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I know just what you mean....

I'm a Seventh-Day Agnostic...we take pride in not knowing much...

It's like a religion with us.

For any M O I fans out there who haven't heard: the original remaining members of the band are rehearsing for a tour soon. They will tour as the Grand Mothers Of Invention...This came from Jimmy Carl Black one of the original drummers..

Saw this yesterday and can't resist:

"I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs."
- Frank Zappa

Yeah, well...should, shouldn't...life's a complicated bit of theater, isn't it?

As my friend Murphy, who is a big Zappa fan (as am I) once observed, "Frank!...the guy writes the word 'assh*le' into lyrics more than anyone else and then he gets killed by his own..."

(Of course, this is coming from a guy who said he wanted to play the part of 'The Evil Ham Sandwich' in "The Mama Cass Story"...)

Okay, I've had a little time to consider this further (always a dangerous thing), and I think I've figured out what killed Jimi...it's the design flaw in the human physiology that requires us to use an interconnected network of tubes to get both food and air...basically, the same 'built-in' problem that kills so many infants in their cribs each year.

Forum restrictions forbid us discussing what might be to blame for this problem, however...and perhaps rightly so...

Man, I've been reading all sorts of contradictory accounts of his death. I have read that he died at the hospital, in the ambulance and at the apartment (and one of the BS newspaper articles printed the next day even had him collapsing and dying at a party--obviously not true). Wikipedia seems to accept a revisited investigation that concluded he was DOA. His girlfriend supposedly told several contradictory versions before she committed suicide in the late 1990s. The "authorities" claimed the apartment was wide open and unattended when they arrived. There is a suggestion that he was wearing a scarf that was tied very tightly. They all verify nine sleeping pills, a little seconal and some speed...no blood-alcohol measurements, but he seems to have enjoyed a lot of wine that night. The actual cause of death--choking on vomit--is not disputed.

Sounds like we'll never know the true story. Any and all versions are spotty.

Ah, but do they know whose vomit? I heard somewhere that you can't dust for vomit.....

"a scarf that was tied very tightly."

Ah, another victim of fashion...like Isadora Duncan...

Isadora - there was a person who shouldn't ride in a convertible sportscar...

Wow! I can't believe I found this quote!

"I knew Isadora (Duncan) and I think that the best thing you could say about Isadora was: there was a person who shouldn't wear scarves."
- Frank Zappa

Oh, no...the ghost of Frank has possessed my keyboard...

Now I have to get a Witch from Camarillo in here to exorcise it...

Too late...she drowned.

That's okay...I figured "it was useless anymore..."

She had a snake for a pet and an amulet, and she was breeding a dwarf but she wasn't done yet!

She had gray-green skin, a doll and a pin. I told her she was alright but she couldn't come in.

(I haven't heard that song in over twenty years, but some things you just don't forget)

I'm STILL waiting for the Oxford English Dictionary to embrace the word unconscho.

Now how DID he spell that...

Hi guys..This is my 1st post and I just couldn't resist. I've seen Jimi in concert many times, met him on several occasions and even have several very special photos that I took of him. He was a very special man and gifted guitarist. All I know is that a part of my heart died on the night that he died. And after 37 years, he is still missed.