Chas Chandler
Jimi Hendrix was discovered playing in a New York bar by then Animals manager Chas Chandler. He was at that time homeless and crashing on friend's sofas. Chandler immediately offered Jimi the chance to go back with him to Britain and the rest is history.
He died from asphyxiation by eating too many sleeping pills.
Jimi Hendrix
play guitar ALL the time
According To The 2000 Cable TV Biopic Hendrix, Which Featured Wood Harris As Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix Originally Spelled His First Name "Jimmy", But Changed The Spelling Of His First Name To "Jimi" At The Request Of Manager /Producer Chas Chandler. I BEG TO DIFFER JUST A TAD BIT! JIMI"S REAL NAME IS JOHNNY ALLEN. HIS MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO HIM AS HIS FATHER AL WAS AWAY IN THE SERVICE AND SO OUT OF RESPECT, LUCILLE, JIMI'S MOTHER NAMED JIMI JOHNNY ALLEN AFTER THE MAN SEE WAS NOW SEEING AT THE TIME OF JIMI'S BIRTH! NOW WHEN AL RETURNED HOME FROM THE SERVICE JOHNNY WAS DOWN WITH Family in thee Oakland California area and Al went down with A FULL HEAD OF STEAM TO PICK UP HIS SON THAT HE HAD NEVER MET! WELL JOHNNY GETS IN THE TRUCK WITH AL AND BASICALLY TELLS JOHNNY UR NAME AINT JOHNNY ANYMORE ITS JAMES MARSHALL! NOW JOHNNY NEVER DID EXCEPT OR LIKE THAT WHOLE CHAIN OF EVENTS AND REFUSED TO SAY HE WAS JAMES, JIM, JIMMY, OR ANYTHING. HE ACTUALLY GAVE HIM SELF THE NIC NAME BUSTER AFTER THE SUPERHERO BUSTER GRABE! NOW PERHAPS THE MANAGER DID MAKE SUM SUGGESTIONS IN SHORTENING HIS SPELLING OF JAMESOR JIMMY BUT THE NAME IN ANY FORM JOHNNY NEVER CARED FOR! I HAD TRHE PLEASURE IN MY CHILDHOOD, HIGH SCHOOL, AND YOUNG ADULT YEARS TO HAVE JIMI OR JOHNNYS OR BUSTERS FATHER AL AS A FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR AS WELL AS STILL TO THIS DAY HIS LITTLE BROTHER LEON, WHO INFORMED ME OF THE NIC NAME BUSTER, AND LEON AND HIS DAD NEVER CALLED JIMI ANYTHING BUT BUSTER FROM IM GUESSING THE TIME JIMI WAS ABOUT 11 OR 12. U CAN VERIFY ME AS HUMAN AND NOT A BOT BY GETTING NLINE OR GOING TO YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE AND CHECKING OUT MY BUDDYS BOOK TITLED "JIMI HENDRIX: A BROTHER'S STORY ---by LEON HENDRIX
No one's telling. Collette [Mimram] (she [Jimi's 'main squeeze' at this time] & Stella Benabou (Douglas) made Jimi's white fringed jacket that he was wearing- strange how the front persons in three of the most popular bands 'The Who' 'Jefferson Airplane & Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix never lived in or even visited Morocco as far as I know. I read a big bio on him.
The Audi car commercial song by Jimi Hendrix is called..... Third Stone From the Sun - Are You Experienced?
Of course he is! Jimi Hendrix is notably one of the best electric guitarists of all time, and he is an important part of music history. Jimi Hendrix was a revolutionary and an inspiration. I'm sure that he would make a great black history month report.
The most renowned guitar soloist of all time is often considered to be Jimi Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix was a heavy user of drugs and was most likely under the influence of other narcotics than specified. He had taken 9 tablets of the prescribed sleeping pill Vesparax, 4 1/2 the prescribed dose. He had also been drinking red wine excessively the night before. So some time on the night of September 18, 1970, Hendrix asphyxiated on his own vomit in his sleep. This was confirmed by the autopsy.
when i was an assoc. (hourly manager) i made 12.50 the assistant managers make around 26-30,000 a year and our store manager at the time made about 40/yr. in Ohio might i add a horrible company to work for! very shallow and they will work you to death if you are salary our store manager was putting in around 65 hours each week sometimes more!