News about Jimi Hendrix

[Bullwinkle J Moose]

Not that it changes the fact that he was a genius guitar innovator, but it is just a footnote to his short life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4730547.stm

Hendrix 'quit army with gay lie'

Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay so he would be discharged from the army, according to claims in a biography that has used his military medical records.

The rock legend said he left the 101st Airborne Division aged 19 in 1962 after being injured on a parachute jump.

But Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R Cross says army records show he was discharged for "homosexual tendencies".

Mr Cross says Hendrix had a legendary appetite for women - he even had an affair with actress Brigitte Bardot.

But he had told a base psychiatrist at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, he had fallen in love with a fellow soldier, the book claims.

No Vietnam objections

Mr Cross says the star enlisted in the US army to avoid being sent to jail after being arrested in stolen cars in his home town of Seattle.

He did not leave because of objections to the US role in Vietnam, but simply because he wanted to play music, according to the biography.

Hendrix avoided being sent to Vietnam and concentrated on music, becoming one of rock's most revered guitarists.

He became a star in 1966 with psychedelic rock hits such as Hey Joe and Purple Haze, and a legendary live performance.

Room Full of Mirrors is being published to mark the 35th anniversary of his death from a sleeping pill overdose in London in 1970.

[Kevin108]

Purple haze indeed.

[Sum1_special]

I must have heard this a thousand times.

I said it once and I will say it again:

WHO CARES?

[Bullwinkle J Moose]

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[micah]

Breaking news about Jimi Hendrix:


still dead. Film at 11.

[Soujurn]

US Troops were not deployed to Vietnam (other than SF and other special ops advisors), until 1965.
Hendrix would not have been sent to Vietnam until July of '65 at the earliest (assuming he remained in the 101st).
And he would have had to reinlist because his hitch would have been up before they were deployed.
So saying he avoided Vietnam is kind of misleading.

[Bullwinkle J Moose]

Originally posted by Soujurn
US Troops were not deployed to Vietnam (other than SF and other special ops advisors), until 1965.
Hendrix would not have been sent to Vietnam until July of '65 at the earliest (assuming he remained in the 101st).
And he would have had to reinlist because his hitch would have been up before they were deployed.
So saying he avoided Vietnam is kind of misleading.
Many people not alive then may not realize your point due to their lack of historical knowledge (and perhaps even the author). In fact it didn't even register with me until you pointed it out. I'm getting old is my excuse. ;f Some that were alive then may choose to ignore the fact, since a lot of hawks of that era were and still may be POed at his cover of the Star Spangled Banner. They thought it an insult to their patriotism. ;g

[costanza187]

Originally posted by micah
Breaking news about Jimi Hendrix:


still dead. Film at 11.

Yes, I see, well let us know if his condition changes...












Remember that movie Top Secret?? Kind of a movie quote there

[rhikdavis]

Originally posted by costanza187
Yes, I see, well let us know if his condition changes...

I thought he was with Elvis and Tupac in Milwaukee.











Remember that movie Top Secret?? Kind of a movie quote there