the definition of sell out: Jimi Hendrix CHECKS

you can't call him a sell out. He was'nt around to do this.

 

could some 1 tell this person = jimi hendrix die in 1971

 

Im sorry, ive never seen any of your posts, but this one convinces me that your pretty much retarded.

But you could be right, he couldve signed something so they could make jimi hendrix personalized checks.

wait no your wrong.

 

joni would never sell out like this although i can see why jimi did it

 

Jimi did'nt do shit.

jamie has destroyed hendrix. She made "Jimi Hendrix red wine"...hendrix drank red wine with the sleeping pills that killed him that night. Anyone that calls Hendrix a sell out because of wha his step-sister who he only met once or twice does is a fucking moron.

 

isnt in janie hendrix??

 

last time I checked, the dead couldnt write checks..

 

It's a well known fact that Hendrix along with others stars of the time was manipulated by record companies - I'm not surprised by this development. Maybe Jimi signed something one day when he was stoned?

To call Hencrix a sell out is ridiculous. If he hadn't had a record deal we would never have heard him, and back then, the big record companies were pretty dictatorial, and had no scruples about ripping off their artists.

 

She tends to speak before thinking i have noticed, when you sign with a recorcd co., you give up alot of rights, it is the goal of the record co. to make money, like any profit oriented company, it would be just lovely if everything was free, but sister it is just not that way.

When you go to the grocrey store & buy food, to you call the farmers sell outs, because they charge for the food they sel to the store, when you get your car fixed, do you call the shop a sell out because they didn't fix your car for free, when you pay rent do you call your ladnloard a sellout because he doesn't just let you live there for free. Home girl, do you get paid for what you do for a living?, are you a sell out becuse you don't do it for free?

I mean, think before you post, being all blissed out is wonderful & all is great but ignorance is bliss, so get real here with what you have to say.

 

Jimi didn't have to sign something for this. When he died his assets were left to others and now they decide what happens with his name.

 

I would not want to use a Jimi Hendrix check.


Its the Bank customer who orders the thing who is the sell-out.

 

I saw this thread the other day, and it sparked some thought about Jimi and selling out. Even tho the headline of this thread sounds bad, it is kinda true, but not in the ways mentioned.


I suspect that Jimi would have loved to have his own face on his checks, and would like this idea of him being on the face of money instead of a dead president.


The record companies do all the work here, be it good or bad, and if you really want to call someone in the Experience a sell-out that would be Noel Redding - who gave up his rights to the music around 1974 for a paltry quarter million and regretted it the rest of his life.



Jimi the sell-out....
Actually, Jimi was a bit of a sell out, and went thru some mental anguish over it. The Panthers were furious that he was doing music more for white kids than helping the cause. This is the reason for the free shows in Harlem, to assuage Jimis feelings about helping his race.

When confronted by the Black Panthers, he would tell them that they were right about alot of that, and he did things late in his life to make up for it. Songs like Cherokee Mist and Captain Coconut were about his family and culture.

Captain Coconut was labeled MLK on the tape can, but the white guys working the studio didnt know what that meant!!! (thats eddie kramer, among others - if you need to know what MLK means I will be happy to tell ya, but I am guessing it can be easily figgered out by rubbing two brain cells together)



The real bad guy here.....
Alan Douglas did much to market Jimi after his death, based on meeting Jimi during a session early in his career (jimi played eight string hagstrom bass on a spoken-word recording of poetry by Bill Burroughs! that Douglas was producing), and ONE conversation late in Jimis life. The "you ought to handle my estate" comment led to Alan getting control, and the checks the record companies wrote to Al Hendrix were large enough to keep Jimis dad from complaining.

Douglas had built a reputation for handling dead celebs, but had never handled a musicians estate. He ruined countless tapes and recordings of Hendrix. He also stonewalled great recordings from being bootlegged, and made sure they stayed as hidden as possible until the estate could cash in on it. Thats the reason there are SO MANY Jimi knock-off issues from strange countries, and Douglas pursued them legally whenever he could.

Alan Douglas did more to sell Jimi out, and for me, did his best to keep the music from the rest of us by re-releasing the same cuts over and over again. Not far from what the estate of Janis Joplin has done, is it?


Jimi was also a sell out in the fact that like the boys in the Who and Zep, he didnt care how much something cost, and managed to destroy lots of equipment and real estate. The bill for the damage at the rehearsal house in Woodstock the week before the show was immense!

However, it was generally understood that Jimi had no clue about his finances, even during his life. Thats one reason he was either broke or rich, and no in-between. Jimi wrote ALOT of checks, and have even more made for him for numerous reasons. He loved to spend, and would probably have liked his face on checks more than most anything else that they have put out with his likeness!


However, I have a hard time calling someone a sell-out when before a show in texas he was confronted by three huge rednecks with dinnerplate belt buckles saying "if ya'll play the national anthem tonite, we are gonna kill your ****** ass." Jimi went on and played it anyway.

As for the questions by the person with the many posts on what message Hendrix checks send, and what is served by bringing to mind this person, it seems obvious.

Jimi was true to his music, maybe more than anyone else, and no amount of his likeness on checks or keychains will take that away from him.

 

I think the point here is, to have sell-out and Jimi in the same sentence, you better be sure what youre saying, and how it sounds to others. This thread inspired me to thought, and Im sorry if you incurred that it was an insult, none was intended - to be sure.

I even prefaced my post to make sure my angle of thought about it was noted. Sorry to offend, but Im not usually one of those who posts one line of agreement or dissent.

I did address the issue, you were drawing comparisons to Jimi and his likeness being used in consumer culture, and I went in depth on how Jimi seemed to view finance. I talked about those who accused him directly of selling out, which noone else seemed to want to remember, as well as how he had been sold out by others. I dont know if I needed to make my opinion more palatable, or more on topic.

Hey, I even agreed that it was the record companies doing it, what more do you want? hehe

no hard feelings, okay? I was just thinkin about what you posted!

peace

 

Is it really so much different than a Hendrix t-shirt or a Hendrix poster?

Just a matter of taste I think.