portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

JIMI 


Legendary guitarist (doesn't quite cover it somehow) traveller from another planet and stranger in a strange land . . . . . something was radically wrong towards the end, his last concert or perhaps rather his last public performance shall we say was dreadful and the last photos show a man who was seemingly desperately sad. Perhaps seriously frustrated by the lack of technology ability to keep up with the music playing in his head, I can't help but wonder that this was induced by some external force, possibly drugs and yet the central sadness is bigger than these mere mortal reasons IMHO. He had begun to hear whole symphonies in his head and was reconciling this with his ability to play what actually were amongst the best blues songs ever recorded. Suffice to say I think he began to think Voodoo Chile was his autobiography . . . . . . . . 


Born on this day: November 27, 1942 - Rock guitar icon Jimi Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, legally changed to James Marshall Hendrix). 
Happy Birthday to this legendary musician on what would have been his 76th Birthday.

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." Jimi Hendrix


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