Jimi Hendrix

Out for a Thanksgiving week jaunt of the clubs and concert halls, the Voice's Riffs reporter experienced not just Jimi Hendrix, but the Jefferson Airplane, Slim Harpo, and some “profoundly witty, imaginative Scottish folk music for the year 2001.”

Originally published:

“Hendrix is unerring, his authority absolute. He had an off-night of his own Friday, but his off-nights are better than the best moments of most contem­porary musicians. If he did make a mistake it would probably be the most exciting musical mistake of our time.”

“Stoned silly most of the time, more than half a million freaks from all over the country made the painful pilgrimage to Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm to play in the mud.”

"Do not the dead deserve an accounting at least as irreproachable as the survivors receive with each week’s edi­tion of Billboard?"

Originally published:

Janis Joplin ‘lives more in one song than a lot of people do in one lifetime’; Jimi Hendrix wipes his nose with the Confederate flag