The Dick Cavett Show represented Jimi Hendrix's US network television debut and Jimi's insightful interviews with Cavett touched upon multiple personal and professional topics and ultimately helped reveal the man behind such rock classics as Are You Experienced and Electric Ladyland. Experience Hendrix recently sat down with Cavett to discuss the show's history and Hendrix's two celebrated appearances on the program in the summer of 1969.
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Someone bombed the Montgomery, Alabama home of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jimi Hendrix's 14th birthday, November 27, 1956. Perhaps the first step in the karmic dance that loosely linked these two men together, it would not be the last. Both men died too young. In death, they both became representative of the best their era had to offer by the way they lived. Writer Hank Bordowitz explores the position of these two men, as African-American, on the forefront of change during that turbulent decade and how they are inextricably linked together in many people's minds.
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It is one of the most powerful images in the history of rock music, one that has come to symbolize the wild pedigree of a form of music where anything can happen. This image is one that has burned its way into the consciousness of popular culture: Jimi Hendrix is on his knees as his Fender Stratocaster lays before him, shrieking in flames on the stage of the Monterey International Pop Festival. Jimi's fingers flutter over the guitar's body, urging the tendrils of fire higher as the instrument is consumed. But the act of burning a guitar was far from the only combustion ignited by Jimi Hendrix in the minutes that led to the climax of this performance. On that historic Sunday evening, Hendrix served notice to the world that "pop music" had been reinvented, its course altered to a bold new path - one that Jimi Hendrix saw clearly.
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They came from all corners, converging on the Swiss capital of Zurich for two nights of music quite unlike anything the country had ever seen before. It was May 1968 and Jimi Hendrix had just flown in from New York where he'd spent the last three days. Noel and Mitch made the shorter hop from London, on a plane full of musicians: Traffic, the Move, the Small Faces, John Mayall's latest bunch of Bluesbreakers, Eric Burdon and his Haight-heavy New Animals, the
Koobas and Eire Apparent. And as each successive aircraft disgorged its psychedelic cargo, the Swiss customsmen scratched their heads one more time, and the waiting press went crazy. What was simply dubbed the 'Pop Monsterkonzert' certainly lived up to its billing as a Monster as writer Dave Thompson explains
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