I was in the car
listening to CJAM, a little radio station, with very limited range, across the river in Windsor, Ontario.
The DJ was playing a digitally enhance version of Third Stone From The Sun. Jimi Hendrix was rapping about
outer space and surfing and other kinds of trippin. I had never heard the words so clearly before. I initially
thought someone had added the rap to the track but the more I listened I came to understand that it was indeed THE MASTER
OF ROCK doing what he always had done: being innovative and timeless.
It has been 40 years since Hendrix departed this earthly plane. Folks like me that bought his wax back in
the day understood how enormous his contibution to music was. And now that all the fighting over his estate
is coming to an end, a new generation of fans are able appreciate the monstrous genius of the ONE TRUE ROCK
GOD. And even as they come to appreciate his music, most will never get the fact that Jimi was left handed and
that he played a righthanded Fender Stratocaster upside down!
My intent of this
blog is not to write about the genuis of James Marshall Hendrix. The theme of this blog is generically about
the change that men of Afrikan descent have made on this planet.
When Mediterranean warlords invaded Egypt and saw the Great
Pyramid of Giza and the monumental tributes to Pharoes and King; it changed their perception of the olde world, redefined
cultures, exposed the treasures of the continent of Afrika and of their viewpoint of black men.
I wonder how many years
it will take before people come to understand the change in the cultural, economic and political landscape that President
Barack Obama has brought to the west. I hope that it doesn't take a millennia.
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