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Fact #171367

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Short story:

Having just ended a Tour of North America, Jimi Hendrix moves into a rented house at 2850 Benedict Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Full article:

Mitch Mitchell (bassist, JHE) : The house came with staff and security dogs and we'd only been there a week when the dogs got stolen. They were found wandering on Sunset Boulevard, doped out of their minds. The burglars also nicked guitars and clothes and stuff. This was the first time that we had seen any kind of money at all. Hendrix had a Stingray he'd ordered earlier. This led us to realizing how bad his eyesight was. He should not have been driving.

Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine) : My group broke up, and I ended up staying with Them (The Experience) in a stereotypical Hollywood-type place up in the hills. They had a spare room and let me stay because I had nothing to go back to musically.

Once, I was practising on the guitar, trying to compose Moon In June probably, and Jimi was sitting on a sofa and he said, 'You can get to that note much easier if you go across rather than up…' And I said, 'It's OK, I've got my own way of doing it.' He said, 'Cool,' and I realised I'd just been offered a guitar lesson by Jimi Hendrix and I'd turned it down.
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