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The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at The Masonic Temple, Flint, Michigan, USA, supported by Soft Machine.Full article:
Bob Levine (Hendrix management staff, New York) : Hendrix continually called me for accountings on merchandising sales. Even out on the road, he'd take time to call me and ask about the poster money and what his share was. Don't think for a second that this guy didn't realise how profitable merchandising was.
Michael Goldstein Hendrix's US PR man) : Hendrix spent money like a sieve. It ran through his fingers. You know that gold tooth in Buddy Miles' mouth? Jimi paid for that. He bought a tremendous amount of clothes,and then left them all over New York in various girls' apartments. He bought a house for his parents. And on the road it was even worse…
Daniel Secunda (business associate) : Hendrix is often painted as a total victim, but he was very shrewd in some ways. He was a very street-wise sort of guy. He was well aware that he was being fucked, so he would go to Jeffery immediately before a gig and say, 'I need a new apartment', or 'I need a new car'. That was his way of bargaining. He wouldn't go on stage until he got Jeffery to agree to whatever it was he wanted.
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Michael Goldstein Hendrix's US PR man) : Hendrix spent money like a sieve. It ran through his fingers. You know that gold tooth in Buddy Miles' mouth? Jimi paid for that. He bought a tremendous amount of clothes,and then left them all over New York in various girls' apartments. He bought a house for his parents. And on the road it was even worse…
Daniel Secunda (business associate) : Hendrix is often painted as a total victim, but he was very shrewd in some ways. He was a very street-wise sort of guy. He was well aware that he was being fucked, so he would go to Jeffery immediately before a gig and say, 'I need a new apartment', or 'I need a new car'. That was his way of bargaining. He wouldn't go on stage until he got Jeffery to agree to whatever it was he wanted.
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