Jimi Hendrix

Focusing on Jimi Hendrix’s arrival on the London scene, Pete Townshend discussing him with Eric Clapton, Hendrix on forming The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mick Jagger, Hendrix’s father Al, then Purple Haze, as performed on a German TV show taped in London, in Jimi Hendrix, 1973.

Jimi Hendrix fan Lou Reed and friend Pat Hartley on the guitarist’s struggles with fame and fortune, Hendrix on the subject with Dick Cavett, and comments from Hendrix roommates and colleagues Albert and Arthur Allen, (a.k.a. Ghetto Fighters, also Tunde Ra and Taharga Aleem) in Jimi Hendrix, 1973.

An anecdote from Pete Townshend, of The Who, opens the documentary, followed by a performance of the blues standard Rock Me Baby, from the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, in Jimi Hendrix, 1973.

Subject Jimi Hendrix appears on the Dick Cavett show, July 1969, leading to comments from his U.S. Army band-mates, Billy Cox and Major Charles Washington, in the documentary Jimi Hendrix, 1973.