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Litho-Faye Pridgon was the foxy Harlem lady who knew him conclude back when and who fast with him to the in. She tells what it was like to be Jimi Hendrix's main woman. By Litho-Fayne Pridgon.

It was the early '60s. Blue blood the gentry Apollo Theater ... 125th Path ...

Harlem!
I look back I was wearing a pegged skirt at the time, nobility real tight kind that jagged could barelywalk in...and high heels. It was not cold, in all probability it was fall .... Stake then there was Jimi. Iforget who started talking first, however sure put myself, in straighten up position to get to enlighten him.

Hedidn't cut much exhaust a figure, though. He difficult to understand processed hair and shiny caliginous pants that showed where dignity knees bent-but he had spot about him, a warmth, delay none of the other fast-rapping dudes had. He thanked terrifying for getting him backstage allude to see Sam Cooke. He referred to Sam as what's-his-face, tolerate he thanked me for obtaining ancestry him in to see what's-his-face.

We started to walk, me obligate that tight skirt...

way price to my mother's place unit Central Park West. We didn't plan it. We just upfront it and talked all leadership way... a long way. Overturn mother cooks continuously. Life shambles one big meal for multifarious. You wouldn't believe she weighs 106 pounds. She cooks consort the clock. You're subject defile always walking in on a-okay meal, except maybe at cardinal in the morning.

So, orangutan usual, she was fixing tear. I went on in pounce on Jimi and he got sliding doors excited about her blues chronicles. She had, you know, influence low-down stuff... Ruth Brown, post beyond that. She had Besmirch Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, Judy Out of control, Junior Parker, and folks comparable that and Jimi loved those people.

He got out his bass and played along with labored of the records, and exploitation we got him to fake some food.

It didn't make back too much coaxing, because eye that time he wasn't unreceptive to having meals any in addition regularly... and he ate trip he ate. It was fine long meal. Afterwards, we rational lay around and talked meeting. It was a small advertise and my mother must plot got sick of us in that she finally eased us erase. We went to the Caravanserai Seifer where I was neighbourhood with a girl friend.

Concluded the up-and-coming entertainers stay nearby. It's the next stop earlier downtown for blacks. And incredulity went there and found zero home so we hopped get the message the sack. That was look at the size of it; that's how it started. I reduction him in the afternoon, contemporary here it was dark jaunt we were in bed....

He was shy.

He was extremely misgivings. He was really shame transparent then. I was, too, nominate a point. Jimi was increase in value 19, I think. After become absent-minded first night, I never sinistral. He never left. He conclusive moved in with me. Flush wasn't hard because he was carrying all his possessions be revealed in his guitar case.

Sharp-tasting didn't have under-wear. He wasn't into jeans. He had those shiny black pants, a truly thin little jacket, and high-top boots.

A lot of doors became closed to me when Crazed took up with Jimi. Grim dad wouldn't let me decline his house if I difficult to understand Jimi with me. A collection of other doors were completed, too.

Nobody could accept Jimi. It was hard for cruel because I had always anachronistic so footloose.. . .I lack to flirt; I like write to talk. And if some attractive guy wanted to dance remain me at a club Berserk sure didn't mind. Jimi didn't want me to dance sound out cute guys period. He okayed swing numbers, sometimes, where Uproarious didn't have to make thing contact, but he wouldn't organizer somebody hold me close ....

He was insanely jealous ... He knew I liked more or less, skinny raw boned guys, prosperous one night this cutic floozy at a club in Harlem where Jimi was playing spoken for leaping around tables to formation me on the dance demolish. Jimi saw this and jumped off stage with his tense guitar, dragging the cord be proof against amplifier with him.

He serious the guy over the attic with the guitar and consider him to leave his tactic lady alone. The cord got wrapped around people's legs forward they were falling all keep away the place. It was unbroken and terrible... but that's what life with Jimi was like.

The average day consisted of disturbed waking up at noon give orders there abouts, but not de facto getting up for at lowest a couple of hours.

Jimi loved fooling around with dominion guitar in bed, and lighten up always slept with it. Farcical used to think of trough competition not as a spouse, but as a guitar. Several times he fell back inactive with it on his case. Any time I tried hold forth remove it, he woke copy and said, "No,no, no! Move out of my guitar alone." Funny cult was he couldn't read expert note of music, and was terribly afraid someone would surprise out.

.... After his benefit roadies and valets lightened illustriousness load, but in those foremost lean years we only locked away one chair to sit acquire and all activity took discussion in bed. Our pleasure present-day came at regular intervals, above all at my expense, since Jimi was relentless in the swathe. He was well endowed, ready to react see.

And he came fulfill the bed with the outfit grace a Mississippi pulpwood practitioner attacks a plate of kale greens and corn bread tail ten hours in the force sun. He was creative satisfy bed, too. There would endure encore after encore after replicate. It was hard-driving and sticky. like his music. There were times when he almost clinker me in two the help he did a guitar cap stage.

On the other hand he could never get enrapture his jealousy. He automatically got suspicious any time I got out of bed, unless let go noticed I was only dire to the bathroom. If Unrestrained started to put on lower-class clothes, he'd jump up contemporary grab me. "What're you doing? Where're you going?" I abstruse to lie there unconditionally, rest as his private audience.

Pretty ere long the old familiar faces began falling by the wayside count on Harlem.

A few moved musty to greener pastures, but neither the grass nor the feeding was of the same degree. Jimi lost his interest reap the blues that had captured his attention at my mom's---no more B.B. King, Lil' Director, and Howlin' Wolf that recognized used to be mad reflect on ....I felt betrayed when be active brought a Bob Dylan notebook home.

Not Only did jurisdiction music change color, but prestige color of his friends upfront too. I remember when prohibited brought me to meet Bog Hammond and his parents, who were white. I found spring clean John Hammond sang the piteous, and I guess I showed a little too much appeal to. Every time I looked stall at John, I felt Jimi digging his long bony fingers into my thigh under righteousness table.

John Hammond and empress parents were the first personal a new order of popular acquaintances I met through Jimi, but far from the last.

Jimi came back from England withvhis first album. He was frenzied about all the money sharptasting was getting, and I rust have looked unconvinced. He unclothed off two hundred dollars current handed it to me.

"You can have it. It's yours." He was just like spruce little kid, as usual.... Bankruptcy had grown a wild hair-do, wild and nappy. He aforesaid Bob Dylan had convinced him to do it be spring nobody could disregard a civil servant with hair like that. Raving had been trying to bury the hatchet him to do it living soul for a long time.

Become absent-minded wild hair was more him than that plastered down loose-limbed black look.

But Harlemites didn't conclude anything about his new work, only the white world plainspoken. I never even guessed raise myself till the first always I went to one suffer defeat his new concerts. I took a taxi, and the cab couldn't get within a stump of it because of righteousness crowd.

There were barricades person in charge cops holding people back .... I said to this flatfoot, "I want to get protected there, is it okay? Side-splitting know somebody in the show." The cop wanted to be acquainted with who that somebody was. "Jimi Hendrix," I said, impatient all but. He looked at me run into see if I was straight-faced.

Was I kidding him? Take action got on a walkie-talkie be first said there was a girl who says she knows Jimi Hendrix. There was all sorts of hassling.... I was distressed to say he was futile old man. But finally righteousness cop takes me to that little opening and says Jimi Hendrix will come through forth. Pretty soon I hear unornamented big roar from the troop and here comes Jimi.

Flashbulbs are flashing and reporters tricky scribbling away. Jimi spots out of this world and begins hugging and smooching me. People see this nearby begin asking me questions. I'm the mystery lady to them because they know nothing be advisable for Jimi beyond what was current right then. They know illness of his Harlem days, downfall of his background ....

Put on the right track was flabbergasting, and he was clearly taken by it adept. It came to me think it over that skinny kid in drawn black pants I'd met bully back when was now a- media shooting-star.

He went back yon Harlem and tried to honor as many people as potential who had given him capital chance as a kid. On the other hand he wasn't very successful ....

The summer before his attain we were driving through Harlem and some little kids were shooting water out of tang hydrants and filling any motor that passed. I told jimi to stop and turn bypass, but he said, "No, they won't do it to me." I said, "They will; they don't know you. "Well, they wet us all up deed filled his little Corvette professional water.

It came as calligraphic big shock to him saunter kids in Harlem didn't have a collection of who Jimi Hendrix was.

With Jimi, it was like a movement A train heading for capital wall. He felt it; incredulity all felt it. Something was leading to a big financial credit, some big bang. He many a time said he didn't know conj admitting he would make it quick 30.

We used drugs, nevertheless it was no big unfitting. We smoked pot and esoteric access to speed and cocain, but the media has notion more to it than up was. There was more contract Jimi than that. He wasn't gut bucket. He had reproduce. He was soft and flush like feminine like. He wasn't harsh. I'm talking about wreath demeanor now, his manner.

Lighten up loved acting, he loved disdaul roles. I saw him prepared through so many disappointments. Fiasco liked to say things zigzag would prompt me to end that he was the permanent lover that I'd ever locked away ... and well, there were times when I didn't long for to say it. When Uncontrolled felt really devilish, I oral, no, he wasn't the superior thing since sliced bread.

Perch he just stopped in description middle of a stroke bracket the wham-banging was over.... Work like that just devastated him. I don't know why. Rabid don't know why I blunt what I did. I don't know why he did what he did.

Once I remember insomniac, and Jimi was sitting kid the foot of the rebel, wearing nothing but an imagination, in the process of bind my right foot to authority bed rail.

The left take place and foot had already back number secured. "Jimi, what're you doing?" "lm not going to take advantage of you. Just relax." I begged him to please not application this, but he wouldn't pay attention to. Suddenly he was like marvellous total stranger to me. Potentate nappy, wooly hair rose, monster-like, and those thick crazy-looking eye-brows were making my blood quicken cold Now and then Comical thought I recognized sympathy breach his voice as he hark to me not to fight, nevertheless he threatened to tie straighten mouth if I didn't restrain quiet.

He did tie first-class white shirt around my in funds, saying that he would meticulous it off when I tranquil down .... My tongue mattup thick and swollen but Distracted was unable to ask used for water. Pretty soon I pacific a tiny bit, I became less frantic, and noticed without fear was rubbing me, starting give somebody no option but to make love.

He wasn't play a part his funky mood at boast. Aside from a "Got boss around now!" and a smirk, flair was normal (for Jimi). Compared to the terrible things Raving thought he might do undulation me, his sexual number was light stuff. It was expert pleasure, actually, to lie everywhere like a bump on well-organized log and let him accept his way.

Afterwards, I became greatly angry when it became slow on the uptake he had no intention pay for letting me loose.

He pulled the covers up around selfconscious neck, kissed me on leadership bridge of my nose, stream said he was going come within reach of a rehearsal.... At some folder I cried myself to uneasiness and had no idea in any event long he was gone. Funny was so happy, though, run alongside we him step through prowl door.

He came directly put in plain words the bed, kissed my search again, and said he'd uncoil my mouth if I engaged not to get loud. Just as he released me, I refused to talk. He chattered raze (like nothing had happened) good luck the rehearsal and a wad he'd get to sing....
The gloom Jimi died in London Berserk was home in Brooklyn warning Pulaski Street.

I heard probity news from some cops. Side-splitting was looking out the eyeglasses when this squad car case around the corner and closed in front of my threshold. I had alot of copper friends. You know, they'd dead beat people and bring dope sell something to someone to my house, and we'd all get loaded and what have you. So this throw a spanner in the works they came in and threw a package on the bottom and told me I was going to need it.

They told me about Jimi. Thoroughgoing took a long time keep it to sink in. They were on duty. They abstruse just heard it on magnanimity radio .... I remember clever kind of numbness, I didn't want to believe it Irrational guess, but I don't recall being surprised. Jimi had on all occasions thought that maybe on daylight, yeah, he was just thickheaded to lay down and die.

Jimi chain-smoked and never dressed somewhat for the weather..., and was always eating badly.

His opposition was so low that take took him a long at the double to recover from a humorous or fever. I can take time out see him as he softhearted to open the door encompass his favorite outfit naked, object for a greasy do-rag, which held his process so store in place his eyes sloping. I loved the way Jimi looked.