Fwd: [Harp-L] Re: What are your Jimi Hendrix moments?

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From: mjmeadors@xxxxxxx
To: drfertig@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 9:52 am
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: What are your Jimi Hendrix moments?


68-69 i think it was
Tampa
opening act:? Vanilla Fudge

Hendrix came on, didn't like his sound, screwed around with it for about 3 songs
the crowd wasn't happy about it
he shot everyone a bird and walked off stage

hail hail rock and roll

m


-----Original Message-----
From: David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 3:55 pm
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: What are your Jimi Hendrix moments?



What a bunch of interesting stuff on Jimi.  I came to Hendrix from the 
blues-folk scene, so it wasn't instant, but I soon became enthralled by his 
magical, soulful sound.  

What bugged me was all the destruction of good instruments and amps!  I thought 
only silly white post-adolescent rockers did that silly and wasteful thing!  
Burning and smashing good gear!?  Yikes!

One of Jimi's last concerts, in Baltimore, 'summer of 71, he was so wasted, he 
knelt over the guitar, spraved ronsonol all over it, but by the time he got the 
match lit, the fluid had evaporated and he keeled over, inert.  They hauled him 
offstage, he returned and almost finished the lackluster set.  Buddy Miles was 
not happy.  but the Strat was saved!

"We" demand so much of our artists, sometimes they simply exhaust themselves on 
all levels.  

-Dave Fertig
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