Jimi Hendrix Experience (Official Thread)

[E-Z]

As a lifelong Hendrix fan of about 45 years since 1980 down the years I have thought and read a lot about Jimi's life and music and in particular his death in London in September of 1970 at the age of 27 (I was 13-years old at the time and remember it being announced of the television) anyway recently I re-read a book that I originally bought back in 1997 and called HENDRIX THE FINAL DAYS by author Tony Brown (now deceased) and after changing my mind several times in the past about how Jimi died after re-reading this book HENDRIX THE FINAL DAYS again recently I have changed my mind once again and now believe that it was quite possibly suicide. In HENDRIX THE FINAL DAYS book Jimi apparently took 9-sleeping tablets of a 'strong' German brand of sleeping tablets that belonged to Monika Daneman a German ice skater that Jimi spent his last night with and apparently the sleeping tables that Jimi took were to be broken into two halves and taken as a 'half-tablet' because they were 'strong' so by Jimi taking 9-tables plus along with a short written verse that that Jimi had wrote and was left at the bedside called "The story of life" and ending by saying "The story of life is hello and goodbye until we meet again" what conclusion can you assume??.

On the other hand in a later interview conducted in the mid-1990s and given by one of the doctors who attended to Jimi at the hospital on September 18th 1970 when he was brought in he claimed that Jimi had been died 'for hours' in his opinion and was 'covered in red wine' including with his hair being 'matted in the wine' plus his blood alcohol level was strangely 'low' after supposedly drinking so much wine and in fact he had actually 'drowned' in drinking so much wine something that one rarely saw plus he said that it looked like someone had 'poured the red wine over his lifeless body'??. Anyway along with Jimi swallowing 9-'stong' sleeping tablets and with his body appearing to have had wine poured over it some people think it could have been a underworld 'hit job' by someone who wanted him 'off the scene' so his death will probably remain a mystery forever??.

 

[dr wu]

In actual fact ,red wine on him or not, he aspirated his own vomit meaning it was found in his lungs.
As we know if you swallow water or food it causes a huge coughing jag and trouble breathing... etc...so if he was half out of it and got vomit in his lungs suffocation follows.
Not sure why someone in the underworld would want him dead...but people love conspiracy crap especially when famous people die.

 

[E-Z]

In actual fact ,red wine on him or not, he aspirated his own vomit meaning it was found in his lungs.
As we know if you swallow water or food it causes a huge coughing jag and trouble breathing... etc...so if he was half out of it and got vomit in his lungs suffocation follows.
Not sure why someone in the underworld would want him dead...but people love conspiracy crap especially when famous people die.

Mike Jeffries Jimi's then manager was supposed to have had 'underworld connections' and Jimi's management contract with Jeffries was up for renewal in December of 1970 but Jimi wasn't wanting to stay with Jeffries and because Jeffries had a 2.MILLION pounds insurance contract out on Jimi Jimi was unfortunately worth a lot of money to Jeffries if he wasn't around anymore and he could collect the 2. MILLION in insurance money on Jimi as opposed to Jimi just signing with someone else.

 

[dr wu]

Mike Jeffries Jimi's then manager was supposed to have had 'underworld connections' and Jimi's management contract with Jeffries was up for renewal in December of 1970 but Jimi wasn't wanting to stay with Jeffries and because Jeffries had a 2.MILLION pounds insurance contract out on Jimi Jimi was unfortunately worth a lot of money to Jeffries if he wasn't around anymore and he could collect the 2. MILLION in insurance money on Jimi as opposed to Jimi just signing with someone else.

Interesting 'story',,,,,do we have a link to a piece of solid investigation or do we know if Jeffery ( or Jeffrey...?) ever got that money? Also interesting that not long after all this stuff went down(3yrs?) that Jeffery disappeared in a plane crash.
As I said people love to tell conspiracy tales for fun and profit....and much of this stuff was from a roadie of all things who was selling a book . Not a reliable source imho. But it makes for exciting reading and posting on forums.
The whole story and then some

Skeptoid: Was Jimi Hendrix’s death a case of insurance fraud?

Forty-three years after his death, Jimi Hendrix is still considered one of the most influential guitarists in the history of rock and roll. Despite a short career of only four years, he permanently ...

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Wiki also has info on this under 'Death Of Jimi Hendrix'...from that:
In 2009, a former roadie for the Animals, James "Tappy" Wright, published a book which claimed that Hendrix's manager, Mike Jeffery, admitted to him that he had Hendrix killed because Hendrix wanted to end his management contract with Jeffery.[109] In 2011, Bob Levine, Wright's long-term business associate and Jeffery's assistant manager in New York, said Wright made up these stories to sell his book."

 

[E-Z]

Yeah I am aware of "Tappy" Wrights book although I have never read it but I am aware of his comments regarding Mike Jeffries alleged remarks about Jimi's death. To be honest the whole business regarding Jimi's death is a mystery some 54 years on from when he actually died back in September 1970. The question that all fans ask themselves is what would he achieved in recording if he had lived even for another 5 or 10 years??.

 

[dr wu]

...... The question that all fans ask themselves is what would he achieved in recording if he had lived even for another 5 or 10 years??.

I like Cry of Love which seemed to be the direction he was heading though some fans dont think it was as 'heavy' as the earlier music. I think he would have stayed in the rock and blues genre but who knows...?

 

[E-Z]

I like Cry of Love which seemed to be the direction he was heading though some fans dont think it was as 'heavy' as the earlier music. I think he would have stayed in the rock and blues genre but who knows...?

The same here dr.wu I actually really like the Cry of Love album and I still play it quite often (the cd version) compared to his 3-other studio albums.

With regards to The Cry of Love album apparently the songs Dolly Dagger & Room full of Mirrors were both originally earmarked for the album but Mike Jeffries Jimi's manager blocked that idea and kept those two songs back to go on the Rainbow Bridge album later in 1971 (the follow up album to the Cry of Love album) and along with Earth Blues, Pali Gap, The Star Spangled Banner (studio version) Look Over Yonder a older track from 1968, the live version of Hear My Train A-Comin from Berkley community centre May 1970 and Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun) those tracks became the Rainbow Bridge Original Sound Track album.

Personally I am not bothered about his stuff not being "heavy" for example two songs on The Cry of Love album My Friend & Belly Button Window which are just Jimi singing and accompanying himself on guitar sound great to me along with the more gentler songs on The Cry of Love album such as Drifting & Angel and by the way Rod Stewart and his band covered Angel which 'paled in comparison' to Jimi's version although Rod had a UK hit single with his cover version back in 1972 with the song.

 

[dr wu]

I still have Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge lps on original vinyl....though not played them in quite a while....but always liked them.
It really is a shame that he wasn't able to flesh out more lps around that time before passing on.

 

[E-Z]

I still have Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge lps on original vinyl....though not played them in quite a while....but always liked them.
It really is a shame that he wasn't able to flesh out more lps around that time before passing on.

With regards to Jimi's vinyl albums yeah me to I had all his studio and the posthumous albums originally on vinyl myself actually and prior to Jimi's family taking control of all Jimi's recorded legacy (Experience Hendrix) back in the middle 1990s I use to actually like picking up the Curtis Knight albums and Lonnie Youngblood albums that Jimi played on plus several other obscure albums that he also appeared on that were still around in record shops during the 1970s & 1980s mainly because those albums often had a 'good' picture of Jimi on the album cover even though it may have been material recorded when Jimi was a 'sideman' to the main artist between 1963-1966 prior to him arriving in London in September of 1966 and the birth of The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Here are a few of the obscure albums titles that I had on vinyl back in the 1980s that were freely available back then in HMV and Virgin shops with Jimi playing on them either when he was a 'sideman' or after he became famous-

1. High, Live & Dirty taken from a bootleg recording from the Scene club in New York in early 1968 and featuring on side 2 Jim Morrison of The Doors totally drunk on stage.
2. Free Spirit material recorded circa 1964 which is half a dozen extended jams and are very listenable (to me)
3. Cosmic Turnaround material 'supposedly' recorded when Jimi was an obscure sideman possibly recorded circa 1964-65 but it's ok (to me)
4. Kaleidoscope similar to 'Cosmic Turnaround' material 'supposedly' featuring Jimi and recorded when Jimi was an obscure sideman but again it's ok (to me)
5. The Best of Jimi Hendrix Volumes 1, 2 & 3 vinyl albums, these albums are also known as the 'Mike Ephron jams' that were recorded at Woodstock in up state New York in August 1969 but before you all get excited about them all it is is Jimi along with Juma Sultan on conga drums and Mike Ephron on a rudimentary keyboard and I think he also plays a flute?. The same picture of Jimi circa early 1969 adorns all three of these albums although to call these x3 albums "The Best of Jimi Hendrix" is pushing it a bit??.

The Japanese released a number of obscure vinyl albums in the UK back in the 1980s with nice pictures of Jimi on the front cover with usually either a picture of him from either the 1969 or 1970 era.