I just wanted to honor the alltime greatest guitar player who passed away on today's date (9-18-70). Too bad he left so early. Any comments, favorite songs or video clips you want to share?
"I am the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to." James Marshall Hendrix 11/27/42 to 9/18/70
2006-09-18 07:22:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
voodoo chile........ by far the greatest in my book.
and to quote another song...... from another group.
"if i cant live my own,,,, i'd feel better dead."
jimi would approve.
2006-09-18 07:30:41 · answer #1 · answered by steelmadison 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the early morning hours of September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix was found dead in the basement flat of the Samarkand Hotel at 22 Lansdowne Crescent in London. Hendrix died amid circumstances which have never been fully explained, and the exact details of his death will probably never be confirmed. He had spent the night with his German girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, and likely died in bed after drinking wine and taking nine Vesperax sleeping pills, then asphyxiating on his own vomit. For years, Dannemann publicly claimed that Hendrix was alive when placed in the back of the ambulance; however, her comments about that morning were often contradictory and confused, varying from interview to interview. Police and ambulance reports reveal that not only was Hendrix dead when they arrived on the scene, but he had been dead for some time, the apartment's front door was wide open, and the apartment itself empty. Following a libel case brought in 1996 by Hendrix's long-term British girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, Monika Dannemann allegedly took her own life.
A sad poem written by Hendrix that was found in the apartment has led some to believe that he committed suicide. More speculative is the belief that Hendrix was murdered—forcibly given the sleeping pills and wine, then asphyxiated with a scarf by professionals hired by manager Michael Jeffery. The most accepted and credible theory, however, is that he simply misjudged the potency of the sleeping pills, and asphyxiated in his sleep due to an inability to regain consciousness when he vomited.
Reports that Hendrix's tapes of the concept album Black Gold had been stolen from the London flat are in fact wrong: the tapes were handed to Mitch Mitchell by Jimi at the Isle of Wight Festival three weeks prior to his death. Hendrix's Greenwich Village apartment, however, was indeed plundered by an unknown series of vandals who stole numerous personal items, tapes, and countless pages of lyrics and poems, some of which have resurfaced in the hands of collectors or at auctions.
2006-09-18 07:29:22 · answer #2 · answered by Scotty 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was a great guitar player. Once again drugs take a life way before there time.
2006-09-18 07:26:53 · answer #3 · answered by Harry W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought they were doing a movie on him. I saw a made for tv movie last year i believe, i thought it was excellent.... i thought the intention was to get lenny kravitz to play in it...
hopefuly he's resting in piece and was finally able to escape his demons
2006-09-18 07:31:46 · answer #4 · answered by Tyana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drug OD Together with alcohol
2006-09-18 07:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by ianforty3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An overdose.
2006-09-18 07:37:41 · answer #6 · answered by Angel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why .....because he like so many in that generation lost a battle with drugs and alcohol.
2006-09-18 07:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by xtreme_mousey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He drowned in his own vomit due to drug overdose.
2006-09-18 07:31:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
damn man those drugs. he will always be my favorite musician
2006-09-18 07:31:32 · answer #9 · answered by Silent 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drugs man, he was cool...
2006-09-18 07:29:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋