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Hendrix was not the drugged-up hippy of legend. His performance at Woodstock was stunning, because he was way more sober than lots of the audience. He had left the army because he broke his ankle not because he was some anti-war doper. Eric Burden, of the Animals, said that Hendrix had been gung ho, at first, about Vietnam.He was not a natural born rebel or substance abuser and this probably killed him when he mixed drink and drugs in London .One Rocker (still Rolling) has kept the Golden Triangle going personally for decades, but some do not make it, as the Brian Joneses and Joplins didn 't find out.
No, Hendrix was not bumped off because he was counterculture, as the conspiracists believe. The bad guys would have just had to wait ... he would have done the job for them.
It will be no consolation to his close people that his contribution was rather more than just his guitaring. For me it was the clever structure of his songs. The hair of course.
The man who I think was indeed murdered, was Bill Hicks. I would have recommended it, had I been in the business. This guy was shockingly damaging to the US government and so funny that he would be capable of swinging elections.
"We keep hearing about the Iraq Army being the 4th largest in the world. It 's true ... but after the first 3 there 's a BIG drop off. "
