Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix Book

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

Part I December 1966 to May 1967

"Mr. Phenomenon" Peter Jones 3

"Jimi Hendrix Talks to Steve Barker" Steve Barker 5

"Jimi Doesn't Think He's a Big Name Yet" 11

"Hendrix the Gen Article" Kevin Swift 13

"Jimi Hendrix Shows His Teeth" Jan Waldrop 17

"Quite an Experience!" Alan Freeman 23

"Come to a Soul Revival with Jimi Hendrix, a Rebel from Mars via Cuba" Keith Keller 29

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Hans Carl Schmidt 31

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Klas Burling 37

Part II June 1967 to December 1967

"Wild, Man!" Dawn James 45

"Our Experience with Jimi" Bob Garcia 49

"Spanish Galleons Off Jersey Coast or 'We Live Off Excess Volume'" Bill Kerby David Thompson 55

"Jimi Hendrix Talks to Steve Barker" Steve Barker 61

"An Experience with Hendrix" Liam Roisin McAuley 71

"Pop Man Jimi to Sue Disc Firm" Peter Oakes 73

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Meatball Fulton 77

Part III January 1968 to June 1968

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Jay Ruby 87

"The Persecution & Assassination of Rock and Roll, as Performed by the Jimi Hendrix Experience… Under the Direction of Jumping Jimi Himself, the Cassius Clay of Pop" Michael Thomas 97

Jimi Hendrix's 1968 Pretrial Examination 111

Part IV July 1968 to December 1968

"I Felt We Were in Danger of Becoming the U.S. Dave Dee" Alan Walsh 123

"Jimi Hendrix: An Experience, an Image, a Great Talent" Margaret Robin 127

"Experience" Don Speicher 131

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Gus Gossert 137

"A Jimi Hendrix Doubleheader" Jacoba Atlas 141

"Jimi Hendrix, Black Power, and Money" Jacoba Atlas 147

"A Jimi Hendrix Doubleheader" Tony Glover 151

"Hendrix" Tony Glover 159

Part V January 1969 to June 1969

"Hendrix: As Experienced by Jane de Mendelssohn" Jane De Mendelssohn 165

"The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Slowing Down and Growing Up" John Lombardi 179

"The Ego of Jimi Hendrix" Jim Brodey 185

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Nancy Carter 191

"The Gypsy Sun Jimi Hendrix" Ritchie Yorke 193

Part VI July 1969 to December 1969

The Dick Cavett Show Interview (July) Dick Cavett 201

The Tonight Show Interview Flip Wilson 207

Jimi Hendrix's Post-Woodstock Comments 213

United Block Association Press Conference 215

The Dick Cavet Show Interview (September) Dick Cavett 219

"Jimi Hendrix: I Don't Want to Be a Clown Any More" Sheila Weller 227

The Queen vs. James Marshall Hendrix 233

"Hendrix and His Band of Gipsies" Bob Dawbarn 245

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Sue Cassidy Clark 249

Part VII January 1970 to June 1970

"Spaceman Jimi Is Landing" Alfreo G. Aronowitz 255

"The End of a Big Long Fairy Tale" John Burks 257

"Hendrix: 'I'd Like a Hit Single…'" Keith Altham 269

Part VIII July 1970 to September 1970

"One-Nighter Grind Is Over; All Jimi Wants Now Is a Rest Paul Omundson 275

Encounter with Jimi Hendrix Chuck Wein Pat Hartley 279

"Hendrix-He's a Beautiful Person" Gillian Saich 281

"Hendrix Today" Roy Hollingworth 285

"Man, Myth or Magic? Jimi Hendrix Is Back, and Happy, and Talking…" Norman Jopling 289

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Klas Burling 293

"Mr. Hendrix in a Good Mood" Tommy Rander 295

"I Am Tired of Lying Down" Jørn Rossing Jensen 297

"Jimi Hendrix: I Am Not Sure I Will Live to Be 28 Years Old" Anne Bjørndal 301

"Jimi Hendrix: I Am a Man Like Many Others, e.g., Napoleon" Sven Wezelenburg 305

"Plop! Farewell Jimi" Hasse Boe 307

Interview with Jimi Hendrix Chris Romberg Sergeant Keith Roberts 309

"The Last Hendrix Interview" Keith Altham 317

Epilogue 323

Quotable Hendrix 325

Appendix: Interview with Eric Burdon Steven Roby 329

Credits 341

Index 345