I visited with the team working on the Jimi Hendrix house yesterday, across the steet from the Jimi Hendrix memorial at Greenwood Cemetary. The Jimi Hendrix Foundation has saved Jimi’s boyhood home from destruction, by finding a permanent site for it in Renton. They will restore it, and incorporate it into a museum and music store, and they have some exciting landscape plans in work.
I was very impressed by the group’s spirit and dedication to this work, and I can not believe that the city of Seattle let this treasure get away from them.
Here are a couple shots of the celebration yesterday.
The Jimi hendrix Memorial, across the street at Greenwod Cemetary….
Rights
Actually, after Judge Zilly got done, the only rights Experience Hendrix has are their trademarks. Jimi’s image and likeness are theretofore public domain. The only restriction is that one cannot market a product under a Hendrix-like brand name. What this means for the public is that if you want to make and sell a Jimi bobblehead, you can do it, you just can’t pretend to use Jimi or his images as your brand.
So Hendrix Fans and entrepreneurs, have at it! The ‘scuse me while I kiss the sky” is the limit!
– One who knows –
stone
BTW- did anybody notice that the “strat” guitas on the stone is -WRONG-
It is a left handed guitar. Jimi played a right handed guitar upside down…