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In late July 1995 I had taken my friend Brian to Greenwood Memorial in Renton WA to show him Jimi's mom's grave(Lucille) and there was Jimi's step mom June there with Monika (whom Jimi was living with in London when he died in 70) at Jimi's grave. I've seen June there before when I'd take people to show them Jimi's grave(she was always nice) it was also an honor to meet Monika-she seemed really genuin and nice.

On Oct 4th 1995 Herb Johnson jr a friend of mine(who knew Mr. Hendrix since 1977) took me over to Mr.Hendrix's house to meet him. Mr. Hendrix was very down to earth-just one of the nicest people you could want to meet-anyways Herb insisted that I go out to the car & bring in my strat,prototypes of my pedals & my 9v marshall amp and play for Mr. Hendrix-I did! I'm okay on the guitar-I played Purple haze,Hey baby,Star spangled banner & Little wing-This was the day when I met him- It felt like there was a higher power having me play for Mr. Hendrix-Herb said that he wished that he would have had his camcorder there and said that Mr Hendrix sure had his eyes on the neck of my guitar while I was playing!-

The next picture (below)was taken just moments after I'd just finished playing for him where we're standing in front of the gold records

Herb & I would go visit Mr. Hendrix everytime we'd go up to Seattle to check out the music stores there-we'd spend 2-3 hours at a time at his house-we just talked about everyday life things, I always enjoyed his company,One day he had a box of copies of his book'My son Jimi' & gave Herb & me each a copy-he signed mine:best wishes & success to Kevin Randall from Al Hendrix Aug 27th 1999-I treasure this book and recommend it if you really want to know about Jimi-it's my favorite Jimi book. In 1999 Mr. Hendrix sent me an invitation to his 80th birthday party which was held at the Westin in Seattle(Black tie event)where I got to meet Jimi's family,Eddie Krammer- Herb & I talked to him for a few minutes-he was cool,I also met Gerry Stickells (Jimi's road manager)& told him how I envied him standing by all of Jimi's Marshall amps.Also met Mary Willix who wrote the book on Jimi called 'Visions from home' she was very nice and went to school with Jimi. all & all it was an enjoyable evening.

In April 2000 while visiting Mr. Hendrix my friend Brian took this picture of me & Mr. Hendrix-when Brian  took the pic he said 'say purple haze' instead of say cheese-this is such a nice pic with Mr. Hendrix.

Today I miss Mr. Hendrix friendship,whenever I see video's of Jimi it makes me miss Mr. Hendrix as I could see alot of jimi's mannerisms in his dad and having known Jimi's dad & met Jimi's family I think of Jimi now in a different light than just as a legend in the sense that he really was a somebody,a person in that I knew his dad-I am honored. RIP Mr. Hendrix

Here's a picture taken by another friend also named Brian who took this picture of me at Jimi's grave in feb 2004.

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