1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jimi Hendrix died at the 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: age of and he lived a life where every day 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: was unlike the day before. I can give you twenty 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: seven reasons why that statement is true. Three was his 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: magic number, the holy trinity of the power trio guitar, 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: bass drums that he would master briefly with the Jimi 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: Hendrix Experience and again with the Band of Gypsies. Fifteen 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: would be the number of miles that he'd ride and 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: a stolen truck with Neil Young to get to Woodstock 11 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: on time when they're playing landed at the wrong airport. 12 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: Another eight would be the number of hours the jury 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: in Toronto would deliberate in order to decide that the 14 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: world's greatest guitarist would spend the next decade of his 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: life behind bars. And one would be the number of 16 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: years he'd have left to live after Brian Jones was 17 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool. All 18 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: totally on this our seventh episode of season one. Magic numbers, 19 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: stolen trucks, a dead rolling stone, and they always searching 20 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendricks. I'm Jake Brennan. And this is the seven o'clock. 21 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: Neil Young was searching for the helicopter, the helicopter man, 22 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: their own personal chopper, the Woodstock Express, the bird that 23 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: was going to get them from here to there? Where 24 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: the hell was that bird man? Neil stood on the 25 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: small regional airport tarmac, peppered with small charter jets like 26 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: the one he had just flown in, on the sun 27 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: beating down. He raised his flat hand to just above 28 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: his eyes to provide shade from the glare, his ruffle 29 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: dress shirts sticking out from the cough of his jacket. 30 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: Where the funk are they? New York, Vermont, fucking New Hampshire. 31 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: Damned if he knew the mescaline he had ingested on 32 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: the plane was coming alive now, which made everything crystal 33 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: clear and messed up all at once. Everything felt great, 34 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: everything did not feel great. Jimmie Hendricks stood next to Nielia, 35 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: similarly baffled and equally dosed, along with the other passengers 36 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: from their little plane, attorney Melvin Belli and Nil's manager 37 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: Elliott Roberts. Melvin, whose high profile clients included Jack Ruby 38 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: and the Rolling Stones, was clear headed and unencumbered. He 39 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: suggested the logical conclusion to their predicament. They have been 40 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: dropped off at the wrong airport. There was no Woodstock 41 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: helicopter coming to get them. Woodstock would have to start 42 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: without them, and they were screwed sort of. Oh man. 43 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: Jimmy laughed and looked at Neil. I was supposed to 44 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 1: go on first, just me and my guitar. He let 45 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: her repress giggle snort out from his mouth, and Neil, 46 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: at a giant belly laugh run free. It was true. 47 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: Woodstocks producer Michael Lang contracted Jimmy to open the three 48 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: day outdoor music festival with a surprise solo acoustic set 49 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: and then close it on Sunday night with an electric set, 50 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: and Jimmy was now the highest paid rock star in 51 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: the world. Here ago he was the highest paid performer 52 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: at Woodstock, much to Laying chagrin, laying at the cap 53 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: larger acts at fifteen grand due to a Favorite Nations 54 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: policy and Jimmy's hard as nails manager Michael Jeffrey was 55 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: having none of it. Jimmy would do it for fifty 56 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: grand and you know what else, His name would be 57 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: listed first on every print in Radiohead. His name would 58 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: be bigger than everyone else's. He'd headline the gig. It 59 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: was too much. Laying wanted Jimmy, but he couldn't meet 60 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: Jeffrey at fifty grand. So Laying and Jeffrey came to 61 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: an agreement that gave Jimmy the most money but didn't 62 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: break lanks for Jimmy would play two sets for fifteen 63 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: grand each, along with another couple of grand for expenses 64 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: plus grand tour deal. The thing was, Jimmy wasn't gonna 65 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: make the opening set. He didn't even know where he was. 66 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: His mind was elsewhere, anywhere but upstate New York. All 67 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 1: he could think about was the bust in Toronto, the 68 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: impending trial for heroin and hash possession. It was four 69 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: months away, and that almost made it worse. All this 70 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: waiting around and obsessing over every last detail. What he 71 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: could have done differently, what he should have done differently, 72 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: What could have happened to him? What would happen to 73 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: him this December, when you had to stare down years 74 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: in a Canadian prison, his fate in the hands of strangers. 75 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: Jimmy must have checked out for a moment, and the 76 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: mescaline was starting to take hold. After all, because when 77 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: he turned to look at Melvin. The attorney had taken 78 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 1: off his shirt. It was pouring a cannon beer on 79 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: his chest to facilitate the tanning process. The attorney yelled 80 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: at him from across the term ac and Jimmy rubbed 81 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: his eyes. It must be the must be the drugs. 82 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,679 Speaker 1: Neil was at the driver's side door of a pickup 83 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: truck parked in the airport lot. Neil peaked inside, wide eyed, 84 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: and then tried the door. It opened. He hollered at 85 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: Elliott to keep an eye out, and then jumped in 86 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: the driver's seat. Worked his hands beneath the steering wheel. Clanks, clunks, bangs, booms, 87 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: The spark a couple of false starts, and the old 88 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: truck roared to life. Neil knew that soon, very soon, 89 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: they would be completely twisted, and there was no going back, 90 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: no time to rest. Get in. He hollowed to the 91 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: other three. Elliott, Melvin hopped in the cab with Neil 92 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: and Jimmy. Knew that the obvious thing to do, the 93 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: rational thing, was to jump on the hood of the 94 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: truck and hold on for dear life. Of course, it 95 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: was Neil put the truck in first gear and tore 96 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: out of the airport parking lot, with Jimmy's body swinging 97 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,119 Speaker 1: from side to side on the hood of the truck. 98 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: Elliott laughed, Holy Jesus, Jimmy scream from the hood because 99 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: these goddamn animals, and he lay flat on his stomach, 100 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: his hands dug into the under side of the hood 101 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: near the windshield, holding on for dear life the sky. 102 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: I because the dark and huge bats to take into 103 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: the skies, diving all around the truck and nearly missing 104 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: Jimmy with each dramatic swoop. Man, this is the way 105 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: to travel in love and Holliday and reach for the 106 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: volume nod on the A M radio. He cranked tones 107 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: of the Fifth Dimensions, working on a groovy thing until 108 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: the speakers crackled. You feel good, Jimmy thought, you fool. Wait, 109 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: you see these goddamn bats. No point in mentioning. Poor 110 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: bastard will see them soon enough, Jimmy thought. Hired to 111 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: open Woodstock on Friday and close it out on Sunday night, 112 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: and Jimmy never made it for Friday's commitment, laying panicked 113 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: and persuaded Richie Havens to perform in his place, and 114 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: Richie killed it, and Jimmy wasn't exactly sure what time 115 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: he finally made it to old man Jaskar's farm, or 116 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: what day he made it, or how he made it, 117 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: for that matter, did he ride in the hood of 118 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: the truck the whole way there? Everything was running behind schedule, 119 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: set times were all screwed up. Bands would take to 120 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: the stage hours after their originally scheduled performance times after 121 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: waiting around in the mud and the rain drugs had 122 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: worn off, or maybe the drugs they didn't intend to take. 123 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: It started to kick in, and by the time Jimmy 124 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: took the stage with Gypsy Son and Rainbows, his new 125 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: band he had formed after the Experiences break up, the 126 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: Monday morning sun would be rising on a decimated Woodstock crowd. 127 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: Nearly half a million people would have already split. Jimmy 128 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: stepped on the makeshift stage, stuck in the middle of 129 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: the farm's backyard, more than ready to make a scene 130 00:07:28,800 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: or whoever would listen. M ros Payne was talking down 131 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: a kid in the trip tent when she heard it. 132 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: Fuzzy and phased out, metallic and shrill, familiar yet completely foreign. 133 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: She heard the first six notes of the National Anthem 134 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: ring out from the stage. It gave her pause. She 135 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: stopped talking. The sun had just come up over Jascar's 136 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: dairy farm, and would stock New York Times stood still. 137 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: Ros had been calmly helping a young boy get through 138 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: a bad trip. He couldn't have been older than nineteen. 139 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: He had no shirt. It was lost, forever, swallowed by 140 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: the mud. Sometime after the rains came a sacrifice for 141 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: the gods of peace and love. His jeans were wet 142 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: and soiled with dirt, and the sweat from his forehead 143 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: seemed to jump over to the inside of his glasses, 144 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: which were all fogged up, and he panted, popped his 145 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: eyes with wide shook his head, muttered under his breath. 146 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: He had taken something, but couldn't tell Ros what it was. 147 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: Perhaps it was some of that brown acid that the 148 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: festival organizers kept warning the crowd about on the stage. 149 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 1: Stay away from the brown acid. Perhaps this kid didn't 150 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: hear the announcement and took him anyway that he would cry, 151 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: and then he'd shake with fear, and then he calmed 152 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,199 Speaker 1: down and fell out about it, and then you go 153 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: through the cycle all over again. Roz sat with him, 154 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: kept talking with him, positive things, riding it out together. 155 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: You'd get through this bad trip and come out on 156 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: the other side. He had survived a weekend of heat 157 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: and rain, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of total strangers, 158 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: and surely he'd survive this. He would see, he would 159 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: be fine, just fine. Ros and the kid were one 160 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: of the many couples inside the trip tent, kids on 161 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: bad trips, side by side with the bad trip guides. 162 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 1: Woodstock producers had hired a team of doctors, nurses, and 163 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: e m t s to help over the weekend, but 164 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: a group of citizen volunteers had stepped in to deal 165 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: with bad trip rips, hallucinations, paranoia, anxiety. Instead of drugs. 166 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,479 Speaker 1: To combat drugs, they'd use good old fashioned human interaction 167 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: and let the doctors deal with the foot lacerations and 168 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 1: the seizures and the asthma texts. They did this all 169 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: weekend freakouts each hour, twenty five bad trips each hour, 170 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: and by Monday morning, the Woodstock site was a filthy 171 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: ghost town. Only about forty thousand of the original half 172 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: million festival goers remained. Everyone had gone home to get 173 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 1: back to work, back to the real world, back to 174 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: their families, back to their lives, tuned out, turned off, 175 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: and dropped back into reality and the Monday morning, stragglers, 176 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: refusing to give up the dream, walked through the wreckage, 177 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 1: brushed their teeth, tens, umbrellas, shoes, and coke cans, all 178 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: pressed into the muddy earth and left for dead spent trash, 179 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: t shirts, condoms, watermelons, oranges, bras, mattress pads, maxi pads, 180 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 1: cigarette butts. A skeleton crew served up hot breakfast for 181 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 1: those who weren't passed out on the hoods of Sedan's 182 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: for those who weren't nodding off on the ground are 183 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 1: unknowingly coppying a serious, dangerous tan atop a blanket on 184 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: a sodden expanse of firm lamp Ros was there to help. 185 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: She showed up early before the music even began, help 186 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: set up. She loosened up fencing each day to allow 187 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,199 Speaker 1: those without tickets to enter the festival grounds. And she 188 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: was tight with Abby Hoffman and the Hippies, political pranksters. 189 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: Sometimes their political pranks had unexpected results. Abby's face met 190 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: the business end of Pete Towns his guitar when he 191 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: attempted to interrupt the Who's confrontational set at five am 192 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: on Sunday morning, ros helped found which the women's International 193 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: terrorist Conspiracy from Hell to fight for social change and 194 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 1: rail against the patriarchy. She was at the Democratic National 195 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 1: Convention in Chicago, the Rank and Brigade Merge, anti War 196 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 1: rallies at the Pentagon. She was everywhere wherever there was 197 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 1: a fight, so hungry people could eat, Ros would be there. 198 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: Roz was far enough from the stage Monday morning that 199 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: she couldn't see Jimmie Hendricks flash of peace sign with 200 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: his hand after that first six note run. She couldn't 201 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: see his afro poofing out from the confines of his 202 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: red bandana, or the white fringe from his shirt danced 203 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: upon the top of his crushed velvet pants, or his 204 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 1: long flat hand, dirty fingernails and all squashed down on 205 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: a strats wimmy bar to make the sound drop like 206 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: an anvil one moment and soar like a fighter jet 207 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: the next. She did hear every note singed the human 208 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: morning air, every trill, every hammer on, every pull off. 209 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: The guitar was not a guitar. The national anthem was 210 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: not the national anthem. It was all new. She had 211 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: never heard a guitar. Before this moment, never heard the 212 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: Star Spangled Banner. Before this moment, ros fought authority. She 213 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: clawed at the establishment champion, the underdog marched for social justice, 214 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: demanded change, orchestrated movement. She didn't follow leaders or watched 215 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: the barking meters. The Star Spangled Banner was the theme 216 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: song of American jingoism, of blind nationalism, of football games. 217 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: But not today, never again, Now the song was hers. 218 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: Woodstock was the debut of Gypsy Son and Rainbows, Jimmy's 219 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: new thing. The Experience were no more disbanded. At the 220 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: height of their powers, there was a change in the wind, 221 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: and Jimmy blew along with it. He kept Mitch Mitchell 222 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: on drums, but replaced Old Redding with his old army 223 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 1: buddy Billy Cox. Another old friend and Nashville cat, Larry 224 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: Lee was on guitar, and the group was rounded out 225 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: by two percussion players, Jerry Vellis and Jima Sultan. And 226 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 1: Jimmy held rehearsals for the group at Michael Jeffrey's rented 227 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: house and show can, conveniently just down the road from Woodstock, 228 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: a mansion made of stone with eight bedrooms and ten 229 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: acres of land, a horse stable in a pool, and 230 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: Jeffrey let Jimmy stay there, and the cook and housekeeper 231 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: Jeffrey hired to keep Jimmy happy. It was just the 232 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: cherry on top. The band got to Woodstock on Sunday 233 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: and they waited and then waited some more, and the 234 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: day saw sets from Joe Cocker and Country Joe and 235 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,559 Speaker 1: the Fish, and the night rolled on and it was 236 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: the band Crosby Stills, Nash and Young and Shanna Now 237 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:08,599 Speaker 1: bands took the stage hours later than originally scheduled, and 238 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: they hung around in the mud and rain, waiting, drugs 239 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: wearing off, waiting, drugs kicking in, waiting day turn tonight, waiting. 240 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: The festival organizers offered Jimmy and the eleven pm slot 241 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: on Sunday night. Michael Jeffrey refused. Jimmy Hendrix was closing 242 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: out Woodstock. He would be the last sound from the stage. 243 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: He'd have the last say. Jeffrey could give a rat's 244 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: ass what time that was. Jimmy collapsed off stage when 245 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: a set was over, slept for days, and the two 246 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: hours set was one of his longest, full of highs 247 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: and lows, and when it was all said and done. 248 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: Jimmy was just spent. It wasn't just Woodstock, wasn't just 249 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: the hot and sweaty throngs, the mud, the drugs, the 250 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: herculean amounts of patients took simply to endure the weekend, 251 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: to wait around. It was the way the other kind 252 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: of week w e I g h T. The band 253 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: had just sung about it a few hours earlier. Was 254 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: feeling about half past dead, the weight of it all. 255 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: One band was ending, another band was beginning. One of 256 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: his manager's chas Chandler out of the picture, while the other, 257 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: Michael Jeffrey, was making moves to as certain more controlled 258 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: and above all the weight of this Toronto thing, the 259 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: drug bust. When he cleared his mind of all the 260 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: other worries, the looming trial would pop into his brain 261 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: and stress him out. What a drag. If only he 262 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: could predict exactly what would happen when he walked into 263 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: that courtroom in a few months, when he sat in 264 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: the hot seat with the judge and jury in the 265 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: eyes and pleaded innocence. We'll be right back after this 266 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: word we were. Jimmie Hendricks was looking for an indication 267 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: that the jury had reached a verdict. Even better, they 268 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: had reached a good verdict, a fair verdict. A glimmer 269 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: and when he closed his eyes and envisioned what would 270 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: happen after the collective of white shirted Canadians returned to 271 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: the courtroom, it didn't involve jumping out of the frying 272 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: pan and into the fire, And it most certainly involved 273 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: getting out of the hot seat and walking out of 274 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: the courtroom door as a free man, of vindicated man, 275 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: man who no longer had the weight of this trial 276 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: clinging to his back, weighing down on him, privately consuming him. 277 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: It had been hours since the jury had left to 278 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: talk amongst themselves decide the fate of the most famous 279 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: rock star in the world. And Jimmy sat on a 280 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: bench in the lobby outside the Toronto courtroom, decked out 281 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: in a square suit, blue blazer, gray pants. This Toronto 282 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: defense attorney, John O. Driscoll sat by his side. Jazz 283 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: Chandler paced back and forth like he was the bouncer 284 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: for this party of two, holding their own quiet, meditative 285 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: session a very exclusive bench prison. Ten years he'd read 286 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: about a dealer bringing a quarter million dollars of grass 287 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: and a Canada from Africa around the time he was arrested, 288 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: and that dude just got fourteen years. Oh. Driscoll assured 289 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: Jimmy that it wouldn't go that part. Still, it wouldn't 290 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: shock anyone if the twelve clean cut male jurors wanted 291 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: to make an example out of Jimmy Hendricks Wilts flower powers, 292 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: so to speak, give his hippie dippy fantasies a big 293 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: old dollp of normalized mainstream defiance. If they weren't twelve 294 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: angry men, they were still twelve men with the power 295 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: to make whatever decision they deemed fit. And the Crown 296 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: Attorney had put the cops who arrested Jimmy on the 297 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: stand and drove this point home. You should have seen 298 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: these guys the experience. When they got out the plane, 299 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: they didn't look like anybody else. You got a plane 300 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: full of normal look at folk. They got slacks, it 301 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: fitted shirts and the light and then these three moonbats 302 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: pull up the rear with the chikis and sandals, beads everywhere, 303 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: chewing gum like cow and it's cut this one guy 304 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,239 Speaker 1: is wearing his hair all poofed out like a black man, 305 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: but he's white, and they're gonna dress like some bohemians 306 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: with something to hide. We're going to treat him the same. 307 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: And they were asking for it. And the proof is 308 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: in the pudding. And the guy had drugs in his bag. 309 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 1: Open and shut. Jimmy didn't deny that there were drugs 310 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: in his bag. When he went through customs in Toronto, 311 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: he denied that they were his. And Jimmy sat on 312 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: the stand, raised his right hands solemnly swore. He recalled 313 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: a girl he met in Los Angeles, Swallow on tour. 314 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: She gave him something and when he complained about a headache, 315 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: he said it was Bromo seltzer. He stucked it into 316 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: his pocket thanks to take it. Then he was really 317 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: just being polite. Strange ship from a stranger that was 318 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: going in his pocket now would be dealt without a 319 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: later time, and that was a problem with the future Jimmy. 320 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: And then he probably forgot about it. He couldn't say 321 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: where it might have ended up. It must have been 322 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 1: the vial with the heroin packets. He just didn't look 323 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: closely at it. He was giving random ship all the time, clothes, scars, 324 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: love letters, instruments, teddy bears, hash brownies, pot cookies, tabs, 325 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: and joints and bottles. Only half the time did he 326 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: actually stopped to see what it was, and the defense 327 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: put Sharon Lawrence on the standing back up the story, 328 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 1: a United Press International journalist, Sharon was at the same 329 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: party and saw the girl give Jimmy something, and they 330 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: put Chaz on the stand and he explained how one 331 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: of the main rules backstage was to never eat anything 332 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: that was brought in by a fan. Maybe you'd enjoy 333 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 1: some delicious cake, or maybe you get sick, or maybe 334 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: you get high poisoned dead, or maybe you get arrested. 335 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: Jimmy was open and honest about drugs. More or less, 336 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: his answers in the hot seat were the kinds of 337 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: answers you give to the doctor. When asked how many 338 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: drinks a day you have? You know, on average? How 339 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: often have you used cocaine? Twice? Jimmy said, how often 340 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: have you dropped LSD four or five times? Have you 341 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: smoked marijuana and hashish? Yeah? Have you ever taken heroin before? No, sir, 342 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 1: But what about drugs? Do you still like to take drugs? 343 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: I feel I about coron it he had outgrown it. 344 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 1: If it would please the court. If the judge wanted 345 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: to hear him say he didn't do drugs anymore, then 346 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: that's what he'd say. The public at the time was 347 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: blissfully ignorant when it came to what went on behind 348 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: the closed doors of rock stars. Even in the case 349 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: of a wild and crazy artist like Jimmie Hendricks. They 350 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 1: saw the Paisley Prince and the psychedelic swirls, and heard 351 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,479 Speaker 1: the strangeness spilling from his records. They could draw their 352 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: own conclusions. The noisy suggestions and tracks like the Gods 353 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: Made Love e XP and if six were nine were 354 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: far from sober, that was for sure. But suspicions and 355 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: hunches aside. How little they actually knew. Even Jimmy's arrest 356 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: had been kept a secret swept under the carpet. When 357 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 1: Jimmy was now by the mountains at the Toronto Airport, 358 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 1: his press agent, Michael Goldstein, didn't let the story hit 359 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: the wires. He wasted no time. Goldstein picked up his 360 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: phone and got the Associated Press editor on the horn. 361 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: Played him like a fiddle, easy target. Look the other 362 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: way on this Toronto thing. Okay, it's all trumped up anyhow. 363 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 1: The Monty's met the band as they walked off the plane. 364 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 1: They never do that, and Jimmy was fucking set up. Man. 365 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: He'll beat it. He'll licked these charges easily and move on. 366 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: No one ever remember it happened in here for your troubles. 367 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 1: I'm having a case. The liquor dropped off. What's your 368 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: favorite brand again? You're a bourbon guy, right? Did I 369 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 1: go to your house or to the augets? The story 370 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: oozed out just as Goldstein had planned. In its review 371 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 1: of Jimmy's Mapelief Garden Show, The Toronto Star buried a 372 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: reference to his being out on bail in the middle 373 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: of the sentence. And when the full account of the 374 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 1: bus finally did make the press, it was a month later, 375 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 1: and it was in the pages of a sympathetic Rolling 376 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: Stone magazine. Richie Yorke and Ben functorres didn't confirm what 377 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: the drug was in their article, only what it was 378 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: suspected to be, and they wrote about conservative Toronto in 379 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: a very public display of humiliation by the Canadian authorities. Yet, 380 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: despite their solidarity, they all speculated the years of jail 381 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: time was a real possibility. Jimmy's pulse went through the 382 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: roof when it was announced that the jury had reached 383 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: a verdict. He sat his hands clasped together, a giant 384 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: turquoise bracelet, rattling against the table every time he'd wring 385 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: his hands. The courtroom was full of young kids, Hendricks, 386 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 1: fans eager to see their hero walk out or freeman. Outside, 387 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 1: wet snowflakes fell, and the twelve White Shirts entered the courtroom, 388 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: along with the judge, whose gaudy powdered wig was regal 389 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: overkilled to the max, a long distant salute to the motherland. 390 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: It reminded Jimmy of London of all the swinging, Vaudevillian 391 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: inspired fashion that was desperately missing inside this drab courtroom. 392 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: And then the verdict not guilty on both counts. The 393 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: fans in the courtroom stood and cheered. The snowfall picked 394 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: up outside, and Jimmy walked out of the courthouse, splashed 395 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: a peace sign with his fingers. Remembered how good a 396 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: big ear to ear grin could feel. Got on a 397 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: plane to New York, fat joint of how she she 398 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: waited him. It wasn't gonna smoke itself. I gotta keep moving. 399 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: Blues fallen down like hell on the plane back to 400 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: New York. Tommy watched an older couple play a game 401 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: of cribbage across the aisle, and the way of Toronto 402 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: had been lifted, but his mind was still worried. And 403 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: just because this one hurdle was clear, it didn't mean 404 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 1: there weren't other hurdles left to face, bigger hurdles, bigger problems. 405 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 1: And he watched the couple count the crib the cards 406 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: shuffling in their hands, and he thought a tarot current, 407 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: tarot card reading, and the rock earlier that year, a 408 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: premonition come to life. He tried to suppress it, ignore him. 409 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: That feeling came back, and that feeling that's settled in 410 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: it made itself known. His days were numbered and he 411 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: would die soon. He knew it. Jimmie Hendricks was dreaming 412 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: of Brian Jones, his dirty blonde mop top obscuring half 413 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 1: of his face, his smile, hesitant, patient, his stone eyes 414 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: swimming with kindness and with something wicked too, The duality 415 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: of a rolling stone and the dream. Brian was shouting 416 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: at Jimmy, waving out, warning him something didn't feel quite right. 417 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: Jimmy woke up in his bed before the dream could finish, 418 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: he sat straight up, gasped, and got his bearings. He 419 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,959 Speaker 1: was alone in his hotel room in Morocco, to be precise, 420 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: on the Atlantic coast of North Africa. Tapestries hung on 421 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,360 Speaker 1: the walls and dangled from the top of the bed. 422 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: The dream felt so real, Brian felt so real that 423 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: it couldn't be. Brian had been found dead at the 424 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: bottom of his swimming pool only a few weeks before. 425 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: He was just Jimmy and Brian were musical brothers, fashion brothers. 426 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: Brian was the one who introduced Jimmy to the crowd 427 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: at the Monterey Pop Festival, his first show with the 428 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: experience in America. Brian's death hit him hard to have 429 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 1: someone that close to him, a soul brother from another mother, 430 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: gone so quickly and at such a young age. Brian 431 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: had been transitioning, just like Jimmy, moving away from the 432 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: rolling stones and looking to start something new. Some would 433 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: call it a reburn, a change, and now he was 434 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: gone in an instant, in the amount of time it 435 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: takes to jump into a pool. A snap of the fingers, 436 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: and Jimmy rubbed his eyes, still having a hard time 437 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: believing Brian was gone, still having a hard time that 438 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,439 Speaker 1: the Brian and his dream wasn't real, and the hanging 439 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,120 Speaker 1: tapestry that ran along the edge of the bed started 440 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: to wave a breeze maybe, but Jimmy had closed the 441 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: window before he had fallen asleep, and the patterned fabric fluttered, 442 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: waved again, swayed dramatically, and then there was a hand 443 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: on the tapestry, pulling the tapestry aside. The hand was 444 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: ashen smoky, translucent. Jimmy jumped from the hand, pulled the 445 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: tapestry down the length of the bed and revealed Brian 446 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: and jone and sitting on the corner of the bed, 447 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: just a few feet away from Jimmy's legs. Brian sat there, silent, 448 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: smoking a cigarette, right leg crossed on top of his 449 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: left leg, Chelsea boots oversized scarf with the smoky whists 450 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 1: from the end of his cigarette wafted into the air, 451 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: as did the rest of him, his whole body like 452 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: one big haze of tobacco smoke, gray and half formed 453 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: and about to blow away. Jimmy couldn't move, couldn't speak. 454 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: Brian started slowly motioning towards Jimmy like he had in 455 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 1: the dream, waving his arms. He wanted him to leave, 456 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: to go somewhere else, to avoid something. And then as 457 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 1: he continued to wave his arms, he disappeared into thin air, 458 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: just blew away. The smoky haze dissipated, the tapestry slipped 459 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: back into its hanging position, and Brian Jones was gone. 460 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: Jimmy had taken some friends up on a last minute 461 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: invitation to visit Morocco in the summer. N It so 462 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: last minute, actually, that he ditched Gypsy's son and Rainbows 463 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: as they rehearsed for woodstock without so much as it 464 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: could bye. His friend Dearing, how trust fund kid and 465 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 1: heir to the Deering's family international harvester Fortune, invited him 466 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: on a jaunt to North Africa, and their friends Collette 467 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: and Stella were waiting for them. Carpe A d M 468 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 1: was Deering's bag. Sure, Jimmy thought, why the Hell'm not 469 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: in Morocco. Jimmy let it all hang out. He could 470 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: be whoever he wanted to be. He could be himself 471 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: completely anonymous, a black American man in Africa for the 472 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: first time in his life, tapping into a new yet 473 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: familiar culture, new aesthetic, breathing new air on a new 474 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: strip of Atlantic coastline. The most famous rock star in 475 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: the world, just another nameless face on the street, driving 476 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: a beat up chrystler through the desert, blending in with 477 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: the crowds along the faded blue and white architecture, A 478 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: blissful nobody. It was the only real vacation he ever took, 479 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: and he needed it. He was thinking about the pending 480 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: trial in Toronto, about rehearsing to a woodstock. He couldn't 481 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: get Brian Jones out of his head. He walked the 482 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: streets in Morocco and saw Brian's face in the vendor's faces, 483 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: and saw his mop top shag bounce along ahead in 484 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 1: the crowd. He had thought about dying lately, premonitions, feelings, 485 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: and this cloud of uncertainty would envelop him out of nowhere, 486 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: an unshakable feeling his time was limited. He could feel it. 487 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: He wouldn't live to be thirty. He knew it. Collette, 488 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: Jimmy's friend Morocco. Her grandfather was a local tribal leader 489 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: and his new wife a clairvoyant who worked for the king, 490 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: and she asked if Colette and a group of friends 491 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: that Jimmy included. Of course, wanted to have their cards read. 492 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: She ran her hands along the lines of Jimmy's face. 493 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: She wanted to see more, and she'd read him first. 494 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: The group sat at a table in the hotel Dayle. 495 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: Collette offered to translate, as the clairvoyant wife only spoke French, 496 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: and she wore a bright scarf patterns, beads galore. It 497 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: was like a neon day dream of Jimmy's preferred fashion ideal, 498 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: A kindred spirit, no doubt. The first Taro card she 499 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: drew from her deck was simple, innocuous. The Star card 500 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: a silhouetted naked woman pouring water into a stream. Very 501 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: athena esque or was it aphrodite, didn't matter, A beautiful goddess, 502 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 1: a giant star in the sky above her, surrounded by 503 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: galaxies other worlds. The clairvoyant rattled off a sentence or 504 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: two in French, and Colette laughed and nodded her head. 505 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: She lightly patted Jimmy's arm, as if to indicate that 506 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: everything was all right so far. Then the clairvoyant flipped over. 507 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: The second card slapped onto the table, face up. The 508 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: Death card, A figure on a white horse, A skeletal 509 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: figure wrapped in medieval armor, bodies at the horse's feet, 510 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 1: the sun rising on the distant horizon. Jimmy's eyes went wide, 511 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: his mouth gaping. The head of the skeleton was Brian 512 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: Jones's head. Brian Joe was on the card. He was 513 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: riding that medieval death horse. Bryan Jones was death. And 514 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: Jimmy stood up quickly from the table, gasping for air. 515 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 1: His knees knocked against the table's leg and the cards scattered. 516 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: He got himself outside. He needed air. He stood there 517 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: outside a hotel in the North African desert and spoke 518 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: softly at the warm night towards the ocean, whispering, I'm 519 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: gonna die. I'm Jake Brennan and This Club. Seven Club 520 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: is scored and co written by me Jake Brennan. Zeth 521 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: Lundy is the lead writer, editor and co producer. 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