Word: hendrix
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Seles has grown in other ways. Her musical tastes went from Madonna to Hendrix. During her time off, she studied French and learned to shoot pool and play the guitar, even buying a Fender Stratocaster. She may have had another ax to grind. Seles is still annoyed at the way she was treated by her sisters on the tour. "They were supportive of me the day I was stabbed," she told the New York Times, "but by the next Monday in Rome they were already standing up to take my ranking away. Gabby [Gab riela] Sabatini was the only person...
...James Henke, the chief curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, had a more pressing problem one day last week. Showing a journalist around the museum, he was stopped by a group of workers who were about to install a Jimi Hendrix guitar on the wall. Hendrix, who was left-handed, played right-handed guitars with the strings on upside down. But the guitar they were about to hang was a right-handed one Hendrix had borrowed for a photo shoot without restringing it. So which way should they mount it--left...
...HENDRIX Jimi's dad is in a green haze after winning rights to his guitar-god son's legacy...
...issues, not only about the quality, type and direction of posthumous material, but also about exactly who should benefit financially from the vast sums of money that can be generated. However, one thing advances in recording technology cannot do is alter the physical characteristics of these dead artists. Jimi Hendrix was considered by many to be a great left-handed guitarist--perhaps the greatest--during his all too short span on this earth. But your photograph shows him playing the guitar right-handed. JOHN PEACOCK Fenwick, Canada...
Posthumous popularity, however, can lead to conflicts, both financial and artistic. Hendrix's father Al is suing Jim's former lawyer, Leo Branton Jr., and Hendrix acquaintance Alan Douglas, claiming he was duped into selling them the rights to his son's music and image. Douglas, who has produced many of Hendrix's posthumously released records, contends it was his business sense and creative choices that made the Hendrix legacy so profitable in the first place. "It's been a long, difficult trip to revive Hendrix," he says. "But I'd say we have in fact rescued...