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- Christine Young [Highland 01] Highland Honor (pdf)
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- Dena Garson [Emerald Isle Fantasies 03] Ghostly Persuasion [EC Twilight] (pdf)
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- Alan Burt Akers [Dray Prescot 07] Arena of Antares (pdf)
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yelled. Sure, man, Jimi mumbled as he stuck a bill in the jar and
walked on. The vendor then held the dollar aloft and began bellowing
so that everyone in the vicinity could hear: JIMI HENDRIX WANTS
A PANTHER NEWSPAPER! The vendor became confrontational
with the Aleems, putting the jar in front of their faces and asking, Jimi
Hendrix buy a Black Panther paper and y all don t? The Aleems were
lifelong residents of Harlem, where the Black Panthers, Black Muslims,
and other groups were all fighting for turf in 1968. We happened to be
affiliated with the hustlers, and we weren t going to be intimidated by
the Panthers, Taharqa recalled. As the vendor continued to shake the
money jar, the twins brushed it aside and walked by. Jimi Hendrix
wanted the Black Panther paper, Tunde-Ra said. We don t.
As Jimi s celebrity grew, so did the number of people who sought
to use him as a spokesperson for their own cause. In London the year
before, Michael Abdul Malik, a black anarchist who went by the name
Michael X, demanded a meeting with Jimi. Kathy Etchingham recalled
that Jimi was afraid to meet with X, but more fearful of saying no since
X was also a well-known criminal (he would later be convicted of mur-
der and executed). Jimi agreed to meet with him, but took Etchingham
along. Rather than talk politics, X spent the entire evening berating Jimi
for having a white girlfriend. Jimi left the flat as soon as he could. On
the way home, Etchingham recalls that Jimi stopped on the street and
for several moments his entire body shook with both anger and fear.
He was Jimi Hendrix, one of the biggest pop stars in the world, but
he was also increasingly a target.
C H A P T E R T W E N T Y
ELECTRIC CHURCH
MUSIC
LONDON, ENGLAND
January 1969 May 1969
We play our music, Electric Church Music, because it s like a
religion to us.
JIMI HENDRIX to HUGH CURRY of the CBC
THE BEGINNING OF 1969 was the beginning of the end of the Jimi
Hendrix Experience. In several interviews, Jimi spoke of his desire to
work with other musicians. Very soon, probably in the new year, we ll
be breaking the group apart for selected dates, he told Melody Maker.
Jimi implied that the break would be temporary, and that he would add
other musicians as needed, which was how Electric Ladyland had been
recorded. But by 1969, relations between Jimi and his two bandmates
had changed enough that the British papers were already describing
Noel Redding as ex-Experience, though he was still in the group. The
trio had once traveled everywhere together, even during their leisure
time, but on off days they now went their separate ways. After Chas
Chandler left, things began to drift apart, Noel said. We were so over-
whelmed by the money and the glamour of being so-called pop stars,
242 C H A R L E S R . C R O S S
we all forgot we were people. Noel and Jimi now treated each other
with outright hostility, while Mitch tried to stay out of the line of fire.
When the band s 1968 U.S. tour ended, Mitch and Noel hurried to the
U.K. for the holidays, while Jimi stayed in New York and continued to
jam nightly in clubs. He arrived in the U.K. on January 2 it was the
first time in almost six months that he was back at his own apartment
and back with Kathy Etchingham.
Jimi did a number of interviews with the press in January, all con-
ducted in the Brook Street flat. With Chas gone, he decided to stop pre-
tending to be a bachelor and to publicly introduce Etchingham as his
girlfriend. His disclosure may have been provoked by rumors in late
1968 that Jimi was already married. When the Disc and Music Echo had
asked about those reports, Chas denied them and expressed shock: If
he had planned to wed, everyone would know about it because I would
capitalize on it for the publicity. And as if to maintain Jimi s sexy im-
age, Chandler had added, He has hundreds of girlfriends. To Chan-
dler, any press that made Jimi sound controversial, and available, was
good press. Jimi decided to put a stop to all that and debuted Kathy to
the Daily Mirror as my girlfriend, my past girlfriend and probably my
future girlfriend. My mother and my sister and all that bit. My Yoko
Ono from Chester. Etchingham felt some level of vindication in Jimi s
public acknowledgment of a relationship that had already run two years,
but she would have felt even better had Jimi stopped cheating on her.
On January 4, 1969, the Experience appeared on the BBC s live
television program Happening for Lulu. Exposure on television had
been essential in launching the band two years before, but by 1969,
Jimi had little patience for the artificiality of the medium. The Experi-
ence was scheduled to play two songs and Jimi was to end the show
with a duet with host Lulu. Instead of sticking to that script, after a per-
formance of Voodoo Child and as Lulu was speaking, Jimi played
feedback. Unnerved, Lulu finished her introduction: They re gonna
sing for you right now the song that absolutely made them in this coun-
try, Hey Joe, and I love to hear them sing it. They played about two
minutes of Hey Joe before Jimi paused: We d like to stop playing
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this rubbish and dedicate a song to the Cream, regardless of what kind
of group they may be in. We dedicate this to Eric Clapton, Ginger
Baker, and Jack Bruce. With that, the band broke into Sunshine of
Your Love. As the Experience played a lengthy version of the song in
honor of the Cream s recent breakup, off camera the stage director was
signaling at Jimi to stop. Hendrix s response, which only the director
could see, was to gesture with his middle finger. The Experience kept
playing, eventually using up all the remaining time on the live show.
When they finally ended, the producer was furious. You ll never ap-
pear on the BBC again, he threatened. While the event looked sponta-
neous, Jimi told Etchingham he had planned it all along. I m not going
to sing with Lulu, he told Kathy. I d look ridiculous.
Three days later Jimi let Hugh Curry of the Canadian Broadcast-
ing Channel into his apartment for a lengthy television interview. It was
one of the many interviews that month during which Jimi began to in-
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