Fact #149874
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While Jimi Hendrix is spending three days off, at the Diamond Head mansion in Hawaii, USA, the local chapter of Black Panthers come knocking on his door.Full article:
Kathy Eberth (Hendrix employee) : I answered it and said I was the maid. I heard this muffled laugh from the next room. They heard it as well and came in. They were talking to him about money and the fact that he, like them, was a 'brother'. They were putting the guilt thing on him. He tried to quell them by telling tham that 'the only colours I see are in my music.'
Jimi Hendrix : They asked me to do a concert, which was not a problem, except I felt like it put me in a box. I was honoured and all that, but there are a lot of political implications, so I left it all to Mike Jeffery.
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Jimi Hendrix : They asked me to do a concert, which was not a problem, except I felt like it put me in a box. I was honoured and all that, but there are a lot of political implications, so I left it all to Mike Jeffery.
(Source : not known)