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Remember that lightshow guy who so solemnly told, and retold, the story about Jimi's sole and heartrending 'tribute to MLK' number at Newark? Guess he never counted on pics turning up, the internet happening the way it has, and so on. Or if he did somehow (cough cough!) conflate a couple of long ago shows, I never heard him correct himself.
For the record: I NEVER believed that story. Always sounded like complete BS to my ears. But people's memories can and will change over the years. I know a guy, who's a well-respected guitarist in my country and who was present at Jimi's aborted show in Aarhus, Denmark on Sept. 2nd, 1970, and he SWEARS that Jimi only played 2 notes on his guitar that night, and then collapsed...

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Told the story before (maybe not here) about the totally credible dude who was a good longtime friend of a friend who claimed to own the Flying V Jimi played at the Isle of Wight, story went how Jimi gave it to him after a show he did in Baltimore. I was still quite young and assimilating Hendrixiana then so it took me a night to figure out what was bothering me about his story...
Well maybe, JUST maybe, Jimi managed to make the helicopter from the IOW swing by Baltimore on the way to Sweden, so he could do a quick, impromptu gig there....

I'm suddenly reminded of the fool on eBay, who was trying to sell a copy of "Cry Of Love", allegedly signed by Jimi!