JIMI HENDRIX's Stepsister Interviewed By CLASSIC ROCK REVISITED (Audio)

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with Jimi Hendrix's stepsister, Janie Hendrix, who controls the late guitarist's estate. You can now listen to the chat in three parts below.

Jimi Hendrix fans are raving about the new multimedia set, "West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology", which features over four hours of rare and previously unreleased Hendrix music spread across four CD's and one newly-produced documentary. The collection includes extensive outtakes and alternate versions of songs from "Are You Experienced", "Axis: Bold As Love" and "Electric Ladyland".

Janie Hendrix told The Pulse Of Radio that until "West Coast Seattle Boy" — even fans that had everything, still never had all this. "Four hours of music, and different versions, yes, a lot of people will recognize the titles, but they are going to notice a difference if they hear it," she said. "I think for Jimi, anyways, as he says in the documentary 'Voodoo Child', he would get bored playing the same thing every single night. Consequently, I kind of like to look at his guitar as a paintbrush, and every night he created a different masterpiece." Janie explained that Jimi actually coined the phrase "West Coast Seattle Boy" to describe his early life. "Well, 'West Coast Seattle Boy' — y'know, Jimi wrote that down and that was his term for himself," she said. "It's almost like 'West Coast Seattle Boy' becomes 'Voodoo Child'. And so what happens between the time that he's just a 'West Coast Seattle Boy' and then playing with Little Richard and the Isleys and moving on through the years from a sideman to a frontman."

Highlights on "West Coast Seattle Boy" include: Hendrix's never-before heard version of BOB DYLAN's "Basement Tapes" classic "Tears Of Rage", solo acoustic recordings of Electric Ladyland favorites like "Long Hot Summer Night" and "1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)" — as well as never-before-heard live performances from Berkeley, California and the legendary BAND OF GYPSYS' Fillmore East concert in New York City on New Year's Eve 1969 — as well as such "new" Hendrix songs: "Hear My Freedom", "Hound Dog Blues", "Lonely Avenue", and more.

The new 90-minute documentary in the set, called "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child", was directed by Bob Smeaton — best known for his work on "The Beatles Anthology". The film is an autobiographical journey told in Hendrix's own words as read by PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC's Bootsy Collins.

The documentary mixes interviews with Hendrix — while showing with his letters, writings and recordings, personal drawings, postcards, early song drafts, sketches, and lyrics.

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