Jimi Hendrix

[c.j.jaxxon]

Thanks for giving us info on his business side. Just goes to show you how shadey the managment side of music can be and it only got worse in the 1970s.

[c.j.jaxxon]

Hey Hey! You be nice sir! !grin!

[c.j.jaxxon]

That was funnnnyyyy!!!!!

[mike johnson]

Interesting you mentioned 'technique'. Some months back, I asked my brother, a rock guitarist for decades, if Hendrix used special pick-ups for that 'soft' technique in which notes appear out of nowhere, w/ no 'attack.'He answered, No, that some players just have that knack.

[c.j.jaxxon]

You know I just remembered! Chas Chandler passed away I believe in the late 1990s or in the new century. I saw a picture of him in Bass Player magazine playing a Kramer aluminum neck bass guitar.

[dynatech]

Chas Chandler died in the mid-90's... he wasn't dodgy at all, the dodgy part of it was all to do with his partnership with Mike Jeffrey... Chas left the Hendrix camp halfway through the Electric Ladyland sessions when things started to get out-of-control with hangers-on and drugs upset at the way things were going (Noel Redding & others felt very much the same) and, in many ways, he was a stabilising influence on Jimi and much-missed in the 1969/70 period. It says a lot of how much Jimi thought of Chas in that (alledgedly) in his final hours he contacted him and Eric Burden for help.
All the crap since he died (mainly in the 70's with albums such as Crash Landing & Loose Ends) with rights, re-recording tracks etc was all to do with Mike Jeffrey and his dodgy deals (as mentioned above), Chas was anything but dodgy as any member of Slade will attest....

[steve56]

Mickey Most now he was dodgy.Chas used to be in the Animals.

[c.j.jaxxon]

I heard a lot about Slade in the early 1980s and didn't know they'd been around since the 1970s. I have a documentary about Jimi Hendrix with comments from Slash, Lenny Kravitts, (I have to check his spelling) Mitch Mitchell, and others including a New York DJ from the 1960s and 1970s AND Mike Jeffrey and a couple of other management people and just hearing their intervues I just don't have a good feeling about those people.