Graycap23 said:

I remember watching a movie about Jimi where this guy (I think he was an old friend) theorized that that feeling you get when you fall asleep and suddenly jerk awake is like a moment of decision, where you can either fall into death or jerk awake.

He said Jimi might have just been brave enough to choose to die!

I hadn't ever heard about a murder, though I've heard that maybe he could have been saved, as was written up above somewhere.

blackguitaristz said:

I have a movie on Jimi that I have yet 2 watch. Was any of this covered in the movie?

NDRU said:

What you're refering to is called an "alpha jerk" and the footage that u saw was in a doc on Jimi released in 1973.

NDRU said:

What you're refering to is called an "alpha jerk" and the footage that u saw was in a doc on Jimi released in 1973.

I hadn't ever heard about a murder, though I've heard that maybe he could have been saved, as was written up above somewhere.

blackguitaristz said:

yeah it was the statement from the ghetto fighters from the 1971 film about jimi hendrix, good looking out on that book, I have to check that out, the only one I have read so far is Room Full Of Mirrors

Graycap23 said:

And regarding that "he could have been saved", yeah, I'm sure that u have read that "somewhere". But the truth of the matter is is that Jimi couldn't have been saved being that what u read was Jimi was riding in the back of an ambulance trying to sit up but couldn't cuz he was either 1) held down by a paramedic or 2) he was strapped down preventing him to sit up, therefore causing him to choke on his own vomit. Neither scenerio went down, according to the two veteren paramedics that testified on this matter. Jimi couldn't have been saved because Jimi had been dead for hours before they had even been called to the residence. No one was there to ride with Jimi to the hospital, which had also been widely reported. It was Jimi and the two medics.

blackguitaristz said:

right the alpha jerk. I loved that doc, it was from deep deep deep in the 70's. Loved that girlfriend of his who kept talking about him "shaking his process."

Graycap23 said:

No, none of this has ever been re-acted in a film.

NDRU said:

Yeah, that would be Fayne Pidgeon.

Brutha B would that book be called "Hit And Run"? Never read it but wanted to. There's supposedly some mob speculation circuling Jimi's death in that book.

If that Jimi pic came out in the early 90's, Angela Bassett would have played a great Fayne. I remember Larry Fishburne was slated to play him back then.

Graycap23 said:

I remember watching a movie about Jimi where this guy (I think he was an old friend) theorized that that feeling you get when you fall asleep and suddenly jerk awake is like a moment of decision, where you can either fall into death or jerk awake.

He said Jimi might have just been brave enough to choose to die!

I hadn't ever heard about a murder, though I've heard that maybe he could have been saved, as was written up above somewhere.

rocknrolldave said:

Obviously u weren't there as nor were we. That's why I mentioned about a book that deals spcifically with evidence that Jimi was muredered. Evidence was held back from the public choosing instead to release that Jimi died of an overdose. Which was not true. He died of forced drowning. Someone held Jimi down and poured wine down his throat untill he choked to death. When the paramedics arrived, Jimi had already been dead for hours. No one was there but Jimi. Jimi was covered with vomit and wine was all over the bed and Jimi's hair was soaked with wine. If u were to vomit up wine, wine would not get in your hair. It was poured onto Jimi while it was being forced down his throat. It was no secret that Mike Jeffery, who handled Jimi's money, was a thug who had strong ties with the Mob. Jimi had been trying to break ties with him for over a year. Mike wasn't having it. This is just scratching the surface regarding the information. If anyone TRULY wants to know or care about Hendrix at all, I strongly suggest reading this book. If you're not a fan and u can careless about Jimi, then u know.... Folks will believe what they want to believe anyways, regardless of what info is given to them. So if that's the case, then the book will fall on death ears because that's a choice to not WANT to know anything else.