Unfinitely OT: Jimi Hendrix didn't like Michigan
Forgive me if most of you have no idea who Jimi Hendrix is, I'm old.
But I'm watching the Band of Gypsies concert film tonight (the album edited a lot of stuff out) and for the first time I noticed this line from Jimi (must've skipped over the speaking bits all the other times I watched it):
"Oh yeah right now I'd just say, uh, congratulations to the uh...what do you call that, Southern California Trojans, I'm so glad they beat the hell outta Michigan. I'm very glad."
But then, that might have had something to do with the Detroit riots of the day.
Still love Jimi, but ouch.
apparently, around here these days. Five years ago, all the sentiment would have been on my side.
He grew up in Seattle, if I am not mistaken. So if he did follow college football, it makes sense that he followed the west coast teams. I am not sure how much of a fan he was of the game. The statement seems sort of off-the-cuff but, if anything, he is just showing love to his coast. I don't think he "hated" Michigan. Even if he did, I am still keeping all my Jimi stuff.
OT- interesting fact....
Hendrix's first gig was with an unnamed band in the basement of a synagogue, Seattle's Templ De Hirsch. Crazy, no? Can you see Jimi tearing it up in a house of worship? Granted, when he started out playing he was not exactly playing the same psychadelic rock that he was at Monterey.
Oh yeah? Well.......reggie bush never existed and usc didn't play football in 2004!
So there! I just NCAA'd him.
Can't this be pro-USC without being anti-Michigan? I was glad, very glad, when Michigan beat the hell out of Nebraska, but that doesn't mean I have anything against Nebraska.
Sammy Hagar is to Jimi Hendrix like Ryan Leaf is to Tom Brady.
Seriously, there are only a few instrumentalists of the 20th century who transformed their instrument, Monk, Coltrane, Hendrix, Jaco
One of my biggest regrets was not going to see Jimi when I was in high school and he was playing in Detroit.
Yeah I've always laughed at that part of the concert. Constant reminder that M lost the 1970 Rose Bowl. Great concert though. Hendrix was at his best with Band of Gypsies. Wish he lived long enough to record more with Cox and Miles.
Evans.
Jimi was actually a really big sports fan as a kid, and spent a lot of time drawing sports uniforms off of TV broadcasts. Living in Pac-10 (er, Pac-8?) country, he surely would have been rooting against the Big 10 in the Rose Bowl.
Some of his sports drawings have even made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland:
Why is this one negged as "Redundant"?
I'm so ignorant of the meta-features of the Board. Is there some way to find out who is negging posts like this one?
In the mid 50s into the early 60s Michigan was beating the PAC 8 like a drum. 1960: Michigan 21 - Oregon 0. 1953: Michigan 50 - Washington 0. 1954: Michigan 14 - Washington 0 @ Washington and so on!
All of Hendrix favorite teams were beaten up by Michigan when he was a kid growing up in WA. He must have been so down, it turned him away from football and to playing the guitar growing up as child and teenager. He probably had the angst against Michigan that the little 8 of the big 10 had against Michigan in the 70s!
I still enjoy Hendrix's guitar rifts and songs! I won't hold it against you Jimi!
But then, that might have had something to do with the Detroit riots of the day.
Huh? I don't follow at all.
Almost every big city in America experienced race riots at some point or another between 1965-68. Why would he specifically hate Detroit over this (and why would this be extended to U-M football?).
How could Jimi not like Michigan?!? He wrote a song about all the beautiful women on campus called 'Foxy Lady'.