Jimi Hendrix (Long Article) Getting Booed, Egged in Harlem

[black caesar]

Two weeks after closing Woodstock with his reinvention of "The Star Spangled Banner," Jimi Hendrix decided to offer a free concert for a group he called "my people."



He held a concert for an African-American audience in Harlem, a place he once called home. Hendrix's homecoming, though, was almost ruined as soon as he stepped onstage. Someone threw a bottle at him that shattered against a speaker; eggs splattered on the stage. Hendrix gamely played on while much of the crowd melted away.

Hendrix traveled to Harlem because he was trying to connect with blacks who had dismissed him as a musical Uncle Tom: a black man playing white man's music. Music critics and biographers say Hendrix also was frustrated by legions of white fans who only saw him as a racial stereotype -- a hypersexual black man who was high all the time -- instead of a serious musician.

Damn, shit kind of reminded me of Jesus where his own, accepted him not

Reminds of Jadakiss lyric - Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be !!

Let's not forget this by Jadakiss:

"When you get a little money/

Crackers start showing you love, you're own people act funny"

 

[earth two superman]

If Jimmy was alive today, age 27, would we consider him an uncle tom???

Yeah but he'd have so much money and respect he wouldn't give a shit.

 

[OhPee]

Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, BB King the GOATS

 

[skpjr78]

Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, BB King the GOATS

Prince, Ernie Isley, Curtis Mayfield, Kravitz, Eddie Van Halen

 

[OhPee]

Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, BB King the GOATS

Prince, Ernie Isley, Curtis Mayfield, Kravitz, Eddie Van Halen

Kravitz is good bruh but one of the greatest? Prince and Van Halen are top ballots for sure.. Can't forget Slash and Pete Townshend

 

[skpjr78]

Kravitz is dope homie. He sounds kinda like a hendrix clone. Lenny is very versatile and he flat out shreds it when he wants to

 

[skpjr78]

Tom Morello from rage against the machine is dope to

 

[ineedpussy]

what about the cat who had the solo on maggot brains? his shit was dope as fuck. about to listen to it now

 

[skpjr78]

I still don't understand how black ppl can love the isley's and not love jimi. and then when you consider that jimi plaed backup w/the isley's that makes it even worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6meMBtTgKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmHa6gg0nU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwnmmz1S37o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZEyI8EY9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PVjcIO4MT4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usP3yLGru1Y

 

[Mister B.]

Fuck Harlem for this. Jimi was THAT DUDE.

Voodoo Child is still one the best Rock songs ever....

 

[dallas' 4 eva]

Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, BB King the GOATS

Prince, Ernie Isley, Curtis Mayfield, Kravitz, Eddie Van Halen

No Stevie Ray Vaughan, Slash, or Santana? SRV is probably only second to Hendrix bruh.

 

[dallas' 4 eva]

Albert King, Freddy King, Buddy Guy...

 

[Copper]

who brings eggs to a concert?

 

[D0wn]

Its an interesting read to see how he was welcomed/perceived by certain group of folks.

Time and Death change the perceptions of peoples legacy.

Word to Tupac... At the time of his death, he was the most hated.

According to who? Everybody I know loved Pac then, niggas were bumping All Eyez On Me all through '96.

I still don't understand how black ppl can love the isley's and not love jimi. and then when you consider that jimi plaed backup w/the isley's that makes it even worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6meMBtTgKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmHa6gg0nU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwnmmz1S37o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZEyI8EY9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PVjcIO4MT4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usP3yLGru1Y

Stop it bruh.... When he played back up 4 lil richard n the isleys he was not playing the same music that made him a mega star....

It's like saying since kanye made college drop out, we gotta like Yeezus too. Different music b

 

[skpjr78]

who brings eggs to a concert?

negroes in harlem obviously

 

[skpjr78]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PVjcIO4MT4

black folks dropped the ball on jimi. this shit here is dope as fuck. we were to jimi what the jews were to Christ. we got that that one wrong. word to bob marley

 

[Swiffness!]

in defense of Black People:

You gotta understand....this WAS the late 1960s....remember how you felt 2 months ago with Ferguson and times that by 1000.

Jimi blew up in the mainstream doing psychedelic rock stuff with white bandmates that was stylistically closer to European bands like Cream and The Yardbirds and later Beatles than anything black music was really doing at the time. His fans were overwhelmingly white. So lots of black ppl didn't really get the uniqueness of his music at first and assumed he was just some bullshit crackas was trying to push. You can understand.

Like, look at how the The Reason would trash Tyler the Creator because he was making weird songs and had a heavy white following - niggas called him "the black Eminem" and all this shit lol. Or look at how lots of hip-hop heads (including Royce da 5'9 at first lol) used to think Joe Budden was some corny pop rapper because they only knew him for "Pump it Up" and didn't hear Mood Musik 2 yet....

Jimi responded by ditching the white band and forming a black blues band with two black friends. That's why for MOST black people, the first Hendrix records they ever heard were the Band of Gypsys ones. Those were the first ones to get spins on black radio stations. That live album was and is the only Hendrix record my dad ever owned. I mean he likes the other classics too, but Band of Gypsys he has religious reverence for. This was all explained to me as a kid when I asked why he would listen to Machine Gun (GOAT) but not Voodoo Chile....

The Jimi Hendrix Experience records were masterpieces but they transcended race and genre. Band of Gypsys was unapologetically BLACK music.

SMFH @ Miles Davis wanting to collab with him before he died...........................if I could change history, I would trade a nuclear war for a motherfucking Jimi Hendrix/Miles Davis album.

 

[Swiffness!]

Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, BB King the GOATS

Prince, Ernie Isley, Curtis Mayfield, Kravitz, Eddie Van Halen

Kravitz is good bruh but one of the greatest? Prince and Van Halen are top ballots for sure.. Can't forget Slash and Pete Townshend

Stevie Ray Vaughn is another one.

Ppl forget Slash is black too. I met him once and he def looks darker in person. Cool nigga too, ya'll saw how MJ showed him love....


Fuck Axl Rose for acting like he ain't need this man. You damn right you better hire somebody like Buckethead to play Slash's parts on a bullshit "reunion" tour with none of the other original members lol. Shit, I remember that Maxim article where they interviewed veteran tour roadies and ALL of them adamantly said they would never work for Guns & Roses because of the horror stories they heard about Axl.

 

[D0wn]

N honestly bands of gypsy is hand down Jimi's best work...

So much more umph on that record

 

[Shizlansky]

If Jimmy was alive today, age 27, would we consider him an uncle tom???

Yeah but he'd have so much money and respect he wouldn't give a shit.

He did give a shit though.