1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is the production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jimmie Hendricks died at the 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: age of and he lived a life full of more 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: than its fair share of shocking moments. I can give 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. Eleven 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: would be the number of seconds that Jimmy's sometimes girlfriend 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: Devin Wilson, would suck on Mick Jagger's bleeding finger at 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: Jimmy's birthday party just to get a rise out of 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: the birthday boy. Eight more would be the number of 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: minutes he lasted on stage in Denmark before completely blacking out, 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: a result of being overworked and overdrugged, stretched thin by 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: insomnia and sleeping pills. Another would be the number of 13 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: German anarchist bands that play it on a burning stage 14 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: while Jimmy's entourage narrowly escaped Hell on Earth and a helicopter. 15 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: And seven would be the number of days he had 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: left to live after he was visited by the ghost 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: of Otis reading in his room at the Cumberland Hotel 18 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: in London. Soon after he played his final public concert 19 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: all totally on this our tenth episode of season one, 20 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: Bleeding Fingers sleeping pill fueled blackouts, burning stages, hotel hauntings, 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: and the always searching Jimmy Andricks. I'm Jake Brennan in 22 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: This is the Clue. Mick Jagger cried out in pain 23 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: and shock and looked down at his finger. He had 24 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: pricked the end of it on a blade that he 25 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: was using to slice up a small pile of cocaine 26 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: on the kitchen counter. The white ant hill of coke 27 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: sat there, one little lump, now dotted with flex of blood, 28 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,920 Speaker 1: like food coloring on some flower. Mick was dressed in 29 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: his zoot suit, gaudy rings on his skinny mitts. He 30 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: held the tip of his cut finger with the opposite 31 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: hand and try to stop the blood from flowing, from 32 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: getting all over the Black and White Jackets soup. He 33 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: looked ridiculous, ridiculously awesome, that is, and now he felt 34 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: ridiculous too. Bloody hell, he shouted, and then laughed at 35 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: his unintentionally corny joke and the other rolling stones loitering 36 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: next to When the kitchen laughed along, Keith Richards mumbled 37 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: something incoherently, handed his burning cigarette through a woman nearby, 38 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: and went in from the coke pile anyway Mick Jagger 39 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: could piss off. He thought his little hand injury he 40 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: was going to delay the rest of them from the 41 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: cheating lived off. Mick asked for a band aid something, 42 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: And this injured finger was the finger he pointed when 43 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: he waved in the air. Every night on stage, he'd 44 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: hold his other hand to his waist elbow stuck at 45 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: a forty five degree angle and wagged his finger around 46 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: like an accusatory rooster. You should ensure this finger. No 47 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: finger in rocket roll, it's like this one. And whose 48 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: apartment was this anyway? Who knew where the emergency was at? 49 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: And what does McK jagger have to do to get 50 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: a band aid on his goddamn finger? From across the kitchen, 51 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: Devin Wilson entered the call. She left her post at 52 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendrick's side and went straight to mix Haide. Devin 53 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: Wilson tall intoxicating, beautiful black supercopy. When she was a 54 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: walking pharmacy drug buddy, bed buddy, confident in all manners 55 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: of dope and sex, to who's who of rock stars 56 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: in late sixties since nineteen sixty seven, and unshakable presence 57 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: around Jimmy. She was alternately Jimmy's friend, his lover, his dealer, 58 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: his go for, his critic, his weakness. Unapologetically jealous and possessive, 59 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: Devin wouldn't think twice about slipping a mickey to another 60 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: girl talking to Jimmy. She played gatekeeper at the studio, 61 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: deciding who was in and he was out. Sit down 62 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: next to the engineer to establish dominance. Never minced words 63 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: with Jimmy when he played well, She tell him when 64 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: he sucks, She let him know. Devon was on Jimmy 65 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: like white armed Rice. Jimmy would quit her, only to 66 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: pick her back up again. Here comes Dolly Dagger, her 67 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: love so heavy, gonna make you stagger. She was undeniable 68 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: of four scale winds. Whenever she blew into Jimmy's life, 69 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: waters got rocky pretty damn fast. And it was Devin 70 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: who had thrown this party at her friend's apartment in Manhattan, 71 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: a celebration of Jimmy's twenty seventh birthday on the seven 72 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: day of November n his golden birthday, and now even 73 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: on his golden birthday, had a gathering of friends and 74 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: his honor, Devin was going to assert that dominance. Go 75 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: ahead and show everyone showed Jimmy Hendrix who was in control. 76 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,799 Speaker 1: Devon pushed through the massive party people, through the rolling 77 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: stones with their coke noses and cigarettes smoke hay loads, 78 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: and made her way right to Mick Jagger's side. She 79 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: took Mick Jagger's injured hand in hers and slowly pulled 80 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: it to her lips. She opened her mouth and guided 81 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: mixed bleeding finger inside. She sucked up the blood as 82 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: it continued to ooze, made sure she licked up and 83 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: down the length of the should be insured digit to 84 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: get every last drop. And as she did this, her 85 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: eyes cut straight through the bustle of party goers to Jimmy. 86 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: Her eyes met his Dolly dagger. She drinks blood from 87 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: a jagged edge. The back of Jimmy's neck got hot. 88 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: Funk was Devin playing at trying to be sexy, trying 89 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: to be provocative, trying to funk with him? Maybe she 90 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: had figured out that Jimmy was sweating Maryanne Faithful mixed 91 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: current flame and she was looking to get back at 92 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: him for any transgression perceived or real. It wasn't like 93 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,239 Speaker 1: Jimmy and Devon were exclusive, and they were usually messed 94 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: up on some piece of smack or coke they had 95 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 1: snorted when they were together. Anyway, funk this noise be 96 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 1: a quit Devon. Before he could quit her again, She'd 97 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 1: even make it easy for him to make the decision, 98 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: this time, sucking on Mick Jagger's rock and roll finger 99 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: at Jimmy's birthday party. Jimmy wasn't having it. Devin could 100 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: go funk off, be a honckey talk woman, or she 101 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: wanted to be a honckey talk woman, Go give someone 102 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: else the honckey talk blues. Jimmy quit Devon for real 103 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 1: when Michael Jeffrey sent her to Maui. In Maui, everything 104 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: was said. Jimmy stood on the beach and looked out 105 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: at the horizon, no beginning and no end. When the 106 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,119 Speaker 1: sun set, the colors melted into one. Life and Maui 107 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 1: was a wave. You just caught it and rode on. 108 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: Life was a yoga pose. Breathe in, breathe out, all 109 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: the colors all at once. In Maui, Jimmy went cold 110 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: turkey from Devon, from her temptations, from her manipulations, from 111 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: her smack he'd been putting up his nose. He arrived 112 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: in Maui in the summer at ninety seventy to film 113 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: a movie called Wave. The director, Chuck Ween was a 114 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: veteran of Warhol's factory, and the movie was supposed to 115 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: be a pro hippie youth movie response to Easy Rider 116 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: and the Like. The LSD taking hippie sympathizing side of 117 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: Michael Jeffrey was what cut Jimmy involved, not to mention 118 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: the fact that Jeffrey needed more contracts for more money 119 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: to ensure that Electric Lady Studios would stay afloat. When 120 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: it was released a year later, retitled as Rainbow Bridge, 121 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: it ended up being Jimmy's Magical Mystery Tour. The accompanying 122 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: album featured some killer tunes, but the film itself was 123 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: confused muddled. Nonetheless, Hawaii gave Jimmy some much needed detalks 124 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: from devon from hard drugs, from the road. He ate vegetarian. 125 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: He read the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Of course, 126 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: there was plenty of acid and grass going around the 127 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: movie set. He drank two drank enough that one night, 128 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: the darkness inside Jimmy looked out. The darkness looked out 129 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: on the collar that we're all bleeding into. One wanted 130 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: to paint it all black, tossed off a suggestion to 131 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: Chuck In the film's lead actress Pat Hartley that they 132 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: should all kill themselves. He quickly retracted it as a joke, 133 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: but he didn't stop from telling others on the set 134 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: about his suspicions that he wouldn't live beyond Devin didn't 135 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: have to be around for the darkness to pick out. 136 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: In fact, not even two months later, it would be 137 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: back in full force, back in control, and strong enough 138 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: to drag Jimmy Hendricks all the way down to the 139 00:08:33,240 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: killing floor with nothing more in a moment's notice. The 140 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: first thing Jimmy Hendrix remembered after blacking out was his 141 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: face hitting the hardwood. He had been on stage for 142 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: eight minutes, eight minutes, and then it was over. He 143 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: started at the stage floor like a lead balloon. His 144 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: body followed. Gravity grabbed hold of his body and just 145 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: yanked hard face meat, hardwood straight down. The greedy handful 146 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: of sleeping pills he had taken earlier that afternoon didn't 147 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: want to let go, and they hung off of his eyelids, 148 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: sat on top of his brain, made it hard to 149 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: close his jaw. He drooled a little out of the 150 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: side of his mouth. He struggled to open one of 151 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: his eyes and saw nothing with dust and dirt vibrating 152 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: on the stage floor with each stomp that Mitch m 153 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: jill made on his bass drum petal. He felt like 154 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: a bull rider, and he rode the beast for eight 155 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: minutes before he was ceremoniously thrown off. He had made 156 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: it right. We oh ship, wait a minute. Bull riders 157 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: went on for eight seconds, not eight minutes, and by 158 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: that logic he was a bull rider. And then sixty 159 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: seconds per minute eight minutes, he was a bull rider 160 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,199 Speaker 1: sixty times over. Did that logic workout right? A couple 161 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: of guys that Jimmy didn't recognize, roadies perhaps stage hands, 162 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: had picked up the sumped over body and were dragging 163 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: him by the armpits off the stage. The bullfighter dressed 164 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: in red being ushered to safety away from the bull. 165 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: In Jimmy's case, he couldn't escape the bull. He was 166 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: inside him, coursing through his veins. Four thousand strong in 167 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: our house, Denmark watching the show were shocked by Jimmy's 168 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: sudden departure and exactly how he had departed. He was there. 169 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: He hit the deck. He was gone. Some in the 170 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: audience had seen their fair share of ship shows, but 171 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: this took cake and they were shocked. But they were 172 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: also piste. Understandably, they'd get a full refund. Jimmy hadn't 173 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: slept for days. He was stuffed up, stuck in that 174 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: agonizing limbo state of catching a cold and coming down 175 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: with something more serious. In addition to whatever he was catching, 176 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: his head was full of stress and worry. The crack 177 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: of Michael Jeffrey's bulwark, the love child was in Eve, 178 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: the sun quest, the Tarot cards and Morocco, The crushing 179 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: feeling of him and at death, the inability to feel 180 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: like he had found what he was looking for that 181 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: he had yet to become when he was supposed to 182 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: be in the non stopped touring. He didn't know where 183 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: he had been the day before, never mind Whereby the 184 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 1: next day, Michael Jeffrey had booked the stretcher shows The 185 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 1: Isle of White, Stockholm, Denmark, Kawaii, Copenhagen, Germany was next. 186 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 1: The bills for Electric Lady Land Studios were continuing to 187 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: pile up. The debts owed becoming naughtier and more worrisome, 188 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: and they needed cash Jeffrey needed Jimmy to do his thing, 189 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: do it well, to collect that money and to move 190 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: on the next day. Just a few days before, Billy 191 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: Cox had been dosed with LSD for the first time 192 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: and had a rough trip. He would ramble like a 193 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: crazy person and not say a goddamn thing at the 194 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: same time. And there was a reason why so many 195 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: people kept far away from LSD. And this was why, 196 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: because it wouldn't let some people go. It would become 197 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: a part of you, forever inside you, and just when 198 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: you forgot it was there, it would rear its dormant head. 199 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: For Billy, getting dozed would lead to conspiracy theories, anxiety 200 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: and paranoia, and the remnants refused to go away. He 201 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: was horrifying to watch a guy who was so ground 202 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: at being all over the place uncled. Jimmy guided him 203 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,839 Speaker 1: through it, helped him come down, helped him mac leamy. 204 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: It took a lot out of him. He was hanging 205 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: on by a threat. Jimmy didn't know if he could 206 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: do it, if he could go on. Right now, being 207 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: dragged off the stage, near lifeless by a couple of 208 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: random do gooders, he could barely assemble a complete thought 209 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: in his head, could barely sing a couplet, couldn't really 210 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: tell you where the funk he was obviously, couldn't hold 211 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: a guitar. Gravity had won that battle. Kirsten Knephfer was 212 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: waiting for Jimmy backstage in our house. He had met 213 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: with the Danish model during his stay at the Islele 214 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: White Festival only a few days earlier. Like other women 215 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 1: he had gravitated towards, Kirsten was someone he wanted to 216 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: spend all of his spare time with talk hang meet 217 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: up backstage, and take their conversation somewhere more private. He 218 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: gave her his tour schedule and arranged for her to 219 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: be around. She was in the dressing room at our 220 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: house before we took the stage. When he had taken 221 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: all those pills and was talking incoherently. His paranoia was 222 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: cranked up to eleven. He was taking a page from 223 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: Billy Cox's book. He thought there were spies and his entourage. 224 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: He was scared that Michael Jeffrey would rather see him dead. 225 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: They continued down a musical path that he didn't beam commercial. 226 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 1: He was of two minds, here and there all at once. 227 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: He'd clear the mob scene of the dressing room, and 228 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: then quickly changed his mind and asked them all to 229 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: come back after the show. Kirsten got Jimmy back to 230 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: his room at the Hotel Atlantic. Another woman was waiting 231 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: there for but it turned out to be a journalist, 232 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: not another lover, and Borne Doll was waiting to interview 233 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: him for an article she was writing for a Norwegian newspaper. 234 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: He must have led her in earlier, or maybe Jeffrey had. 235 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: He couldn't be so sure. He threw himself on the couch, 236 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: clutching his head. It pounded. It felt like the way 237 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: of the world. He couldn't stop thinking about Eva and 238 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: the baby, and Diana and the baby, and now Billy 239 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: was losing his ship. Clearly, he was losing his ship 240 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: to the pills and the glasses of clear liquid he 241 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: had knocked back. He told himself it was just water, 242 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: to make himself feel better about it. But if it 243 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: really was water, it was eighty proof wodder. Water didn't 244 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: burn like that going down the back care your throat. 245 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: He had to keep his eyes open. If they closed, 246 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: he'd be gone forever. Lights out. He had reached the 247 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: point of no return, and he sat on it teetering 248 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: just one lean away from tipping over into complete and 249 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: total darkness, hell mouth to an existential void. Right here 250 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: in a hotel room in Denmark, Jimmy unloaded on the journalist. 251 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: He talked music and mortality, quoted children's books, went on 252 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: about planets and stars and drugs. He talked about that 253 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: death card, the Clairvorian that pulled on him in Morocco. 254 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'll live to be twenty eight years old, 255 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: And he told her bluntly, just months away from that 256 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: particular milestone, what was the point of it all? It 257 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: was literally in the cards, Jimmy Hendrix's foretold death. What 258 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: was the point of all this running around, all this worrying. 259 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: Why not just collapse on stage? Why not just close 260 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: your eyes on a couch. In just a few days time, however, 261 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: Jimmy's will to live would kick back in again, that 262 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: basic human response to clear and present danger. Jimmy would 263 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: find himself in a helicopter, narrowly avoiding the wrath, armed 264 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: and angry Hell's angels on a small German island, and 265 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: he'd be glad he was alive. We'll be right back 266 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: after this word word word from a seat in the helicopter. 267 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendricks watched the stage burn from above. The Baltic 268 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: Sea rose and fell angrily nearby, and the wind howled 269 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: rain missed an ocean spray of pepper. The crowd with 270 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: a bird's eye view the random assortment of park As 271 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: Hood's umbrellas intense collected below. The crowd, once strong, all 272 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: appeared to be flanked by one impending disaster or another. 273 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: Despite the wet and wild weather, stage caught fire. Jimmy 274 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: had been on that stage just moments before. Are The 275 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: band ended their set with an extended Rudy child slight return, 276 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 1: and then a stage hand was there, flagging them down, 277 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: arms flaming. He ushered them down the back of the 278 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: stairs at the stage and directed them towards a helicopter, 279 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: and the engine was already fired up, the blades picking 280 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: up momentum. Jimmy, Mitch Mitchell, and Billy Cox were directed 281 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: to the chopper's open door. Mitch held onto the oversized 282 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: top hat that he was wearing so that it wouldn't 283 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: go away, and the excess of the handkerchief tied around 284 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: Jimmy's forehead flapped wildly behind him. The urgency and the 285 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: moment help even if no one had given the band 286 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: specific details and the Hell's Angels were rushing the stage, 287 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: fights were breaking out in the crowd. Who knew if 288 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: anyone was going to convey and they just needed to 289 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: get the funk out ride that chopper back to Hammer. 290 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: The Love and Peace Festival a supposed a day love fest, 291 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,399 Speaker 1: it was more like Altamont Re dux i wannabe Woodstock 292 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:09,719 Speaker 1: music festival taking hostage by Hell's Angels, biblical weather, antarchic bands, 293 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: and now fire. The sixties dream of peace and love 294 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: may have died at the Rolling Stones infamous Altamont Speedway 295 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: show the year before, a disaster show that resulted in 296 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: the death of an eighteen year old fan, but on 297 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: September six, its remains were burned on the island off 298 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: the coast of northern Germany, a funeral pyre for any 299 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: remaining notions of idealism funck at all. Nihilism was here 300 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: to light the match and fan the flames, and its 301 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: name was ton Stein Sherban. Tone Stein Sherban, the German 302 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: anarchist band playing their first major show, We're on the 303 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: Stage and providing a soundtrack from afar. As Jimmy and 304 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: his bandmates peaced out, they launched into a song whose 305 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: title translated into destroy what destroys You, and the sides 306 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: of the stage started to smolder, and then the flames 307 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,479 Speaker 1: peaked out all read at an orange. You could literally 308 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: see the heat rising off the stage, monitors, and every 309 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: last morsel of hope being suffocated. It was also catastrophically poetic, 310 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: and the stage was literally on fire. Flanking the stage 311 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: where German bikers local Hells Angels who had been scaring 312 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: the ship out of the crowds all day with firearms 313 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: and threats in general menace. Jimmy lit a cigarette and 314 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: shook the matchup while staring at the biker's stone out 315 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: of their minds on booze and downers standing next to 316 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 1: the flames wearing jean jackets embroidered with swastikas you say 317 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: your mom at home, it ain't my concern. Just don't 318 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: play with me and it won't get burned. Jimmy looked 319 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: at Mitch and Billy sitting next to him in the helicopter. 320 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: Their faces were a combination of fear and relief. No 321 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: one had anything to say. The phrase nikotine was used 322 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: in moments like these. The Love and Peace Festival was 323 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: not about lover peace. The signs had all pointed to 324 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: something more ominous, more dangerous. During the three day event, 325 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: first there were the Hell's Angels, hundreds of them. They 326 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: descended on the island and took over. Unlike Altamont, the 327 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: Angels hadn't been officially hired, and they took control all 328 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: the same, and they robbed the box office at gunpoint, 329 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: waved their guns around, kicked, shoved, yelled, fucked up people's cars, 330 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: upended trailers, took people's booze in the situation with the 331 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: bikers got so bad that festival organizers trying to pay 332 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: them to go away, and that plan didn't work out 333 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: too well. When Jimmy arrived on site, his tour manager, 334 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 1: Jerry Stickles, got whacked on the head with a two 335 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 1: by four. The moment was eerily similar to when Mick 336 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: Jaggers stepped down from the helicopter at Altamont was whacked 337 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: upside the head by someone in the crowd. It was 338 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: a bad omen. Storms came and went. The stage sat 339 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: next to the Baltic Sea, and giant waves would crash 340 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: onto the stage and make a bad situation worse. Sandy 341 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: Denny kept getting shocked by the microphone. The Faces Sly 342 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: and the Family, Stone, Mungo, Jerry Canned Heat, and j 343 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: Ju Baker's Air Force all played sets with varying degrees 344 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 1: of success. The whole shebang was sponsored by the proprietor 345 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: of a string of popular German sex shops. Jimmy was 346 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: on autopilot when he took the stage. He took a 347 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: puff of something to two to something else. At this point, 348 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: he didn't even know what he was ingesting. It was 349 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,959 Speaker 1: all just routine. Cigarettes stuck to his lips, blue handkerchief 350 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: tight around his forehead. He flashed a peace sign in 351 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: the face of destructive rain soaked appath. How crowd jeered 352 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: at Jimmy and the band, translation go home. I don't 353 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: give a funk if you boo Hijimmy responded into the mic, 354 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: as long as you boom too. Despite the caddie retort, 355 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: Jimmy's guitar failed to stay in tune throughout his set, 356 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: like it didn't want to be there, like it was 357 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 1: revolting devil ships and sparking. That afternoon, his left hand 358 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: Voodoo just floundered. The rest was noise as he sat 359 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: comfortably in the helicopter. The scene below felt made up, pretend, 360 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 1: some miniature puppet show of reality bursting fantasy's bubble. Jimmy 361 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: thought back to Woodstock and how in the blink of 362 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: a year, so much had changed. For all its pros 363 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 1: and cons. Woodstock remarkably had very few, if any, moments 364 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: of violence or civil unrest. Now you couldn't hold one 365 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: of these three day fests without the whole damn thing 366 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,719 Speaker 1: going to hell. He ascended higher and higher into the air, 367 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 1: the din of the coptors blade cycling through his head. 368 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: He was a man out of time, out of place, 369 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: a man in search of peace, being airlifted from a 370 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: sight of chaos and unrest, A man who wanted love, 371 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: albeit on frequently irresponsible terms, fleeing a scene of hate. 372 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: He didn't belong there. I felt like he was racing 373 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 1: against the clock to find as true identity as a performer, 374 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: to search the experience Gypsy Son and Rainbows Band of Gypsies, 375 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: the experience too, Time was slipping away. All of his 376 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: recent performances were marred by out of tune guitars, bad doses, 377 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: too many pills, too much to drink, not enough rest 378 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: anarchists and stage fires and Hell's angels with guns. He 379 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: was afraid that he was starting to hallucinate again, seeing 380 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: things that weren't there, feeling things that weren't there. He 381 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: knew what he saw, he just couldn't verify if it 382 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: was real or not. When he got back to London, 383 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: something would crawl out of his hotel bathtub, something that 384 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: freaked him out. It made him question his own sanity. 385 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendricks didn't know it then, but the Love and 386 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: Peace Festival will be the last official show he would 387 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: ever play. An island off the coast of Germany, overrun 388 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: by a bunch of angry bikers, would be the final 389 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: locale to be graced with Hey Joe with Spanish Castle Magic, 390 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: the last time a crowd would hear Purple Hayes, delivered 391 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:19,400 Speaker 1: by its originator. After the near apocalyptic helicopter rived from 392 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,159 Speaker 1: the island to Hamburg, Jimmy took a plane to London, 393 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: checked into the Cumberland Hotel. Two rooms. Billy Cox sat 394 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: in the corner of one, down in pills, rambling on. 395 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: Paranoia had a healthy grip on him, outweighed perhaps only 396 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: by exhaustion. Billy, slumped in a chair in the corner, 397 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 1: was a mood contagious. Jimmy felt it too, and there 398 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,360 Speaker 1: was no more skirting around the fact that the whole 399 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: crew was dead, fucking tired. It was a Thursday September. 400 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: He didn't know it then, but the interview he gave 401 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: to Keith Altham in his room at the Cumberland for 402 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: the Record Mirror would be the last interview we'd sit 403 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 1: down for. Jimmy remained humble as he talked with Alton, 404 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: denied being the world's greatest guitar player, distanced himself from 405 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: political songwriting, too unpretentious to take credit for being responsible 406 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: for anything besides the noises that came from his guitar. 407 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendrix also didn't know it then, but the party 408 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 1: he attended at the Park Hotel from Mike Nesmith that 409 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: night would be the last time he'd hang out with 410 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 1: his former Monkey torments, the last time Jimmy would lay 411 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: eyes on those big Mike Nesmith mutton chops. Mike could 412 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 1: see the stress in Jimmy's face. His face betrayed the 413 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: fact that his brain was just idling through a run 414 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: in a hallway outside the room at the Park Hotel, 415 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: Jimmy was still searching brain dumping on Mike. He told 416 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 1: him he wanted to start a narrabe band, a big band, 417 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: horns the whole shebang, the kind of thing he used 418 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: to tour behind way back when some shipland circuit ship 419 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: some motis writing ship shout Bam Alemma. Mike asked Jimmy, 420 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: if you need a company that night, needed someone to 421 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: walk him back to his hotel, keep an eye on. 422 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: Jimmy waved off the offer. He was cool. Everything was cool, 423 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: maybe just fine on his own. When Jimmy got back 424 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: to his room at the Cumberland that night, otis is 425 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: can't turn you loose? Stuck in his head. Man, all 426 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: that Otis redding talk It got him good, and he 427 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: stepped into the bathroom to take a piss, and while 428 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: standing there at the head midstream, heard the shower curtain move. 429 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: It crinkled and Shimmy, causing the rings on the curtain 430 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: road to jingle, and Jimmy zipped up his pants fast, 431 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 1: didn't even bother flushing, and jumped back away from the shower. 432 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: What the funk was that? Did you see the curtain move? 433 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: What was in that drink at Mike Nesmus party. A 434 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: hand appeared from inside the shower and pulled the curtain back. 435 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: It was Otis in the flesh, double breasted jacket, tie, shoes, shine, 436 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: dusty as fucked up, just covered in dust, like he'd 437 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: walked through a construction zone, had stood in the middle 438 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: of a prairie in a windstorm, or crawled out of 439 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: the ground. He was sweating profusely. He just got not 440 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: the stage at Monterey or you know, crawled out of 441 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: the ground. Jimmy wiped his arm across his brow, stumbled 442 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: back some more towards the bathroom door. Otis had been 443 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: dead for almost three years, and now here he was 444 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: standing in Jimmy's hotel shower, dusty as fuck, clutching the 445 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,360 Speaker 1: shower curtain, sweating like a pig. Otis's hand muckled down 446 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 1: to the shower curtain tighter. One of his fingers snapped off, popped, 447 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: just popped right off, and the dust shot into the 448 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: air like a puff ball spore, or the head been 449 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: squeezed between two determined fingers. A wet, guttural rumble started 450 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: up from Otis's chest, like he's trying to clear his 451 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 1: throat and slow motion, trying to dislodge something, get something up, testify, 452 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: tell the truth, spill it, get it out, get it 453 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: off his chest. He made the sound again. It came 454 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: on suddenly and then dragged itself out, low and thick 455 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: and resoned. Jimmy stepped back, given farther, his hands, grabbing 456 00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: the door frame of the bathroom so that he wouldn't 457 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 1: fall his ass and become a victim or whatever the 458 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: hell this was zombie otis, Otis of Christmas passed. Jimmy 459 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: didn't hang around to see anything else fall off a 460 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: dusty dead otis reading He left the half taken piss 461 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: in the john. He never stepped foot in that bathroom 462 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: for the rest of his day. In fact, he wouldn't 463 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: spend too much time in the room at the Cumberland 464 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: at all. The otis incident shook him. He incidentally received 465 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: a phone call from across town from a private hotel 466 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: in notting Hill. On the other end of the line 467 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: was the voice of a pretty blonde German ice skating 468 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: instructor he had met eighteen months earlier. Jimmy had first 469 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: met Monica Daniman after a show in Doozledorf at the 470 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: start of nineteen sixte The show was at Club sixty six, 471 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: and Monica attended enthusiastically with her friends. She brought her 472 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: camera and she saw Jimmy out at his hotel room 473 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: that day after the concert, like many other women had 474 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 1: done before, and instantly guess some FaceTime with a new crush. 475 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: She had been obsessed with his music ever since she 476 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: heard him on Radio Caroline, an offshore pirate radio station. 477 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: She would claim that they spent hours together that day, 478 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: that she would follow him around to some more shows, 479 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: watching and waiting from the wings to spend more time 480 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: with him, that Jimmy would keep in touch with her 481 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: over the months, that he'd write her and call her, 482 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: and that he'd longed for her from a far Monica 483 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: fell hard for Jimmy. In her mind, there were soulmates 484 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: head over heels and love, and they would know a 485 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: dell get married. She introduced herself as Jimmy's fiancee. She 486 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: claimed that she and Jimmy were meant to be together 487 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: and she was unlocking the shy and sweet Jimmy from 488 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: underneath the wild man persona, and she would help him 489 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: usher in the next phase of his professional life. It 490 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,959 Speaker 1: all sounded a bit fantastical, hopeful, idealistic, far fetched crazy. 491 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: No one could really be sure what parts of Monica's 492 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: scenario were, what was fact and what was fiction. What 493 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: was true was that Monica and Jimmy would spend four 494 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: days together in London. They would go to parties, shop, 495 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: take photos, drink tea, talk, spend lots of time in 496 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: Monica's garden flat. And it would also be true that 497 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,720 Speaker 1: she would be the last one to see him alive. 498 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this is the twenty seven cal. 499 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: Seven Club is scored and co written by me Jake Brennan. 500 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: Zef Lundie is the lead writer, editor and co producer. 501 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: The seven Club is mixed and engineered by Sean Cale 502 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: and Matt Bowden, both of whom lent their considerable music 503 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: talent to the scoring of the series, as well additional 504 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: music and score elements by Ryan Spraaker. The twenty seven 505 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: Club is produced by myself for Double Elvis and partnership 506 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. 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