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To paraphrase Rolling Stone's 1980s all-timer on Jim Morrison, "He's hot, he's happening and he's dead."
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But the "dead" one this time, is Jimi Hendrix.
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And so "hot," and happening, he is on, as they say, the cover of the Rolling Stone 40 years after his death.
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Well worth picking up, with a nice essay by David Fricke on Jimi's plight near the end of his life, as well as a sidebar-scanned for you to click at left-that has some very interesting and welcome news on a forthcoming Hendrix box set of studio rarities, alts and outs, and live recordings.
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But sadly, there has been a more recent death of another important pop culture
chronicler from the golden era of rock/pop music who helped forge the JH legacy.
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Photog Jim Marshall, who shot what was arguably one of the most
important, and certainly iconic image of a rock performer died this
week in New York City, at age 74.
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Marshall captured Hendrix in all his white-hot glory and indolence in June, 1967,at the Monterey Pop Festival, as the guitarist closed out his ground breaking set by trashing the stage and setting his guitar on fire.
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The shot would go on to be one of the most recognizable pictures of performing arts in the 20th century.
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Marshall also did important work with Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan,
among many, many others.
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At upper left is a clickable scan of the very informative obit penned by Ben Sisario for the New York Times.
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JH&JM; RIP.