GLASTONBURYOFTHEMIND

Wha da fuck is up with tha BBC?

Is the same organization that has, over the years, lost so many gems in “our” cultural heritage still trampling on dreams?

Distorting tha facts ?

Giving the ole cultural whitewash to the rainbow in our soul?

Item The Hendrix inaugural 7 Ages of Rock  Thing.

God, however much I love em, and I might even on acassion be one myself, preserve us from pontificating WHITE rock journalists.

Sure, graverobbing the visual record of Jimi - and with the Joe Boyd documentary footage post Jimi visual record - gives swell visual and sonic treats.

But context is everything in these things.

So there was Eric Clapton from Boyd thing, a whole buncha guys who knew Hendrix as some guy onstage, some phantasm, seer, Godfucker, on the cultural mass.

But  it may be multiciulturally inappropriate to say it but following the LA Rock doc based on barney Hoskyns book where they managed to include, I think  accidentally, one black face in the footage.

White people knew Jimi sure.

But look in case you aint noticed the guy was a little tan.

Didnt balck people know him better, or at least in a way that white people couldn’t.

Because of the times.

Becuase of the mind.

JUst…because…

Even in the dim and distant 70s Joe Boyd relaised that

Where for instance was Umbra Poet and definitive Hendrix biographer David ‘Scuse Me While I Touch The Sky Henderson ?

Had he been asked to take part? David alive and well and living in New York KNEW Jimi too.

Good perceptive men like Keuth Altman, yes , but wasnt there a need for some black critics here.

Is this a cultural gettho I see before me, Herman.

The post Peel landscape where everything is transmitted but not permitted to cross breed.

Like culture is some sort of bacteria that needs to be  isolated, confined, expalined, extolled but kept docile in its cage.

Beloved Auntie?

Has it bcome - pace the Curb Your Enthusuiasm classic - Beloved Cuntie?