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'.

Words - Tommy Peters
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