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his death has been shrouded in mystery
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ever since the London coroner issued an
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open verdict we went to London to talk
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to his friends about his final hours I
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don't think the people around him by
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then were confident in
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anywh I think it was it could be a
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conspiracy of neglect I don't think it's
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a coincidence that Hendrick had to leave
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the United States to go to England to
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become an established star I just don't
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think we were ready for somebody as
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powerful as he was when he got to the
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hospital the doctors failed to treat him
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and were asking
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questions on on a racial theme what are
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you doing with him and black and white
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and all this and they didn't get on with
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resuscitating him and they could have
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saved him but they didn't he did
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definitely not like some people was
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saying committed suicide because there
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were all together 40 uh prescribed
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sleeping tablets in the flat at that
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time and he would have taken much more
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if he wanted to commit suicide plus the
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fact is he was somebody who believed
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that uh he was a very spiritual person
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as well and he believed to commit
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suicide was a sin it would be nice to
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know what actually happened to my friend
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[Music]
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[Music]
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what you need to know is that it's
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1967 you're
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young and you're probably into the
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Beetles you're probably into the
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stones and you certainly think you know
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what hip is and you don't even mind
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being called a
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freak and then jimmi Hendrick shows up
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and you really find out what freaky is
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about
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Chaz Chandler brought Henrick to London
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and introduced him
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around met him at a club called the the
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cafe War Greenwich Village he was
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playing with a pickup band he just met
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them that afternoon I was had arrived in
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New York about a week prior to the last
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two or I was going to do I was the in
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them days I was the Bas player in the
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group called The Animals I met Jimmy a
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week before that tour started I arranged
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to beet at the end of the tour cuz I was
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leaving the band and taking back to
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England with me which I subsequently did
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why' you take him I just thought it was
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the best thing i' ever seen being
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instrument
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but just zap you know was strange I used
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to go out with a girl in New York in
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them days and the night before I met
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Jimmy she'd played me a track at her
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flat uh and I thought myself well when
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the when I leave the animals I'm going
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back to England I'm going to find an
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artist to record this song with cuz I I
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think I love this song it had been out
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about 9 month in America it had got
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nowhere and that was a song called here
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jaw by an artist called Tim Rose and the
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next day when I met Jimmy at the cafe
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wall the first song he played was Hew it
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was like you know it was like you know
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hey this there's something fate about
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this this gu I've just got to take this
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guy back to
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England uh I went off did the tour I was
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way about 2 month came back in New York
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picked him up and we flew to England you
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discovered
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him I think he knew where he was I don't
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think he had to be discovered but he
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knew where he was but I hope find an
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audience for him one of ch's friends is
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Eric Clapton well the first time Jimmy
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ever met Eric was the cream had just
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formed at that time they said well bring
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him down you know halfway through the
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set they introduced Jimmy to come on
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stage he walked on the stage started
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playing Killing
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Floor and I I looked and I just saw Eric
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Hans just drop off the guitar he's
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standing at the back and he saw like a
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look of shock on his face he put the
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guitar down went off the stage and I ran
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backstage cuz I thought is he all right
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you know and he was standing in the
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dressing room and his hands were shaking
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and he was trying to light a cigarette
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and he just said is he really that good
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or is that the only song he can play us
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is he's really that good Eric you know
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it's a pretty amazing the graffiti in
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London in those
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days uh was that Eric is God referring
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to Clapton who at that point was for all
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practical purposes the best guitar
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player in the
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world and um he saw Jimmy and knew that
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he'd have to back that up from now on no
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one could take it for granted and he
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just took the place by
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storm by the time he got here people
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thought he was an English band it's no
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coincidence he had to start on that side
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and come this way become part of the
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British Invasion from that moment on
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Jimmy Hendricks was a legend in London
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not to the public yet but to other
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guitar players people like Keith
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Richards Jeff Beck and the Beatles who
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would come to hear him play I don't
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think it's a coincidence that Hendricks
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had to leave the United States to go to
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England to become an established star I
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just don't think we were ready for
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somebody as powerful as he was coming
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out of a place as unlikely as the
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Pacific
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Northwest besides if you were a
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gunfighter in the 1880s
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you went to Tombstone you went to dodge
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cuz that's where the other great
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gunfighters were and I don't know
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whether HRI was thinking about this or
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not but in terms of guitar players
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London was where you had to go to
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confront the best guys in the world Chaz
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Chandler hired bass player Noel reading
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and drummer Mitch Mitchell to form the
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Jimmy Hendrick experience Noel had been
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around the London music scene since the
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beginning see that place up there that's
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the where the stones actually first um
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rehearsed I'd say in about 1962 or
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something you know I first met Jimmy in
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October sorry September 1966 I went for
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an audition for another band and I was
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asked if I could play bass and I hadn't
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played bass at that point i' maybe
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touched the bass guitar and um I said
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I'd give it a go and I played um three
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Tunes with uh Jimmy and he asked
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me we went down the pub as most people
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do in London and he said we talked about
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music he asked me all about the English
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music scene at that point I asked him
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about the American Music Scene and um he
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asked me to join his
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group
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and what
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happened we then um auditioned like a
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couple of different drummers and we met
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up with Mitch and then um we got
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together with Mitch myself and Jimmy and
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within about 2 weeks we're on tour in
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France with Johnny hallay who had be in
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those days classified as the Elvis presy
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of
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France and um this is October 66 then we
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started playing clubs in London same
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time
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recording and
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um in November 66 we went to Germany to
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a club played there for 5 days and then
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came back and we're doing more clubs in
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London and then we had our first
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television show in December ' 66 and
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then the first week in January we
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released our first single Hey
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Joe and um within
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about I think it was a couple of three
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weeks it was in the charts so we were
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suddenly popular it's very
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quick Hey Joe was an instant hid in
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England overnight they were members of
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the club in London it's like the
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original PB the shrip PB Street which
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like all the musicians used to come in
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before like the Marquee like Keith
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Moon John enst or Peter town and Jimmy
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Hendricks Mitch Mitchell you'd see like
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Keith richers in it you know all down
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the end having a few points be like
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young ladies who'd come here Etc we all
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about 21 in those days you
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know tell you how Jimmy was and I don't
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think people much appreciate it was you
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got to remember Elvis's great crime his
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great sin as it were was that he was a
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white kid acting
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black well Jimmy wasn't acting
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anything Jimmy brought the twin forces
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of sex and race and shoved it right in
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people's faces was something to
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see Jimmy Hendricks and his band were
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now stars in England and on the
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continent but they were unknown in
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America it was the summer of 1966 7 pre-
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Woodstock Rock promoters had a brand new
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idea to Stage a giant outdoor music
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festival with a lot of bands Jimmy
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Hendricks only got on the bill at
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montere when Paul McCartney insisted
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Jimmy was overtly
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sexual the guitars on
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fire the uh oral sex with his uh with
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his strings all of that intended to
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drive home the message that that um this
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guy wasn't fooling around this was the
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real deal there was a huge argument
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about who had go on First and town was
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sort of like talking to Hendrick and we
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were just saying we don't care who goes
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on first but that was a bit of a boost
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as well because it I'd say it's pretty
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hard for anyone to go on after The Who
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and the who had been in America before
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the experience so it was always with the
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English bands cuz we considered
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ourselves an English band that whoever
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had been to America before had the
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Advantage you know what I mean but um
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that I'd say made the band in America
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but it was like watching what happened
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in England all over again because people
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this guy just walked out he was like
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nothing anybody ever seen before you
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know and it took like it the people
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would be halfway through the number
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through his first number then they'
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suddenly realize we should like this guy
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would be this sort of stunned what it
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was great it was great to see it
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happening in one night the jimmi
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Hendrick experience had taken in America
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by storm for the rest of his life for 2
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and 1 half more years Hendrick's
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existence was a blur of LSD recording
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studios and concert dates days off were
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precious was is like uh history I
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suppose 1968 palmanova in newor Spain
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hendricksville on holiday and we never
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sort of thought that um well I never
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thought that I'd be looking at something
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like this now you
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know people tell me were all
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legends I just wanted to play well and
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be appreciated but they were Legends all
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over the world when Hendrick played the
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star spangle Banner at Woodstock four
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months before he died there wasn't a
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guitar player in the world who thought
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he could touch him he was by far away
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the best guitar player the world's ever
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seen in my book it wasn't just the stuff
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he played it was his sheer breadth of
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ability the
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he he was stunningly original he didn't
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start to change until 68 in the
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spring and
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uh I suppose you call it you got a Star
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Complex you know basically and we were
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playing sort of bigger gigs now 20,000
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or 30,000 people and HRI like if if the
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amp wasn't right he'd react badly to the
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audience and then after of the gig i'
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perhaps say to him that we're supposed
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to be professional mate like uh you
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don't need to do that we're supposed to
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do our job if the amp crackles let it
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crackle you know if you break a string
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carry on like that's the professional
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way but um he changed then how bad did
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it
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get
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um in the summer of 68 it started to get
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a little bit worse and um we all
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threatened to leave a couple of
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times
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um but then we did another big European
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stint in the late 68 and we were back in
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America
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in I think at the end of 68 again I'm
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not sure but that's when we basically
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realized that the band had got to its
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um level and we basically decided
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between us that um we'd all call it a
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day Jimmy Hendrick died in 197
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he spent the night with a blonde German
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groupy named Monica Daman in her Hotel
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Apartment in London he'd met Monica in
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Dorf on a gig one of hundreds of
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groupies that surrounded the band but
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Monica says she was different that Jimmy
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was going to marry her Hendrick jammed
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at a bar in SoHo on the last night of
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his life and went to a party afterwards
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at some point in the night he probably
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dropped acid but that didn't kill him it
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was the nine sleeping pills that
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belonged to Monica that killed kill
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Jimmy Hendrick he was
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27 in the night uh he wanted to take two
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sleeping tablets because he was very
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awake and he wanted to go to sleep
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because he had a very heavy schedule the
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next morning the next day uh but he
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didn't take at that time to sleeping tet
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and I remember I fell asleep about uh
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quarter 7 in the morning but he was
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still very awake and he was still
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talking to me when I fell asleep so I
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can just think that he must after I
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started to sleep he must have taken some
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sleeping tablets maybe to and maybe they
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didn't work as quickly as he thought
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they should have worked and he took more
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alog together uh he took nine sleeping
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tablets I think there might have been a
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conspiracy a cover up I think that what
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happened or it's
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possible that um people were down there
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earlier in the morning um possibly
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before an ambulance was called if Eric
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burden's account is to be
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believed and Jerry stickles Jimmy's Road
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manager said that he received a phone
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call between half 8 and 9:00 in the
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morning saying go and check Jimmy out he
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assumed Jimmy was at his hotel and went
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to the cumland hotel after that he went
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to the samakan hotel after that he
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becomes rather vague Terry Slater in a
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telephone conversation with me two years
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ago told me that that uh he was down
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there that morning and that the place
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was a terrible mess and there wasn't no
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sign of any food in the cupboards and
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that Jimmy was lying on the bed
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knackered ODed he died through a
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Suffocation of his own
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vomit what happened was in the morning I
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woke up and he was still fast asleep
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just normally asleep I went to get some
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cigarettes when I came back and I looked
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at him after a while I saw that there
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was something dribbling out of his mouth
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and I realized something was wrong I
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tried to wake him I couldn't wake him so
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I wanted to get his doctor and I knew
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the name of the doctor but didn't know
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the address so I called alvinia Bridges
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uh associate of mine and but she
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couldn't help me but said I should get
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the
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ambulance uh car which I did get and
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they came checked him looked at his
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piles his heart and everything and said
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he will be fine in the after we would be
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just walking out laughing about the
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whole situation then Eric burden told me
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that he got there when the ambulance was
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pulling away and that he was delayed and
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he'd sent his girlfriend alvinia on
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ahead which means that if that's true
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then alvinia had to been down there
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before the ambulance
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arrived because if he arrived Eric
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arrived when the ambulance was pulling
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away then alvinia who got there before
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him must have been down there but on
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close questioning he then said
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well I thought I saw him that morning
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but I couldn't look because of the
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mess and we went to the hospital and
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uh now also the ambulance man clearly
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state that jby was still alive when we
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arrived at the
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hospital and uh I called in alvenia
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bridges to come and uh in the meantime I
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was waiting and when alvinia came a
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sister came and she said Jimmy's heart
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had stopped but it was going all right
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again and not to
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worry and uh after a while another
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sister came and she said that Jimmy had
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passed
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away and a doctor told me later that
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something got stuck in his air pipe what
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could have happened is that Jimmy was
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unconscious and Monica couldn't wake him
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up and that uh she called in help and
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waited for them to come when they came
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they realized that he was you know
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dangerously ill and then they called an
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ambulance so the delay might have been
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the time it took alvinia to get to uh
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Monica's flat and you know I've heard
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all sorts of tales about what went down
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that night but you can't you can't turn
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around and say it's this person's fault
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or that person's fault I mean people
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were doing drugs in them days and those
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immense parent oer around it I mean
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people have being busted by the law
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careers were being ruined all the time
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uh I won't go into any stories I've
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heard cuz it's all he say anyhow uh all
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our say
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like was it was a terrible unfortunate
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thing I I just wish he were still alive
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you know but I also want to point out he
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did definitely not like some people was
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saying committed suicide because there
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were allog together 40 uh prescribed
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sleeping tablets in the flat at that
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time and he would have taken much more
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if he wanted to commit suicide plus the
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fact is he was somebody who believed
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that uh he was a very spiritual person
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as well and he believed to commit
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suicide was a sin it came such a shock
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he he came to our flat on the on a
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Wednesday night I didn't even know he
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was in England at the time sat talked
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and he said how he he hadn't really been
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satisfied with what he'd been doing in
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the studio for the the last year since
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we parted company and uh he wanted to
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start working for us to start working
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together again we made arrangements I I
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had already arranged for that weekend I
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was going up to Newcastle my hometown
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see the family and all the rest of it
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and he was going to fly off to New York
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pick up all the tapes he'd worked on
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bring it back to England we were going
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to go over the stuff that was in the can
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and then start forming it or
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re-recording or recording new stuff to
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do another album
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that was on the Wednesday night he left
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the flat about 3:00 in the morning he'd
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sat with my little boy was just a few
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month old on his neighb would just
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talked and talked about it was just like
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the old days again pre-planning an album
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before you went in the
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studio uh I left very early on the
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Friday morning by train to Newcastle
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when I got off the train at the other
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end my father was standing on the
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station this something my father had
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never ever done met me off a train
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before and I went well you know why here
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what you're doing here he says
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well the press know you're found out
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you're on this train and they want I
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thought I better meet you off the the
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train so it can go out the side door I
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says well what you talk what the hell
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the Press want to meet me for he says
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don't you know I says what he says
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Jimmy's dead and that's how I heard I
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just sat there stood there I was just
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stunned You
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Know It
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uh you I just think mentally paralyzed
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for a year you know it was
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terrible
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uh jimmi Hendrick's first girlfriend in
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London was Kathy etchingham she was with
00:20:36
him the whole three years of his stardom
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I met him the first day he arrived in
00:20:40
England in September
00:20:41
1966 when Chaz Chandler brought him over
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over and
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um he took him around to Zoot and Ronnie
00:20:49
money's house in Fulham and Zoot and
00:20:52
Ronnie money had an apartment underneath
00:20:54
mine and in the basement lived Andy
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Summers and and a drama called Colin
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Colin
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white uh she came upstairs and said oh
00:21:02
Chaz has just brought this guy this
00:21:04
american guy uh around he looks like the
00:21:07
Wild Man of Borneo and I was in bed and
00:21:09
said well I can't be bothered to get up
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and she said well they're going down to
00:21:12
the scotch later we'll go down then fine
00:21:14
said I and um that's what we did we went
00:21:17
down later on and as we walked in Jimmy
00:21:19
was actually playing in the corner and
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the whole room was at a standstill they
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just you know
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hushed and I saw Chaz who waved and uh
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Ronnie myself and Angela buron
00:21:32
um although she wasn't married to Eric
00:21:35
Burton then Angie King walked towards
00:21:38
where they were sitting and sat down
00:21:39
Jimmy played about one
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more uh number and then came and joined
00:21:44
us no reading and the people who knew
00:21:46
Jimmy Henrick best say he was a
00:21:49
completely different person in private
00:21:51
than the wild man who smashed guitars
00:21:53
and amps and set fire to his instruments
00:21:55
on stage Noel leted us into the private
00:21:59
world with his old home movies of
00:22:01
Hendrick and the band at play it was a
00:22:04
very nice shy polite
00:22:07
guy
00:22:10
um had this sort of wild man image but
00:22:13
but that's when he played but apart from
00:22:15
that he'd be the sort of guy who would
00:22:16
um if someone comes into the room he'd
00:22:19
stand up and open the door let him sit
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down take their coat be very quiet very
00:22:24
polite oh look at that who's that that's
00:22:27
a young lady from Sweden called uh
00:22:31
what's her name Bella I think I can
00:22:33
remember her name who's that with her
00:22:36
that's
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00:22:38
me that's Jerry the road manager that's
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a
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publicist Keith Oram that's me again
00:22:45
being photographed by me it's the lady
00:22:48
from Sweden it's Mitch Mitchell how are
00:22:50
you photographing yourself I was holding
00:22:52
the camera like
00:22:55
that ER now I think we're back on
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airplane I'd
00:22:59
say a lot of the stuff I took was on
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airplanes cuz we were on airplanes most
00:23:04
of the time actually why did the other
00:23:06
uh guitar players come to hear Hendricks
00:23:09
I suppose he was different you know he
00:23:11
was
00:23:12
American and uh he was really good he
00:23:17
was really good you know why were there
00:23:19
always girls
00:23:20
around well I think we attracted them
00:23:23
for some reason it could have been our
00:23:24
hair or our clothes I don't know it's so
00:23:28
but there was a lot of women around
00:23:29
especially in
00:23:31
America and they were very friendly I
00:23:33
must toit I was very young I was very
00:23:36
impressed the first time I went to
00:23:37
America I was 21 and our first gig was
00:23:40
Monterey Pop I think there's about
00:23:42
50,000 people there that night and it
00:23:45
sort of pretty scary but uh we were sort
00:23:48
of like into the act by then and we just
00:23:52
went out and did
00:23:53
our 40 minutes or 35 minutes and put our
00:23:57
best into it and that
00:23:59
made the band in America i' say it was
00:24:01
amazing completely
00:24:03
amazing well we had to get off the stage
00:24:05
quick because everyone was sort of
00:24:07
freaking out but um the reaction was
00:24:09
just they were still sort of cheering
00:24:11
maybe 10 15 minutes after we stopped
00:24:13
playing like in those days was pretty
00:24:15
good you know and and know there was no
00:24:18
on calls done we couldn't do an on call
00:24:19
Cuz Hendrick had burnt his guitar
00:24:21
so we never sort of really sort of
00:24:24
looked at each other after a gig you
00:24:26
know we'd discuss it later but we didn't
00:24:27
need to discuss this one because we sort
00:24:29
of realized that we'd um arrived in
00:24:33
America we never sort of thought that um
00:24:35
well I never thought that I'd be looking
00:24:37
at something like this now you
00:24:39
know you ever think it would end this
00:24:42
way not really no not at all
00:24:46
no but um it's like I've got this stuff
00:24:50
though nobody else has got this after
00:24:53
our lifestyle I think um we're quite
00:24:55
lucky to be here a lot of friends are
00:24:58
know aren't here now so who well Jimmy
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number one and a lot of other people
00:25:06
Janice
00:25:09
Joplin the usual people but there's a
00:25:11
lot more musicians who are no longer
00:25:14
here and uh I'm lucky I'm here I think n
00:25:18
reading is one of many people who's not
00:25:20
satisfied with the police explanation of
00:25:22
henrik's death the coroner's inquest in
00:25:26
1970 found that he died of inhalation of
00:25:29
vomits due to um bitrate
00:25:33
intoxication
00:25:35
and we all accepted that and nothing was
00:25:38
said and then later on I started reading
00:25:40
biographies and and things were brought
00:25:43
to my attention where it had been said
00:25:45
that Jimmy was sat up on the ambulance
00:25:48
and that he would been perfectly all
00:25:50
right apart from the fact that he was
00:25:52
unconscious he he was breathing normally
00:25:54
and he had a normal pulse but that he
00:25:56
was sat up on the ambulance well of
00:25:58
course that would be a lethal thing to
00:26:00
do and that his head fell forward and
00:26:03
every time it was pushed back and it
00:26:05
sounded as if he was treated very badly
00:26:08
and then when he got to the hospital the
00:26:10
doctors failed to treat him and were
00:26:12
asking
00:26:13
questions on a on a a racial theme what
00:26:17
are you doing with him and black and
00:26:20
white and all this and they didn't get
00:26:21
on with resuscitating him and they could
00:26:23
have saved him but they didn't and um I
00:26:26
was alarmed by this as know Scotland
00:26:29
Yard has been looking into it because uh
00:26:32
Cassie igam has been made these
00:26:34
allegations and um I think they had to
00:26:38
look into it especially as Jimmy is a a
00:26:41
famous person but uh as far as I know
00:26:45
Scotland Yard has found out that what I
00:26:47
said at the time 24 years ago is exactly
00:26:51
how it happened I'd met other people and
00:26:54
asked them what had happened that night
00:26:56
and some of them told me that they were
00:26:57
down there there before the ambulance
00:27:02
arrived the ambulance men said in their
00:27:04
statements that when they got there
00:27:06
there was no one else present the door
00:27:08
was wide open and there was just Jimmy
00:27:09
on the bed and that he was dead and
00:27:11
covered in vomit and they just wrapped
00:27:13
him up in the blankets and took him away
00:27:15
a policeman was there uh he received a
00:27:18
call on his radio and I and and the
00:27:21
reason that uh the police were called is
00:27:23
because there was no one there when he
00:27:25
got down there he said that as far as
00:27:27
the amb men were concerned Jimmy was
00:27:29
dead and they put him on the ambulance
00:27:32
and off they went and he didn't remember
00:27:33
seeing anyone else there either so this
00:27:35
was all a bit
00:27:37
strange so what I did is um I sent
00:27:41
everything that I'd heard and everything
00:27:45
that was
00:27:46
said to the attorney general for his
00:27:49
explanation some people say I mean uh
00:27:52
and they have been saying for years that
00:27:54
uh he was poisoned and uh all kinds of
00:27:58
different uh things they say you know in
00:28:00
regards to the Mia and the CIA and so on
00:28:04
what could have happened is that Jimmy
00:28:06
was unconscious and Monica couldn't wake
00:28:10
him
00:28:11
up and that uh she called in help and
00:28:15
waited for them to come and when they
00:28:17
came they realized that he was you know
00:28:20
dangerously ill and then they called an
00:28:22
ambulance so the delay might have been
00:28:24
the time it took alvinia to get to uh
00:28:28
Monica's
00:28:30
flat Monica's hotel room that if an
00:28:33
ambulance was called
00:28:35
immediately rather than calling his
00:28:37
friends well if if the one of the
00:28:40
ambulance men has now changed his
00:28:41
statement to say that Jimmy was alive on
00:28:43
the ambulance and that he took his last
00:28:45
gasp as they pulled into the hospital
00:28:46
for court now if that's true that's a
00:28:49
worse scenario than if Jimmy had been
00:28:51
dead because if he was dead then there
00:28:52
was nothing anyone could do for him but
00:28:54
if he was alive and there was a delay
00:28:55
even of 20 minutes if he could have been
00:28:58
delivered into the hands of the doctors
00:28:59
while he was still breathing normally
00:29:01
with a normal pulse one would expect
00:29:02
that they might have been able to save
00:29:04
him through intubation and a life
00:29:06
support machine but the doctors say that
00:29:09
they received a dead body one of the
00:29:11
doctors said that they received a dead
00:29:13
body that he was cold blue that his FX
00:29:16
and larynx were totally
00:29:18
sinos and
00:29:20
um that in his opinion Jimmy had been
00:29:24
dead for some time do you think your
00:29:26
friend died needlessly
00:29:29
it's hard to know without a new inquest
00:29:32
exactly what happened because the people
00:29:34
that I would like to speak to the police
00:29:39
so far refused to speak to the police
00:29:41
and I can't imagine why so I really
00:29:43
don't
00:29:45
know if his life could have been saved
00:29:47
or not do you have a
00:29:49
suspicion I have a suspicion that well
00:29:54
there's two two things either he was
00:29:55
dead earlier in the morning and that the
00:29:58
the ambulance man's changed his story
00:30:01
to
00:30:02
um either oblige somebody else or
00:30:06
whatever um because he did tell the
00:30:08
ambulance service as well that um there
00:30:10
was nobody on the ambulance uh therefore
00:30:12
Monica if she wasn't there couldn't have
00:30:14
known whether Jimmy was breathing
00:30:15
normally
00:30:16
and um had a normal pulse or not if she
00:30:20
wasn't there but he's changed his
00:30:22
statement now to fit handing glove with
00:30:24
Monica's and if that's the case and he
00:30:27
was alive on the ambulance I think it
00:30:28
makes the situation much worse because
00:30:30
if there was a delay even a small delay
00:30:33
any delay when someone's in such a
00:30:35
condition can be you know fatal is this
00:30:38
two girlfriends at war with each other
00:30:41
no it isn't I don't know Monica and I've
00:30:43
got nothing against her he was the one
00:30:46
who got engaged to me he wanted to marry
00:30:48
me he talked about children how to name
00:30:50
them what names and so on uh that showed
00:30:54
me his love was for me at the end you
00:30:57
know so so um she was the past she was a
00:31:01
past girlfriend and that was what it was
00:31:04
all
00:31:04
[Music]
00:31:06
about he was my love of of my life and
00:31:11
normally only meet that one time uh if
00:31:15
you made that
00:31:17
love Monica Daman the former skating
00:31:21
teacher who wound up in a quiet Seaside
00:31:24
Cottage in England painting pictures of
00:31:26
her one true love
00:31:28
a fly suspended in the Amber of time
00:31:33
Kathy etchingham who once knew all the
00:31:35
biggest names in rock in a fine house in
00:31:38
the London suburbs with grown children
00:31:40
married to a
00:31:43
doctor that's
00:31:45
Eric swimming it's bit bouncy
00:31:48
water Mitch bouncing up and down with
00:31:51
flippers on who shot this I did that's
00:31:56
Jimmy and he's going in with flippers on
00:31:58
now using my old cut off
00:32:01
trousers with the
00:32:04
snorkel cuz Jim used to walk around with
00:32:06
guitar on all the time I mean used to
00:32:08
get up in the morning and put a guitar
00:32:10
on before he put his pants on uh he'd be
00:32:14
frying his breakfast frying some bacon
00:32:16
but he'd have a guitar on and so the
00:32:18
guys used to come around the house our
00:32:20
house is just like an open house all the
00:32:22
time there all the guys from the bands
00:32:24
there I mean he was generally
00:32:26
acknowledged I mean in recently by the
00:32:28
English bands is something different I
00:32:31
mean guys like Mick Jagger used to be
00:32:33
doing interviews and he would turn on in
00:32:35
the middle of an interview and say I
00:32:36
don't know why you're talking to me you
00:32:37
should be talking to this Jimmy
00:32:38
Hendricks there's always a lot of
00:32:40
groupies around oh yeah but that was the
00:32:43
same for everybody
00:32:45
in was a different
00:32:48
world you almost always remember
00:32:50
penicillin cured everything in them days
00:32:52
you
00:32:54
know did he change
00:32:59
uh I don't think I'd be capable of
00:33:02
really answering that
00:33:04
he put this way the biggest change I saw
00:33:07
was in the studio I mean we we spent
00:33:10
time in the studio you know the the
00:33:12
records were made relatively cheaply I
00:33:14
mean I think uh all your experience
00:33:17
album cost about 1,200 to make uh axess
00:33:21
B Reser cost about 2 and a half Grand to
00:33:23
make uh by the time we got Electric Lady
00:33:26
Land it would become to me less
00:33:29
professional job we weren't just going
00:33:31
you know I've always regarded recording
00:33:33
studio as like it's a place of doing
00:33:35
your work it's like a factory you go in
00:33:37
there play and make sure the tape's
00:33:40
running look around with sound get get
00:33:42
it all right uh by the time we got
00:33:45
Electric Lady Land uh the were wasn't
00:33:48
the preparation hadn't been done the
00:33:50
pre-recording preparation hadn't been
00:33:52
done a lot of the songs were being Rec
00:33:54
written as they were playing in the
00:33:57
studio the you weren't going in with
00:33:59
with a prepared ideas uh and that was
00:34:03
the major change I saw um he started
00:34:06
getting a lot more indecisive about
00:34:08
things as well uh and there was just so
00:34:12
many hangers on coming in the studio and
00:34:15
it it seemed as if he needed that some
00:34:17
for in the studio he never had before
00:34:20
where when we were in the studio in the
00:34:22
before up until that point in time was
00:34:24
only just us and possibly the odd
00:34:26
musician like Keith Richard would pop in
00:34:29
or Brian Jones or Dave Miller so you
00:34:32
know people would pop in and maybe play
00:34:34
a few balls and things on tracks but
00:34:36
there were like there were also Pro
00:34:38
musicians all of a sudden when we're in
00:34:40
New York on Electric Lady Land there was
00:34:43
just a lot of Hangers On You Know
00:34:45
Hangers On were a
00:34:47
problem but uh why is that well they're
00:34:50
hard to get rid of I mean they come and
00:34:53
sit at your table or they make
00:34:55
conversation or they followed him you
00:34:57
know if we went somewhere you could
00:34:59
guarantee that you know there'd be half
00:35:00
a dozen faces peering through the window
00:35:02
or whatever of of girls or asking for
00:35:06
autographs he didn't mind giving them at
00:35:09
all but um when you get Disturbed at
00:35:12
home and you know the phone rings and uh
00:35:15
people knock on the door it does get
00:35:17
annoying and you see Jimmy had this
00:35:19
terrible habit when he'd had a few
00:35:20
drinks he'd give people his telephone
00:35:22
number so we used to have to have two
00:35:24
phones one that we didn't answer and one
00:35:26
that we did
00:35:28
and um he didn't want to speak to them
00:35:30
once he was sober he just gave them the
00:35:33
number to get rid of them presumably we
00:35:35
didn't get these sleep we were traveling
00:35:37
so much um there'd be like a photo call
00:35:40
and then we'd have to travel say to the
00:35:41
north of England in the car we do a gig
00:35:44
you travel back that maybe that same
00:35:46
night from like Manchester to London you
00:35:49
then maybe go in the studio and do maybe
00:35:52
a few hours work and you go to sleep and
00:35:54
then next day you fly to Paris and you
00:35:56
do two dates then there to me it was um
00:36:00
being very young I really enjoyed it
00:36:02
because of the traveling you know and
00:36:07
um then suddenly we had lots of
00:36:09
girlfriends as well but I was very fond
00:36:11
of him and I think he was fond of me
00:36:13
what sparked it what were the we used to
00:36:15
have RS we used to argue over anything
00:36:18
sort
00:36:19
of anything my cooking mainly thought I
00:36:23
couldn't cook you know and he was quite
00:36:26
right I can't
00:36:28
and uh I can't remember I was only 22 21
00:36:32
20 I mean I can't really remember what
00:36:35
sparked things off those in those
00:36:37
days um but we did used to have RS and
00:36:41
fights in fact I used to hit him and
00:36:43
he'd hit me back and we end up you know
00:36:47
fighting in the uh kitchen and that's
00:36:49
when he wrote The Wind Cries Mary
00:36:51
because I smashed all the dishes and he
00:36:53
had to sweep them up and that's all in
00:36:54
the song Kathy chingam no reading and a
00:36:57
number of Hendrick's friends had seen
00:36:59
Jimmy party hard over and over and snap
00:37:03
back fine the next morning and they knew
00:37:05
Hendrick never used hard drugs like
00:37:08
heroin so what happened this time why
00:37:11
did he die in the evening there was 3/4
00:37:15
of an hour where Jimmy went to a party
00:37:17
where I wasn't there I don't know what
00:37:20
happened there but I do know one thing
00:37:22
that people there gave him drugs and he
00:37:25
showed them to me and then he he throw
00:37:27
them into the drainage I cannot
00:37:30
understand why somebody who claims to
00:37:33
love him to be about to marry him when
00:37:35
he died and were engaged never made any
00:37:38
complaint uh that these things happened
00:37:40
to him and I just hope that
00:37:42
um they actually find out what happened
00:37:47
and uh of course he was my friend and I
00:37:49
worked with the guy for 3 years and we
00:37:52
did have arguments on the road but
00:37:54
everyone has arguments on the road um of
00:37:58
course you're living together for so
00:37:59
long our tour us for 3 months you
00:38:01
know
00:38:03
um and I still miss the guy I still
00:38:06
think about the guy in the statement
00:38:08
that Monica made on the day of Jimmy's
00:38:10
death she said that she woke up at 11:00
00:38:12
saw he was covered covered in vomit and
00:38:14
breathing noisily when the inquest Was
00:38:17
Heard 10 days later she changed that to
00:38:19
10 to 1020 that she woke up and that
00:38:21
she'd uh gone out to get cigarettes and
00:38:23
when she came back he'd been
00:38:25
sick um that's quite isn't it from the
00:38:28
first one I mean you either wake up and
00:38:30
find them covered in vomit and breathing
00:38:32
noisily
00:38:34
or you do all these other things first
00:38:36
and the other question I'd like to um
00:38:38
like the answer to is how she managed to
00:38:40
remember everything in such great detail
00:38:43
and how she managed to get up have a
00:38:46
wash eat breakfast go out and get
00:38:48
cigarettes when she'd Taken 3 hours
00:38:51
earlier in 3 hours and 20 minutes
00:38:53
earlier 200 Mig of queen of barberone
00:38:56
which would knock an elephant Out for8
00:39:00
hours Jimmy Hendrick continues to
00:39:02
generate millions of dollars in revenues
00:39:04
from his music his father before he died
00:39:07
in 2008 sued successfully to gain
00:39:11
control of Jimmy's music royalties but
00:39:13
so-called psychedelic live shows like
00:39:16
this one which are relics out of an Out
00:39:19
Of Tune past managed to flourish for a
00:39:22
while even with barkers he's Timeless I
00:39:26
mean you all the cliche days about Jimmy
00:39:28
are true um but he was ahead of his time
00:39:31
then he's ahead of his time now his
00:39:33
music his message are just as relevant
00:39:36
today as they were years ago um and
00:39:40
that's why I think he's speaking to
00:39:41
these young kids to college kids as well
00:39:44
as to people that were around when he
00:39:46
was actually in concert are still
00:39:48
listening to his music and are still
00:39:50
moved by it um Jimmy's an inspiration to
00:39:54
all kinds of people I mean not just
00:39:56
guitar players and musicians dance
00:39:58
companies The Boston Ballet the the
00:40:00
London ballet have choreographed pieces
00:40:03
to Jimmy's music as a legend Jimmy
00:40:05
Hendrick still has a huge following
00:40:08
especially in Europe he's come a long
00:40:10
way from Greenwich Village almost every
00:40:13
day European tourists show up outside
00:40:16
the cafe W looking for signs of their
00:40:19
hero this couple for example from Milan
00:40:23
typical in America it was a was nobody
00:40:26
knows him know especially when uh the
00:40:30
part of arlem I know that didn't like
00:40:32
him because he wasn't a real R&B players
00:40:36
no and uh just when he he goes to he
00:40:41
moves in Europe in London no everybody
00:40:45
knows him and uh he he he earn his
00:40:50
really Fame in uh in Europe and uh maybe
00:40:55
America is is not very generous with
00:40:57
Jimmy andri I think that Jimmy andri
00:41:00
music can be compared to anything else
00:41:02
because his way of playing guitar his
00:41:04
way on moving his way of singing his way
00:41:07
of making the show is really peculiar
00:41:10
and it's
00:41:13
really apart from the rest of our people
00:41:16
and I think that I like Jim and is most
00:41:17
of all for the energy that's exactly
00:41:21
comes and stricks off of his figure I
00:41:26
think he completely changed the whole
00:41:29
um nature of rock and roll music The
00:41:32
hris Legacy but little or none of this
00:41:35
River of money has found its way into
00:41:37
the pockets of those who were there at
00:41:39
the beginning you sit there you know you
00:41:41
have certain rights on things but when a
00:41:44
friends
00:41:46
died if I wanted to take up anything in
00:41:49
them days on my rights on Jimmy it would
00:41:51
have meant i' have to Su Jimmy's father
00:41:54
and uh that certainly was something I
00:41:56
was never prepared to do
00:41:58
things have changed now though because
00:42:00
Jimmy's father's suing the people that's
00:42:01
ruin the state so I wouldn't have to be
00:42:03
suing Jimmy's father anymore it came as
00:42:05
a shock to me when the when the police
00:42:07
were um asked to investigate because I
00:42:10
didn't ask for that in my file I just
00:42:13
asked for them to reopen the inquest and
00:42:15
hear new evidence I didn't know that
00:42:18
there was going to be a Scotland Yard
00:42:19
inquiry the Scotland Yard inquiry is
00:42:22
just um preliminary inquiry to uh make
00:42:27
statements for Witnesses living in this
00:42:29
country they finished that on the 17th
00:42:31
of February and they handed that back to
00:42:33
the crown prosecution service who then
00:42:35
take a look at it and then they pass it
00:42:37
on to the Attorney General Sir Nicholas
00:42:38
Lyle and yes and then he makes a
00:42:41
decision whether to reopen the inquest
00:42:44
quash the original verdict reopen the
00:42:45
inquest and have another hearing only he
00:42:48
can do that the police can't do it Crown
00:42:50
prosecution service can't do it that's
00:42:52
how the law is in this country as for
00:42:54
Jimmy's friends Monica danman painted an
00:42:57
endless stream of portraits in her home
00:43:00
just outside of London she was always
00:43:02
haunted by the last hours of his life
00:43:05
wondering if she did everything she
00:43:08
could have to save his life eventually
00:43:12
she committed
00:43:13
suicide Kathy Edington retired living in
00:43:17
London content with her memories it
00:43:21
should be known what happened that
00:43:22
morning whether even if the
00:43:24
um the facts are unsa
00:43:27
y it needs to be known everyone has a
00:43:30
right for their death to
00:43:33
be um investigated as for no reading he
00:43:38
died quietly never fully satisfied that
00:43:41
he understood Jimmy's death well he was
00:43:44
a dear friend of mine and like I worked
00:43:45
with a guy for 3 years on the road and
00:43:47
like if you work with a guy for three
00:43:48
years on the road you get to know the
00:43:50
guy even though you might have arguments
00:43:52
with the guy and I was very young when
00:43:54
Jimmy died so it did affect me
00:43:58
and I still think about him now I've
00:44:00
just sort of haven't felt right about it
00:44:03
Jimmy raised the bar he raised the bar
00:44:06
in U musical ways in pop culture ways he
00:44:11
scared the B Jesus out of everybody
00:44:14
including Eric Clapton I can recall
00:44:17
seeing the cover of the I guess it was
00:44:19
the are you experienced album and I
00:44:22
remember saying to
00:44:23
myself nah this may be just a little too
00:44:26
freaky even for
00:44:28
me of course you heard the music and and
00:44:31
that all changed
00:44:32
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