JIMI HENDRIX's Brother Planning 'Storytellers' Tour
February 7, 2008Jimi Hendrix's younger brother, Leon Hendrix, and a host of special musical guests are planning a mid-summer "storytellers" tour. The shows will be the first of their kind, with Leon performing and sharing intimate stories of Jimi Hendrix the brother, the man and the legend.
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In a 2005 interview with The New York Times, Leon explained that he took up the guitar several years ago after a purple flame shot out of the sky and possessed him in bed, revealing a vision of his brother floating above him.
"I could see Jimi up there, beckoning," he recalled. "He was saying, 'Come on, baby brother. It's time. You're ready.' Since then, I feel like he's sanctioned me to carry on his musical legacy."
And after a lifetime of living the blues — including foster homes, drug addiction and other hardships — Mr. Hendrix, 58, said he finally had a reason to sing them: he was cut out of his brother's $80 million estate.
His father, Al Hendrix, died in 2002 and left the estate largely to his daughter, Janie Hendrix. In September 2004, Mr. Hendrix lost his legal appeal for a portion of it in Seattle, the family's hometown.
To avenge the defeat, he said, he took up the guitar, after wasting decades on drugs, alcohol and woman-chasing. He says he summoned his brother's spirit and was booking club gigs, teaming with the drummer Buddy Miles, who played in Jimi Hendrix's BAND OF GYPSIES.
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