hetismij2

Jimi Hendrix's flat in London is to open to the public as a museum next year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34647637

stokebailey

I think the big housing problem in European cities isn't illegal apartment rentals. It's every other dwelling place being converted into a museum.

I say this as someone who never could quite understand the fuss about Hendrix. Though I did work out a very nice vocal cover of Purple Haze the other day while gardening.

stokebailey

My version is bluesy and mellow, without a bunch of fancy guitar licks.

hetismij2

Well his flat has been used as an office by the Handel Society for years, so it isn't exactly being withdrawn from the housing market.

traveller1959

We loved the Jimi Hendrix Shrine in Vancouver - in the shack where his grandmother run her eatery and where he spent a couple of summers. Not a museum, more a shrine indeed, but I am afraid it will be destroyed soon in order to build a new high-rise on the ground.

http://www.insidevancouver.ca/2013/0...en-for-summer/

Thank you for posting, hetismij. I will visit the museum next time when I will be in London. And another reason to go there.

Perhaps I can combine it with a visit of stokebailey's garden where he will serve me tea while belting out "Purple Haze"!

stokebailey

Ha, yes, but you have to stay out of sight so it won't make me self-conscious.

traveller1959

Jimi was pretty shy, too. He burned his guitar on stage without caring too much about the audience. Maybe you can burn something, too? Would love that.

stokebailey

(hetismij, didn[t really mean to dis Jimi H. My failure to appreciate his music is no doubt due to my own ears. I always did like his visual style.)

PatrickLondon

It's always worth visiting the Handel Museum next door, to stand where the great man once threatened to put a particularly stroppy soprano out of the window. I don't think Hendrix ever went as far as diva-dangling.

hetismij2

Stokebailey, it took me many years to appreciate him, so no offence taken.
I'm as happy listening to his neighbour's compositions as his. All depends on my mood.