Amazing – a rare video collector posts an exclusive performance on German television of The Jimi Hendrix Experience playing Purple Haze.
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A new book called Rock Roadie out next month, penned by James ‘Tappy’ Wright, one of Jimi Hendrix roadies at the time, claims that Hendrix was stuffed with pills and drowned with red wine by his then-manager Michael Jeffrey who feared the superstar rocker was going to leave him for new management.
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A review of Blk Jks’ May 21, 2009 performance at the Echo in Los Angeles.
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Martha Stewart,
mr bungle,
Mystery,
Paul Simon,
psych-rock,
Secret Machines,
South Africa,
Summertime,
TV on the Radio,
Vampire Weekend
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