Performer: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Songwriter: Jimi Hendrix
Original Release: Are You Experienced?
Year: 1967
Definitive Version: None
As you might imagine, I was pretty surprised when I got the call from my sister saying that she wanted to come visit me for a weekend. Why the heck would anyone want to leave Chicago to spend a weekend in Flint, particularly in the early summer? OK, so when you have been only one place for a while, anyplace that’s different is good. I was glad to see her after the disappointment of moving from Chicago coincidentally right after she had moved there.
So Jin flew into Flint’s weensy airport and crashed on my mustard yellow hide-a-bed couch, and we hung out but not before we drove by the former Holiday Inn where—depending on whom you believe—Keith Moon either dove into the empty swimming pool or drove a car into the swimming pool on his 21st birthday in 1967, which resulted in a companywide Who ban.
Other than that historical tidbit, I didn’t really know anything about the Flint area besides the putt-putt golf course by my gym and the antique stores in Holly. I’m pretty certain that even if pressed I couldn’t tell you where we ate that weekend, although I’m pretty sure we went out. My dining table wasn’t really conducive to have two people sit at it, unless I moved it into the living-room area.
What I do remember clearly about that weekend was Jin opening the curtains on every window in my apartment to let in more sunlight (even though my apartment was by the walkway to get to other apartments) and then sitting around listening to Hendrix. Jin wanted me to make a “best of” tape, but she wasn’t sure she knew songs by titles, so I would play a snippet of each one, and she would go ‘yay’ or ‘nay.’ I remember her basically saying ‘yay’ to every song from Are You Experienced? No, it isn’t actually a greatest hits album; it only sounds like it is.
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