voodoo_child58
10-15-08, 11:22 AM
This in answer to stplsd's thread:
Hello German, Dutch & French fans, how about someone of you giving us translations?
For further information and photos, please visit this blog.
http://jimihendrixitalia.blogspot.com/
:)
The Swiss newspaper "Blick" sent the journalist Edith Wieland, accompanied by her photographer husband to Hotel Fleming to hold an interview in preparation of the concert that the Jimi Hendrix Experience were going to hold in Zurich on the 30th and 31st of May (Published on the 30th May 1968 and signed by Wieland under her nome de plume Winnie Land). Here is a transcription of part of that interview:
Jimi Hendrix came out of the lift in his usual manner, with his head lowered. He moved with a natural grace and greeted me and sat down beside me on the divan. To hide his shyness a little, he ordered a fruit juice.
WL: Do you drink alcohol?
JH: Sometimes, but not at midday. And fruit juice restores me to full fitness. We are always on tour and often we don’t eat much. Look; even my skin is suffering (he shows me a graze on his wrist. He’s got big and expressive hands….).
WL: When was the last time you all had a holiday?
JH: When we founded the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
WL: Can I be honest with you? You are much better looking in the flesh than in photographs and on posters.
JH: I look terrible in the photos. Thanks for the compliment.
WL: Why are you always represented as a wild man?
JH: Honestly, I don’t know why people want to see me as a “horror” subject. They would like to see me as a cannibal.
He pulls a horrible face, bares his teeth and rolls his eyes. And then laughs. It is easy to understand that the promotional material that represents him as a wild person hurts him a lot. He’s not beautiful, but has loads of charm, humour and intelligence and as soon as you start to talk with him you forget about his ugliness.
WL: Yesterday, an Italian critic described you as the Paganini of the guitar.
JH: Paganini? Who’s he? Ah yes, the greatest violinist ever. Oh, that is really a nice compliment (laughs happily).
WL: Your music is often labelled as psychedelic. In what category do you put your music?
JH: It’s difficult to say. It’s a mixture of rock, blues and jazz…. music of the future. Not really psychedelic. More like Bach and Beethoven! (He laughs). Don’t get me wrong! I love Bach and Beethoven; I have lots of their records and also records of Gustav Mahler.
WL: And what about your success with women?
JH: Women? (He thinks for a second) You know, I live for my music. The guitar comes first, then music and then a little afterwards the women. I don’t have any time for women. And success doesn’t help. It makes life more complicated.
WL: Can you continue working at this speed?
JH: Not for much longer. Tomorrow we finish our Italian tour and then we fly to New York for a day to sign a contract and then we fly to Switzerland as you know. All in four days.
WL: And after your visit to Switzerland?
JH: A short tour in Spain and then a holiday afterwards. We need it… we are really tired. Then I would like to return to Rome. I love this wonderful city.
Our interview was interrupted. It was time to go to the theatre.
JH: We’ll be late even this time. Mitch is still in his room. In the year and a half that I have known him he’s never been on time! His lack of punctuality is his chronic illness!
Hello German, Dutch & French fans, how about someone of you giving us translations?
For further information and photos, please visit this blog.
http://jimihendrixitalia.blogspot.com/
:)
The Swiss newspaper "Blick" sent the journalist Edith Wieland, accompanied by her photographer husband to Hotel Fleming to hold an interview in preparation of the concert that the Jimi Hendrix Experience were going to hold in Zurich on the 30th and 31st of May (Published on the 30th May 1968 and signed by Wieland under her nome de plume Winnie Land). Here is a transcription of part of that interview:
Jimi Hendrix came out of the lift in his usual manner, with his head lowered. He moved with a natural grace and greeted me and sat down beside me on the divan. To hide his shyness a little, he ordered a fruit juice.
WL: Do you drink alcohol?
JH: Sometimes, but not at midday. And fruit juice restores me to full fitness. We are always on tour and often we don’t eat much. Look; even my skin is suffering (he shows me a graze on his wrist. He’s got big and expressive hands….).
WL: When was the last time you all had a holiday?
JH: When we founded the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
WL: Can I be honest with you? You are much better looking in the flesh than in photographs and on posters.
JH: I look terrible in the photos. Thanks for the compliment.
WL: Why are you always represented as a wild man?
JH: Honestly, I don’t know why people want to see me as a “horror” subject. They would like to see me as a cannibal.
He pulls a horrible face, bares his teeth and rolls his eyes. And then laughs. It is easy to understand that the promotional material that represents him as a wild person hurts him a lot. He’s not beautiful, but has loads of charm, humour and intelligence and as soon as you start to talk with him you forget about his ugliness.
WL: Yesterday, an Italian critic described you as the Paganini of the guitar.
JH: Paganini? Who’s he? Ah yes, the greatest violinist ever. Oh, that is really a nice compliment (laughs happily).
WL: Your music is often labelled as psychedelic. In what category do you put your music?
JH: It’s difficult to say. It’s a mixture of rock, blues and jazz…. music of the future. Not really psychedelic. More like Bach and Beethoven! (He laughs). Don’t get me wrong! I love Bach and Beethoven; I have lots of their records and also records of Gustav Mahler.
WL: And what about your success with women?
JH: Women? (He thinks for a second) You know, I live for my music. The guitar comes first, then music and then a little afterwards the women. I don’t have any time for women. And success doesn’t help. It makes life more complicated.
WL: Can you continue working at this speed?
JH: Not for much longer. Tomorrow we finish our Italian tour and then we fly to New York for a day to sign a contract and then we fly to Switzerland as you know. All in four days.
WL: And after your visit to Switzerland?
JH: A short tour in Spain and then a holiday afterwards. We need it… we are really tired. Then I would like to return to Rome. I love this wonderful city.
Our interview was interrupted. It was time to go to the theatre.
JH: We’ll be late even this time. Mitch is still in his room. In the year and a half that I have known him he’s never been on time! His lack of punctuality is his chronic illness!