Rob and I recently sold a book called Sensing the Future: A Field Guide to Precognition. One of the chapters is about creativity and precognition and in researching the lives and precogs of musicians, I found that many of them had foreknowledge of their own deaths. Jimi Hendrix was among them.
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Incredibly, Hendrix’s professional career spanned only four years. But in those four years, following his appearance at the Monterrey Pop Festival in 1967, his prowess as a musician exploded across the music scene of the late 1960s.
His third album, Electric Ladyland, reached the top of the charts in the U.S. in 1968 and in 1969, he was the headline act at Woodstock. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid entertainer in the world. The Music Hall of Fame described him as “arguably the best instrumentalist in the history of rock music” and Rolling Stone ranked him as the greatest guitarist of all time.
Whew. All this in just four years? But if you were fortunate enough to see him perform live, if you have watched him on You Tube, listened to his music and lyrics, you can’t deny the astounding power and energy of his talent.
There must be some way out of here,
said the joker to the thief,
there’s too much confusion
I can’t get no relief…
These lyrics from All Along the Watchtower, a song written by Bob Dylan, were owned by Hendrix when he sang it. The words seemed to rise from Hendrix’s soul and may tell us a great deal about why he became a member of The 27 Club. Hendrix, like Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain and numerous others, died at the age of 27. And he apparently had a precognitive sense about his own death five years before it occurred.
On September 18, 1965, two years before he released his mind-blowing debut album Are You Experienced, Hendrix recorded a song with Curtis Knight called The Ballad of Jimi that predicted his death. It never appeared on an album, but the song was dedicated to “the memory of Jimi,” and some of the lines clearly show that Hendrix had sensed his personal future.
Many things he would try
For he knew soon he’d die
Now Jimi’s gone, he’s not alone
His memory still lives on
Five years, this he said
He’s not gone, he’s just dead.
There are plenty of speculations and conspiracy theories about Hendrix’s death in London. But according to the autopsy, he died shortly after midnight on September 18, 1970, from an overdose of barbiturates and by asphyxiating on his own vomit. In other words, he died five years to the day since he predicted in his own death in the recording of The Ballad of Jimi.
didn’t read all the comments,,,, maybe then again he (J. H.) made it happen,,,, personal experience with the 27 club,,,, actually 27—- 7 and 11 that would make it 4-20 short of 28,,,, yeah how 2 say it without hurting others….. clips….. talk personally with “Watch Tower” people as often as come across them … Find them as centered and normal as any group out there,,, In “FACT” the truth is,,,, Yesterday dialed the oldest continuing member I know….. it’s interesting dialing a number you’ve been privy 2 for “1/2 century”…….,,, course the area code has changed,,,,, 2A very synchronized 1
Sounds like he knew the plan, judging from all those lyrics. Wow!
It sure does! Nice to see you, Nat!
I didn’t know there was a “27 club”, but it is a number that has a strange occurrance in my own family. My mother’s birthday was the 27th of June, my daughter the 27th of December. My grandmother died on the 27th.
Thanks for sharing this Jimi Hendrix synchro-secret! I always thought that his exquisite, final album “The Cry of Love” was the heart-rending precognitive lyrical & musical announcement of his impending departure from planet Earth. The words themselves tell us that he’s going to go: “What seems to be the fuzz out there?
Just what seems to be the hang?
‘Cause you know if ya just don’t want me this time around,
yeah I’ll be glad to go back to Spirit Land
And even take a longer rest,
before I’m coming down the chute again.”
Wow, that’s a good one! It definitely sounds like another precognition.
All Along The Watch Tower played on my favorite radio station twice in the last few days. Yesterday on the C-SPAN History Channel they showed his fashion sense in a presentation from a Rock museum in Seattle. A couple of the outfits would sell for a lot of money. The narrator compared one outfit to the dress worn by Marilyn in the movie scene over the grating with the skirt blowing.
Love that song!
Haven’t read the book and didn’t care for the Jimi Hendrix kind of music, but….27 is the frequency of “endings and death”…..its finality usually softened by its “lead-in” to the frequency of “1”….birth, new beginnings”, etc.
Hey, there’s a book about the 27 club. Haven’t read it yet, but will. This is very intriguing…
The 27 club is fascinating and bizarre!