Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix died in London at the age of 27, leaving a lasting legacy, also dubbed “the greatest instrumentalist in rock music history” by the Music Hall. Rock and roll fame.
In his years he released three albums with The experience of Jimi Hendrixincluding Electric Ladyland, which included their best-selling single “All along the Watchtower“.
In the mid-1970s, Hendrix embarked on a European tour, playing at the Isle of Wight Festival, ushering in a week of intense touring, which ended with his last concert.
Jimi Hendrix’s last concert
Hendrix commented on a feeling of disappointment in an interview published just a day before his last performance. He said: “Now I’m back to square one. I gave everything to this age of music. I still play the same, my music is still the same and I can’t think of anything new to add to the current state … “
The week leading up to the last show got off to a disastrous start when bassist Billy Cox drank LSD in his drink, which shocked him greatly.
Also, that week, the band’s concert series was filled with catastrophes: Hendrix was cold and exhausted mentally and physically, technical problems were rampant and the weather was not helping.
Hendrix was also quoted as saying: “I’m not sure I’ll live to be 28. I mean, right now, I feel like I have nothing left to give musically. I will no longer be on this planet if I don’t have a wife and children. “
He was right, less than a month later he would die.
Jimi Hendrix’s last chaotic concert in Germany
The band played in Arhus, Denmark, but the concert was stopped. However, gave a much more successful recital in Copenhagen, while drummer Mitch Mitchell shuttled back and forth from country to country while his wife gave luz.
However, On September 6, 1970, Hendrix and the band would have their last concert at the Fehmarn Open Air Peace and Love Festival.in Germany.
The festival was packed with motorcyclists, as engineer David Butcher recalls: “Hell’s Angels were causing a lot of trouble, looting the office and giving free tickets to everyone.. They weren’t in charge of security, but they basically took over and there were a lot of problems, including gunshots. Machine gun shots. For a while I wondered if we had imagined it. But it was real. “
The weather was awful and overcrowded, another driver said: “If you think the Isle of Wight was a disaster, you should have gone to Fehmarn. [Quien construyó el escenario era un idiota. Había vendavales, así que el mar no paraba de soplar en el escenario”.
Después de que un vendaval de fuerza cinco y una lluvia torrencial cancelaran la actuación programada, Hendrix subió al escenario al día siguiente; Cox seguía en un estado de descomposición y paranoia.
El público alemán pedía a gritos que Hendrix “se perdiera” mientras le abucheaba; el músico se sumó a ellos, comenzando: “Me importa un carajo que abucheen, mientras abucheen en sintonía…”.
El público no tardó en convencerse cuando Hendrix tocó “Killing Floor” de Howlin’ Wolf antes de pasar a “Spanish Castle Magic” y “All Along The Watchtower”. Sus clásicos.
Butcher recordó: “Estaba lloviendo, y él estaba allí de pie, arriesgándose a ser electrocutado. No se movió de la parte delantera del escenario, simplemente siguió adelante. Fue bastante sorprendente, realmente. […] I could see fights break out as Jimi approached the end of his performance. “
Hendrix is done with the mighty ‘Voodoo Child (slight return)‘, which contains the last few lines, “If I no longer see you in this world / see you in the next and don’t be late, don’t be late“.
The musician didn’t know this would be his last concert, at a festival ransacked by the Hells Angels and ravaged by storms. Hendrix performed ten days later in an informal jam at Ronnie Scott’s jazz bar in London.playing the accompanying guitar in the background, and only 48 hours later he would die from ingestion of barbiturates
Source: Clarin
