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Title Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child / Director: Smeaton, Bob
Published Australia : ABC2, 2010
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Summary Coinciding with the anniversary of his untimely death on September 18th, 1970, aged 27, ABC2 screens Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child. This is a revealing and highly entertaining autobiography of the legendary acid-rock guitarist told in his own words (narrated by Funkadelic bassist Bootsy Collins) incorporating a plethora of previously unseen photographs and film footage from the Hendrix family archive to tell the story of a remarkable life.By utilising interviews, letters (particularly to his father), writings and recordings Voodoo Child reveals the man and his journey as never before. While Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child concentrates on just four years, from September 1966 to September 1970, the film traces Jimi's roots from his harsh upbringing in Seattle to his stint as an 18-year-old US Army paratrooper in 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.Devoting himself to music after being mustered out of the army due to injury, Hendrix began his music playing as a nondescript sideman to R&B stars such as Little Richard on the famed 'Chitlin' Circuit before moving from Nashville to New York in search of his dream.But the United States wasn't ready for him at the time so he went to London, where the rock music elite embraced him wholeheartedly, before he eventually returned to the US a triumphant hero.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Experience Hendrix production/Director Bob Smeaton/Narration Bootsy Collins
Event Broadcast 2011-09-18 at 20:30:00
Notes Classification: PG
Subject African American guitarists.
Guitar music (Rock)
Hendrix, Jimi.
Rock music -- Analysis, appreciation.
Rock musicians -- Biography.
Songs (Hendrix, Jimi)
United States.
Form Streaming video
Author Smeaton, Bob, director