Jimi Hendrix 1945-1970: May You Never Hear Surf Music Again

We were at the press party for him, Eric Burdon and the Soft Machine. They were supposed to come in by helicopter but they didn’t ‘cause it was raining or foggy so they came in from the airport by car and Eric Burdon didn’t make it because he missed the plane in England to begin with. Jimi Hendrix (that’s his name) finally got there and Ken Greenberg later stole the camera he was shooting with as he walked in, real good party entrance and Ken Greenberg later stole his camera. It was a couple months since the article I writ on him for Crawdaddy and I shook his hand and he said he read it and liked it and was I stoned when I wrote it? He thought I was. I said I was and I wasn’t lyin’. This party I got real drunk and it was so good that now I’m already an alcoholic. I said hello to Ernie Graham of Eire Apparent (they came in on the plane too) what he thought of the Zombies and he said they were musically respected in England (that’s where he was from) but he didn’t remember the Searchers or the D.C. Five. He said they didn’t think much of the Yardbirds anymore (that’s what he said). Roni and Dale Lewis came back from the bathroom after smoking hash and we and them and Ken Greenberg left the party. We got to the bottom of the escalator (there was no stairs) and Ken Greenberg took out the camera he just stole and said “Isn’t it a real good one?” He mighta even said “It is a good one,” he was a photog man so he knew. We said “Give the thing back you and he

didn’t wanna but he did and he had to walk up the down escalator to do it.