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.
Michigan doesn't like Jimi Hendrix either
think it had as much to do with Michigan as it did with Jimi being from Seattle and was most likely a Pac-10 fan.
(edit: Pac-8)
Oh yeah? Well I had sex with his wife!
Was the concert in California? Doesn't sound like he's much of a sports fan from the quote. He could just be blazed though.
Let me rephrase. Taking into account the fact that he was most definitely high as a kite, it sounds like he may not be much of a sports fan.
Unless I am misinterpreting this, you're saying that if you smoke, you automatically are not a sports fan?
Well he did say, "congratulations to the uh...what do you call that, Southern California Trojans," and he indeed was usually high as a kite... so yeah he probably had no clue what was going on.
Nothing is more relaxing than smoking a blunt with your bros, cracking a cold one and turning on a ball game.
Actually, I think he was a college football fan. He played the guitar, but he also liked to draw/paint things. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has a bunch of his drawings, and some of them were drawings of sports. I distinctly remember a football one, but there might have been more sports ones than that.
Edit, link. This one is of an Oregon player, there is another of a UCLA player. Maybe he preferred the west coast.
That was a very common thing for performers to do to establish rapport with the audience. It was sorta like how performers still say, "Everybody having a good time" to get a cheap rise out of the audience.
Hendrix was extremely insecure, to the point where he recorded his vocals alone, and could never quite believe that everyone loved him as much as they did. From the wording, you can tell that he had no idea who any of them were, or what the score of the game was.
My take: Jimi was too into music and partying to give a shit about Michigan or any other team.
he didn't reference anything to Craig James killing 5 hookers while at SMU.
The only season I can think of where he could've said that was the 69' season/70' Rose Bowl. I'm pretty sure he died later that year.
The conspiracy thickens...
Today I lost a hero.
Jimi Hendrix could trash Michigan all day long and it wouldn't mean a thing to me.
His greatness as a musician is totally indepedent of his athletic affiliations.
Nothing can ruin this.
speaks up here. Kate Upton couldn't carry Jimi's jock.
Eh. I'd rather have Kate Upton as a Michigan fan anyway.
Concert was January 1st, 1970 at the Fillmore East in New York. Looks like this made the rounds on the internet around the 2007 Rose Bowl.
Here's a video clip, people more MGoSavvy than me can feel free to embed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izf6qCKuO9Q).
He also did some drawings of college football players back when he was 15, specifically USC, UCLA, Cal, and Oregon. Seeing as he was originally from Seattle, best explanation would be that he was a Pac-10 fan.
Well, he couldn't have been a Pac 10 fan. As of Jan. 1, 1970, the Pac 10 had exactly zero fans.
I can't believe this is the first time I've heard of this, considering how that's my era.
The Band of Gypsies album was recorded (and filmed) over two nights at Fillmore East in New York City; the first two sets took place New Year's Eve, and the second two sets were played on New Year's Day 1970, obviously some time in the evening.
Hendrix was apparently a somewhat casual fan; referring to a 10-3 victory over a team whose head coach had suffered a heart attack the day before the game as "beating the hell out of Michigan" is more than a small exaggeration.
Since the Detroit riots took place in 1967, they had nothing whatsoever to do with Jimi's quote. Hendrix died in September 1970.
but the quoted text seems like he was being ironic in the age of love and peace.
A true musical genius. Probably let the heroin influence his athletic rooting interests though.
Screw Hendrix, Sammy Hagar is where it's at!!!!
before stepping up to the likes of the Jimi Hendrix.
That's an interesting theory. It needs work.
Just look at him shredding in that video. There is no denying it. Plus, he rides a motorcycle and there are Stallone epic arm-wrestling clips spliced into the video. What more proof do you need?
A video of Hendrix on his worst day.
You would never make it as an Elsevier article reviewer
No disagreement there. We'll just have to agree to disagree on the relative merits of Hendrix versus Hagar.
I like Sammy Hagar but this loses purely because of the wind blowing his hair.
(and, yes, I review articles for multiple Elsevier journals)
First, for the youngsters:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjkGIFfCjdY&t=0m29s
Also, has anyone considered that Jimi cursed Michigan and the Big Ten? The next couple of decades (measured by the Rose Bowl results) were brutal for the conference. They started turning it around in the late '80s and, IIRC, the '90s were pretty much a draw.
Jimi was from Seattle. In the 1950's when Jimi was growing up, Michigan shut out Washington twice.
And then earlier that season in the fall of '69 we had whipped the Huskies 45-7.
Good catch. That probably explains things better than anything else.
Don, I was trying to figure out how my post got negged as "Redundant." Strange, isn't it?
http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/2006/11/suck-my-kiss-columbus.html
Yeah, well we got the Red Hot Chili Peppers on our side. Playing a concert in Colombus, wearing a UM jersey, and playing the Victors. Suck on that C-Bus.
I was never a huge Chili Pepper's fan but they just went up in my book.
Thanks for sharing that!
Maybe I'm older than I think, but I would bet money that even most current college kids know who Jimi Hendrix is... even if they might not understand his significance.
....that I out riffed him on my 2 stringed guitar in A2 back in '69 when he visited.
And you had better dope than he did.
you hate on Jimi for hating on Michigan you might as well open the door to a large chunk of humanity; I'm fairly certain a decent portion of the 13 billion or so that are familiar with Michigan either dislike or hate us. They steals from you, steals from me, whatever.
Don't you ever, EVER, post a photo of Ted Nugent in a thread about Jimi Hendrix. EVER.
Holy mother of God. Blasphemy all over this thread.
tomorrow morning.
than you are alive.