The Guitar God Jimi Hendrix died 40 years ago today, post your thoughts or feelings of his amazing guitar playing and life. Hendrix spent most of the early afternoon and evening of September 14 discussing his career plans with the record producer Alan Douglas. 6. It was just revealed by the Hendrix estate, that despite the well publicized report that Jimi Hendrix died on September 18, 1970, he actually died one day earlier, but due to contractual obligations and being the ultimate showman, Jimi performed one final concert after his … Jimi KILLED it to the point Eric dropped his guitar and lit a cigarette with shaking hands. In the early morning hours of September 15, he went to London's Heathrow Airport with Douglas, who was returning to New York. When Jimi Hendrix first arrived on the shores of Britain in 1966, with a guitar slung over his back and all the talent in the world in his case, there was … Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. He really was a God. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Day I Killed God. Jimi started playing Killing Floor, which was a song Eric liked but couldn't play. Jimi Hendrix with the Rolling Stones / Rocks Off Message Board - Thanks Albert Maysles! This episode was great and he also had George Harrison, John Lennon, so many great and interesting people on. It sees Eric Clapton remember the night Jimi Hendrix died and reveals the gift he had planned to give him that night. Jimi Hendrix paid his dues on the Chitlin’ Circuit by the time Linda Keith saw him play at a club in New York City. Jimi was on stage with Cream, which was unthinkable for any guitar player to do at the time because Clapton was God. - Duration: 8:56. gliedo 11,645,883 views Hendrix's confidante Sharon Lawrence was in London, and spoke with him that day. Hendrix had arrived exhausted, by the previous month’s events, the upcoming tour, the day’s violence and by walkie-talkie voices that somehow made their way into the PA system. HENDERSON county Deputy Ryan Hendrix has died following a grisly shootout over an alleged car break-in. Re: Jimi Hendrix died 50 years ago today BTW The Dick Cavett show was the bomb back in the day. Now in the place where God was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid God there. In the autumn of 1966 Jimi Hendrix first arrived in London.Eric Clapton was already well-established, and was currently fronting the band Cream.What happened the night Hendrix and Clapton met shook the very foundations of London’s blues-rock scene. So they took the body of God and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 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