JIMI HENDRIX • Sep 11 1970 • Final Interview
Profoundly carefree, ethnically neutral. An amazing piece
sensitive Hendrix gave England seven days before his brutal death in the hands
of his manager, Mike Jeffries, as quoted by Animals road manager Tappy Wright
in his book, Rock Roadie.
Conspiracy aside, Hendrix experienced multiple lives in a
short span and foresaw the fusion of classical symphony, blues-rock and
cocktail lounge-jazz parlayed in contemporary music. As much as he influenced music, he manipulated contemporary
speaking as well by splitting infinitives and infusing commonly used verbal
tics such as 'you know' and 'like' as a parenthesis to qualify expressions like 'in a way' or 'so to
speak'.
It is musical artistry when a sensitive and apolitical axeman
extracts several 'dive bombs' from a Stratocaster while 'fornicating' the instrument
on stage and then before setting fire to it, uncynically, telling the fledging
Black Panther to 'go kiss the sky' and 'get some gas' - classic Hendrix'
euphemisms for 'get a life'.
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