The flat where Jimi Hendrix stayed in the 1960's has had a major restoration project - and it's now open to the public. We've been inside the Mayfair house which has been turned into an exact replica of the way it looked in 1969.
"The best guitar player sitting on this chair"...after decades,Jimi doesn't cease on amazing me...this is a lesson of life.The figure of Hendrix gets bigger and bigger as time goes by.He is a mistery,an enigmatic human being and a legacy to humanity.What a pity he died young...
This video doesn't show much of the flat, it's mostly Etchingham talking, but I visited the place last year and I highly recommend it. They've recreated the original in such good detail that when you walk in you think that Jimi has just popped out for a little while and will be returning soon.
Saw Jimi all 3 times he came to San Diego the last time in July or August of 1970 I jumped on the stage in the heat of a song he stepped toward me I had my hand stretched and he shook it and said something to me but I could not hear him that was the greatest experience of my life I was just 17years. Old
thank you so much Kathy, this is such a nice interview. You sound like a lovely woman, and I'm not surprised that Jimi liked you. He was such a humble, kind, human being from what I sense in his interviews. This is amazing that the flat is now back to just how it once was when he lived there, and that we can visit it. I did go to the Handel museum in the past, and the staff there is extremely nice & respectful of both musicians equally.
Just got back from London. Saw his bedroom. Only original thing is the oval mirror above the mantelpiece. Curator told me, everything else has been replicated from photos and with the help of Ms. Etchingham.
Jimi was an American born and bred but his spiritual home was London which readily accepted him and were he became the superstar he couldn't have done in his homeland. And had he lived , 45 years in he'd still be living in London.
I don't think one person can be the greatest guitarist because the guitar is such a diverse instrument, with steel/nylon string acoustics, hollow/solid bodied electrics, accompanying all genres of music, strumming, hybrid/finger picking, and all the greatest players are brilliant in their field, from Djanjo, Segovia, B. B. King, Merle Travis, Atkins, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Tommy Tedesco, Jerry Reed, Mark Kopfler, Eric Clapton and the list goes on, but Jimi was great no doubt!
Lemmy from Motörhead use to be a roadie for Hendrix. I've always been intrigued by Jimi Hendrix, I'm a bassist but I always dug his playing style & the bass playing was so over looked. Hendrix was such a humble man.
Worth a visit to jimmies flat and Handels house. You enter the flat through a knocked down wall in Handels house. Two legends in different eras. It was ten pound entry and if you take your time you can spend a pleasant hour there. Also in a lovely part of London the Mayfair area near Bond st tube station.
Jimi left Brook St to tour America in March 69. And then he bought his own very luxurious apartment in New York befitting his rock star status, in the October of that year, and built Electric Ladyland Studios nearby. Cathy didnt kick him out to die!!
😎👍👍👍Kathy just for you, he went on to things much bigger. Don't count him out quite yet. I'm thinking the last couple of days before he left, he had already begun to Glow. The last time I saw him he had to turn on something inside my head so I could see him, he was so bright my eyes didn't even work there, he turn on some kind of different kind of sight. For all of you still with hearts; The Highway Child❤❤❤
I have it on a VHS tape were he was told he was the greatest but he gave that credit to Rory Gallagher which eagle rock took off most of his music on RU-vid and iTunes but Rory gave him the credit for making new chords and sounds on the guitar
Lets just get facts straight here people Jimi Hendrix would be alive today if his management had given him time off , the reason he was taking so many sleeping pills was because he did not ever get time to settle he was always being moved around from tour to tour in the 1970 he performed over 200 different concerts in 1 year and had to go from Hawaii to Sweden to Isle of Wight to Germany to Atlanta USA etc etc also the only reason Eric Clapton is still alive today is he did the clever thing he quit touring and performing and locked himself away for 2 years after Jimi died so he could get off Heroin same is true for Jimmy Page if he had not quit Heroin in the 80,s he would be gone too
You my great valuable points which obviously I've replied to late 2 years ago to be honest I believe that he was killed due to his management uni was being ripped off and it's very strange how his friend died not long after him because she was going to expose the person who murdered him black people are not allowed to be independent or keep their royalties always have to be in control and in that industry you're more famous dead than Alive so because Jimmy was going to expose and get him removed it was better that he was dead so that he could get most of his royalties
one of those guitars Jimi set ablaze and broke it up was later bought by Frank Zappa , Frank's son Dweezil found it under a staircase and had it rebuilt
From what I've read he used to have people come over to jam, including drums, so from time to time he was plugged in and it got pretty loud, but it was late and his neighbors were the Handel museum which was closed and a bar downstairs which didn't care. The reason he had to move here was that where he lived before, the neighbors complained about the noise.
I noticed the Epiphone Texan laid on the bed, it dosen't look like a guitar that had been around 50 years old...... isn't Epiphone stopped making these models? Or Epiphone really remake this guitar just for displaying, lol
Update: I finally got a chance to visit the museum 1 month ago , and I finally got to see the guitar laying on the bed, it was Epiphone EL-00, but they somehow changed the fretboard inlay from dot inlays to the Parallelogram inlays, just to represent the model (1951 Epiphone FT-79 Texan) that Jimi used to composed many of his songs, which also displayed in the flat, too. It was a great experience, the flat is not very big, tho.
When he came over she indicates an interesting scenario that is telling. When he came over no one asked for his auto graph or picture ... but they did look... White people were not wanting to be intimidated back then is a starting point... as to why someone so world famous get that kind of reception... i remember watching the isle of wight concert.. fucking badass and been stoned and trying to pull shapes without falling over and air guitar... sore knees the next day.. a A UP! theres always one dude that wants to bring politics into it though
Management pressures and a heavy tour schedule done him in, they were idiots by double and triple booking him and he would have to double back where he just was, stupid, period.....
His manager knew Jimi was going to leave him so he took out a $2 million life insurance policy on him. (That was a lot of money then. In 1970 in the U.S. the average home cost $24,000.) Sounds like motive.
The discrimination he faced was due to racial biases, not because he was a rock star. However, he succeeded beyond his imagination despite these setbacks.
That beautifull lady was the one and only who had a real deep connection with Hendrix until the end , not like the last witch "Dannemann" who i truly believe , was an accomplice of his murder ...
DEATH DOESN'T NEED PSYCHDRUGS, by the way....just a billion dollar apology for having caused it ....KISSING THE SKY for decades after all gets boring...
Hope,they'll fly Jimmy in safe from the US and give him back this flat a n d pay for it (he has n o access to his trust....like all of the disappeared ones...)
Leo Fender did not like what Jimi did at Monterey to one of his creations. How would you feel if you spent many hours creating a beautiful guitar with your love and someone smashed it on stage and set it on fire? So childish, like the infantile WHO. Jimi later wanted people to listen to his music. He no longer liked putting on that wild stage act and singing Foxey Lady. Jimi moved on to far better material.
