Alice watched them all fall apart under the pressure of stardom.
Jimi, Jim, Janis, Keith..all of them killed themselves with booze and dope because they weren’t stable enough for sudden fame.
Booze makes people stupid.
Poor babies.
“Alice watched them all fall apart under the pressure of stardom.”
I’ve heard that Hendrix was really ripped up by having Buddy Miles and Billy Cox playing behind him because Mitchell and Redding were so much better. He got a lot of heat for that because they weren’t “keeping it real” enough for te militant black folks. He tried to get the Experience back together before he died, but it blew up. I think that it might be true. There was a lot of tension, for sure. I think it all revolved around his music getting pushed into places he might not have wanted it to go. Did he really want to funkify or go back to blues, try fusion, or what? We’ll never know, I guess.