The Mysterious Death of James Marshall Hendrix

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I  never thought to question the “official story” regarding the death of Jimi Hendrix. However, the older I get I realize that just about everything we hear from “official” sources is bunk. Last week in his podcast, Talk is Jericho, former WWE Star Chris Jericho, interviewed Richard Syrett. They discussed little known anomolies surrounding the death of the greatest guitar player of all time, Jimi Hendrix.

The “official” cause of death was an overdose of barbiturates causing Hendrix to choke on  his own vomit.

Here are some of the anomolies:

  • Red wine was in Hendrix’s lungs and hair but not in his blood. (Waterboarding?)
  • Jimi didn’t drink red wine according to his friends.
  • James “Tappy” Wright was Jimi’s road manager
  • Mike Jeffery was Jimi’s manager and a “former” British MI-6 assassin. I put former in quotes because I’m not sure anybody is ever a “former” member of an intelligence agency.
  • Jeffery was a very controlling manager.  He is even suspected of planting drugs on Hendrix so he’d get in trouble and could then ride to his rescue.
  • Hendrix was unhappy with Jefferey’s management and his contract with Jeffery was set to expire in a few months; Hendrix was unlikely to re-sign with him.
  • Jeffery had borrowed heavily from New York Mobsters to finance the building of Electric Land Studios in New York.
  • Jeffery had a life insurance policy on Hendrix.
  • Hendrix was staying at a hotel with his girlfriend Monika Dannemann.  However, Hendrix was found dead, alone in his room.

The theory, as relayed to Richard Sayrett by James “Tappy” Wright, is that Monika Dannemann slipped something to Jimi, so he’d pass out (barbiturates). She then goes out to get cigarettes and in comes the wet team lead by the “former” MI-6 agent/assassin Mike Jeffry, who waterboards Hendrix with red wine, essentially drowning him.

Mike Jeffery’s motive was to collect on the insurance policy to re-pay the mob the money he borrowed to finance Electric Land Studios.

On March 2nd, 2018 Rock-n-Roll Twilight Zone podcast, Richard Syrett played interview he had with Tappy Wright and Tappy says that Jeffery later admitted to him that he had killed Hendrix.

The one thing that I don’t get is what was Dannemann’s motive for assisting in the murder?  I don’t get her motive unless she was threatened.

 

Who said…

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“…the negro should be accepted wholeheartedly and not grudgingly. The negro has the right to play professional baseball and who’s to say he does not.”

If you answered, Ty Cobb, you would be correct.

Apparently, the first time Cobb was asked about race was after he retired in 1953, when a reporter for the Sporting News asked him what he thought about the integration of the Texas League.

Check out Charles Leerhsen’s new book, Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty.

 

 

Conor McGregor is a Bitch

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In episode 102 of From Brooklyn to the World, Paulie Malignaggi explains why.

In a nutshell, Paulie says, Conor became a bitch when he lost to Nate Diaz. Not because he tapped out, but because putting himself in a position to tap out was a way out of the fight, without making it look like he wanted out of the fight. Basically, Conor was getting the shit beaten out him and instead of standing up, taking his medicine and trying to win the fight; he got into a grappling match with a black belt in jiu jitsu. He knew he was going to get choked out but thought it was an easier way out than standing up and taking a beating.

Paulie said it was “quitting without quitting.”

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Tigers Offense as bad as Bullpen

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Ok, I’ve been silent long enough.  I am so disgusted with the Tigers, I can barely watch them.  This team needs a wholesale change from top to bottom.  I like BA but he has to go, so does Legendary Lloyd McClendon, Alex Avila Sr. and any player on the roster except for Michael Fulmer.

The bullpen has blown for as long as I can remember although it hasn’t been for a lack of trying.  It just seems like no matter who they sign, or who they bring in, the results are the same. So it time for a different mindset and a different perspective.

Management has to take full responsibility for the putrid offense.  This offense has been the same feast, mostly famine, garbage for at least as long as bullpen has  been crappy.  The problem I have with the offense is that there is never any change in strategy.  They keep bringing in the same type of player, a lot of power but speed or average.  It hasn’t been working and I’m not optimistic about sticking with the same plan.  It has just gotten to the point that I struggle to watch them.  If Tigers aren’t careful, I’m going to be a former season ticket holder and I won’t be buying their $7.00 pops anymore.