Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Jimmy Hendricks are insane.

His last performance with the experience erupted into a riot. His drug habit often lured him into the clutches of enemies,

like the Mounties who arrested him at the Canadian border, or the mafia wannabes who

kidnapped him and held him hostage in New York. He was a natural escape artist who dodged childhood poverty, prison time, and even the

United States Army, and he couldn't avoid his fate with the 27 Club.

But before Jimmy Hendrix succumbed to his spot alongside Janice Joplin, Jim Morris, and

Ron Pigpen McCurnin, and the rest, Jimmy Hendrix made great music.

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called UBIB-Web-W-B-40 M-K2.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to love theme

to Romeo and Juliet by Henry Mancini. And why would I play you that specific slice of

wherefore art thou cheese, could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America

on June 29, 1969. And that was the number one song in America on June 29, 1969, and that was the day Jimmy Hendricks narrowly escaped a riot by catching a ride in a U-Haul, a memory that would serve him well just months later when he had to escape the clutches of a pair of kidnappers.

On this episode, riots, drug habits, escape artists, mafia, wannabes, and the kidnapping of

Jimi Hendrix.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland.

Thank you. Jimmy Hendrix didn't know where the driver was taking him.

He rested against the back door of the U-Haul.

Noel Redding, his bass player, sat to the left of him, his drummer Mitch Mitchell to his right.

Or was it the other way around?

Jimmy couldn't see shit in the dark.

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