11-10-2010, 05:02 PM
Jimi was kidnapped out of the mafia nightclub "The Salvation Club" one night in 1969. As part of the COINTELPRO strategy his MI-5 manager Michael Jeffery embroiled himself in mafia debt over Hendrix. In order to return favors owed to the New Jersey mob he was borrowing tens of thousands of dollars from Jeffery offered Hendrix as an opening act at the newly-opening Salvation. Jimi was in a state of disappointment over his career at the time. He had broken-up Jeffery's money-making arrangement known as the "Jimi Hendrix Experience" by severing bassist Noel Redding and moving to Woodstock to form a more free-style african-american-based group and music. I think Jimi was aware there was something wrong with Jeffery and his management so he wasn't lending himself to Jeffery or his ventures. This created serious financial stress with Jeffery to keep the Hendrix company solvent, so Jeffery turned to the New York mafia to fund the band. He had to because although Hendrix was now a top revenue producer his funds were hung-up in a legal battle over who owned his contract.
In the midst of this fiasco Jimi's friend at Salvation and manager Bobby Woods was murdered gangland style one night after Hendrix had visited him. Scuttlebutt said the mafia murdered Woods because they were worried he had talked too much about his cocaine dealing through the club, but I personally think he was murdered because they were worried he talked about their real intentions with Jimi - and to send a message of intimidation to Hendrix. It worked and Hendrix played the Salvation shortly after. Those present said it was a subdued show that Jimi wasn't into as much as he usually was.
It was during this period that Jimi was kidnapped out of the Salvation one night by some thugs who said Jeffery sent them to pick him up. When Jimi got in the limousine they then but knees into his back and took him to an unknown apartment. Jimi was tied into a chair and made to call his manager to sign over his contract to the kidnappers. This lasted more than a day. Hendrix said that Jeffery's boys showed-up suddenly at the apartment and the kidnappers ran-off. Later, upon recounting the incident, Jimi had always felt that this wasn't genuine and the whole thing was set-up by Jeffery to make Jimi dependent on him and send the message of Jeffery's power over him and what he was willing to do. In fact, Jimi told close friends that when he was still strapped in the chair the rescuers put Jeffery on the phone and he told Jimi that there were some very powerful people dependent on Jeffery being his manager and if he changed management he would be killed.
Well there you go. Most believe Jeffery was doing this just to keep his golden boy in his grasp. Others believe it was Jeffery's way of making sure he was able to pay-off his mafia loans. However, examining Jeffery's MI-5 background, and the money disappearing into some very sensitive CIA Bahamian banks, I believe Jeffery was referring to people much more powerful than some local mafioso. People capable of arranging the mid-air collision of two commercial jet aircraft as well as the lack of any serious investigation into Hendrix's death.
Jimi was waterboarded to death in combination with barbiturates several hours after telling his lawyer he was firing Jeffery. Not only was this uninvestigated by the British Government, but to this day we are told Jimi Hendrix was a casualty of 60's drug abuse and died from a self-induced drug overdose.
In the midst of this fiasco Jimi's friend at Salvation and manager Bobby Woods was murdered gangland style one night after Hendrix had visited him. Scuttlebutt said the mafia murdered Woods because they were worried he had talked too much about his cocaine dealing through the club, but I personally think he was murdered because they were worried he talked about their real intentions with Jimi - and to send a message of intimidation to Hendrix. It worked and Hendrix played the Salvation shortly after. Those present said it was a subdued show that Jimi wasn't into as much as he usually was.
It was during this period that Jimi was kidnapped out of the Salvation one night by some thugs who said Jeffery sent them to pick him up. When Jimi got in the limousine they then but knees into his back and took him to an unknown apartment. Jimi was tied into a chair and made to call his manager to sign over his contract to the kidnappers. This lasted more than a day. Hendrix said that Jeffery's boys showed-up suddenly at the apartment and the kidnappers ran-off. Later, upon recounting the incident, Jimi had always felt that this wasn't genuine and the whole thing was set-up by Jeffery to make Jimi dependent on him and send the message of Jeffery's power over him and what he was willing to do. In fact, Jimi told close friends that when he was still strapped in the chair the rescuers put Jeffery on the phone and he told Jimi that there were some very powerful people dependent on Jeffery being his manager and if he changed management he would be killed.
Well there you go. Most believe Jeffery was doing this just to keep his golden boy in his grasp. Others believe it was Jeffery's way of making sure he was able to pay-off his mafia loans. However, examining Jeffery's MI-5 background, and the money disappearing into some very sensitive CIA Bahamian banks, I believe Jeffery was referring to people much more powerful than some local mafioso. People capable of arranging the mid-air collision of two commercial jet aircraft as well as the lack of any serious investigation into Hendrix's death.
Jimi was waterboarded to death in combination with barbiturates several hours after telling his lawyer he was firing Jeffery. Not only was this uninvestigated by the British Government, but to this day we are told Jimi Hendrix was a casualty of 60's drug abuse and died from a self-induced drug overdose.