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OUT NOW:
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN:
THE LAST WEEKS OF JIMI HENDRIX

 A4 publication 52 pages 91 illustrations word count: 36,834 Full colour offset with laminated covers. This special publication contains a NEW and extensive investigation surrounding ALL circumstances of Jimi's death on 18 September 1970. This, we believe, will "close" the book on that "doom & gloom" matter once and for all...
Please note: our final Day-to-Day Diary month is included in this publication as it is way too long to stick in a normal UV issue.
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[PS You may combine the two publications:

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Introduction of UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN...:















































 


As you all know, you just can’t 
believe everything you see and hear,
can you?
When it comes to detailing Jimi Hendrix’s final weeks on Earth, we are faced with truckloads of factual errors (small and large), typos, unsubstantiated rumours, gossip, hearsay, conspiracy theories, myths, rantings, "bogus" statements, facts which have been overlooked or wrongly interpreted, truths or half-truths, patent lies, a barrage of claims and counter-claims, minor or complete loss of people’s memory, and statements made in one context only to be denied or altered or completely overturned by yet another statement, until, needless to say, 41 years on, fact and fiction have become almost hopelessly blurred, making it at times difficult to determine what really went on, where, on what day, and at what time. On top of all of that, since September 1970 many people “Don’t Live Today” anymore, moved or can not be located otherwise, ignore registered letters, are just “too busy” to be bothered, or refuse to cooperate and disclose information or talk. Nevertheless, the details which follow provide a coherent account, about which a Tribunal might say “On balance, this is very likely what happened to Jimi Hendrix during the month of September 1970...”

CONTENTS:

1 September 1970: Göteborg
 2 September 1970: Århus
 3 September 1970: Copenhagen
 4 September 1970: Berlin
 5 September 1970: Isle of Fehmarn
 6 September 1970: Isle of Fehmarn; London
 8 to 12 September 1970: London
 13 to 15 September 1970: London
 16 September 1970: London
 17 September 1970: London
 18 September 1970: London
 19 September 1970: London; Newcastle
 20 September 1970: Düsseldorf
 21 and 23 September 1970: London
 25 September 1970: New York City
 28 September 1970: Inquest in London
 Post-mortem Report
 Vesparax Details & History
 Rumour from St. Mary Abbots Hospital
 Racial Prejudice in London Ambulance Service
 Private Investigation by Dennis Care
 Afterthoughts
 Etchingham versus Dannemann
 Monika Dannemann Witchhunt
 Wedding-bells?
 Late September 1970
 1 October 1970: Funeral in Seattle
 “Murdered by Manager” BS
 Could Jimi Hendrix Have Been Saved?
 Money Matters
 Management Change Attempts
 Suicide Attempts & Related Matters
 “We Don’t Live Today”
 Got Anything to Declare?
 Sources & Acknowledgements

And this other FAB UV PUBLICATION is also available:
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BOB LEVINE on ROCK ROADIE BS
 – by Bob Merlis

I want to set the record straight. Michael Jeffery was the Animals manager. He hired me to be their US tour manager. I was with Chas Chandler when he saw Jimi at the Cafe Wha before he took him to London. I had met Jimi once before but never knew it. I broke up a fight backstage between Jimmy and Little Richard a year or so before at the Paramount Theatre [New York, April 1965] and didn’t realize it had been him until he told me that he had met me before. He recalled the fight and I couldn’t believe it.
Michael Jeffery and Chas Chandler formed a company [Jeffery & Chandler, Inc.] hereafter and hired me [in early 1968] to run their US office (on 37th Street in New York). James “Tappy” Wright was the roadie for the Animals but occasionally he filled in to work in that same role for Jimi in UK/Europe before Eric Barrett was hired [in May 1968]. Gerry Stickells was the road manager for Jimi for his entire career. No one else.
Tappy was a longtime friend and it was only because of that I agreed to speak with him for his book [Rock Roadie]. In all of the years since Jimi’s death I have only granted interviews about my work for Jimi to John McDermott and to Tappy.

I didn’t think anything further about Tappy’s book project until I started to get calls attempting to verify what he said. I couldn’t even read his book because I am now legally blind and it is difficult for me to read small type. I couldn’t believe what people were telling me. Jimi was murdered!!?? Total bullshit.
I had someone read the book to me and I was furious. He basically used my name on every third page. I called Tappy up at the end of last year. “Why did you tell that [“murdered by manager”] story?” “Well, Bob, I needed a handle for my book.” I asked him why he made up all of the other crap throughout the book and Tappy told me, point blank: “Bob, I needed a handle! People don’t know me or understand how I can tell the story.”
I asked Tappy directly: “How did you get this information?” He said he spoke to the retired Medical Examiner [John Herbert Bannister; see footnote #2] in Australia. I find that totally far fetched. [Tappy] told me that it wouldn’t matter; none of this would hurt Jimi and Michael any. They were dead and the press would pick up on the controversy. It would help sell books for him. He felt that nobody would challenge him on this because all of the key players were now deceased. I was furious at this attitude....
I was in touch with Michael Jeffery on the 17th of September 1970 to discuss the schedule for Electric Lady Studios. I called him at “Hotel Victoria” in Majorca, Spain. I called from my office at the studio. We spoke about many things including Jimi returning to Electric Lady Studios and how we were going to schedule sessions for Carly Simon. Carly was going to be working with Eddie [Kramer] in Studio A and Michael and I needed to discuss how this was going to be managed so that there would be no conflicts with Jimi and Eddie for recording time.

We went over a bunch of things but I clearly remember that this was something we spoke about. Electric Lady was starting to get busy with outside clients and we knew we had to manage Jimi’s time so that there would not be any conflicts. We didn’t want him coming back to finish the record and not be able to get into the studio or have Eddie tied up with someone else and not be available to him.

Before we finished the call, Michael told me that he had planned to go boating the next day. At this very time Jimi was in London and that is where he met his demise.

Jeffery would have had to have been in two countries at once and he was not. Jimi was like a goldmine. The notion that he was more valuable to him dead is utterly ridiculous... [Jimi] was loyal even if he was unhappy with decisions that Michael may or may not have made.

Jimi and I were close. We understood one another. I will give you one example. When I had the flu and couldn’t get out of bed, Jimi came to the door and served me. He was that kind of a guy. Very caring. He trusted me and I admired and respected him as a musician. As a person, he was a great guy to be around; he cared so much about the world. He was a very unmaterialistic guy. He was a great guy; many people didn’t get to know him that way.

It’s so unfair to put this guy in the middle of a made-up story. I was angry with that crap Charles Cross tried to put over in his book [Room Full Of Mirrors: A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix] but this Tappy business takes the cake. Don’t believe a word of it!

NOTES:
 <1> The above interview was conducted by Bob Merlis on 12 April 2011. Editing: Caesar Glebbeek.
<2> It is extremely unlikely Wright has ever personally spoken to Bannister in Australia.
<3> In Rock Roadie, Wright also describes his escapades with the Plaster Casters. Ken Voss (editor of the Voodoo Child newsletter in Illinois) E-mailed one of the two Plaster Casters girls, Cynthia Albritton, for her reaction and on 7 November 2010 she wrote him: “Wow. All I will say for now is, Tappy has a very, very challenged memory. Har! These stories are so far from the truth, they’re hilarious! I can only imagine how fictitious the rest of the book is....”