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Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendricks was born on the day of November and

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Speaker 1: he lived a life full of surprises. I can give

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Speaker 1: you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. One

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Speaker 1: number of strings shooting voodoo sparks out of his heretically

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Speaker 1: strong Fender Stratocaster. Another two would be the number of

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Speaker 1: drugs as well as the kindness of strangers. Six more

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Speaker 1: would be the number of bullets in the barrel of

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Speaker 1: to keep making music, music that was causing him to

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Speaker 1: this our second episode a kidnapping Wanna be Wise Guys

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Speaker 1: mobbed up club Muscle and they always searching Jimmy Hendricks.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan in This is the Class. Jimmie Hendrix,

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Speaker 1: the most famous guitar player on the planet, went and

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Speaker 1: got himself kidnapped, but nobody was looking for him. Jimmy, however,

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Speaker 1: he was looking for something. He was searching as always

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Speaker 1: didn't matter if he was in the clutches of wannabe

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Speaker 1: Jimmy disappeared. Playing a show at the Salvation Club in Manhattan.

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Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendricks is looking for something, searching as always. His

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Speaker 1: new band Gypsy Son and Rainbows had taken the stage

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Speaker 1: Jimmy was looking for higher ground, a new trip, a

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Speaker 1: The two kids were right there when Jimmy stepped off

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Speaker 1: fucking amazing. You are amazing. That wahwah ship was nuts.

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Speaker 1: Waw waw waw go wan wang wa go wong wong go.

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Speaker 1: He wails sing songing the rift of purple haze. Shame

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Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendrick smile took shape. His nostrils flared at max's capacity,

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Speaker 1: his eyes strained pleasantly. It was a face. It was

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Speaker 1: And the lanky one got real cavalier and swung his

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Speaker 1: want to get high with us, everybody must get stone,

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Speaker 1: short Stack blurted out, still stumming his invisible guitar. Shut

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Speaker 1: the fuck up, the lanky one commanded, arching his neck

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Speaker 1: fucking cool man. Suddenly Jimmy was thinking of Bob Dylan.

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Speaker 1: He loved Dylan. He carried a Dylan's songbook with him everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Blondon Blonde was his favorite Dylan album, the one that

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Speaker 1: hit Records to our shelves. Yeah, I thought, Jimmy, everybody

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Speaker 1: must get stoned. These catsled too. Jimmy looked at his bandmates,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy's new friends had something for him, all right, and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't just a friendly invitation to get high. Short

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Speaker 1: Stack homed an indiscernible melody As the odd looking trio

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Speaker 1: not waste the opportunity to tell him to shut the

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Speaker 1: The street a tightly packed of brick buildings. Cars lined

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Speaker 1: get the radio going Edwin stars war came thudding from

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Speaker 1: Say it again. The lanky one reached into the front

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Speaker 1: in the past, just like Gypsy Son and Rainbows were

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Speaker 1: soon to be. No more faulty microphone, no more Larry

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Speaker 1: Lee so willing all over him. He knew the feeling

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Speaker 1: It was already a blur. In February, Rolling Stone magazine

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Speaker 1: crowned Jimmy Performer of the Year. Tours followed in England, Sweden, Denmark,

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Speaker 1: West Germany, Hawaii, Canada. One day on stage at the

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Speaker 1: The blur was intense, stage, studio repeat, geography be damned.

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Speaker 1: It didn't matter where the gig was or what the

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Speaker 1: opportunity was. Jimmy Hendricks in sixty nine was a man

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Speaker 1: who made the scene. Jam sessions with Billy Preston, with

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Speaker 1: from the blur of his present day and looked to

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Speaker 1: would know about this but those involved, and no one

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Speaker 1: would ever hear any other bullshit from these clueless kidnappers.

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Speaker 1: Fucking a right, Jeffrey and Rico Bono got short stack

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Speaker 1: in the lanky one on the phone and ran it

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Speaker 1: down real nice and simple. We're coming for you, cocksuckers,

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Speaker 1: and it won't be to give you a joy ride

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Speaker 1: in the back of a fucking Dodge mount up or

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Speaker 1: fuck off loud, quick knocks, big fisted rat tat tats,

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Speaker 1: would the door even hold. Short Stack had his eyes

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Speaker 1: on the leggy blonde on the couch. She was sexy enough,

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Speaker 1: but dangling the half smoked Winston between her fingers, she

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Speaker 1: was sex on fuego. Short Stack was driven to distraction.

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Speaker 1: Lanky motherfucker was at the breakfast nook reading yesterday's papers,

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Speaker 1: the post from six weeks earlier, first photos from the moon.

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Speaker 1: His piece was on the table in front of him.

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Speaker 1: They both looked up towards the door. Was that the door?

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was coming from the apartment next door. Jimmy

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00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: Hendrick sat on the couch, hands bound together with a

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Speaker 1: loosely strung shoelace. He had been waiting for the right

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Speaker 1: time to slip his hands and make a run for it.

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Speaker 1: And this could be his out, This could be his moment.

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Speaker 1: Chicago's twenty five or six to four blared from the

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Speaker 1: high five horns, and all waiting for the break of day,

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00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: searching for something to say. Again, the door it shook violently,

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Speaker 1: this time from the knocking. Jimmy looked at short Stack,

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Speaker 1: then the lanky one. Without missing a beat, the lanky

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Speaker 1: one grabbed his piece, jumped from his seat to go

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Speaker 1: for Jimmy, but tripped over his own feet. Short Stack jumped,

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Speaker 1: which in turn made the leggy blonde jump and drop

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Speaker 1: her cigarette under the carpet, and Jimmy stood up and

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Speaker 1: shook the shoelace from his wrists. He laughed as a

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Speaker 1: slid to the floor. Dig it, man, it really had

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Speaker 1: been that easy all along. Open the goddamn door, boomed

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Speaker 1: a voice from the hallway. Short Stack stuck his side

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Speaker 1: of the peep hole in the front door and recoiled.

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Speaker 1: I think it's those guys who were talking to on

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Speaker 1: the phone here at the door. The lanky one was

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Speaker 1: off the floor, now making his way towards Jimmy. Shut

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Speaker 1: the funk up. It was a new day, a new batcher.

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Speaker 1: Shut the funk ups. He got to Jimmy and started

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Speaker 1: to dust him off like he was the Maltese falcon,

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Speaker 1: pulled on his shirt to straighten it. He went to

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Speaker 1: tidy the afro, but Jimmy put a hand up. Jimmy

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Speaker 1: didn't move a muscle. He knew who was on the

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Speaker 1: other side of that door. Are they experienced better? Believe there?

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Speaker 1: The door started to buckle from the pressure. It pulsed inwards,

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Speaker 1: and short jab was one big push at a time.

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Speaker 1: Short Stack pushed back with a muted grunt, dancing lights

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Speaker 1: against the sky, giving up. I closed my eyes and

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Speaker 1: the door gave way and flung open into the room.

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Speaker 1: Short Stack hit the ground. The luggy blonde scream scattered

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Speaker 1: to the bathroom, slammed the door shut, and the lanky

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Speaker 1: one kept patting Jimmy's close, his gun nervously pointed at

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Speaker 1: his would be prisoner. Jimmy stood there, just smiled. Michael

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey and Rico Bono stood in the doorway. Behind them

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Speaker 1: three more guys in a line. Each guy got scarier

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Speaker 1: the further back he looked. Each successive guy looked like

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Speaker 1: he gave less of a ship. No one was smiling,

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Speaker 1: and they all had guns drawn. Le blonde was shrieking

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Speaker 1: in the bathroom. Did we not make ourselves clear over

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Speaker 1: the phone? You bush league? Marcah Ferguson's Jeffrey Bello, which

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Speaker 1: one of you is tweedled the Rico Bono followed, and

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Speaker 1: the crew pushed him to the apartment, guns drawn. Professionally

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00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: qualified men, capable men. The lanky one felt his bladder inflate.

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Speaker 1: Rico Bono grabbed short Stack by the back of his

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Speaker 1: neck and pulled him up. Before the lenky one could react,

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Speaker 1: one of the nameless muscle thuncks went right for him.

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Speaker 1: He was like a deer in headlights, a deer in

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Speaker 1: headlights with a gun in one hand and a hunk

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Speaker 1: of a guitar, Heroes frilly shirt and the other urine

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00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: started to slowly creep up from his bvds and down

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Speaker 1: his leg. Muscle thunk took his gun a cinch. Jeffrey thought,

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Speaker 1: fuckuche bags. They got lucky. Whether or not they remained

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Speaker 1: lucky would be up to Rico. Oh no, it was

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Speaker 1: his show now. Jeffrey would let him manage the rest

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Speaker 1: of the situation and he go back to managing his talent.

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey gave Jimmy a hugg distanstalled business no emotion with

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Speaker 1: his arm around Jimmy. He made a beeline for the

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Speaker 1: front door, and they were gone. Rico Bono's goons rounded

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Speaker 1: up the linky one in short stack and walked them

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Speaker 1: back towards the bathroom where the blonde was holed up.

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Speaker 1: Her shrieks continued to soundtrack the whole ordeal. Rico Bono

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Speaker 1: non schal outely asked you two didn't get the memo?

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Speaker 1: Did you what your pussy got your tongue? I asked

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Speaker 1: you a question, did you or did you not get

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Speaker 1: the memo? What memo? The short one asked, I fear,

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00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: bringing the words out of his mouth with more urgency

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Speaker 1: than he intended, the one that said, we don't negotiate

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Speaker 1: with no jerk offs. And then he laughed. His eyes

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00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: met short Stacks, who had turned his head to look

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Speaker 1: back as they were marched down the hall towards their fate.

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Speaker 1: I'm laughing at you, pancake, because you and your boss

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Speaker 1: here a couple of jerk offs, thugs and want to

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Speaker 1: be thugs. Sharp parading it to the end of the

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Speaker 1: dark tenement hallway. Rico Bono threw open the bedroom door, and,

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Speaker 1: searching for the source of the screams, could have sworn

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00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: there coming from inside here the room was empty. Okay, wait,

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Speaker 1: it had to be this other door. Rico bon Or

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Speaker 1: nodded his head toward the bathroom, and Leggy Blonde's muffled

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Speaker 1: screams came rushing out in stereo surround. As one of

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Speaker 1: his goons opened the door, his short Stack and the

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Speaker 1: lanky one were muscled inside with her, and the goons followed,

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Speaker 1: packed in tighter than the crowd at the Salvation. The

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Speaker 1: bathroom door slammed shut, a thud, another thud, a third thud.

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Speaker 1: Leggy blonde screams stopped. Rico Bono's boys didn't have to

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Speaker 1: search no more, and as he made his escape with

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Speaker 1: Michael Jeffrey, Jimmie Hendrix reflected on the fact that this

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Speaker 1: was the second time in a matter of months that

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Speaker 1: he'd had his life threatened by a couple of goons,

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Speaker 1: And this was the second time in a matter of

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Speaker 1: months that he had to run in with killers. And

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Speaker 1: this time was scary, sure, but the last time was

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Speaker 1: nearly as ominous. This time was short Stack, the Lanky

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Speaker 1: One and Rico Bono's mob muscle. The scary ship happened

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Speaker 1: under the cover of night, as it should, but the

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Speaker 1: last time, up in Harlem, it happened in broad daylight

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Speaker 1: by a couple of couldn't give a ship gangsters. Jimmie

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Speaker 1: Hendrix could feel his mortality and Jimmie Hendrix feared for

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