Talk:Jimi Hendrix

That sudden influx of "new" Hendrix albums we had in the 1990s was because the copyright situation finally got sorted out--I don't remember whom the courts decided in favor of. ("His musical legacy was still being sorted out more than twenty years after his death, with both Hendrix' father and a man claiming to be Hendrix' son in dispute over copyright.") IIRC, both parties got some portion of the royalties--but I'm not certain of it. Koyaanis Qatsi, Tuesday, June 25, 2002

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I kind of cheated with that phrase "musical legacy". I had in mind not only the Hendrix estate in the legal sense but also the artistic inheritance. I think a lot of people are stuck back in the "superspade" era in their understanding of what Hendrix did as an artist, notwithstanding the shambles of his career and his life before he died. There are a lot of players who are popular, whom we love, who are important to us, and then there are the very few "world artists" like Hank Williams, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix. That's not the whole list, of course, but they really are in a different category.

BTW, I really paused and repaused over "choked on his own vomit". Romantics love that stuff, but in fact what happens, as I understand it, is more like drug-induced paralysis of the central nervous system and you die, vomit or not. Take enough barbiturates and you can die hanging over the rail. It's a little different in the Hendrix case, since he may have actually died in the ambulance, but wouldn't it be enough to say "died in a barbiturate-induced coma"? Ortolan88

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Eh, I didn't write that part. My (mis?)understanding of it was that he took too many sleeping pills and never woke up. I've never read a bio of him, just various articles in guitar magazines. Koyaanis Qatsi, Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Re: previous two comments - if the cause of death was in fact suffocation, would he not in fact belong on a List of people who choked to death on their own vomit? 209.149.235.254 21:41, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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We mention B. B. King, Little Richard, Curtis Knight, and The Monkees, so why shouldn't we mention Ellen McIlwaine? The Ellen McIlwaine article says she "traded influences" with Hendrix. I have no idea whether that is true, but I don't understand why we should remove half a sentence in this article saying Hendrix played with another notable guitarist in his formative years. Ortolan88 16:05 Nov 4, 2002 (UTC)

Because McIlwaine is not a terribly notable guitarist, and Hendrix played with just about everyone who was passing through NYC, and played with considerably more notable people in London (Clapton, Page etc...) One can barely begin to list the notable people Hendrix played with, and McIlwaine is nowhere near the top of that list ... it seems like an arbitrary inclusion by a McIlwaine fan. (As to the McIlwaine article ... well, don't get me started on the McIlwaine article) -- User:GWO

Okay. Seems reasonable to me. Ortolan88

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So I dropped "The Wind Cries Mary" in the wrong place in a sentence. Sorry. I'll never do it again. Ortolan88

Aahh. Sorry, didn't mean to be over harsh. Bad coding day... -- User:GWO

madison square gardens link

Should the broken link to Madison Square Gardens link to Madison Square Garden. This got flagged by Daniel Quinlan's Redirect Project, on this page: User:Daniel Quinlan/redirects5

Urban Legend

The article claims that the list of 150 songs was an urban legend. It is not. The urban legend was that the songs were banned. Clear Channel did not forbid radio stations from playing these songs; however, they did recommend that the stations not play the songs. Here is what the Snopes page says:

Accordingly, a program director at Clear Channel Communications (an organization which operates over 1,170 radio stations in the United States), after discussions with program directors at several of Clear Channel Radio's stations, compiled an advisory list of songs which stations might wish to avoid playing in the short term.

In light of this, I'm going to change that paragraph. Quadell (talk) 12:54, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

I removed the clear channel blacklist comment. I don't believe the supposed blacklist says much of anything about Hendrix, considering that perhaps half of all recording artists who had hits that are played by clear channel had at least one song on the list. Therefore, it doesn't belong here, and since it is already present in the clear channel and sept 11 articles I think it is adequately covered.

Discography

Should this page have a basic or brief discography? The existing link points to a zipped word file that failed to open on my side. Modi

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Whence came "died later at St Mary's"? If the quotations of the doctor and paramedics in Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination (online with traffic quota) are legit, he was dead well before leaving his room. He may have been pronounced dead at hospital, but that doesn't mean he died there. Kwantus 21:37, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)

Too much detail

Like a number of WP music articles, this one suffers from too much detail; a reader may well lose the forest for the trees. In particular, the stream-of-consciousness account of Hendrix's 1970 shows and the recordings in circulation of them is almost a WP parody. The exacting account of guitar auctions also falls into this category, as do several other asides. Focus on the main points of Hendrix's life and music, so that readers can get a true appreciation for this great musician. -- jls 20 Mar 2005

I gave it once-over, but it still needs work. Some gems are buried in the detailed time-line style. --sparkit 01:21, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Better now. But the 1970 section still read like a bootleg guide rather than an article. I've pulled out the set-list detail and condensed it further. Hopefully it still gets across what Hendrix's last year was like. -- jls 22 Mar 2005

Also, much of the album detail is repeated in separate articles about the albums. --sparkit 01:21, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)