Rolling Stone [Indonesia] | Jimi's [Hendrix] Last Ride

I concluded reading RS1101, print version, which includes 'Jimi's Last Ride'. Wanting to share (during my read of the article I tweeted some of Jimi's intriguing comments) and apropos to my Kronos post I looked for the article online and was only able to find a partial article in Indonesian.

Fulsome presents: RS's 'Jimi's Last Ride' translated by Google. Enjoy...


+JH | RS
++Jimi Hendrix, 'Valleys of Neptune' | Spinner

Kronos Quartet | Foxey/Foxy Lady

Akin to a "beneficial mutation" this flourish of "Foxy Lady" is a piece of bizarre natural history. Contrastingly, unlike a mutation the predetermined changes, heard, in this rendition of "Foxy Lady" evokes the "wow!" factor; hence, "...when we see [hear] something spectacular or exquisite, we are typically looking at [hearing] an adaptation. And what underpins adaptation is the appearance [euphony] and spread of beneficial mutations: the process is not possible without them."

+Kronos Quartet plays Jimi Hendrix | MT

++Per SF | In the booklet for the Experience Hendrix CD, Jimi Hendrix is quoted as saying Foxy Lady was the only happy song he had ever written. He said that he usually just doesn't feel happy when writing songs.

The song title has two alternate spellings: "Foxey Lady" (for release in the US) and "Foxy Lady" (for release in the UK).

Hendrix recorded this on December 13, 1966. That same day, he made his first TV appearance on the British show Ready Steady Go. His group The Jimi Hendrix Experience had been together only 2 months at that point, but things moved very quickly - three days later, their first single, "Hey Joe" was released.


*DJ.Concept - Jimi Hendrix: A Tribute To Experience | ES

Supposed Hendrix Sex-Tape Is Offered

Left: Jimi Hendrix & inset: Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton

Per NYT by Mireya Navarro and Jeff Leeds, published: April 29, 2008:

In a twist on the recent string of sex tapes of Hollywood’s young stars, Vivid Entertainment plans to release what it says is a film from the vaults of classic rock: a sex film supposedly of Jimi Hendrix.

The film shows a naked man who resembles Hendrix, the guitar legend who died in 1970, wearing a bandanna in his Afro, having sex with two brunettes in a dimly lighted bedroom. His full face appears on screen for only a few seconds, with his eyes closed. In other portions there are flashes of his profile. But his hands, bedecked with rings, roam large on the screen at times. The film has no audio.

Vivid, a large maker of pornographic movies that is releasing the film this week, has created a 45-minute DVD, called “Jimi Hendrix the Sex Tape,” that combines 11 minutes of sex footage with a retrospective of Hendrix’s career in the 1960s (but with none of his music included).

But the identity of the man in the film, which has circulated among Hendrix aficionados for years, is fiercely disputed by experts and former associates. And the DVD arrives on the heels of a string of hoaxes involving star look-alikes and one other dead superstar

The DVD includes commentary from two women who met Hendrix and say they believe the tape is real: Pamela Des Barres, the author of “I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie” (1987), and Cynthia Albritton, better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster. Ms. Albritton is known for doing plaster casts of the genitals of rock stars, including Hendrix in 1968. (Mr. Hirsch said both women were paid for their contributions to the video but declined to be more specific.)

“I’m 100 percent sure it’s him,” Ms. Albritton, 61, said in an interview from her home in Chicago. “The facial bone structure is the same. The eyebrows and the mustache are true to the style he was wearing in 1970.”

But Kathy Etchingham, 60, one of Hendrix’s steady girlfriends during the ’60s, said via e-mail after viewing still photos from the film at the request of a reporter: “It is not him. His face is too broad and nose and nostrils too wide for Jimi. Also the hair is too low on the forehead.”

“He would never have allowed anyone to see that,” she said in a telephone interview. “In private he was very shy and would cover up.”

The film has also been dismissed by Hendrix collectors and historians. One expert said that the rings the man in the film is wearing do not resemble any he had seen in years of studying pictures and film of Hendrix. Charles R. Cross, author of the Hendrix biography “Room Full of Mirrors” (Hyperion, 2005), encountered the film during his book research. “It doesn’t add up to Jimi,” he said.

Person Cynthia Albritton

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