WEBVTT - Jimi Hendrix Episode 7: Stealing Trucks with Neil Young/Haunted by a Rolling Stone 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.520 The twenty seven Club is a production of I Heart 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:07.640 Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jimi Hendrix died at the 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.719 age of and he lived a life where every day 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.640 was unlike the day before. I can give you twenty 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.040 seven reasons why that statement is true. Three was his 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.439 magic number, the holy trinity of the power trio guitar, 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.080 bass drums that he would master briefly with the Jimi 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.720 Hendrix Experience and again with the Band of Gypsies. Fifteen 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.639 would be the number of miles that he'd ride and 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.640 a stolen truck with Neil Young to get to Woodstock 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.519 on time when they're playing landed at the wrong airport. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.840 Another eight would be the number of hours the jury 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.519 in Toronto would deliberate in order to decide that the 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.879 world's greatest guitarist would spend the next decade of his 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.640 life behind bars. And one would be the number of 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.400 years he'd have left to live after Brian Jones was 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.560 found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool. All 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:01.600 totally on this our seventh episode of season one. Magic numbers, 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.280 stolen trucks, a dead rolling stone, and they always searching 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.440 Jimmie Hendricks. I'm Jake Brennan. And this is the seven o'clock. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.920 Neil Young was searching for the helicopter, the helicopter man, 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.480 their own personal chopper, the Woodstock Express, the bird that 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.520 was going to get them from here to there? Where 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.200 the hell was that bird man? Neil stood on the 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.920 small regional airport tarmac, peppered with small charter jets like 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.480 the one he had just flown in, on the sun 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.840 beating down. He raised his flat hand to just above 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.120 his eyes to provide shade from the glare, his ruffle 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.680 dress shirts sticking out from the cough of his jacket. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.480 Where the funk are they? New York, Vermont, fucking New Hampshire. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.920 Damned if he knew the mescaline he had ingested on 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.000 the plane was coming alive now, which made everything crystal 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:26.280 clear and messed up all at once. Everything felt great, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.080 everything did not feel great. Jimmie Hendricks stood next to Nielia, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.160 similarly baffled and equally dosed, along with the other passengers 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.800 from their little plane, attorney Melvin Belli and Nil's manager 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:43.080 Elliott Roberts. Melvin, whose high profile clients included Jack Ruby 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.600 and the Rolling Stones, was clear headed and unencumbered. He 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.960 suggested the logical conclusion to their predicament. They have been 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.720 dropped off at the wrong airport. There was no Woodstock 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.120 helicopter coming to get them. Woodstock would have to start 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:01.280 without them, and they were screwed sort of. Oh man. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.840 Jimmy laughed and looked at Neil. I was supposed to 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.920 go on first, just me and my guitar. He let 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.800 her repress giggle snort out from his mouth, and Neil, 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.360 at a giant belly laugh run free. It was true. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.320 Woodstocks producer Michael Lang contracted Jimmy to open the three 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.120 day outdoor music festival with a surprise solo acoustic set 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.320 and then close it on Sunday night with an electric set, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.240 and Jimmy was now the highest paid rock star in 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.840 the world. Here ago he was the highest paid performer 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.480 at Woodstock, much to Laying chagrin, laying at the cap 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.440 larger acts at fifteen grand due to a Favorite Nations 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.800 policy and Jimmy's hard as nails manager Michael Jeffrey was 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.120 having none of it. Jimmy would do it for fifty 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.960 grand and you know what else, His name would be 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.480 listed first on every print in Radiohead. His name would 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.880 be bigger than everyone else's. He'd headline the gig. It 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.400 was too much. Laying wanted Jimmy, but he couldn't meet 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.400 Jeffrey at fifty grand. So Laying and Jeffrey came to 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.000 an agreement that gave Jimmy the most money but didn't 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.640 break lanks for Jimmy would play two sets for fifteen 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.520 grand each, along with another couple of grand for expenses 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:12.080 plus grand tour deal. The thing was, Jimmy wasn't gonna 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.480 make the opening set. He didn't even know where he was. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.719 His mind was elsewhere, anywhere but upstate New York. All 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.359 he could think about was the bust in Toronto, the 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.360 impending trial for heroin and hash possession. It was four 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.279 months away, and that almost made it worse. All this 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.800 waiting around and obsessing over every last detail. What he 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.080 could have done differently, what he should have done differently, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.280 What could have happened to him? What would happen to 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.640 him this December, when you had to stare down years 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.160 in a Canadian prison, his fate in the hands of strangers. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.680 Jimmy must have checked out for a moment, and the 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.640 mescaline was starting to take hold. After all, because when 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.880 he turned to look at Melvin. The attorney had taken 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:51.919 off his shirt. It was pouring a cannon beer on 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.760 his chest to facilitate the tanning process. The attorney yelled 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.520 at him from across the term ac and Jimmy rubbed 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.000 his eyes. It must be the must be the drugs. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.679 Neil was at the driver's side door of a pickup 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.880 truck parked in the airport lot. Neil peaked inside, wide eyed, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.560 and then tried the door. It opened. He hollered at 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.720 Elliott to keep an eye out, and then jumped in 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:18.520 the driver's seat. Worked his hands beneath the steering wheel. Clanks, clunks, bangs, booms, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.000 The spark a couple of false starts, and the old 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.040 truck roared to life. Neil knew that soon, very soon, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.320 they would be completely twisted, and there was no going back, 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.640 no time to rest. Get in. He hollowed to the 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.640 other three. Elliott, Melvin hopped in the cab with Neil 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:35.839 and Jimmy. Knew that the obvious thing to do, the 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.800 rational thing, was to jump on the hood of the 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.000 truck and hold on for dear life. Of course, it 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.800 was Neil put the truck in first gear and tore 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.359 out of the airport parking lot, with Jimmy's body swinging 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.119 from side to side on the hood of the truck. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.520 Elliott laughed, Holy Jesus, Jimmy scream from the hood because 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.760 these goddamn animals, and he lay flat on his stomach, 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.800 his hands dug into the under side of the hood 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.960 near the windshield, holding on for dear life the sky. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.520 I because the dark and huge bats to take into 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.000 the skies, diving all around the truck and nearly missing 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.440 Jimmy with each dramatic swoop. Man, this is the way 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.719 to travel in love and Holliday and reach for the 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.880 volume nod on the A M radio. He cranked tones 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.280 of the Fifth Dimensions, working on a groovy thing until 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:20.320 the speakers crackled. You feel good, Jimmy thought, you fool. Wait, 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.840 you see these goddamn bats. No point in mentioning. Poor 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:29.520 bastard will see them soon enough, Jimmy thought. Hired to 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.640 open Woodstock on Friday and close it out on Sunday night, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.200 and Jimmy never made it for Friday's commitment, laying panicked 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.040 and persuaded Richie Havens to perform in his place, and 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.279 Richie killed it, and Jimmy wasn't exactly sure what time 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.120 he finally made it to old man Jaskar's farm, or 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:46.960 what day he made it, or how he made it, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.880 for that matter, did he ride in the hood of 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.520 the truck the whole way there? Everything was running behind schedule, 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.599 set times were all screwed up. Bands would take to 0:06:55.640 --> 0:07:00.440 the stage hours after their originally scheduled performance times after 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.120 waiting around in the mud and the rain drugs had 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.880 worn off, or maybe the drugs they didn't intend to take. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.839 It started to kick in, and by the time Jimmy 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.800 took the stage with Gypsy Son and Rainbows, his new 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.880 band he had formed after the Experiences break up, the 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.440 Monday morning sun would be rising on a decimated Woodstock crowd. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.720 Nearly half a million people would have already split. Jimmy 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.240 stepped on the makeshift stage, stuck in the middle of 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.360 the farm's backyard, more than ready to make a scene 0:07:28.800 --> 0:08:08.360 or whoever would listen. M ros Payne was talking down 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.200 a kid in the trip tent when she heard it. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.640 Fuzzy and phased out, metallic and shrill, familiar yet completely foreign. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.840 She heard the first six notes of the National Anthem 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.360 ring out from the stage. It gave her pause. She 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.080 stopped talking. The sun had just come up over Jascar's 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.440 dairy farm, and would stock New York Times stood still. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.000 Ros had been calmly helping a young boy get through 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.640 a bad trip. He couldn't have been older than nineteen. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.440 He had no shirt. It was lost, forever, swallowed by 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.679 the mud. Sometime after the rains came a sacrifice for 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.240 the gods of peace and love. His jeans were wet 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.480 and soiled with dirt, and the sweat from his forehead 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.040 seemed to jump over to the inside of his glasses, 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.720 which were all fogged up, and he panted, popped his 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.400 eyes with wide shook his head, muttered under his breath. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.800 He had taken something, but couldn't tell Ros what it was. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.400 Perhaps it was some of that brown acid that the 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.720 festival organizers kept warning the crowd about on the stage. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:14.439 Stay away from the brown acid. Perhaps this kid didn't 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.360 hear the announcement and took him anyway that he would cry, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.000 and then he'd shake with fear, and then he calmed 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.199 down and fell out about it, and then you go 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.800 through the cycle all over again. Roz sat with him, 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.640 kept talking with him, positive things, riding it out together. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.640 You'd get through this bad trip and come out on 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.640 the other side. He had survived a weekend of heat 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.040 and rain, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of total strangers, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.520 and surely he'd survive this. He would see, he would 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:45.800 be fine, just fine. Ros and the kid were one 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.280 of the many couples inside the trip tent, kids on 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.880 bad trips, side by side with the bad trip guides. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.199 Woodstock producers had hired a team of doctors, nurses, and 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.439 e m t s to help over the weekend, but 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.280 a group of citizen volunteers had stepped in to deal 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:04.000 with bad trip rips, hallucinations, paranoia, anxiety. Instead of drugs. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.479 To combat drugs, they'd use good old fashioned human interaction 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.120 and let the doctors deal with the foot lacerations and 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.839 the seizures and the asthma texts. They did this all 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:20.199 weekend freakouts each hour, twenty five bad trips each hour, 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.320 and by Monday morning, the Woodstock site was a filthy 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.720 ghost town. Only about forty thousand of the original half 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.360 million festival goers remained. Everyone had gone home to get 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.319 back to work, back to the real world, back to 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.440 their families, back to their lives, tuned out, turned off, 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.720 and dropped back into reality and the Monday morning, stragglers, 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.240 refusing to give up the dream, walked through the wreckage, 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.839 brushed their teeth, tens, umbrellas, shoes, and coke cans, all 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.600 pressed into the muddy earth and left for dead spent trash, 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.640 t shirts, condoms, watermelons, oranges, bras, mattress pads, maxi pads, 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.719 cigarette butts. A skeleton crew served up hot breakfast for 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.160 those who weren't passed out on the hoods of Sedan's 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.400 for those who weren't nodding off on the ground are 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.839 unknowingly coppying a serious, dangerous tan atop a blanket on 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.960 a sodden expanse of firm lamp Ros was there to help. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.800 She showed up early before the music even began, help 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.600 set up. She loosened up fencing each day to allow 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:25.199 those without tickets to enter the festival grounds. And she 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.640 was tight with Abby Hoffman and the Hippies, political pranksters. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.480 Sometimes their political pranks had unexpected results. Abby's face met 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.520 the business end of Pete Towns his guitar when he 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.640 attempted to interrupt the Who's confrontational set at five am 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:42.080 on Sunday morning, ros helped found which the women's International 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.679 terrorist Conspiracy from Hell to fight for social change and 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.199 rail against the patriarchy. She was at the Democratic National 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.559 Convention in Chicago, the Rank and Brigade Merge, anti War 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.319 rallies at the Pentagon. She was everywhere wherever there was 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.960 a fight, so hungry people could eat, Ros would be there. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.120 Roz was far enough from the stage Monday morning that 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.640 she couldn't see Jimmie Hendricks flash of peace sign with 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.920 his hand after that first six note run. She couldn't 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.520 see his afro poofing out from the confines of his 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.800 red bandana, or the white fringe from his shirt danced 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.480 upon the top of his crushed velvet pants, or his 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.719 long flat hand, dirty fingernails and all squashed down on 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.079 a strats wimmy bar to make the sound drop like 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.160 an anvil one moment and soar like a fighter jet 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.960 the next. She did hear every note singed the human 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.360 morning air, every trill, every hammer on, every pull off. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.880 The guitar was not a guitar. The national anthem was 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.720 not the national anthem. It was all new. She had 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.800 never heard a guitar. Before this moment, never heard the 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.959 Star Spangled Banner. Before this moment, ros fought authority. She 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:47.240 clawed at the establishment champion, the underdog marched for social justice, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.320 demanded change, orchestrated movement. She didn't follow leaders or watched 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.600 the barking meters. The Star Spangled Banner was the theme 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.640 song of American jingoism, of blind nationalism, of football games. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:03.360 But not today, never again, Now the song was hers. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.840 Woodstock was the debut of Gypsy Son and Rainbows, Jimmy's 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.520 new thing. The Experience were no more disbanded. At the 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.120 height of their powers, there was a change in the wind, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.880 and Jimmy blew along with it. He kept Mitch Mitchell 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.520 on drums, but replaced Old Redding with his old army 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.439 buddy Billy Cox. Another old friend and Nashville cat, Larry 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.160 Lee was on guitar, and the group was rounded out 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.400 by two percussion players, Jerry Vellis and Jima Sultan. And 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.199 Jimmy held rehearsals for the group at Michael Jeffrey's rented 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.839 house and show can, conveniently just down the road from Woodstock, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.880 a mansion made of stone with eight bedrooms and ten 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.040 acres of land, a horse stable in a pool, and 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.800 Jeffrey let Jimmy stay there, and the cook and housekeeper 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.959 Jeffrey hired to keep Jimmy happy. It was just the 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.920 cherry on top. The band got to Woodstock on Sunday 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.800 and they waited and then waited some more, and the 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.400 day saw sets from Joe Cocker and Country Joe and 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.559 the Fish, and the night rolled on and it was 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.520 the band Crosby Stills, Nash and Young and Shanna Now 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.599 bands took the stage hours later than originally scheduled, and 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.600 they hung around in the mud and rain, waiting, drugs 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:16.000 wearing off, waiting, drugs kicking in, waiting day turn tonight, waiting. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.960 The festival organizers offered Jimmy and the eleven pm slot 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:24.680 on Sunday night. Michael Jeffrey refused. Jimmy Hendrix was closing 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.520 out Woodstock. He would be the last sound from the stage. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.240 He'd have the last say. Jeffrey could give a rat's 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.840 ass what time that was. Jimmy collapsed off stage when 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.080 a set was over, slept for days, and the two 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.240 hours set was one of his longest, full of highs 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.160 and lows, and when it was all said and done. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.280 Jimmy was just spent. It wasn't just Woodstock, wasn't just 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.000 the hot and sweaty throngs, the mud, the drugs, the 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.480 herculean amounts of patients took simply to endure the weekend, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.720 to wait around. It was the way the other kind 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.520 of week w e I g h T. The band 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.080 had just sung about it a few hours earlier. Was 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.600 feeling about half past dead, the weight of it all. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.160 One band was ending, another band was beginning. One of 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.920 his manager's chas Chandler out of the picture, while the other, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.600 Michael Jeffrey, was making moves to as certain more controlled 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.800 and above all the weight of this Toronto thing, the 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.720 drug bust. When he cleared his mind of all the 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.240 other worries, the looming trial would pop into his brain 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.560 and stress him out. What a drag. If only he 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.840 could predict exactly what would happen when he walked into 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.320 that courtroom in a few months, when he sat in 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.760 the hot seat with the judge and jury in the 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:36.320 eyes and pleaded innocence. We'll be right back after this 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:41.800 word we were. Jimmie Hendricks was looking for an indication 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.800 that the jury had reached a verdict. Even better, they 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.200 had reached a good verdict, a fair verdict. A glimmer 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.560 and when he closed his eyes and envisioned what would 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.080 happen after the collective of white shirted Canadians returned to 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.960 the courtroom, it didn't involve jumping out of the frying 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.360 pan and into the fire, And it most certainly involved 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.120 getting out of the hot seat and walking out of 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.720 the courtroom door as a free man, of vindicated man, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.160 man who no longer had the weight of this trial 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.120 clinging to his back, weighing down on him, privately consuming him. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.320 It had been hours since the jury had left to 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.280 talk amongst themselves decide the fate of the most famous 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.000 rock star in the world. And Jimmy sat on a 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.080 bench in the lobby outside the Toronto courtroom, decked out 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:27.520 in a square suit, blue blazer, gray pants. This Toronto 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.400 defense attorney, John O. Driscoll sat by his side. Jazz 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.880 Chandler paced back and forth like he was the bouncer 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.120 for this party of two, holding their own quiet, meditative 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:42.200 session a very exclusive bench prison. Ten years he'd read 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.480 about a dealer bringing a quarter million dollars of grass 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.160 and a Canada from Africa around the time he was arrested, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.920 and that dude just got fourteen years. Oh. Driscoll assured 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.200 Jimmy that it wouldn't go that part. Still, it wouldn't 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.160 shock anyone if the twelve clean cut male jurors wanted 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.840 to make an example out of Jimmy Hendricks Wilts flower powers, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.200 so to speak, give his hippie dippy fantasies a big 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.440 old dollp of normalized mainstream defiance. If they weren't twelve 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.600 angry men, they were still twelve men with the power 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.040 to make whatever decision they deemed fit. And the Crown 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.359 Attorney had put the cops who arrested Jimmy on the 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.520 stand and drove this point home. You should have seen 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.040 these guys the experience. When they got out the plane, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.560 they didn't look like anybody else. You got a plane 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.680 full of normal look at folk. They got slacks, it 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.720 fitted shirts and the light and then these three moonbats 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.800 pull up the rear with the chikis and sandals, beads everywhere, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.040 chewing gum like cow and it's cut this one guy 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.239 is wearing his hair all poofed out like a black man, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.160 but he's white, and they're gonna dress like some bohemians 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.320 with something to hide. We're going to treat him the same. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.399 And they were asking for it. And the proof is 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.960 in the pudding. And the guy had drugs in his bag. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:52.439 Open and shut. Jimmy didn't deny that there were drugs 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.960 in his bag. When he went through customs in Toronto, 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.200 he denied that they were his. And Jimmy sat on 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.720 the stand, raised his right hands solemnly swore. He recalled 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.040 a girl he met in Los Angeles, Swallow on tour. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.240 She gave him something and when he complained about a headache, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.080 he said it was Bromo seltzer. He stucked it into 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.120 his pocket thanks to take it. Then he was really 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.080 just being polite. Strange ship from a stranger that was 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.000 going in his pocket now would be dealt without a 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.879 later time, and that was a problem with the future Jimmy. 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.520 And then he probably forgot about it. He couldn't say 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.760 where it might have ended up. It must have been 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.360 the vial with the heroin packets. He just didn't look 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.840 closely at it. He was giving random ship all the time, clothes, scars, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.639 love letters, instruments, teddy bears, hash brownies, pot cookies, tabs, 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.119 and joints and bottles. Only half the time did he 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.000 actually stopped to see what it was, and the defense 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.399 put Sharon Lawrence on the standing back up the story, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.640 a United Press International journalist, Sharon was at the same 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.560 party and saw the girl give Jimmy something, and they 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.000 put Chaz on the stand and he explained how one 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.600 of the main rules backstage was to never eat anything 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.520 that was brought in by a fan. Maybe you'd enjoy 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.120 some delicious cake, or maybe you get sick, or maybe 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.720 you get high poisoned dead, or maybe you get arrested. 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.600 Jimmy was open and honest about drugs. More or less, 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.119 his answers in the hot seat were the kinds of 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.280 answers you give to the doctor. When asked how many 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.879 drinks a day you have? You know, on average? How 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:19.080 often have you used cocaine? Twice? Jimmy said, how often 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.399 have you dropped LSD four or five times? Have you 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:27.840 smoked marijuana and hashish? Yeah? Have you ever taken heroin before? No, sir, 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.679 But what about drugs? Do you still like to take drugs? 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.560 I feel I about coron it he had outgrown it. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.120 If it would please the court. If the judge wanted 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:38.879 to hear him say he didn't do drugs anymore, then 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.800 that's what he'd say. The public at the time was 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.359 blissfully ignorant when it came to what went on behind 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.800 the closed doors of rock stars. Even in the case 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.320 of a wild and crazy artist like Jimmie Hendricks. They 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.400 saw the Paisley Prince and the psychedelic swirls, and heard 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.479 the strangeness spilling from his records. They could draw their 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:00.480 own conclusions. The noisy suggestions and tracks like the Gods 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.560 Made Love e XP and if six were nine were 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.760 far from sober, that was for sure. But suspicions and 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.320 hunches aside. How little they actually knew. Even Jimmy's arrest 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.000 had been kept a secret swept under the carpet. When 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.440 Jimmy was now by the mountains at the Toronto Airport, 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.280 his press agent, Michael Goldstein, didn't let the story hit 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.280 the wires. He wasted no time. Goldstein picked up his 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:26.680 phone and got the Associated Press editor on the horn. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.760 Played him like a fiddle, easy target. Look the other 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.520 way on this Toronto thing. Okay, it's all trumped up anyhow. 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:34.880 The Monty's met the band as they walked off the plane. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.199 They never do that, and Jimmy was fucking set up. Man. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.240 He'll beat it. He'll licked these charges easily and move on. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.159 No one ever remember it happened in here for your troubles. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.480 I'm having a case. The liquor dropped off. What's your 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.040 favorite brand again? You're a bourbon guy, right? Did I 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.879 go to your house or to the augets? The story 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.160 oozed out just as Goldstein had planned. In its review 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.119 of Jimmy's Mapelief Garden Show, The Toronto Star buried a 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.240 reference to his being out on bail in the middle 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.320 of the sentence. And when the full account of the 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:03.640 bus finally did make the press, it was a month later, 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.640 and it was in the pages of a sympathetic Rolling 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:09.639 Stone magazine. Richie Yorke and Ben functorres didn't confirm what 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.240 the drug was in their article, only what it was 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.560 suspected to be, and they wrote about conservative Toronto in 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:20.400 a very public display of humiliation by the Canadian authorities. Yet, 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:24.520 despite their solidarity, they all speculated the years of jail 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:29.520 time was a real possibility. Jimmy's pulse went through the 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.600 roof when it was announced that the jury had reached 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.760 a verdict. He sat his hands clasped together, a giant 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.760 turquoise bracelet, rattling against the table every time he'd wring 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:42.720 his hands. The courtroom was full of young kids, Hendricks, 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:47.439 fans eager to see their hero walk out or freeman. Outside, 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:51.400 wet snowflakes fell, and the twelve White Shirts entered the courtroom, 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:54.639 along with the judge, whose gaudy powdered wig was regal 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.200 overkilled to the max, a long distant salute to the motherland. 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.800 It reminded Jimmy of London of all the swinging, Vaudevillian 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:05.960 inspired fashion that was desperately missing inside this drab courtroom. 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:13.159 And then the verdict not guilty on both counts. The 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.440 fans in the courtroom stood and cheered. The snowfall picked 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.640 up outside, and Jimmy walked out of the courthouse, splashed 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:21.760 a peace sign with his fingers. Remembered how good a 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.280 big ear to ear grin could feel. Got on a 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.760 plane to New York, fat joint of how she she 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.760 waited him. It wasn't gonna smoke itself. I gotta keep moving. 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:34.600 Blues fallen down like hell on the plane back to 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.240 New York. Tommy watched an older couple play a game 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.640