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#104071

In The Know

Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago

Just finished watching this well put together rockumentary (shown on BBC1 last night).

What a career ... started at Monterey festival and ended at the Isle of Wight festival 1970 (taking in Woodstock along the way).

I was never a huge fan (of the music) - and met Jimi several times (always found him very charming).

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#104078

JK2006

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago
I was annoyed by Chas claiming credit for Hey Joe. I have a letter from Jimi thanking me for playing him the Leaves version which I'd brought back from LA a few months earlier and convincing him to cover it as his first single. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#104082

andrew

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago
I only ever met 2 people who have The Leaves record. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#104088

JK2006

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago
And didn't include Jimi, Andrew, who begged me for my copy; I refused but made him an illegal cassette copy instead. So Jimi's career was founded on a crime committed by me! Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#104090

In The Know

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago

The writer (of Hey Joe) - Tim Rose - was "featured" a few months ago on Heir Hunters (the programme that tracks down heirs of those who have died intestate).

He was American but spent much of his time in the UK.

Very sad to see someone die with virtually no one left to remember them. They played a clip of Tim performing Hey Joe (on one of those Jools Holland programmes)

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#104091

In The Know

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago
On checking further it seems that was copyright claims from others over "Hey Joe" and it may have been a traditional work Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#104131

JK2006

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago

Yes I'm sure Chas did hear the song at a Tim Rose gig and made a mental note that it was a hit song but it was definitely me, JK, who played the Leaves version to Jimi (I pointed out the delicious bass riff which he got Noel Redding to emulate in his cover) which inspired him to want to record it. It's quite clear in his sweet letter to me, thanking me.

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#104168

Jimi Fan

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago

JK2006 wrote:
I was annoyed by Chas claiming credit for Hey Joe. I have a letter from Jimi thanking me for playing him the Leaves version which I'd brought back from LA a few months earlier and convincing him to cover it as his first single.

In the documentary Chas doesn't claim to have introduced Jimi to the song Hey Joe. He says he had already heard the Tim Rose slow version of Hey Joe and wanted to find an artist to record it that way. According to Chas in the documentary the first song "Jimmy James and the Blue Flames" played when he went to see them at the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village, NY was that particular song.

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#104174

JK2006

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago
Yes - spot on JF - and confirms my thought that Jimi played Chas the Leaves version after I'd turned him onto it and Chas went "yeah - I love that song; do it". Chas was also a lovely guy, by the way. Read 65 My Life So Far for more tales about the delightful (if naive) Jimi. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#104180

Jimi Fan

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago

JK2006 wrote:
Yes - spot on JF - and confirms my thought that Jimi played Chas the Leaves version after I'd turned him onto it"

Not quite, Chas claimed he heard Jimi play the song in New York before Jimi ever came to London.

Your version may be the correct one but Chas obviously has more credibility having been Jimi's manager and as he is dead he wont be changing his story so that is the one that historians will accept.

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#104184

JK2006

Re:Imagine - Jimi Hendrix 11 Years, 7 Months ago
No reason why both stories are not correct; Chas knew the song, considered doing a version of it but it was only when Jimi told him about hearing it in my flat that he went into action. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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