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50 years ago today

 
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He was Murdered.
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Even Clapton was no match for him.
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Depends on what you consider music--to each his own.

I find most of Hendrix's "music" to be irritating noise. He was talented but too mentally ill to properly utilize it.
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Micky Dolenz was one of my first crushes.

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27 club..killed off by their handlers for not obeying

jimi hendrix
jim morrison
janis joplin
curt cobain
brittney murphy
amy winehouse

theres many more

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He died same day as RBG on Sept 18th.
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He was Murdered.
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By RBG?
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You betcha Tricky! show up for you and Hendrix any day. hf

How are you doing? Has life shut down there, much the same as here? It's like a ghost town.





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 Quoting: ~Sloane~

my life has not changed one bit.

not one day did i 'lock down' and 'stay home'

the flights are so cheap now people are taking advantage and we are fairly busy considering that september is the slowest month of the year.
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Thanks.my favorite band
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You betcha Tricky! show up for you and Hendrix any day. hf

How are you doing? Has life shut down there, much the same as here? It's like a ghost town.





I can't stand it anymore! dance
 Quoting: ~Sloane~

my life has not changed one bit.

not one day did i 'lock down' and 'stay home'

the flights are so cheap now people are taking advantage and we are fairly busy considering that september is the slowest month of the year.
 Quoting: thetrickybigguy


Thanks.my favorite band
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You betcha Tricky! show up for you and Hendrix any day. hf

How are you doing? Has life shut down there, much the same as here? It's like a ghost town.





I can't stand it anymore! dance
 Quoting: ~Sloane~

my life has not changed one bit.

not one day did i 'lock down' and 'stay home'

the flights are so cheap now people are taking advantage and we are fairly busy considering that september is the slowest month of the year.
 Quoting: thetrickybigguy


Thanks.my favorite band
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Fifty years ago, on Sept. 18, 1970, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix died of asphyxia while intoxicated. He was only 27 years old, and his stint as a superstar lasted less than five years, but he obviously made his indelible mark — being declared by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music” and by Rolling Stone as the greatest guitarist of all time.

And one of the first mainstream rock acts to recognize Hendrix’s greatness was the Monkees. Unfortunately, the Monkees’ young fans weren’t quite as enthusiastic when that TV band’s Micky Dolenz came up with the seemingly bizarre idea to hire Hendrix as the opening act for the Monkees’ first U.S. tour in 1967.

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thank you ttbg for remembering Jimi. Jimi was a true human being, humble, talented, smart and honest. My childhood. Grew up with the Monkees too on tv but barely remember that story but life is crazy

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I can't tell you how many times I've cranked up that album. How many decades now. Happy New Year btw.
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27 club..killed off by their handlers for not obeying

jimi hendrix
jim morrison
janis joplin
curt cobain
brittney murphy
amy winehouse

theres many more

[link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]
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Even Clapton was no match for him.
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I read in that article I linked Jimi inspired many Gibson diehards to switch to Fender Strats...
“"I killed surf!" Jimi once famously joked but he didn't half put the Strat back in business. Think about it. Before Jimi hit London, Eric Clapton was a Gibson guy. After he saw Jimi in action, he switched his allegiance to Strats. The same thing happened to Jeff Beck, Robin Trower and countless others. Curious about Rory Gallagher’s ax of choice now...
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I still think if this guy lived, Rap would never have been invented...

Blacks would have bought guitars and started rock bands...

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The reason rap did happen is because black kids were not given instruments to play in school and their parents did not buy them instruments. They were poor and to poor people, music is fluff. All they had was a turn table, so they turned that into an instrument. I've heard black kids on the streets of NYC playing drums on plastic buckets with more talent in their little finger than I have in my whole body, and I'm a professional musician who started in cello in school. I remember the kids on the streets in Washington Square Park rapping and break dancing. It was an exciting movement. NYC was broke in the 70's so there were no programs to get instruments into the hands of the poor. The Panthers were trying to enrich the black communities but that got broken up by the FBI.
They killed Jimi because he was anti war.
The 70's was full of horrible music, since the cia killed off or scared off (Dylan) anyone writing anything that had any kind of conscience to the lyrics. The good lyrics moved over to rap music. Then that got hacked and all they sing about is ho's and bling.
I'm so fortunate to have been a teen ager in the 60's when the best music we have ever heard flooded the air everywhere.
I remember when all the song writers were pressured to best each other in writing songs that said something, like Four Dead in Ohio.
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thank you for that very astute and informed post!

makes perfect sense

im a middle aged white lady deadhead and there are so many talented rap artists
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Jimi Hendrix died of asphyxia while intoxicated.
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from what i've read he drowned from having wine continuously poured down his throst. not sure who the killers were specifically.
 Quoting: guitar ace


Some say it was his manager, Mike Jeffrey. He collected 2 million on an insurance policy he had on Jimi’s life. Jeffrey also had ties to CIA cut outs.
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that's heinous if that's the case. all over some money that he easily could have made booking jimi. sounds just as plausible for removing him for being a far leftist, i didn't know that either. marley, yes it's in some of his lyrics. jimi not so much. i thought he was a fed up with it all kind of guy.
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Today, there are hundreds of people that can match him lick for lick. But, none of them did it first. Hendrix was the original. Before him nobody even thought of playing the way he did. A lot of it was done for shock value, but he was a genius with a guitar. I don't know how his music would have aged if he had lived, but as it is today, he is the man that changed music for the whole world. My kids, age 21 to 35, love Hendrix. He crossed the generation gap.

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Even Clapton was no match for him.
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I read in that article I linked Jimi inspired many Gibson diehards to switch to Fender Strats...
“"I killed surf!" Jimi once famously joked but he didn't half put the Strat back in business. Think about it. Before Jimi hit London, Eric Clapton was a Gibson guy. After he saw Jimi in action, he switched his allegiance to Strats. The same thing happened to Jeff Beck, Robin Trower and countless others. Curious about Rory Gallagher’s ax of choice now...
 Quoting: Bad Pattern


I played a Fender Mustang for years, because I couldn't afford a Strat. The early Strats are the best axe ever made.
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I still think if this guy lived, Rap would never have been invented...

Blacks would have bought guitars and started rock bands...

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The reason rap did happen is because black kids were not given instruments to play in school and their parents did not buy them instruments. They were poor and to poor people, music is fluff. All they had was a turn table, so they turned that into an instrument. I've heard black kids on the streets of NYC playing drums on plastic buckets with more talent in their little finger than I have in my whole body, and I'm a professional musician who started in cello in school. I remember the kids on the streets in Washington Square Park rapping and break dancing. It was an exciting movement. NYC was broke in the 70's so there were no programs to get instruments into the hands of the poor. The Panthers were trying to enrich the black communities but that got broken up by the FBI.
They killed Jimi because he was anti war.
The 70's was full of horrible music, since the cia killed off or scared off (Dylan) anyone writing anything that had any kind of conscience to the lyrics. The good lyrics moved over to rap music. Then that got hacked and all they sing about is ho's and bling.
I'm so fortunate to have been a teen ager in the 60's when the best music we have ever heard flooded the air everywhere.
I remember when all the song writers were pressured to best each other in writing songs that said something, like Four Dead in Ohio.
 Quoting: hollyavila


Blacks as usual with the misplaced priorities. The children were given a cheap ball by their parents and sent outside to play but music requires discipline to practice. Instruments could be gotten for ten dollars a month or from a pawn shop. I got a trumpet from Goodwill and another used from a music store. It depends on the level of commitment and supervision.
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Compared to Brahms he wasn't a virtuoso.
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Waterboarded using wine instead of water. Sedated beforehand.

R.I.P.
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he happened to appear, totally organic, where the flower power mafia magically intervened and changed the peaceful anti war protesters into lsd and drug using fools, if they actually looked at the wars that continued on...

unfortunately people are easy to sway, a one premise movement works much better - like ANTI WAR ALWAYS - would actually work, but it gets co-opted by sabateurs and they introduce contradictory and too many messages about things that are not controllable or not an issue.

THE ISSUE IS WAR. STOP WAR.
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Hendrix sucked.
Roy Clark was a better guitar player than he was.
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My sister saw him in concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1968. There was a fountain near the stage. My sister saw Jimmy jump into the fountain while still playing his eletric guitar and people were worried he might get electrocuted but he made it out okay.

Fans recall Jimi Hendrix’s 1968 Hollywood Bowl show for 50th anniversary ‘Electric Ladyland’ reissue

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just like bob Marley, Hendrix was a hard core leftist and his influence to great

he was murdered by the CIA just like bob Marley was poisoned by the CIA
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He cared about freedom, he wasn't a hard core leftist at all. He was actually a believer in the cosmic Jesus, as you can see in his poetry. The black panthers wanted him to promote them or play shows for them and he didn't want to be politicized.
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Jimi was a great soul, not an ordinary man.
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I still think if this guy lived, Rap would never have been invented...

Blacks would have bought guitars and started rock bands...

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I hear you, but as a longtime guitar player (NOT that great), rapping is MUCH easier. I don't think it would have mattered. I think rapping is popular because one can get to a certain level of competence without a lot of hard work.
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Jimi was a great soul, not an ordinary man.
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True. He was a BRIGHTLY burning candle, the kind of player that inspires guitar players to both practice, AND sometimes, to put their guitar away in disgust of their lack of talent!
"Peace in our time? All it took was everybody about to die."

“The way I see it, there’s only three kinds of people in this world. Bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect.”

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Not much on YouTube of Hendrix anymore, apparently his estate took most of it off for $$$ reasons.

Here is one that is left, and btw Hendrix later in London called this song “rubbish.” But it is one of his famous ones.

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RIP Jimi

Also 50 years ago to this day, on September 18, 2020, the anti-war anthem "War Pigs" was released by Black Sabbath.
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He played from his soul

A great inspiration



‘When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace’


Thankyou jimi


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