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

[David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>]

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