Jimi Hendrix: Tear Gas, a Kidnapping, Heroin Hostages, and the Great Escape

DISGRACELAND

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Society & Culture, Music, True Crime

4.6 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Jimi Hendrix spent much of his life pursuing a great escape. Escape from his abusive childhood home. Escape from his court-ordered time in the Army. Even an escape from his own band, the Experience, who he felt limited his groundbreaking sound. But when two wannabe mobsters lured Jimi into a hostage situation with the promise of heroin, Jimi came face to face with the most extreme – and rarely discussed – escape of his life. For the full list of contributors, visit disgracelandpod.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Double Elvis
0:07.8	Discrease Land is a production of Double Elvis.
0:24.6	The stories about Jimmy Hendrix are insane.
0:28.5	His last performance with the experience erupted into a riot.
0:32.7	His drug habit often lured him into the clutches of enemies, like the Mounties who arrested
0:37.5	him at the Canadian border, or the Mafia wannabes who kidnapped him and held him hostage
0:42.2	in New York.
0:43.2	He was a natural escape artist who dodged childhood poverty, prison time, and even the United
0:49.1	States Army.
0:50.1	And he couldn't avoid his fate with the 27th Club.
0:54.2	But before Jimmy Hendrix succumbed to his spot alongside Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison,
0:58.9	Ron Pigpen, McCurden, and the rest, Jimmy Hendrix made great music.
1:05.3	Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show.
1:08.6	That wasn't great music.
1:10.6	That was a preset loop from my Melotron called UBIB-WeB-40 Mk2.
1:17.7	I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to love theme to Romeo and Juliet
1:22.5	by Henry Mancini.
1:23.5	And why would I play you that specific slice of, wherefore I thought cheese could I afford
1:30.1	it?
1:31.6	Because that was the number one song in America on June 29, 1969.
1:37.8	And that was the day Jimmy Hendrix narrowly escaped a riot by catching a riot in a U-Haul.
1:43.2	A memory that would serve him well just months later when he had to escape the clutches
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