendrix, Brian Jones and Keith Richards. First time I ever heard the jam session and it’s pretty priceless stuff, too bad it could not be cleaned up and released as a CD or MP3.

Jimi Hendrix with the Rolling Stones backstage visuals w/ a Hendrix, Brian Jones, Keith Richards Jam Session overdub.

[angrezi]

I have seen that Jimi interview on Dick C.

  Dick says to Jimi about his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner that is "unorthodox" (i think is the word) and Jimi looks hurt, and says that he thought it was very beautiful and wonderful version of our national anthem. But then he says something like to some it is beautiful to others not, and he flashes the Peace sign at the audience, and then turns it upside down (sign of war) and looks like he is doing bad, rascal stuff!

Trivia: he died because there was incompitent ambulance drivers who came to see him after his girl called.

  he was unconcious and barfing, something that was not that unusual for him, but because he was lying on his stomach, he was fine.

the knuckle heads turned him over onto his back and on the way to the hospital, he drowned in his own vomit.

yeah, thats the interview meta, I forgot the part about the star spangled banner, he did look hurt.

There were some very strange circumstances surrounding his death. Some conspiritorists claim he was killed by Hoovers FBI, along with Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and a few other lesser known representatives of the counter-culture. I don't know if I believe that, but the facts of each case were indeed unusual, and those deaths happened within the span of a year and a half or so. The most suspicious thing about Hendrix's death is someone found the ambulance paramedics years later, who swore they pumped red wine from his lungs, not red wine vomit...

Below Dannemann is Monica Dannemann Hendrix's occasional girlfriend...

Phillip Harvey’s affidavit reveals that Dannemann publicly displayed violent hostility toward Hendrix on the night before his death. That cannot be discounted. Dannemann made numerous erroneous statements about her whereabouts on the morning Hendrix’s body was found. She claimed she was with him in her hotel room, but the two ambulance attendants who responded to the call stated unequivocally that no one but Hendrix was in the room, and he was dead when they arrived. Dannemann stated that "there was something coming out of his mouth," suggesting there was merely a trickle of vomit around his mouth. The ambulance attendants stated emphatically that there were pools of vomit around him. Dannemann claims she rode in the ambulance with Hendrix to the hospital and talked to the doctor who worked on him. Everyone disputes this claim. Based on this information, there is little doubt in my mind that Dannemann lied and deliberately misled people about the facts surrounding Hendrix’s death.

The violent verbal abuse Dannerman displayed toward Hendrix in front of three witnesses (Phillip Harvey, Penny Ravenhill, and Anne Day) on the night before Hendrix died strongly suggests she was involved in the murder. Regarding Michael Jeffrey, there are lots of reasons to suspect he was involved in Hendrix’s murder, Alex Constantine’s assertions notwithstanding. Jeffrey apparently booked Hendrix at the Love and Peace Festival in the Isle of Fehmarn, Germany on September 6, 1970 where a German charter of the Hell’s Angels were hired to run security and subsequently ransacked the place. How could a responsible manager allow this to happen, especially after the Hell’s Angels had killed one person outright and were responsible for the deaths of several others at the Altamont rock concert near San Francisco nine months earlier? Chas Chandler claimed Hendrix wanted him (Chandler) to replace Jeffrey as his manager. It’s odd that record producer Alan Douglas would claim Jeffrey confessed to being involved in Hendrix’s murder. Recall that Alan Douglas and his wife allowed Devon Wilson, Hendrix’s hysterical jealous girlfriend from New York, to fly with them to London,49 and the three of them stayed at the home of "pop impresario" Danny Secunda.50 Why would Douglas put Hendrix in such an awkward situation. This fact suggests that Douglas participated in a conspiracy to apply intense emotional pressure on Hendrix, giving the impression that he was emotionally distraught, thereby making it seem believable that he took his own live as Eric Burdon stated shortly after Hendrix’s death. My point is there is plenty of evidence showing that Monika Dannemann, Michael Jeffrey, Alan Douglas, the German charter of the Hell’s Angels and others were part of a conspiracy to murder Jimi Hendrix. The big question is who masterminded the conspiracy?

from here (not that I buy it all): http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/Chapter12.htm

[angrezi]

I really do wonder where he would of taken his music if he lived. I remeber reading where he was experimenting on Jazz/Rock fusion sounds before he died, but I don't think any of that, if recorded, ever made it to disk.

interesting, I didn't know that. My impression from his last official album Band of Gypsies and the musicians he was surrounding himself towards the final days was he was getting into a more soul-R&B and even gospel tinged sound. Of course BoG was recorded live with Buddy Miles; I would love to hear what he was doing in the studio then. He grew out his afro too, thank god, abandoning the stringy Einstein look he adopted (or was advised to adopt) at the launch of his solo career in England

[0Aran0]

This is an unusual sight.

[metamorphosis]

[quote=angrezi,May 18 2007, 07:50 PM]
[quote=Kalisurfer,May 18 2007, 05:12 PM] He grew out his afro too, thank god, abandoning the stringy Einstein look he adopted (or was advised to adopt) at the launch of his solo career in England

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trivia on that..........

when he and drummer mitch mitchel were auditioning for a bass player, what's his name (bass player for the experience, who did not like jimi much ever) came in, and he was sporting a wicked Perm hair doo, jimi saw it, and liked it, and that is why jimi wore the perm.

[Kalisurfer]

There is a fantastic interview with Dick Cavett I believe (I'll look for it on youtube), where Jimi is discussing his idea of an 'Electric Church', and discusses what he predicted will be the demise of conventional religion. He said, very Vedically I might add, that in the future no one will experience love in modern churches, and the vehicle of sound would be the main source of peoples spiritual renewal. And said his music was meant  to be a conduit of love to all peoples. He was way ahead of his time, and the founder-acarya of the Electric Church where I worship on occasion.

Here is the Dick Cavett interview with Herdrix talking about "the Electric Church" on YouTube.

Jimi Hendrix on the Dick Cavett show/plus performs "Hear My Train a'Comin" at the end.

[Kalisurfer]

I really do wonder where he would of taken his music if he lived. I remeber reading where he was experimenting on Jazz/Rock fusion sounds before he died, but I don't think any of that, if recorded, ever made it to disk.

interesting, I didn't know that. My impression from his last official album Band of Gypsies and the musicians he was surrounding himself towards the final days was he was getting into a more soul-R&B and even gospel tinged sound. Of course BoG was recorded live with Buddy Miles; I would love to hear what he was doing in the studio then. He grew out his afro too, thank god, abandoning the stringy Einstein look he adopted (or was advised to adopt) at the launch of his solo career in England

Angrezi, you are right about his last gigs being with the "Band of Gypsies" band, featuring Buddy Miles on drums, with their heavier soul/R&B sound when compared to his earlier "Experince" band.

Here is a paragraph from the Rolling Stone magazine bio on Hendrix and his last days.

"Hendrix died in 1970, choking on vomit follow-ing barbiturate and alcohol intoxication, at a period of seeming creative transition. He'd been moving further away from rock, alternately returning to blues, delving deeper into funk, and studying jazz fusion. The Cry of Love (1971, out of print), however, showed the master, playing with Cox and Mitchell, at his most confident: "Ezy Rider" and "Angel" are the tough and tender faces of the genius at his most appealing."

[babu]

jimi opened for the monkees only to be booed off stage as the kids were wanting the monkees

[metamorphosis]

Oh give me a break. That "Cry of Love" junk sucked so bad. I had to listen to it over and over for months as we drove a hundred miles per hour at 2 in the morning. .

Yeah, but if you look into that album, it had NOTHING to do with Jimi.

Jimi and his family lost all rights to his own music when he died, and the guy who had the rights to the stuff, put together a band to overdub the tracks left with jimi's voice, to make that album.

[angrezi]

. Hell, we should be telling him what to do.

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Darwin, all I can say to your post is that I am very, very happy you weren't there telling Hendrix what to do. It sounds like the statement of an "ISKCON thug"

[angrezi]

This is an unusual sight.

Indeed, its the only vid I ever saw him playing a 12 string

[metamorphosis]

This is an unusual sight.

Indeed, its the only vid I ever saw him playing a 12 string

I love how he ends it, "bet you did'nt think i would play that!"

That is my fav. jimi song, just after the Voodoo Chile

Trivia: he was self taught on Guitar, his first practise was playing on a broom, his dad found broom straws on the floor often.

[Kalisurfer]

Oh give me a break. That "Cry of Love" junk sucked so bad.

And his band of gypsies stuff was just the mood of heroin and alcoholism and downers.

Jimi Hendrix was a lost soul trapped in his own world. Like a man who is able to teach himself to suck his own penis he was able to connect his brain to other's brains using drugs and guitars in a way that nature did not intend. Ultimately he had no message for us but suicide or just turn the damn music off.

We had an old dog and sometimes his ear used to stink. I think he smoked cigarettes too. Hell, we should be telling him what to do.

Darwin, it sounds like you had a very, almost too long night? Your tirade against Hendrix sounds more like a Pat Robertson televangical criticism of Rock and Roll and the 60’s in general…where did this come from…who in the hell were you channeling…Jerry Falwell of ISKCON?

One should always pet the head and rub the stomach of a dog whose ear stinks and smokes cigarettes...its a Bostonian Charles River law!

[Kalisurfer]

I have just dedicated my vomiting to ISKCON straightedge hardcore music video on youtube to Jimi Hendrix.

What kind of music do you like Darwin, is it only music by people who never took drugs? You don't like straightedge though, so that can't be it...hhmmm?

Careful though, it is said that the harshest critics are mostly failed artist themselves...or at least the ones who drink tap water and never clean the ears of their dogs while ending up locked in a small apartment during the wee hours of the night with a 300 dollar video camera and a YouTube account.