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Post subject: Funny Hendrix Story
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:10 am
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Just heard this story over the weekend... I got a good chuckle out of it:

In 1967, the year Jimi Hendrix became the toast of London, a bartender at a working-class pub in Liverpool mistook the rock star for someone far less glamorous.

"Sorry, mates, we can't serve your sort in here," the crusty old barkeep told Hendrix and his bandmate, Noel Redding. "We got rules, you know."

Hendrix and Redding puzzled over the bartender's rebuff. Both musicians wore purple scarves around their necks and "halos of frizzy hair". Hendrix was dressed in wine-red velvet trousers, a frilly pirate shirt, ancient British military jacket and black cape.

Hendrix wondered if he was being discriminated against because of his skin color, though such problems were unusual at the time in England.

His second thought was that his military jacket, a relic of the glory days of the British Empire -- purchased at a flea market -- might be offensive to English war vets. It had given him problems before.

When pressed for an explanation, the bartender angrily pointed to a sign on the door.

"If we let one of you in, the whole <expletive> place will be full of your sort, and that's no way to run a pub," he bellowed.

Redding collapsed in a fit of laughter after finding a circus poster on the pub door, with a note below it that read, "No Clowns Allowed."

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Well... now that you mention it... :P

Thanks for sharing!

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That's cute.

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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:43 am
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Now THAT is hilarious! I am sure glad fashion has moved away from that sort of garb!

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Thank you.

Kinda reminds one of the beatniks' (snobbish?) disdain for hippies, whom they saw as, "suburban kids dressed up in dopey clothes."


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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:15 am
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Great Story. I bet Hendrix's flamboyant outfits caused all sorts of run-ins!

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....Then came the Spandex and Capes. :roll: :? :shock:

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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:53 pm
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theres a youtube video called jimi hendrix shoots hippie with shotgun. or something like that.

This hippie is talking stuff about how we could improve america, then hendrix pops out of a window nearby with a shotgun and shoots the hippie dead!

OF COURSE THIS WAS A JOKE.

but funny nonetheless

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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:55 pm
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ClearwaterZiggy wrote:
Just heard this story over the weekend... I got a good chuckle out of it:


Hendrix is NOT a laughing matter. Do Muslims make jokes about Mohammed? Do Buddhists make jokes about Buddha?

So Fender guitar fans cannot make jokes about the Master Jimi Hendrix.


* jk *

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HELL YEAH!

By the way, does anyone know if the LP "Sound Track Recordings From The Film Jimi Hendrix" is considered a Hendrix LP? 'Cause I got one!

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By the way, does anyone know if the LP "Sound Track Recordings From The Film Jimi Hendrix" is considered a Hendrix LP? 'Cause I got one!


If it's that double album, with the white-ish cover, that is full of classic live Hendrix music, I'd have to say YES that is considered a Hendrix album.

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It's from 1973 its got a picture (painted) of Hendrix sitting on a stool playing a 12 string acoustic.

This one's not mine. Mine's in BETTER condition.
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It apparently is a Hendrix LP and is categorized as a "posthumous compilation album"

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I don't know if this would be considered a joke, but the bootleg live recording of Hendrix with Jim Morrison doing ragingly drunk vocals would be funny to me if it wasn't so awful.


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Brilliant story!


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