Jimi Hendrix

[athos1172]

(wow. hadn't heard about this)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Jimi Hendrix might have stayed in the Army. He might have been sent to Vietnam.

Instead, he pretended he was gay.

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Hendrix's subterfuge, contained in his military medical records, is revealed for the first time in Charles R. Cross' new biography, "Room Full of Mirrors." Publicly, Hendrix always claimed he was discharged after breaking his ankle on a parachute jump, but his medical records do not mention such an injury.

In regular visits to the base psychiatrist at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in spring 1962, Hendrix complained that he was in love with one of his squad mates and that he had become addicted to masturbating, Cross writes. Finally, Capt. John Halbert recommended him for discharge, citing his "homosexual tendencies" -- four years before Arlo Guthrie suggested that path for avoiding military service in the protest song "Alice's Restaurant."

[PHJIndy]

Yeh, but he could strum!!

[comfortably numb]

I thought Arlo Guthrie wanted to kill.... Kill..... KILL!!!!!!
Eat dead burnt bodies with veins in his teeth....KILL!!!!

[Kurt Cobain]

It's kind of hard to shoot an M-16 while on acid

But you can play a helluva guitar riff

[gofastturnleft]

I thought Arlo Guthrie wanted to kill.... Kill..... KILL!!!!!!
Eat dead burnt bodies with veins in his teeth....KILL!!!!

Oh son, you have much to learn. Maybe mec and I can sing you a few bars when it comes around on the geetar.

He wanted to kill before he suggested singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant to the shrink.

[comfortably numb]

What was the line?

If you want to end wars and stuff you %@#%^$#s gotta sing louder than that?

Many albums ago in a galaxy far far away...

...I don't think I listened to the second side more than once.


Need to see if it's on CD and give it to my kid.

[mec]

Maybe mec and I can sing you a few bars when it comes around on the geetar.

"And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them."

[Lemming51]

'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.

[mec]

Why do I keep thinking of Klinger?

[gofastturnleft]

Three people. Can you imagine, three people walking in and singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization.

[comfortably numb]

"And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them."

Yeah, I gotta buy that for my kid---except I am really pissed at him this week so I won't.

[athos1172]

What did Arlo do?!