Thursday, May 31, 2012

A Picture is Worth 1000 Words. All of Which, in This Case, Fail Me.

Jimi gets his hair done, with a cameo appearance by Alfred E. Neuman.

For some reason, I have a feeling Claire Booth Luce really hated that photo.

[h/t Jonnie Miles]
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6 comments:

TMink said...

Whoa. That is like the photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. playing pool with a behind the back shot. Disconcerting.

But the photo reminds me of Billy Cox. He was dosed with acid at Woodstock and had never taken it before. He did not speak for at least a couple of weeks. He was watching someone curl Jimi's hair and said "Good one" after a particularly succesful curl.

Billy is still here in Nashvegas.

Trey

5/31/2012 2:29 PM
steve simels said...

While I was researching the whole Hendrix Live in Hackensack New Jersey thing last summer

http://powerpop.blogspot.com/search?q=jimi+hendrix+hackensack+new+jersey

I was amused to find that Jimi had crashed, for more or less a year, at the house of one the Isley Bros. in Teaneck (my home town) during his pre-stardom period. He apparently was a real flake -- the only thing he ever really thought about at that point was music. Concepts like rent, or dry-cleaning, etc, were totally alien to him.

5/31/2012 3:27 PM
Jai Guru Dave said...

I just read (at the dentist today, in some kind of "Bergen County" magazine) that it was at the Englewood home of the Isleys where he was sitting on the sofa watching the Beatles the first time they were on Sullivan! Probably just a few blocks from where I was sitting on my sofa doing the same thing!!

5/31/2012 4:37 PM
steve simels said...

Did I say Teaneck? I meant Englewood.

Although the Isley's eventually did move to Teaneck, and name their record company after it.

5/31/2012 4:52 PM
Anonymous said...

there's a Mel Bay book behind the MAD cover.....

5/31/2012 8:49 PM
Haik Mendelovich said...

"...the only thing he ever really thought about at that point was music. Concepts like rent, or dry-cleaning, etc, were totally alien to him."

I heard the same thing about Springsteen, from a guy I knew who played guitar with him in the early 70s.

The result of that musical focus was rather different, though. :)

6/01/2012 8:28 AM

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