We are always very curious to know intimate aspects of rock stars. Those personal things that humanize and bring closer to music legends that marked a before and following in the sector. What they eat, what they do as soon as they wake up or what they like to spend their free time are just some of the countless questions we ask ourselves regarding these great rock icons.
Well, we are in luck because, a few days ago, the sister of one of the most important figures in the history of music made a couple of really interesting confessions regarding her brother’s personal life. We talked, nothing more and nothing less, than Jimi Hendrix.
And it is that, Janie Hendrix and the sound engineer Eddie Kramer participated in the event organized by Shaun Keaveny through Zoom on November 17. The session took place just 10 days before what would have been the iconic musician’s 80th birthday. In addition, this meeting served as the launch of a new Live album: ‘The Jimi Hendrix Experience Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969’. You can listen to it below:
As we say, Taking advantage of this presentation meeting, Jimi’s sister highlighted the “very quiet and shy” life of the star off stage. “When I came home, I didn’t have a guitar in my hand. I wanted to spend time with the family. We’d have those family forum discussions where we’d all sit in a circle in the living room and we wanted to ask Jimi a bunch of questions.”
“He called home all the time, but he didn’t always talk regarding what he was doing. He just wanted to know what everyone else was doing, because being on tour, he felt like he was missing birthdays, Christmases and various events.”
“He loved Monopoly”
The sister of the musical legend opened the doors to some of the family’s most intimate memories. Like, for example, family game nights. And it is that, as Janie revealed, to Jimi “he loved to play Monopoly”. A game with which the Hendrixes stayed up long nights without being able to stop playing.
“He wasn’t the one running around the house yelling and yelling or acting crazy or breaking things like you would on stage. It wasn’t like that. He was very shy and quiet and just wanted to hang out and talk and listen. He listened a lot, more than we wanted, because we wanted to hear him. This was his life outside of music: very quiet, shy and soft-spoken.“.
