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Not a lot of info, but it's good to hear his speaking voice.

http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/hen ... w/2i4e6qi8

Thanks for posting that philby very cool to hear his voice!

Hard to believe that tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of his death. I remember that day...

Great interview!

Chaeya

jimmydanger wrote:Hard to believe that tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of his death. I remember that day...

You were there bro? Man, I wasn't even fertilized yet.

I was in high school, heard about it on the radio. Wasn't much of a Hendrix fan then, now I love the guy's music. Then we lost Janis, Jim Morrison, John Lennon...or was Morrison first...

Purple Haze on a transistor radio the size of a cigarette pack...now that's rock and roll...hehe... I think they played everything he ever recorded the day after he died. I know they did when Lennon died, nothing but Beatles and Lennon...all day and all night...

But I also heard Hendrix talking back then, interview on TV I think, not sure, but I saw a video too years ago at a friend's house with a couple of short interview clips. Pretty quiet, laid back guy, seemed to be actually pretty shy instead of the rock and roll animal you might expect. At times pretty spaced out too. I guess after all the acid he did I'd be spaced out too. Hmmm...I was, come to think of it...

"Purple Haze on a transistor radio the size of a cigarette pack"...& I complain about MP3's!

jimmydanger wrote:Hard to believe that tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of his death. I remember that day...

I do too. I was in junior high.

I was probably the biggest Hendrix fan in our local.

T shirts, photo LP's, I had an interview LP as well.
Loved his music. Still do.
Unfortunately his death represents a lot of what I feel is wrong with our society as a whole.
In many ways.

Damn Jim. You had it made too.

philby - Come on man, you gotta remember those...little transistor radio that fit in your shirt pocket, earbud that sounded like 2 tin cans and a string...1 1/2" speaker that wasn't much better...it even picked up AM!! I don't think FM had gotten a foothold at that time, so it was AM or nothing. The FM craze was a few years away still. Yeah I'm an old fart...

You gotta remember it though...Purple Haze...Light my Fire...Touch Me...Sookie Sookie...Spinning Wheel...Green Tambourine...Yummy Yummy Yummy (aw man I gotta go puke now)

Anyway that's what all was playing at the time, and that little radio was all I had so it was my connection to the world of rock and roll.

I remember listening to late night rock programs on one of those when I was a kid.
I had bought one of those radios, and a miniature hurricane lamp at a garage sale.




P.S. Roasting miniature marshmallows on a miniature KEROSENE lamp is a real bad idea.

Oh, I remember them well, Pete!

They were a lil before I started listening to Hendrix, though...

I think "Beach Boys," & early Beatles, & Frankie Valley & The 4 Seasons & such, when I think of them.