The first is the quintessential groupie, author of a couple of autobiographies of great success, I'm with the Band and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart (first published by Castelvecchi as I'm with the band), and two books of gossip about the world of rock / media / etc (Let's Spend the Night Together and Rock Bottom, the first of which was also published in Italian, with the same title, Castelvecchio), among its many achievements of late sixties we Noel Redding, bass player of Experience, the group of Jimi. Cynthia is another groupie, famous for inventing the idea of \u200b\u200ba rock star cast of the bird, which has specialized since the late sixties. His early models have their own Hendrix, for which you need a dose of material to be calculated much higher than the norm: "It has the biggest deal I've ever seen! "Cynthia writes in her diary. The two attend the Experience in the same period and not contribute much to the attention of Jimi, Noel and for those (even if submitted to Cynthia Plaster Caster, the bass player gets excited too, and if in the case of the problem is that Jimi " not become soft 'and then the two casters have trouble extracting it, in the case of Noel find themselves uncomfortably with a cast "like a worm). So the two have an understanding "first hand" on the matter. In the documentary film that Vivid attached to offers for sale, Pamela and Cynthia focus on the identification of the protagonist of the loop, he believes that this is just Jimi. The clothing and hair that is seen seem to coincide with his. The argument is strong, however, another: "What the fuck is Jimi Hendrix, and I should just know," says Cynthia at the end of the loop.
Cynthia itself produces the original cast of Feb. 1968, which is superimposed on that of the fast loop, obtaining a mating (at least according to the director). The other two provide useful information, particularly Des Barres said he knew that Hendrix 'liked filming himself while having sex. " Dial adds, in a caption, Vivid think that "you have identified the person who in 1969 turned this 8 mm; but this was declared unavailable for an interview and then," for legal reasons, "one can not cite name. The idea that Hendrix will be featured in a home movie hard is neither shocking nor span the air. In the late sixties, in the sphere of culture and counterculture, between beats, hippies and various revolutionary, in an atmosphere imbued with utopianism and sexual liberation, and participation in a hardcore loop could well be seen as a subversive act, as a way to fight the system and do not conform to his decrepit moral values. Among the avant-garde art in New York or Paris via the explicit sex in film is less unusual than you might think today, and Hendrix is \u200b\u200bfully involved in this climate.
On the other hand, careful observation of the loop reveals, even to non-experts professionally Hendrix, some discrepancies, the first of which is that, on closer look, the black of the loop is only apparently similar to the musician in the second rise, even assuming that the black loop resembles Hendrix (which is very questionable, as we have seen), a similarity is not sufficient to establish identification, in the late sixties with the blacks afro hair, mustache and bandana abounded streets of American cities, without bothering to show statistics, or mention the Black Panthers, one need only recall the various impersonator of Jimi, or perhaps that Delvert Turner, guitarist and frontman of different groups, on its similarity and proximity friendship with Hendrix built his entire career. In short, black loop certainly has the physical characteristics in common with Jimi, but this is certainly not enough to be able to assert their identity. Finally, a question of context: the loop is typical of a certain style of production, still characterized by secrecy.
We have a hotel room, poor furnishings, a certain technical limitations of expression: if the protagonist Hendrix had really been that there would need to shoot in those conditions? Why not do it in the rooms of the rich who often stayed in the hotel? Or maybe in his fabulous villa? It might suggest that the home movie was made in order to give the impression that the star was Hendrix. Whether that is a kind of "fake page". This is the view of Matthew Ceschi, one of the greatest Italian hendrixologi. The show even the "mistakes" (for example, the two rings on the wrong hand of the notoriously left-handed Hendrix, and perfectly equal, from our favorite combination ever), which would indicate a certain degree of closeness, not superficial knowledge, habits of the guitarist.
Ceschi There are two hypotheses: a kind of spoof or orchestrated by his friends, or something more serious, some maneuver plotted against Hendrix, for example by its producer Mike Jeffery, who not only evaded most of the guitarist earnings (placing them in off-shore accounts), but make every effort to control it, thanks to its connections with the CIA and organized crime. The home movie may have been conceived as a means of blackmail, or something like that. This would explain both its construction and its poor and illegal, "flooding" in the following decades, and the randomness of its recent re-emergence. In any case, even if ceschiana the hypothesis of the 'fake author' was confirmed, the point is also confirmed: as the fact proves charming and even fruitful in terms of cultural, good Jimi has never shot a home movie hard.
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