Jimi Hendrix just called me.
Mitch Mitchell said in 1989, "If Hendrix had taken all the drugs the papers and rock books say he took, he'd never have lived as long as he did. Jimi was the kind of person who'd push things to the nth degree, but I never saw suicidal tendencies there. He's painted as this tragic figure, but he wasn't. He died tragically, but that's not the same thing."
Billy Cox, who knew him from his Army days, said it best, earlier that year...
"There are those who come before the public eye and are commercialized into the consciousness of the masses. We are told they are popular, and we echo, they are popular. Then there are a few who are so intuitively tuned into the universe that they are still influential even though they are beyond sight. This is immortality, and Jimi Hendrix is immortal. It is exciting to know that the world has yet to truly be exposed to Jimi's genius. Maybe the overshadowing rumors that are used by some to cloud his image will be replaced by an understanding of the man I knew - a child of the universe, a guitar master, a warm and gentle soul."
Jimi Hendrix just called me.
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Originally Posted by Ganj
yes they did. was i misinformed, like the rest?
The ambulancemen, Reg Jones and John Suau, have given at least one statement which contradicts Monika Denneman's version of events.
In the light of recent investigations, there seems little doubt that Jimi was alive when the ambulance arrived simply because Jones and Suau took Jimi to the hospital. If he'd been dead, they would have left him for the police.
However, a 1992 statement by the London Ambulance Service maintains that
'there was no one else' at the flat when they arrived and that nobody travelled with them in the ambulance - claims that Monika vigorously refuted.
They tried to revive him at the hospital but they couldn't so they listed him as Dead On Arrival.
