…Jimi Hendrix was once asked if he felt like he had enough money. He chuckles and went on to describe being able to wake up and roll out of bed into his indoor pool. He would swim to a breakfast table, sip on some orange juice, then swim a few laps to the bathroom where he would shave. This snapshot of the famous guitarist came out of his final interview he would ever do, September 11th, 1970… and now that conversation has been turned into an animated series on PBS titled, Blank on Blank. Writer Keith Altham chats with Jimi, getting insight into various aspects of his mind and life. Interesting that Hendrix never felt like his music was a rage against the establishment. Jimi was merely singing about “the blues”. “That’s all I’m singing about — today’s blues,” he explains. Seems the legend even scoffed at the idea that he was the creator of psychedelic music.
“A mad scientist approach, but the way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy, mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality – that’s how it can bend. As a word, ‘reality’ is nothing but each individual’s own way of thinking, and then the establishment grabs a big piece of that.”
(video source Blank On Blank via YouTube)
-Greg Browning
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