Actually, Hendrix was taken to the hospital in Denmark suffering from a survivable o'dose of liquor and sedatives. The ambulance attendants laid him on his back, he vomited and choked. The certificate lists cause of death as aspiration of vomit...or something like that. It's copied in a book I once read...and prolly available on the net.
If it happened today,, hes heirs would be fighting over the wrongful death settlement.
He was a pretty good guitar player...an early inspiration...but his stuff with Billy Cox and Beddy Miles is wailin'. The addition of time and funk discipline really pumped Jimi's jam, IMHO. "Dolly.....DAGGER!"
FWIW, Jimi's music suffered while Buddy Miles was allowed to adulterate it. Once he booted that clown and re-esembled the "Experience II" with Mitch on drums, and Billy on bass, they never sounded better.
Band of Gypsies was a joke. His music was falling apart in that (horrid) era of "black-funk" experimentation. Jimi was tired and worn, and allowed Buddy to have a much larger voice than he would ever had in any period that imi was in his right mind.
"Here he comes" and "message to love (a message to the universe" was written with Billy and Mitch. and it was his tightest funk stuff to me. The jam band style funk that Jimi did with the Gypsies was pure unaulterated trash. Not worthy to be re-mentioned in my opinion. What a bad marring stain to an otherwise stellar creative journey.
Thanks for the info! But he died young so we get to remember Jimi in his unsullied prime.