Free the JIMI

OF ALL the rock guitarists ever to grace the face of God's green earth, none stand out as much as The One Jimi Hendrix who played the axe like a lover's tender embrace at the end of a long and hard day at work. I've been listening to "Voodoo Child's" Daddy-O since first i lent mein ears to Jimi's magic in a cassette tape playback and he sounds as good today as he first sounded to me back then. Jimi was a Soul Brother who crossed the Atlantic on both sides in a quest to bring spiritual and musical freedom to the oppressed masses of youths waking up everyday not knowing what to expect next. The bomb? the red "menace"? Vietnam?
Jimi's tender caresses of his guitar melted away hearts hardened by fear and the lost souls of the multitudes. This man had something to offer mankind in music much the same way as the prophets offered the word of God to those who would listen. I was enthralled by Jimi while in my school uniform and i am STILL enthralled by Jimi in my middle age today. There are no boundaries for Jimi, freedom was an ends to itself, never the means. "Manic Depression", "Angel", "Are you Experienced", "Gloria", so many many more of Daddy-O's melodies jingle up and down my consciousness, healing, touching the depths, lifting me up to the mores of a life the legend personified. I don't want to idolise Jimi. I respect his work profoundly and yet inside i know that no one would ever come close to his magic. Such a genius as he is produced but once in hundreds of years and but for the Grace of God is our link with the eternal. When he died in the fall of 1970, millions mourned the passing of music's greatest. Thanks to modern technology we have records to listen to. How many geniuses have passed away who were unrecorded, unrecognised, unfeted, unwept over? But Jimi Hendrix if you please.