Ep377: Jimi Hendrix - As Experienced by Sister Janie
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Janie Hendrix shares memories of her brother Jimi, what's in the Hendrix archives, stories of stolen memorabilia, hunting down rare recordings, her new book "Jimi" and more.
Topics include:
- What are in the Jimi Hendrix archives?
- The early days of pulling together Jimi's recordings and items
- Paul Allen of Microsoft funded the family to get the rights for Jimi's work
- What happened to Jimi's records?
- Lots of Jimi material was stolen
- Counterfeit Jimi Hendrix memorabilia
- People coming to visit the Hendrix family after Jimi's passing
- Jimi's gold albums were stolen from the family in 1986
- There are many other recordings still unaccounted for
- Is there a recording of Jimi's early appearance at the Apollo
- Jimi communications while on the road
- When "Jimmy" became "Jimi"
- Any recordings from the Sue Records period?
- Any recordings from his Café Wha? gigs?
- How the family learned of Jimi's popularity in the UK
- The partnership with Jimi and Eddie Kramer
- Jimi and Zappa / Mothers Cover
- Working w Dweezil Zappa on Atmos mixes
- Recordings in the archive
- Finding & restoring the tapes and video for the Miami Pop festival
- Unique items in the archive
- Janie's memories of Jimi in 1970
- Janie and Jimi's Cosmic Promise
- The next projects of the Hendrix Estate
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at the Los Angeles Forum
- The various international covers of Hendrix LPs
- Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix covering one another
- Any lost recordings and collaborations with Jimi
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:10.6 | Vinyl Guide 10. And now on with the show. |
| 0:16.1 | Well, hello, everyone. It's Nate. Welcome to episode 377 of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record |
| 0:22.4 | collectors and music nerds. And this week we have on the show with us, Janie Hendricks, who |
| 0:27.6 | of course you know as Jimmy Hendrix's sister, but she's also CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, |
| 0:34.3 | the Jimmy Hendrix Estate, producer of just about every Jimmy Hendrix record released in the last two decades, and now Janie is author of the book Jimmy, which came out originally in November in time for Jimmy's 80th birthday and immediately sold out. I mean, you could not find a copy of this book anywhere. It's a fantastic book. It's beautiful. |
| 0:55.8 | And guess what, people, there's now another print ready for early March. You could pre-order it now. |
| 1:01.3 | Anywhere you get your books, it is absolutely incredible. I enjoyed it immensely. And now, |
| 1:06.6 | Janie is on the vinyl guide this week to share tales of her times with her brother Jimmy, |
| 1:12.2 | clarify stories, discuss what's in the Hendrix Fault, |
| 1:16.2 | and ultimately what's coming up next for releases in the Jimmy Hendrix universe. |
| 1:21.3 | And really quick, there is an extended version of this interview |
| 1:25.4 | only available to Patreon supporters of the show. |
| 1:28.6 | Head up there now, patreon.com slash vinyl guide. |
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| 1:37.3 | slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:38.8 | So if you're a patron of the show, head up there now and enjoy the extended, high resolution, |
| 1:43.3 | and commercial-free version of this |
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| 1:49.5 | slash vinyl guide. Sign up to help support the show and get all the extras. And finally, |
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