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Title: Happy Birthday, Jimi Hendrix
Post by: Tinka Cat on November 27, 2009, 01:40:21 PM
he would be 67 today...

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Title: Re: Happy Birthday, Jimi Hendrix
Post by: Wayback on November 27, 2009, 06:46:48 PM
he would be 67 today...
Ah, what might have been if he and all the others in "Rock & Roll Heaven" had lived.

Jimi interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_IaCLTdWIc&feature=related
Title: Re: Happy Birthday, Jimi Hendrix
Post by: RGMike on November 27, 2009, 07:29:46 PM
he would be 67 today...


"Move over, Rover... let AARP take over!"
Title: Re: Happy Birthday, Jimi Hendrix
Post by: mshray on November 30, 2009, 12:56:33 PM

he would be 67 today...

Ah, what might have been if he and all the others in "Rock & Roll Heaven" had lived.

I personally can't think of anyone whose 'future' work I would have been more interested in than Jimi's, had he/she lived.  Not to put too fine a point on it, but I kinda doubt that Joplin or Morrison or Lennon or Billie Holliday or ____ (name here) had dramatically new and interesting directions to take, but I remain convinced that Jimi did.  Second and third after him would be Buddy Holly & James Dean, imho.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday, Jimi Hendrix
Post by: Gazoo on November 30, 2009, 08:32:39 PM

he would be 67 today...

Ah, what might have been if he and all the others in "Rock & Roll Heaven" had lived.

I personally can't think of anyone whose 'future' work I would have been more interested in than Jimi's, had he/she lived.  Not to put too fine a point on it, but I kinda doubt that Joplin or Morrison or Lennon or Billie Holliday or ____ (name here) had dramatically new and interesting directions to take, but I remain convinced that Jimi did.  Second and third after him would be Buddy Holly & James Dean, imho.

I agree with you on this for the most part.  In Lennon's case, his new and interesting directions would have been in activism rather than music.  But your point is a good one.