1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is the production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jimmie Hendricks died at the 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: age of and he died under mysterious circumstances. I can 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: give you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: Three would be the number of theories that armchair detectives 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: would bandy about for years after Jimmy's untimely death. Another 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: two would be the number of hitmen Michael Jeffrey, Jimmy's manager, 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: sent on a covert mission to drown Jimmy with booze 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: and pills, if, as one theory goes, Michael Jeffrey killed 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendrix. Two more would be the number of white 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: paramedics who refused to revive and treat the famous black 12 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: rock star as they drove him to an undignified death 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 1: at St. Mary Abbott's hospital, if, as another theory goes, 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: the neglectful paramedics really did kill Jimmie Hendrix. Twenty is 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: the number of the recommended dosage of vesper x, a 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: powerful barbiturates that would be fund in Jimmy's body. Twenty 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:08,639 Speaker 1: times the recommended dosage all totally on this our final 18 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: episode of season one, covert hitman, neglectful paramedics, twenty times 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: the recommended dose, and Jimmie Hendricks. I'm Jake Brennan in 20 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: this cosy. James Tappywright wished he could unhear when he 21 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: just heard. It's shocked him. It shall olenged everything he knew. 22 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: It rocked his world, and it scared the ship out 23 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: of him. Michael Jeffrey had just confessed to Jimmie Hendricks's murder, 24 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: not in so many words, that is, it was strongly implied. 25 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: He had no choice. He told Tappy he was out 26 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: of options. He had to do it. Tappy and Michael 27 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: Jeffrey were at Jeffrey's apartment in February discussing the upcoming 28 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: American leg of the Jimmy Plays Berkeley Tour. They had 29 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: just finished touring the documentary film around the UK and Europe, 30 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: where they had sold out venues and continued to spread 31 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: the gospel of Jimmie Hendricks. His death was still fresh 32 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: in the minds of many. The movie could give fans 33 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: the thing that they would never be able to experience again. 34 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: A live performance by Jimmie Hendricks delivered on a thirty 35 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 1: ft tall movie theater screen, and they had a few 36 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: drinks and a few more, and Jeffrey was relaxed, but 37 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: also a little drunk. Tappy had noticed a change in 38 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: Jeffrey's recent daily to meet here. He was no longer 39 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 1: under pressure, no longer under the gun, and Tappy would notice. 40 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: He had been working for Jeffrey since the days back 41 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: in Newcastle, running clubs and bringing up the animals. A 42 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,399 Speaker 1: respected roady, a doer. Tappy was there through it all, 43 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: did what needed doing, helped here, help there. Tappy was everywhere, 44 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: rubbing elbows with everyone, from the Beatles and the Rolling 45 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: Stones to kN Tina Turner to Elvis Presley. And he 46 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 1: was there as Jeffrey took on more responsibility with Jimmy 47 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: and the studio, took on more debts, new debts to 48 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: pay for old debts, even newer debts to pay for 49 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: the new debts to pay for the old debts. Tappy 50 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: was the one who would drive Jeoffrey out to New Jersey, 51 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: who was secluded suburban mob house. He'd sit in the car, 52 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: tap his fingers on the steering wheel as he listened 53 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: to the Archie's the Foundations, to Tommy James and the 54 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: Shawn Dells while Jeffrey was inside doing his business, shaking hands, 55 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: making deals, signing his life away. Jeffrey would walk back 56 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: to the car, suitcase in hand, loaded up with fresh 57 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: bills handed to him by mafia kingpins, the guys who 58 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: could afford to live in these ostentatious and Jersey mansions. 59 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: Tappy was there too when the calls started coming in, 60 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: when Jeffrey couldn't pay the mafia back. Jeffrey was over extended, 61 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: ambitious and greedy. Michael Jeffrey was fucked. Where's the money, Michael, 62 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: The heated mob voices would say from the other end 63 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: of the phone, Where's the fucking money? Ship in. Tappy 64 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: started living his life by looking around every corner, checking 65 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: underneath cars before getting inside, screening phone calls, Remaining extremely 66 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: wary of strangers. He lived his life every day like 67 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: someone was coming for his boss, Michael Jeffrey's head. And 68 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: now sitting in Jeffrey's apartment reminiscing on a wildly successful 69 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: documentary film Tour, things seem more relaxed. Tappy was no 70 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: longer on edge. Jeffrey had paid off the I R S, 71 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: paid off the Mob. He was even able to buy 72 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: out Jimmy's interest in electric ladies studios from Jimmy's father, 73 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: Al Tappy wanted to know where did Jeffrey get all 74 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: that money? Why was everything coming up roses, And that's 75 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: when the mood of the room changed. Jeffrey tensed up. 76 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: It had obviously been weighing on him all this time. 77 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: The secret he had. He had many secrets, all collected 78 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: through many years of his life, but this one, this 79 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: one may have been the hardest to keep inside, because 80 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: even though Jeffrey was a great keeper of secrets, this 81 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: one felt different. I had no bloody choice, Jeffrey told Tabby. 82 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: The implication hung there in the air like a thick 83 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: fog of Dunhills smoke. The look in Michael Jeffrey's cold 84 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: eyes filled into blanks. The look said a lot. Mostly 85 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: it said, I'm a survivor. When the ship house starts 86 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: to go up in flames, I'm the motherfucker with the 87 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: fire extinguisher. I'm Michael Jeffrey. I do what needs doing 88 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: to get myself undone, my man, qualified man. The look 89 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: filling in the space around Jeffrey's last comment, I had 90 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: no bloody choice. It also said it was the payout 91 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: and the two million dollar insurance policy took out on 92 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: Jimmy's head. And it was the insurance policy that rescued 93 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: Jeffrey from certain ruin or even death from his debtors. 94 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: The mob again, according to James Tappy, right, Michael Jeffrey 95 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: had no bloody choice. Tappy could believe it. Michael Jeffrey, 96 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: former agent of the Special Forces for the British Intelligence 97 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: Michael Jeffrey mobbed up. Michael Jeffrey, professional badass, Michael Jeffrey, 98 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: trained killer, or so he told Tappy. Jeffrey sold that 99 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: image hard, and guys like Tappy bought it hook line 100 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: and sinker. Tappy put two and two together Jeffrey's vague 101 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: confession and the reports from the attending doctors about the 102 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: red wine that had been in Jimmy's mouth and throat 103 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: but not in his stomach, and now Tappy was burdened 104 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: with this bombshell, one of a handful of people who 105 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: knew about it. He wished he didn't. He'd been on 106 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: the sidelines for most of his life on a need 107 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 1: to know basis, and now he was privy to the deepest, 108 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: darkest secrets. He sat across the table from Jeffrey in 109 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: the apartment and picked up what was being put down. 110 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: Tappy was convinced that Jeffrey had offered Jimmy. Convinced that 111 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: Jeffrey had sent a couple of goons to that apartment 112 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: in Nodding Hill and it was there that they forced 113 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: the red wine down Jimmy's throat until he drowned. James. 114 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: Tappy right sat on his bar stool in a near 115 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: empty seaside Whitley Babe pub Convinced Michael Jeffrey killed Jimmie Hendricks, 116 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: his imagination went into overdrive. He could see it all, 117 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: how it all could have come together, and it was 118 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: moving fast. When Michael Jeffrey got the news that Jimmy 119 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: had taken meetings with Chaz Chandler and Alan Douglas, it 120 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: was the last straw. Tappy knew this. He knew Jimmy 121 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: meeting with Chaz again would have flipped out his boss Jeffrey. 122 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: So Tappy knew that if Jeffrey did what he thought 123 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: he did, they need to have the idea circling around 124 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: in his head for a while before moving on it, 125 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: Before taking it from just an annoying thought to an idea. 126 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: He needed to execute on. Michael Jeffrey's days as manager 127 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: to the greatest guitar player in the world were numbered. 128 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: If Jeffrey lost Jimmy, Tappy figured, then he would have 129 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: no way out from his mob debts. So Jeffrey moved quick. 130 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: If he was going to survive avoid being clipped by 131 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: the mafia, then Jimmie Hendricks had to go. It was 132 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: the only way for Michael Jeffrey. It was never a 133 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: question of if he could do it, It was a 134 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: question of how. In his rampant imagination, Tappy could see 135 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: Jeffrey going into full James Bond Boat total Mission Impossible 136 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: waking fantasy. Tappy saw Jeffrey tightening his cuff links, smoothing 137 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: his pressed white shirt, donning his black jacket, punching his cuffs, 138 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: methodically cleaning the lenses of his dark prescription glasses with 139 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: the pocket square from his suit jacket, the theme from 140 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: Peter Gunn playing in a loop in his head on 141 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: Max Volume. Tappy knew the training from Jeffrey's days laid 142 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: dormant inside of him, and that Jeffrey thought of it 143 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: as an ace up as sleeve. It was in part 144 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: what gave him the balls to deal with the mafia types. 145 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: He's so casually borrowed money from that training coiled inside 146 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: of him like a sleeper sell ready to be activated, 147 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: covert deep cover. No more. Now it was alive, ship 148 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: was on. Warner Brothers weren't the only ones with half 149 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: a fucking clue. Mike Jeffrey knew how thin the mortal 150 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: coil was being stretched by his client, Jimmy Hendricks, so 151 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: he took out a two million dollar life insurance policy 152 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 1: on his star attraction as well. And now, after all 153 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: the bullshit, after the arrest in Toronto and the subsequent trial, 154 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: the kidnapping at the Salvation Club, the shakedowns on the 155 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: streets of Harlem, the drugs and the girls, and the 156 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: constant deviation from the master plan, after Jimmy collapsing on 157 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: stage and barely escaping an island on fire, after coming 158 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: out from under a recording studio that was hell bent 159 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 1: on sinking no matter how hard they tried to keep 160 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: it afloat, After the back alley fist fights and threatening 161 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: phone calls and claims of illegitimate children, after all the 162 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: other fame hungry hangers on who wanted a piece of 163 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: Jimmy's pie. After all of that, at this time, finally 164 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: for Michael Jeffrey to cash in on his Voodoo child 165 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: cash cat to quit while he was ahead. Jimmy wasn't 166 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: gonna listen anymore. Jeffrey had resorted to keeping Jimmy as 167 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,719 Speaker 1: preoccupied and disoriented as possible. He controlled his mind by 168 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: dosing him with drugs. He controlled his location by buying 169 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: him that swank house outside of Woodstock. He controlled his 170 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: creativity by giving him the recording studio of his dreams. 171 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: He did all of this just so he could minimize 172 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: the amount of not listening that Jimmy would do. Tabby 173 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: knew that Jeffrey knew that. The simple truth was that he, 174 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: Michael Jeffrey could not carry on with Jimmy Hendrix. If 175 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: Jimmy's behavior didn't drive him to the point of no return, 176 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 1: then his debt to the mob to keep him and 177 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: Jimmy happy and on the charts certainly did. Jeffrey had 178 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: no other artist in his stable that was enough of 179 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: a moneymaker. He wasn't going to bring him the bacon 180 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: with soft machine, no offense. He was losing his grip, 181 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: and he was too smart to not know the Chaz 182 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: Chandler wasn't too far behind. Chaz was always there when 183 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: it came to Jimmy, never quite out of the picture, 184 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: waiting in the cut, about to strike and steal Jeffrey's 185 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: voodoo child right out from under him, cut him down 186 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: to size. Tabby heard the rumors, Ship. They weren't even rumors, 187 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: they were more like public declarations. Jeffrey was a cheat, 188 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: a scoundrel, and opportunists. Eric Burden flat oled accused Jeffreys 189 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: stealing money from the animals, and Burden let anyone who 190 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: would listen know that he thought Michael Jeffrey was a 191 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: dirty thief, that he set up an offshore tax haven, 192 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: funneled skim and earnings from his bands into it to 193 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: avoid heavy UK taxes, move money around from country to country, 194 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,959 Speaker 1: island to island, suitcase to suitcase. Good fellow and a 195 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: good fellow. Tappy knew that if Jimmy didn't know what 196 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: Burden knew, that he would know soon enough. And he 197 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: fucking a knew that Michael Jeffrey would have known this too, 198 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: known this that if Jimmy Hendricks cut Michael Jeffrey loose, 199 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: then Jimmie Hendricks was a fucking dead man. No Jimmy, 200 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: no money, no money, no more yank with the boys 201 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: from Jersey. It was a death sentence for Jeffrey. And 202 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: if the mob didn't get on and the I R 203 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: s would they take the studio, his houses, his fancy clothes, 204 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 1: his fancy drugs. They take every last thing and leave 205 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: him with barely the shoes on his feet. He'd have 206 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: to take the subway or the tube to work in 207 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: some downtown shipole or worse, to the unemployment office like 208 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: some ordinary joe. Fuck that. He wasn't gonna let that happen. 209 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 1: He got in the zone, he got a character, and 210 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: he moved with the quickness. Tappy can see it all happening. 211 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,079 Speaker 1: Michael Jeffrey is Michael Caine and funeral in Berlin, doing 212 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: what had to be done to save his ass. A 213 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: qualified man smashing her motherfucker's face him with a vase 214 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: of roses without thinking twice if need be. But but 215 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: he wasn't about to get his own hands dirty in 216 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: the process. Jeffrey was too smart for that. Tappy knew 217 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: it best for Jeffrey to stay on the sidelines, call 218 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: the shots from behind his dark prescription classes don't risk 219 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: that two million dollar life insurance paym the goon is 220 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: listened intently, and Michael Jeffrey spoke, this is what you're 221 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: gonna do. Jimmy and his old lady are powering around 222 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: town today. Go sweat the Sammer kid. She's got a 223 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: room there. Wait till he's alone. Even if you have 224 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: to wait all night. Wait, he'll be watching. You'll be 225 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: waiting when he's alone. That's when you can't do it. 226 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: Tappy could see them in his mind's eye, the goons. 227 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 1: They're peering inside the Samarkan flat window, hiding undercover in 228 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: the small gardens and wrought iron fencing out front. They 229 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: watched while Monica made Jimmy the tuna sandwich, their own 230 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: bellies rumbling. They just needed to get this over with 231 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: so that they could go eat. They were starving. The 232 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: sun was coming up. Monica's eyes were going down. She 233 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: passed out. Jimmy absent mindedly grabbed a fistfull of sleeping 234 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: pills Monica's vesper x and slugged them back with another 235 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: swig of wine from the glass next to the bed. 236 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: It felt like he hadn't slept in days, and at 237 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: this moment it was all he needed the pills to 238 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: do the trick. Little did he know he was making 239 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: the job for the goons waiting outside all the more easy. 240 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: The goons stood quiet, watching, whispering, waiting. A few hours 241 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: later Monica woke, walked drowsily around the apartment, and then 242 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: she left, took a hike on up the street. Left 243 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: Jimmy passed out cold in bed. It was time the 244 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: goons tried the front door unlocked. They were in easy. 245 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: They swept into the flat like a gust of wind, 246 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: closed the door behind the dead bull blatched. They spoke 247 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: in hand signals, blinks of the eye, head nods. They 248 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: were in all black, black pants, black shirts, black beanie hats, 249 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: and they moved swiftly. Tappy could see them in his mind, 250 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: and now he thought of another Michael Caine reference gambit. 251 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: The goons would have been tall, one routon the other sickly, 252 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: a real young yang thing, one lanky, one short stacked. 253 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: The sickly goon spied the bottle of red wine on 254 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: the kitchen counter waiting for them, just as Jeffrey had said, 255 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: Jimmy's crypt tonite, and Jeffrey called it the fellow should 256 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: use it to their advantage. Jimmy was laying in bed, 257 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: fully closed on top of the sheets, his black strap 258 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: nestled next to him. The two stood over sleeping Jimmy 259 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: Hendrix and the sickly Goon pulled the cork from the 260 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: half empty bottom for red wine. It made a startling 261 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: popping sound, loud enough that Jimmy was roused. He started 262 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: mumbling something about Brian Jones, something about rotis reading, like 263 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: he was talking to them. The sickly goon with the 264 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: wine bottle motioned to his partner, who grabbed the front 265 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: of Jimmy's shirt and lifted his head slightly from the pillow. 266 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: Jimmy's eyes fought to open up, but the pills were 267 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: fighting him. He just kept mumbling Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, like 268 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: a tick, like it was on a loop in his brain. 269 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: And the sickly goon squeezed Jimmy's prone cheeks with his 270 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: left hand and shoved the wine bottle into Jimmy's mouth 271 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: was his right. The bottle was turned upside down and 272 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: the red wine came out like it had busted through 273 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: a floodgate. Jimmy's eyes still weren't fully open as he 274 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: started to guzzle the Bluese that was being forced on him, 275 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: and the bottle smacked against one of his front teeth. 276 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: He started to choke, made wretching noises, sending SIPs of 277 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: wine splattering onto the sickly goon's black jacket. Two held 278 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: him there, made him take it, made him taste it, 279 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: made him swim in it, drowning it. After the last 280 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: drop was out of the bottle, they dropped Jimmy's head 281 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: back down onto the pillow. He was unconscious again, seemed, 282 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:07,959 Speaker 1: but his chest was still heaving. The goons split fast. 283 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: The empty wine bottle was recorked, put back on the 284 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: kitchen counter, and they could hear sputtering and wretching coming 285 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: from the bedroom, and then silence. They left up the 286 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: front door, closed it behind them. They had done Michael 287 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: Jeffrey's bidding, and now they were getting something to eat, 288 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: and they were fucking starving. And James Tappy right sitting 289 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: on his bar stool, but a year after his boss's 290 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 1: most famous client up and died, was thirsty as fuck. 291 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: The thought of it, all, the why, the how, the 292 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: who is shook Tappy with fear. He pushed the who 293 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 1: done into the back of his mind, straightened himself out 294 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: on his stool, shrugged, and ordered another pint. It could 295 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: have happened that way, but Tappy wouldn't know for sure. 296 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: The only thing he was sure of was that Jimmie 297 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: Hendricks was dead and that Michael Jeffrey was a bad, 298 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: bad and we'll be right back after this word were were? 299 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: Monica Danemon spoke calmly as she told her attorney the 300 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: same story she'd been telling the world for over twenty years, 301 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: the same story she told the day Jimmie Hendricks died, 302 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: The same story she told in the Inner World of 303 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendricks, the book she had just published. The same 304 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: story she was now being taken to court over charged 305 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: with libel against Cathy Etchingham, another of Jimmie Hendricks's former girlfriends. 306 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: But Monica didn't see herself as just another girlfriend. She 307 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 1: told the attorney. Monica Daneman hadn't known Jimmie Hendricks for 308 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: that law. The connection she felt was strong, and who 309 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 1: were they to tell her that her connection wasn't strong, 310 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: she didn't feel the way she felt, or that Jimmy 311 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: wasn't as true blue as she believed him to be. 312 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: The haters were just jealous they wanted what she had 313 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: and they couldn't have it. Who fucking who for them? 314 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: When she first met Jimmy in a bar and Dusseldor 315 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: if it was all over all downhill, She left Germany, 316 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: left her job as an ice skating instructor, and went 317 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 1: where Jimmy went. Sometimes she'd get his attention, other times not. 318 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: And they had a few nights together here, a few 319 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: nights together there, and then those last days in London 320 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: at the Samarcan she had his complete attention in the garden, 321 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: he told her he loved her, He told her that 322 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: he would marry her. Didn't matter if he said those 323 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 1: same things to other girls on other days and other gardens. 324 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: He belonged to her now and she wasn't about to 325 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: let go. And Kathy Etchingham I thought Monica was offered, 326 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: not deluded, that she had casually met Jimmie hendrickson a 327 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: bar and Dooseldorf and almost instantly concocted a fantasy where 328 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 1: she and Jimmy were the leading roles. And furthermore, she 329 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: would say whatever she needed to say to push other people, 330 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: people like Kathy further out of the picture. No one 331 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: was going to write her out of history, least of 332 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: all a delusional ice skater. Monica had been accused of 333 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: a lot of things in Jimmy's death. Accused of neglect, lies, 334 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 1: accused of poisoning him, used of waiting too long to 335 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: call an ambulance. But she stuck to her story. She 336 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: sat across the table from her attorney and spoke her truth, 337 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:13,120 Speaker 1: the things she believed. Others called them conspiracies, fantasies, falsehoods, 338 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: meant to benefit no one but Monica Daneman, but she 339 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: stood her ground. She told her attorney that she thought 340 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: the paramedics were neglectful. The paramedics refused to give Jimmy 341 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: the help he needed because he was black. It was 342 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: so fucking obvious, she thought, I could see it in 343 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: her mind, see how the whole thing played out. It 344 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: was obvious because Jimmy's life was full of more than 345 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: his fair share of racist encounters. He had told her 346 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: about the time that the cops had stopped Jimmy and 347 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,439 Speaker 1: Cathy as they walked on the streets of London. Jimmy 348 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: dressed in that antique royal vet core jacket, guilty only 349 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: of walking while black, or perhaps more accurately, walking while 350 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 1: black with a white woman on his arm. Jimmy had 351 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: also told her stories about touring with the experience in 352 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: the States, about the restaurants in the South where he 353 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: would begrudgingly eat with the rest the tour crew, and Jimmy, 354 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 1: the only black man in the joint, he managed to 355 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 1: sit through an awkwardly quick meal, all white eyes in 356 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: the place on him the entire time. The tour made 357 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: its way to Seattle, where a cop pulled a gun 358 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: on Jimmy, a cop who was hired to protect him 359 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: because he was walking hand in hand with a white woman. 360 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: Other cops pulled their guns too. The whole situation turned 361 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: into a standoff of extremely ignorant proportions and ended with 362 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: hired cops walking off the job simply because they couldn't 363 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: stomach Jimmy, a black man walking with a white woman. 364 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: Monica was convinced that the day he died was the 365 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: same thing that a couple of white paramedics walked into 366 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: the flat, saw a white woman with a black man, 367 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: and their inherent racism flared to the surface. Monica closed 368 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: her eyes and envisioned the whole scenario clearly in her head. 369 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: She could see Jimmy's life slipping away inside the ambulance. 370 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: Every bump in the road that the ambulance hit, he 371 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: felt it in his bones. His stomach went into revolt 372 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: with every sharp turn, each breath he took, it felt 373 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 1: like it could be his last. He was sitting up 374 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: in a stretcher, his shirts soiled with vomit and wine 375 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: spots dried red wine threw out his hair, his eyes 376 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: swarming around in his head. He felt his pulse quicken 377 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: and then suddenly dropped down to a dribble, and then 378 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: it quickened again. He was just as surprised as anyone 379 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: that he was actually conscious in the back of this ride. 380 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,479 Speaker 1: He could have sworn he felt dead there for a 381 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: few minutes earlier in the morning, and the paramedics both 382 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: sat in the front of the ambulance, one driving, another 383 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: riding shotgun. Shouldn't one of them be back here with me, 384 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: Jimmy thought, fighting the ways of pain and nausea. Why 385 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: wasn't someone taking his vitals, monitoring his pulse, making sure 386 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: he remained in this world. I'll meet in the next one, 387 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: don't be late. And they passed the first hospital. Through 388 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: his half masted eyes, he watched the hospital come and 389 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: go through the ambulance window. He raised his arm, pointed 390 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 1: out the window, mumbled some words something to draw ten 391 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 1: into the fact that they had just driven by a 392 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: fucking hospital. His mumbling seemed to fall on deaf ears, 393 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 1: and the paramedics weren't any rush to get to their destination. 394 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,679 Speaker 1: They weren't in a rush period. The two paramedics had 395 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: arrived at Monica's rented flat about ten minutes after she 396 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: made the call, and they took their time, didn't bust 397 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 1: down the apartment door, didn't scatter and make up for 398 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 1: lost time. They walked patiently into the bedroom, found Jimmy unconscious, 399 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: and gradually got him up on the stretcher and packed 400 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: into the ambulance. They slapped his face, attended to and 401 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 1: rustled around for some medical instruments in their bag, and 402 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: within seconds, Jimmy's eyes had fluttered open slightly. He was 403 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: still there, still inside that body, still with it. When 404 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 1: they left, Monica remembered that they didn't turn the siren 405 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: back on, just merged into traffic like any other vehicle 406 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: driving on any other Friday. Jimmy wheezed, spattered some more, 407 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: felt another wave of wretching coming on. It was burning up. 408 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: One of the paramedics clicked the stereo on and the 409 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: chairman of the boards, You've got Me Dangling on a 410 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: String rolled through its giddy yet mournful chorus, and the 411 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: paramedic writing shotguns snapped his fingers. Now this is music, 412 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: truth be told. This is my kind of black music. 413 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: It's calm, catchy, strings are nice, boy, Too much of 414 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: you give. People's music is loud and political. Paramedic driving 415 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: chimed in, say it loud. He's black and he's almost dead. 416 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: And as you shared a laugh while the song played on, 417 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 1: You've got Me Dangling on a string. Please don't let 418 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: me trapping because everything I've gotten Back in the stretcher, 419 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: more reclined than upright, Jimmy began choking some more. He 420 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: felt his airway clog up again, tasted the Vombit there, 421 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: lodge tight that your girl back there at the apartment. 422 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: Shotgun writing paramedic yelped towards Jimmy and the stretcher, twisting 423 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: his neck just enough so that his voice would carry 424 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: into the back. How many white women does that make 425 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 1: for you? Oh, it's the problem. You don't like black ladies. 426 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: Jimmy's face went flush as he lost more ability to breathe. 427 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: He was too tired to move. He was slipping under again. 428 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: He could feel it. He'ld come up for air only 429 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: to be humiliated and ignored by these racist assholes, and 430 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: now they were just gonna let him die here. He 431 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: knew it, looking down at his feet in the back 432 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: of the shot bus ambulance, listening to the chairman of 433 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: the fucking board on this goddamn slow boat to China. 434 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: When the ambulance pulled into St. Mary Abbott's Hospital in Kensington, 435 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: Jimmy was under again, and the paramedics flung open the 436 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: back doors, pulled the stretcher out, and went to wheel 437 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,400 Speaker 1: him into the emergency room. And they didn't check any vitals, 438 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: They didn't take stock of the situation, and they didn't 439 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: look back as they casually walked away out of the 440 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: hospital and back to their ambulance. They didn't give two 441 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: ships because it didn't really matter to them at all. 442 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendricks didn't matter to them at all. They got 443 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: him there, it was someone else's job to care. The 444 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: doctor's noted the unusual amounts of red wine residue on 445 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 1: Jimmy's clothes, in his hair, in his throat, in his lungs, 446 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: if not necessarily in his stomach, it was coming out 447 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: of his nose, in his mouth. When one of the 448 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: nurses saw Jimmy on the stretcher and shouted and shocked, Oh, 449 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: that's Jimmy Hendrix. Who's Jimmy Hendrix, the attending doctor responded. 450 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 1: Moments later, the same doctor called it confirmed Jimmy's long 451 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: running premonitions that he, James Marshall Jimmy Hendrix was dead 452 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 1: at just months away from his twenty birthday. With Jimmy gone, 453 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: it was just Monica's story against the world in the 454 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: world had questions, The world had doubts. The world wasn't 455 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: buying her story about the death of the most famous 456 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: guitar player on the planet, not buying it at all. 457 00:26:53,800 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: Not one. The theory about Michael Jeffrey's better dead than 458 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: alive goonish takedown of Jimmy Hendrix and the theory about 459 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:25,959 Speaker 1: incompetent racist paramedics are arguably far fetched. They seem more 460 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: like attempts to explain the sudden death of a unique 461 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: musical talent that Jimmy's death couldn't have been so blah, 462 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: so pedestrian, so clich that some sinister force must have 463 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: taken him down something fantastical. He was just too unique, 464 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: too special, too immortal to die so predictably. The truth 465 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: may have been less pulpy than the twin theories positive 466 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: by Tabby and Monica, but the truth was tragic. Nonetheless, 467 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: the truth about Jimmie hendricks death goes like this. Jimmie 468 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: Hendricks took nine of Monica Daneman's vest Direx pills. That's 469 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: nearly twenty times the recommended dosage. It was enough to 470 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 1: take down a goddamn rhino. The autopsy concluded that he 471 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 1: died from inhalation of vomit due to barbituate intoxication and 472 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: phetamines plus wine plus second all and then a ship 473 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 1: ton of vesper x. He chugged the booze, he chugged 474 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: the pills, He fell asleep on his back, and he 475 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: didn't wake up when his body rejected the leaf of cocktail. Intentional, 476 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: probably not a dumb move made by a guy who 477 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 1: was running on fumes and just wanted the world to 478 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 1: stop for a moment so his body and mind could 479 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: catch up. That's most likely what happened, but we'll never 480 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 1: really know. Jimmie Hendricks was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in 481 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: rent In, Washington, a Seattle suburb. It was the first 482 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: day of October in n It was cheaper to bury 483 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: Jimmy in Renton than in Seattle. Between the naughty mess 484 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: that was his estate and the paltry salary that his 485 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: father Al earned his landscaper, it just made fiscal sense 486 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: to bury him there. Plus, his mother, Lucille, was buried 487 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: there too. The funeral took place at the Dumblap Baptist Church. 488 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: Only one reporter and one photographer gotten the door. Hundreds 489 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: of fans lined the streets outside. Jimmy's family was intended 490 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: says were Michael Jeffrey No Reading, Mitch Mitchell and Buddy Miles, 491 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: Johnny Winter, Alan Douglas, Miles Davis, and Devin Wilson. Devon 492 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: flung herself at the open grave. A short time later, 493 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: in February of one, she took another dive. This time 494 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: it was from a ninth story window of the Chelsea 495 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: Hotel in New York City. She was dead as soon 496 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 1: as she hit the pavement on twenty third Street. The 497 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: whole thing was shrouded in mystery. Was Devin Wilson pushed 498 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: or did she jump? And there wasn't much of an investigation, 499 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: Devon being devon. As far as many were concerned, it 500 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: was the jump kup her nose and in her arm 501 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: that did her in. Jimmy's dark shadows snuffed out, case closed. 502 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: The tragic deaths of people in Jimmy's life didn't end there. 503 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: It was only three days after Jimmy's funeral that Janis 504 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: Joplin checked out in Hollywood heroin overdose. Jim Morrison followed 505 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: a short nine months later, supposedly heart failure and a 506 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: bathtub in Paris. Like Jimmy, they too were only twenty 507 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: seven years old. In March of nineteen seventy three, Michael 508 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: Jeffrey was traveling from ma Yorker to London to attend 509 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: a trial on UK royalties for Jimmy's music. Depending on 510 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: the verdict, he was looking to add another layer of 511 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: lining to his already well stuffed pockets. The Iberian Airways 512 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: d C nine he was on collided with the Span 513 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: Text Coronado and mid air over France. All forty seven passengers, 514 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: including Michael Jeffrey, were killed. Noel Redding was one of 515 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: the few who called bullshit on the plane crash. They 516 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: never identified Jeffrey's body in the wreckage. Surely must be 517 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: hiding on one of these islands with one of his 518 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: many suitcases of money, dead and loving it. Most certain 519 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: not true. But Jeffrey was, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, a 520 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Anything's possible. 521 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,239 Speaker 1: In April of n Monica Daneman was found guilty of 522 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: contempt of court. She had been lying to reporters about 523 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: Jimmy's death when Cathy Etchingham had the coroner's inquest, reopened. 524 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: Her fantasy world about a relationship with Jimmy took on 525 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: a life of its own after his death, and she 526 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: remained consumed by his memory. The walls of her house 527 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: were filled with paintings of Jimmy that she had created. 528 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: She held on to Jimmy's black stratocaster that he had 529 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: been playing that last day. She wrote a book about 530 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: her brief time with her supposed fiance, The Inner World 531 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: of Jimmie Hendricks, which contained a lot of photos she 532 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: took on her last day together. Two days after she 533 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: was found guilty of contempt. She parked from Mercedes bends 534 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: in her garage, closed the garage door, rolled her windows down, 535 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: breathed in, d filled her lungs with carbon monoxide, and 536 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: they were the last breaths she would take. She was 537 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: fifty years old. Chas Chandler was fifty seven when he 538 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: died in his sleep at Newcastle General Hospital in July. 539 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: He had been admitted to undergo tests for a new 540 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: ordic aneurism his heart gave out. Noel Redding had a 541 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: rocky relationship with the Hendricks estate following Jimmy's death in 542 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: the seventies. He first sued Warner Brothers for hundreds of 543 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars and damages plus royalties, and then sued 544 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: both Warners and chas Chandler for a cool three million. 545 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: In a few thousand three, he sued the Hendricks estate 546 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: for another five million in royalty zone. A few months later, 547 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: he was found dead by his manager at his home 548 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 1: in Ireland, unknown causes, and he was only fifty seven. 549 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: Mitch Mitchell died in a Portland, Oregon hotel room in 550 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: November two thousand and eight. He was on the last 551 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: stop of a US tour with the experienced Hendricks show 552 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 1: attribute show to his former group featuring high profile musical guests. 553 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: His death was due to natural causes and he was 554 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 1: just sixty one. Over the years, all these musicians and 555 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: more were wrapped up and tied up in the ongoing 556 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: legacy of Jimmy Hendricks, his music, his legend, his place 557 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties, and in the pantheon of rock 558 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 1: music architects. Though he only released three studio albums, one 559 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: live album, and one compilation album during a short lifetime, 560 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: his postumous catalog continues to grow. There have been releases 561 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 1: galore of live shows and studio outtakes, but also lawsuits galore. 562 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: Record companies, bandmates, family members. A lot of hands have 563 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 1: dipped into the Hendricks pie. Jimmy remains the ultimate archetype 564 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: for rock guitarists, for psychedelic music makers, for left handers 565 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: and freak flag waivers, and for those who like their 566 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: fashion sense to raise a few eyebrows. If Jimmy had 567 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 1: stopped searching along the way, stop trying to find that thing, 568 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: that thing that clicked, the right thing with his left hand, 569 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: searching for something that made sense, the right band or 570 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: right song, or right girl. If he stopped searching that, 571 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,239 Speaker 1: he wouldn't have been Jimmy. He would have been just 572 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: another dude from Seattle with a guitar and a head 573 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,359 Speaker 1: full of illicit drugs. He would have done what Little 574 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: Richard told him to do. Remained in the shadows, but 575 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: there was always something new to seek out. Sometimes, like 576 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: the music he made with Band of Gypsies, the results 577 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,720 Speaker 1: of the detour were great. Other times, like that last 578 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 1: Faithful night with Monica, they were deadly. But it was 579 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: always Jimmy's move. Jimmy made it happen, and there was 580 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: no way he wouldn't. People don't realize as he wants, 581 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 1: say that a plastic cage is so easy to break. 582 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: Jimmy hendricks Stone free to do what he please. He 583 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 1: can't stay, He's gotta get away. I'm Jake Brennan and 584 00:34:46,080 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: this is the seven col. Twenty seven Club is scored 585 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: and co written by me Jake Brennan. 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