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Hendrix​.​.​.​alive (Purple Haze, a slight return)

from Rocksteady Resurrection​.​.​.​AfroAlgonquin by Lee Mixashawn Rozie

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Recalling the time I saw Jimi Hendrix, while a straight jock in a racially charged un-intergrating Weaver High School. I liked to sing but was well on my way to pursing an athletic swimming path with no intention of being a musician. I was probably the only one in that audience not high, yet I was so transported I just was feeling strange and couldn't remember much of anything. I went back to my riding motorcycles (the way I play the saxophone now) and 2 weeks later I almost got killed...
It would seem at times the creator puts you through drastic changes forcing you to change up your shit.

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Did you hear that? I remember...I remember, I remember the first time I heard Jimi...
Alive at the Bushnell Memorial, Hartford Connecticut 1969
I didn't know who he was...but my siblings tell me to kiss the sky...
So here I am...will I ever forget this auditorium full of yuppies, in 1969
Yes here they are hundreds of carefully dressed hippie stylists...
and a splash of everyone else...
We take our seats and after a while you can hear this low electronic wave...I didn't even know what it was
But that was my first time hearing the acid guitar prophet...
Jimi Hendrix! Jimi Hendrix...Oh yeah Jimi...
the lights get low and those low waves at first never got very loud...
but you can hear every last note, as they pass thru everything ...and no one says a word
Just the sound of Jimi, alone on the stage as the curtains rise to reveal
the source of this mysterious musical power...
Bathed in a hazy green light, like some gothic figure
sent down from the heavens to transfigure us into another space
another place...on time...I am forever changed
Only I didn't realize it ...til about a year later, as I'm recovering
from a serious motorcycle accident...
But the prophet is gone...and the wave has already passed us by...

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from Rocksteady Resurrection​.​.​.​AfroAlgonquin, released March 21, 2022
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Lee Mixashawn Rozie Hartford, Connecticut

Lee Mixashawn Rozie is an Indigenous Jazz composer, author, practitioner of canoe culture and educator or simple put "Wave Artist"
You can find out more on my website
mixashawn.com

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