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An article has surfaced in regards to the death of one of rocks most prized guitarist.

Hendrix murdered by his manager, says former aide

The rock legend Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager, who stood
to collect millions of dollars on the star's life insurance policy, a
former roadie has claimed in a new book.

James "Tappy"
Wright says that Hendrix's manager, Michael Jeffrey, drunkenly
confessed to killing him by stuffing pills into his mouth and washing
them down with several bottles of red wine because he feared Hendrix
intended to dump him for a new manager, according to a report in the
Mail on Sunday.

In his book, Rock Roadie, Mr Wright says
Jeffrey told him in 1971 that Hendrix had been "worth more to him dead
than alive" as he had taken out a life insurance policy on the musician
worth $2m (about £1.2m at the time), with himself as the beneficiary.
Two years later, Jeffrey was killed in a plane crash.

Hendrix died in September 1970, aged 27. An ambulance crew found his
body in the Samarkand Hotel, west London, in the room of a woman called
Monika Dannemann, whom he had known for only a few days.

Hendrix
was alone in the room, lying on his back, with the gas fire on and the
door open. There was no record of who had called the ambulance. His
inquest recorded the cause of his death as barbiturate intoxication and
inhalation of vomit, and recorded an open verdict.

Describing
the night of Jeffrey's confession, Mr Wright wrote: "I can still hear
that conversation, see the man I'd known for so much of my life, his
face pale, hand clutching at his glass in sudden rage."

Wright
claims Jeffrey told him: "I had to do it, Tappy. You understand, don't
you? I had to do it. You know damn well what I'm talking about.

"I
was in London the night of Jimi's death and together with some old
friends... we went round to Monika's hotel room, got a handful of pills
and stuffed them into his mouth... then poured a few bottles of red
wine deep into his windpipe.

"I had to do it. Jimi was worth much
more to me dead than alive. That son of a bitch was going to leave me.
If I lost him, I'd lose everything."

John Bannister, the
surgeon who dealt with Hendrix at hospital, has said he was convinced
the star had drowned in red wine, despite having very little alcohol in
his bloodstream.

"I recall vividly the very large amounts of
red wine that oozed from his stomach and his lungs and in my opinion
there was no question that Jimi Hendrix had drowned, if not at home
then on the way to the hospital," he wrote in 1992.

source

A tad nuts, but with all the drugs surrounding rock, how much truth is in this.

Also, in regards to another one of music's most prized producer,
Jay Dilla - Jay $tay Paid has been released today


Allmusic's review on the album here

I suggest you pick this album up.

Other music releases
My fav front sloppy punk, Jemina Pearl [from the likes of the crushingly shortlived band Be Your Own Pet] has released some new tracks, that she's been working on with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, on her myspace.

I have tons of admiration for this barely legal drinker, her stage performance is everything you want out of a girl who just doesn't give a fuck. Loves it.
So keep an eye out for her upcoming solo release.

In other news, who's excited for the Passion Pit show tomorrow???!!!
THIS GIRL, that's who!!!


And, i'm out!

xo
'legs