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Even before I treated myself to a digital cutter, I knew I wanted to try glass etching. I'd heard it was really easy and I knew what I wanted to try as my first attempt. My husband and I belonged to a Bible study where each couple in the group took turns bringing either an entree, side dish, dessert, or soft drinks.
Every Wednesday, as we threw away paper plates and plastic cups, my stomach turned. I hated seeing all that trash week after week, so I proposed we buy reusable dinnerware. I offered to take up a collection and do the shopping myself.
I found a set of glasses for about $1 each. Problem is...in a group, you set down your Coca-Cola, walk away to get seconds, and then can't remember whose glass is whose.
So, I used my SIL's cutter (since I hadn't purchased my beloved Silhouette Cameo yet) to make a personalized stencil for each glass, one per group member.
I finished off the edges with masking tape to prevent any leakage from the etching cream.
I pressed firmly to make sure there were no bubbles in the stencils.
Then I gooped over each one with a nice, thick layer of glass etching cream and let it sit for 10-15 minutes. That's it!
Then, I rinsed off the cream, peeled off the stencils, and TA DA! Instant personalized glasses!
The group LOVED these and it made it so easy to keep track of our drinks!
Since then, I've done many more glass etching projects: mustache drinking glasses, a monogrammed 9x13 baking dish, picture frames, candy jars, flower vases, beer mugs, etc.
These may be simple projects, but their uniqueness makes a huge statement! Etched glass is perfect for weddings, showers, parties, and one-of-a-kind gifts.
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* 1 Overview
* 2 Pre-Installation
o 2.1 Checklist
* 3 WEP Crackin
o 3.1 Theory
o 3.2 Setting up your tools
o 3.3 Finding the Network
o 3.4 Capturing IVs
o 3.5 Using IVs to Decrypt the Key
o 3.6 Anticipated Problems
* 4 WPA Crackin
o 4.1 Differences
o 4.2 WPA Flavours
o 4.3 The Handshake
o 4.4 Dictionary Brute Force
* 5 Using Aireplay
o 5.1 WEP Attacks
+ 5.1.1 ARP Injection
+ 5.1.2 Interactive Packet Replay
+ 5.1.3 Fake Authentication Attack
o 5.2 WPA Attacks
+ 5.2.1 Deauthentication Attack
* 6 Conclusion
This is a good one, let me tell you! There can be so many issues setting up your box to actually get the tools working and i'm not even touching on that, but if you can get everything to work, you'll be cracking wireless networks like a pro in no time.
* Tools
o I've been really, really successful with basically one tool set called AirCrack http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/network/. Download that.
o Kismet <http://www.kismetwireless.net/> is an excellent tool for sniffing out wireless networks as well and could prove useful. An encrypted wireless network.
o We'll be working on WEP encrypted networks as well as static passkey WPA or WPA-PSK
/Note:/ Make sure you can get your card into monitor mode (sometimes called raw monitor or rfmon). *This is VERY important*
WEP Crackin
A little theory first. WEP is a really crappy and old encryption techinque to secure a wireless connection. A 3-byte vector, called an /Initalization Vector/ or /IV/, is prepended onto packets and its based on a pre-shared key that all the authenticated clients know... think of it as the network key you need to authenticate.
Well if its on (almost) /every/ packet generated by the client or AP, then if we collect enough of them, like a few hundred thousand, we should be able to dramatically reduce the keyspace to check and brute force becomes a realistic proposition.
A couple of things will cause us some problems.
* If the key is not static, then you'll mix up all your IVs and it'll take forever to decrypt the key.
* Theres no traffic, therefore no packets - we can fix this.
* MAC Address Filtering - we can fix this too.
Setting up your tools
We're gonna need 3 or 4 shells open, we have 5 tools:
* airodump - Grabbing IVs
* aircrack - Cracking the IVs
* airdecap - Decoding captured packets
* airreplay - (My Favourite) Packet injector to attack APs.
* kismet - Network Sniffer, can grab IVs as well.
For a standard WEP hack we'll usally only need airodump, aircrack, and kismet (server and client). If we run into some problems we might have to use airreplay to fiddle about.
I'll leave you to config all these tools up, for the most part they should just be defaults with the exception of kismet.
Finding the Network
First step is we need to find a netork to crack. Start up kismet and start sniffing for APs. Leave it on for a bit so that it can discover all the important information about the networks around. What we want from kismet is:
* Encryption type: Is it WEP 64-bit? 128-bit?
* What channel is it on? Can /greatly/ speed up IV collection.
* AP's IP Address
All this info isn't required but the more you have, the more options you have later to crack and sniff. We can get a lot of this from airodump as well but I find the /channel/ is important.
Capturing IVs
Alright, we know what we wanna crack, so lets start capturing packets. You can use kismet to capture files but I prefer airodump because it keeps a running count of all the IVs I've captured and I can crack and airodump will automatically update aircrack with new IVs as it finds them.
/Note:/ kimset can interfere with airodump so make sure you close it down before starting airodump.
Airodump is pretty straight forward with its command line looking something like this:
./airodump <interface> <output prefix> [channel] [IVs flag]
* interface is your wireless interface to use - required.
* output prefix is just the filname it'll prepend, - required.
* channel is the specific channel we'll scan, leave blank or use 0 to channel hop.
* IVs flag is either 0 or 1, depending on whether you want /all/ packets logged, or just IVs.
My wireless card is ath0, output prefix i'll use "lucid", the channel we sniffed from kismet is 6, and IVs flag is 1 because we just want IVs. So we run:
./airodump ath0 lucid 6 1
Airodump will come up with a graph showing us all the APs and their relevant info, as well as client stations connected to any of the APs.
BSSID PWR Beacons # Data CH MB ENC ESSID
00:23:1F:55:04:BC 76 21995 213416 6 54. WEP hackme
BSSID STATION PWR Packets Probes
00:23:1F:55:04:BC 00:12:5B:4C:23:27 112 8202 hackme
00:23:1F:55:04:BC 00:12:5B:DA:2F:6A 21 1721 hackme
The second line shows us some info about the AP as well as the number of beacons and data packets we've collected from the AP. The two last lines show us two authenticated clients. Where they are connected to and the packets they are sending. We won't use this client info in a straight theory hack but in practice we'll need this info to actively attack the AP.
This step may take a long time or could be very short. It depends how busy the AP is and how many IVs we are collecting. What we are doing is populating a file "lucid.ivs" with all the IV important packet info. Next, we'll feed this to aircrack. To move onto the next step, we'll want at least 100,000 packets (under # Data in airodump) but probably more.
Using IVs to Decrypt the Key
Ok, pretend you have enough IVs now to attempt a crack. Goto a new terminal (without stopping airodump - remember it'll autoupdate as new IVs are found) and we'll start aircrack. It looks something like this:
./aircrack [options] <input file>
There are a lot of options so you can look them up yourself, i'll be using common ones here that should get you a crack. Our input file is "lucid.ivs", the options we will use are:
* -a 1 : forces a WEP attack mode (2 forces WPA)
* either -b for the bssid or -e for the essid : whichever is easier to type but I like using a BSSID because its more unique.
* -n 64 or -n 128 : WEP key length, omit if not known by now.
So our command will look like:
./aircrack -a 1 -b 00:23:1F:55:04:BC -n 128 lucid.ivs
and off it goes, resembling the picture from the top. Keep an eye on the Unique IV count as it should increase if airodump is still running. For all intents and purposes you are done. That'll pop open most old wireless routers with some traffic on them.
Anticipated Problems
There are lots of problems that can come up that will make the above fail, or work very slowly.
* No traffic
o No traffic is being passed, therefore you can't capture any IVs.
o What we need to do is inject some special packets to trick the AP into broadcasting.
o Covered below in WEP Attacks <#WEP_Attacks>
* MAC Address filtering
o AP is only responding to connected clients. Probably because MAC address filtering is on.
o Using airodumps screen you can find the MAC address of authenticated users so just change your MAC to theirs and continue on.
o Using the -m option you can specify aircrack to filter packets by MAC Address, ex. -m 00:12:5B:4C:23:27
* Can't Crack even with tons of IVs
o Some of the statistical attacks can create false positives and lead you in the wrong direction.
o Try using -k N (where N=1..17) or -y to vary your attack method.
o Increase the fudge factor. By default it is at 2, by specifying -f N (where N>=2) will increase your chances of a crack, but take much longer. I find that doubling the previous fudge factor is a nice progression if you are having trouble.
* Still Nothing
o Find the AP by following the signal strength and ask the admin what the WEP key is.
WPA Crackin
WPA is an encryption algorithm that takes care of a lot of the vunerablities inherent in WEP. WEP is, by design, flawed. No matter how good or crappy, long or short, your WEP key is, it can be cracked. WPA is different. A WPA key /can/ be made good enough to make cracking it unfeasible. WPA is also a little more cracker friendly. By capturing the right type of packets, you can do your cracking offline. This means you only have to be near the AP for a matter of seconds to get what you need. Advantages and disadvantages.
WPA Flavours
WPA basically comes in two flavours RADIUS or PSK. PSK is crackable, RADIUS is not so much.
PSK uses a user defined password to initialize the TKIP, temporal key integrity protocol. There is a password and the user is involved, for the most part that means it is flawed. The TKIP is not really crackable as it is a per-packet key but upon the initialization of the TKIP, like during an authentication, we get the password (well the PMK anyways). A robust dictionary attack will take care of a lot of consumer passwords.
Radius involves physical transferring of the key and encrypted channels blah blah blah, look it up to learn more about it but 90% of commerical APs do not support it, it is more of an enterprise solution then a consumer one.
The Handshake
The WPA handshake was designed to occur over insecure channels and in plaintext so the password is not actually sent across. There are some fancy dancy algorithms in the background that turn it into a primary master key, PMK, and the like but none of that really matters cause the PMK is enough to connect to the network.
The only step we need to do is capture a full authenication handshake from a real client and the AP. This can prove tricky without some packet injection, but if you are lucky to capture a *full* handshake, then you can leave and do the rest of the cracking at home.
We can force an authenication handshake by launching a Deauthentication Attack <#Deauthentication_Attack>, but *only* if there is a real client already connected (you can tell in airodump). If there are no connected clients, you're outta luck.
Like for WEP, we want to know the channel the WPA is sitting on, but the airodump command is slightly different. We don't want just IVs so we don't specify an IV flag. This will produce "lucid.cap" instead of "lucid.ivs". Assume WPA is on channel 6 and wireless interface is ath0.
./airodump ath0 lucid 6
Dictionary Brute Force
The most important part of brute forcing a WPA password is a good dictionary. Check out http://www.openwall.com/wordlists/ for a '*really'* good one. It costs money, but its the biggest and best I've ever seen (40 Million words, no duplicates, one .txt file). There is also a free reduced version from the same site but i'm sure resourceful people can figure out where to get a good dictionary from.
When you have a good dictionary the crack is a simple brute force attack:
./aircrack -a 2 -b 00:23:1F:55:04:BC -w /path/to/wordlist
Either you'll get it or you won't... depends on the strength of the password and if a dictionary attack can crack it.
Using Aireplay
Aireplay is the fun part. You get to manipulate packets to trick the network into giving you what you want.
WEP Attacks
Attacks used to create more traffic on WEP networks to get more IVs.
ARP Injection
ARP Replay is a classic way of getting more IV traffic from the AP. It is the turtle. Slow but steady and almost always works. We need the BSSID of the AP and the BSSID of an associated client. If there are no clients connected, it is possible to create one with /another/ WEP attack explained below: Fake Authentication Attack
With airodump listening, we attack:
./aireplay -3 -b <AP MAC Address> -h <Client MAC Address> ath0
/Note:/ The -3 specifys the type of attack (3=ARP Replay).
This will continue to run, and airodump, listening fron another terminal, will pick up any reply IVs.
Interactive Packet Replay
Interactive Packet Reply is quite a bit more advanced and requires capturing packets and constructing your own. It can prove more effective then simple ARP requests but I won't get into packet construction here.
A useful attack you might try is the re-send all data attack, basically you are asking the AP to re-send you everything. This only works if the AP re-encrypts the packets before sending them again (and therefore giving you a new IV). Some APs do, some don't.
aireplay -2 -b <AP MAC> -h <Client MAC> -n 100 -p 0841 -c FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ath0
Fake Authentication Attack
This attack won't generate any more traffic but it does create an associative client MAC Address useful for the above two attacks. Its definately not as good as having a real, connected client, but you gots to do what you gots to do.
This is done easiest with another machine because we need a new MAC address but if you can manually change your MAC then that'll work too. We'll call your new MAC address "Fake MAC".
Now most APs need clients to reassociate every 30 seconds or so or they think they're disconnected. This is pretty arbitrary but I use it and it has worked but if your Fake MAC gets disconnected, reassociate quicker. We need *both* the essid and bssid and our Fake MAC.
./aireplay -1 30 -e '<ESSID>' -a <BSSID> -h <Fake MAC> ath0
If successful, you should see something like this:
23:47:29 Sending Authentication Request
23:47:29 Authentication successful
23:47:30 Sending Association Request
23:47:30 Association successful :-)
Awesome! Now you can use the above two attacks even though there were no clients connected in the first place! If it fails, there may be MAC Address Filtering on so if you really want to use this, you'll have to sniff around until a client provides you with a registered MAC to fake.
WPA Attacks
So far, the only way to really crack WPA is to force a re-authentication of a /valid/ client. We need a real, actively connected client to break WPA. You might have to wait a while.
Deauthentication Attack
This is a simple and very effective attack. We just force the connected client to disconnect then we capture the re-connect and authentication, saves time so we don't have to wait for the client to do it themselves (a tad less "waiting outside in the car" creepiness as well). With airodump running in another console, your attack will look something like this:
aireplay -0 5 -a <AP MAC> -c <Client MAC> ath0
After a few seconds the re-authentication should be complete and we can attempt to Dictionary Brute Force <#Dictionary_Brute_Force> the PMK.
Well thats that. APs crack fairly often but sometimes there is just nothing you can do. /Obviously/ you are not allowed to illegally crack other people's wireless connections, this is purely for penetration testing purposes and some fun.
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Nice List, but I'll start, and let you know if I run into to trouble
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cn u sent me the web sites for download the wireless cracking tools, i dun noe whr 2 dwonload?
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Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman, known collectively as the "Interfaith Amigos," have been learning and teaching together since 2001. They blog weekly for YES! Magazine.
The current flap over the proposed Islamic center-cum-mosque in New York City offers a good opportunity to reflect on the nature and purpose of places of worship, and to explore the importance of mosque in Islamic spirituality.
Mosques (or masjids, as they are called in Arabic) come in many sizes and styles, from the humblest storefront prayer room in a shopping mall to the gleaming Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. I have been privileged to spend time in the sacred spaces of many mosques in Muslim countries, including the awe-inspiring grand mosque in Mecca. But the house of worship that abides and resonates in my heart is one that I have never physically visited: the little mosque in Medina. This worship space was painstakingly built by the Prophet Muhammad and his community after his hijra, or migration, in the 7th century c.e., from the hostile environment of Mecca to Medina. For me, that space represents the heart of Islam and many of my favorite lessons:
Bow in adoration
The location of this little mosque, adjoining the Prophet's living quarters, offers a profound lesson about how to live a fulfilling life: We must devote equal attention to both the visible and invisible worlds. It is critical that we participate fully in the bazaar of life and discharge our earthly responsibilities. This work is essential and sacred. But the visible world is, in Rumi's words, "a place of more or less, a place of expenditure," and we must also tend to our spiritual enrichment by working equally hard in the invisible world, which Rumi calls "a place of income." Thus, while the Quran offers many teachings about how to live responsibly in the visible world, it also tells us to "Bow in adoration and draw closer" (96:19)—clearly an invitation to enter the sacred space of the invisible world in a very physical way. A traditional saying reminds us of the beauty of body prayers: "One prostration of prayer to God frees you from a thousand prostrations to your ego."
This ritual body prayer is derived from the celebrated epiphany of the Prophet, called the Night Journey. Rapt in meditation one late evening, he found himself in an exquisite vision being transported horizontally from Mecca to Jerusalem and then vertically through the seven levels of heaven. As the Prophet ascended the levels, he was dazzled by the sight of myriad angels bowing and prostrating to God, while from their lips poured words of praise and thanksgiving. Muhammad saw this as a sign that prayer must consist essentially of praising God and expressing gratitude and that we, like the angels, must use the gift of our bodies to express our adoration.
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Respect across faiths
In the little mosque in Medina, the Prophet received many delegations of Jews and Christians for conversations and negotiations that sometimes were lengthy and extended into their service times. At those times the Prophet begged his guests to perform their Shabbat and Sunday services in the mosque for "it is simply a place consecrated to God." Thus, in the seventh century the Prophet established a model for interfaith dialogue and celebration. Today in the twenty-first century, we Muslims need to ask ourselves honestly how many mosques follow the Prophet's model. Do we open our doors to people of other faiths so that they can pray in a place that is "simply consecrated to God"? May we take to heart the utterance of the Prophet: "The character of a Wali (friend of God) is based on nothing more than graciousness and generosity."
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One of the things that touches me deeply about the mosque in Medina is that in the early years of Islam, women had a role in the religious life of the community that was unusual at that time—and in this. In the seventh century women helped build the first mosque in Medina. They performed the call to prayer, prayed alongside men, and sometimes led the ritual prayer. A woman, Umm Waarqabint Abdullah, was especially trained by the Prophet himself to act as prayer leader for her whole tribe throughout her life.
Today, women in mosques, with notable exceptions, are often relegated to separate and inferior spaces, and not allowed to pray in the main sanctuary. What is astonishing is that all these traditions of secluding women have arisen from male medieval consensus. It is incumbent on us Muslims to reflect on the role of women in the first mosque in the Islamic world and take inspiration and guidance from that example. The Quran says: "For men and women who surrender themselves to God….and for men and women who remember God unceasingly, for them God has readied forgiveness and a supreme recompense" (33:35).
It is not easy for men in patriarchal societies to renounce their supposed superiority over women. In a telling story about the eighth-century mystic Rabia, one of the most beloved female saints of Islam, several men confronted her and boasted, "The crown of Prophethood has been placed on men's heads. The belt of nobility has been fastened around men's waists. No woman has ever been a prophet." "Ah," Rabia replied, "but egoism and self worship and 'I am your Lord most high' has never sprung from a woman's breast. All these have been the specialty of men."
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A Houston law firm filed a third civil lawsuit Wednesday against Stanley Marsh 3, alleging he paid teenage boys increasing sums of cash for sex acts depending on what type of sex the Amarillo millionaire requested and his generosity at the time.
The suit, filed Wednesday in 108th District Court on behalf of two plaintiffs identified only as John Doe 3 and John Doe 4, names Marsh 3, SM3 LLC, a limited liability company; Barb Wire LP, a Marsh-owned business; Marsh 3's wife and guardian Gwendolyn "Wendy" O'Brien Marsh; David Weir, a Marsh associate; Marsh 3's son, Stanley Marsh IV; Amarillo Protective Services LLC, which provides security for the Chase Tower; and McCartt & Associates, which manages the Chase Tower, as defendants. The suit, filed by Houston attorney Anthony Buzbee, said the teens were both 16 at the time.
The lawsuit marks the third civil suit filed against Marsh 3 in a week.
Kelly Utsinger, an attorney representing the Marshes and Weir, said Wednesday he had not yet seen the latest lawsuit.
"I haven't seen a copy of the pleadings yet so I'm not sure how to respond to your inquiries," he said.
The lawsuit alleges Marsh 3 first paid the 16-year-olds money to undress in front of him in meetings at his downtown Chase Tower office.
Over time, the suit further alleges the teens had more meetings with Marsh 3 that involved oral sex, watching pornographic movies, masturbation and other sex acts.
The suit also claims two other teens made sworn statements detailing Marsh 3's activities to "local" police this summer, but no action has been taken.
"When the two complainants recently called the police department to obtain copies of their sworn statements, they were told there is no record of such statements, and no incident report existed," the suit said.
Sgt. Brent Barbee, a spokesman for the Amarillo Police Department, said state law prevents the department from releasing specific information until a criminal complaint is filed.
"State law protecting both the accused and victims prevents us from even confirming or denying any allegations unless a criminal complaint is filed or an arrest is made. There is no way to legally provide any information on that," he said Wednesday when asked about the lawsuit.
Attempts to reach Amarillo Protective Services and McCartt & Associates for comment Wednesday were unsuccessful.
Buzbee said Wednesday he has collected various pictures and documents - "just a wealth of information" and that more information developed after the first lawsuit was filed.
"I'm just really shocked at how long something can continue like this."
The suit also said another 17-year-old threatened to report Marsh 3 to the police and that Weir called a group meeting of teen boys in Marsh 3's "troupe."
The lawsuit further claims that Marsh 3 offered to pay each of the boys $1,400 per month until each reached the age of 18, but that only one of the teens accepted Marsh3's offer. The rest of the boys chose to continue accepting money for various sexual favors instead of accepting a set monthly amount, the suit said.
The suit said Marsh 3's sexual activities followed a "familiar and progressive pattern."
"With each progressive step, the amount paid by Marsh 3 to the boy grows," the suit said.
Another suit, filed Monday on behalf of a plaintiff identified only as John Doe 2, names Marsh 3, SM3 LLC, a limited liability company; Barb Wire LP, a Marsh-owned business; Marsh 3's wife and guardian Gwendolyn "Wendy" O'Brien Marsh; David Weir, a Marsh associate; Marsh 3's son, Stanley Marsh IV; Amarillo Protective Services LLC, which provides security for the Chase Tower; and McCartt & Associates, which manages the Chase Tower, as defendants.
The suit said Marsh 3 paid Doe 2, a black teen, for various sex acts at Marsh 3's Chase Tower office and in one instance at Marsh 3's Toad Hall residence at 801 N. Western St.
The lawsuit alleges Marsh 3 paid the teen a sum of money to masturbate in front of the Amarillo millionaire and watch pornographic movies.
Marsh 3, the suit said, knew the teen was 16 at the time and alleges Marsh 3 made Doe 2 take Viagra so he "could sexually perform at Marsh 3's whim."
The suit further claims that at least one sexual session with John Doe 2 occurred at the Marsh 3 family home, the suit said, and Marsh 3's wife showed the teen into a bedroom, where Marsh 3 was waiting for him.
Last week, an Amarillo woman sued Marsh 3 in Potter County, alleging the Amarillo millionaire gave her teenage son cash, vehicles and drugs to engage in sexual acts with Marsh 3 at his downtown Amarillo office.
The suit said another of Marsh 3's alleged victims reported the abuse to Amarillo police this summer.
Police, the suit said, contacted John Doe 2, who reported "Marsh 3's abuse of him as well."
The suit claims Marsh 3 targeted young men who abused drugs and alcohol and who were known to have had troubles with law enforcement.
The suit seeks unspecified damages from the defendants and alleges Marsh 3 knowingly committed sexual abuse and sexual battery on the teen over the course of a year and that Marsh 3 caused severe emotional distress to the teen.
The suit further alleges SM3, Barb Wire, Weir, Marsh IV, Amarillo Protective Services and McCartt & Associates breached a duty of ordinary care by failing to prevent the abuse.
In a suit filed Oct. 24, another Amarillo teen's mother alleged that in 2010 and 2011, the 74-year-old Marsh 3 performed sex acts on the teen, then 15 and 16, and engaged in various sexual acts with him in Marsh 3's Chase Tower office.
In November 2011, a judge granted Wendy Marsh guardianship of her husband after he was hospitalized in Dallas and suffered a series of strokes during a six-week period.
An Amarillo native and millionaire, Marsh 3 gained national attention for burying 10 Cadillacs just west of the city limits in 1974 to prove the theory that the best art is unexpected art.
Members of Marsh 3's Dynamite Museum have created hundreds of faux street signs emblazoned with whimsical phrases or commentary.
He also previously owned KVII television station.
Marsh 3 has faced legal action before:
� In 1996, three indictments charged Marsh 3 with indecency with a child / sexual contact. Those criminal charges eventually were dismissed.
� In 1996, a youth claiming to be a victim of sexual contact of Marsh 3, agreed to drop a civil suit after Marsh 3 paid him money to do so, Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin said then. Marsh 3 admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement, his attorney said.
� In 1998, Marsh 3 paid a $4,000 fine and served community service after pleading no contest to misdemeanor criminal charges of unlawful restraint and criminal trespass after he was accused of putting Benjamin "Ben" Burkhart Whittenburg, a former Amarillo resident who was a teen when the event occurred and a member of a prominent Amarillo family, in a chicken coop for allegedly stealing one of the art signs.
� In 2001, parties involved in four civil lawsuits, including allegations stemming from the Whittenburg case, agreed to settle the cases. The allegations in those civil cases included imprisonment, sexual misconduct and harassment of teens. Marsh 3 apologized, but no other details were made public.


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Caroline Lee Bouvier, here with her older sister Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. While Jackie looked exactly like her namesake and father John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier, III, her baby sister Lee resembled her mother Janet Norton Lee Bouvier Auchincloss. Both girls possess stunningly wide set eyes that are the basis for their great beauty.
This month, Elle Decor magazine features the two cosmopolitan apartments of Lee Radziwill, baby sister to one of the world's most famous woman, Jacqueline Onassis. Radziwill's two flats, one in New York and the other in Paris, were a surprise. Pretty and ultra feminine with touches of pink and walls of toile, the homes seem almost simple compared to the Renzo Mongiardino masterpieces Radziwill once lived in. Now in her 70s and single, Radziwill leads a quiet life escaping to Paris when the stresses of New York get too much. Paris' blooming chestnut trees are another irresistible attraction. The 90s were particularly cruel to Radziwill, when, first she lost her sister to cancer, and then her nephew John Kennedy and his wife died in a plane crash just three weeks before Radziwill's son Anthony also succumbed to cancer. And if that wasn't enough, her marriage to director Herbert Ross ended in divorce shortly before he too died in 2001. In the face of all these losses, how did Radziwill respond? She wrote a book, part-diary, part-scrapbook, called Happy Times where she reminisces about all the wonderful, great family events – the vacations, the holidays – her family had shared. There is not one negative word in the memoir, no back-stabbing, no settling of scores. Instead the book is written with grace and class and shows a great strength.
Four years younger than Jackie, Lee writes that she was attracted to the sea, while Jackie, the athletic one, was attracted to horses. They both attended boarding school and after Lee graduated, the two girls went off to Europe together, the first of many great adventures they would share. Jackie of course married the future president John Kennedy while Lee entered into a short marriage that ended in divorce a few years later. In defense of her early ill-fated match, Radziwill says girls married young back then just to get their own apartment, something their mothers would never allow them to do while still single. When time came to marry her second husband, the older, debonair Polish prince, Stanislaw Radziwill, they both obtained annulments for their first marriage, though the Prince was actually on his second! Two children soon followed, a boy Anthony and a girl Christina who perfectly matched their first cousins Caroline and John Kennedy. Caroline was, in fact, named for her aunt – Caroline Lee Bouvier Radziwill - who in turn was named for her great-grandmother, Caroline Ewing Bouvier. The four cousins - Caroline and John and Anthony and Tina - became life-long best friends, just as their mothers were. When Jackie became First Lady, her most trusted confidant was her sister, and together they traveled on both state visits and private vacations.
No. 4 Buckingham Place, the London townhouse of Lee and Stas Radziwill
The Radziwills had two homes in England, one, shown here was at No. 4 Buckingham Place, a stone's throw from where the Queen lived. Jackie sought refuge in England from the press and here she is seen leaving for lunch with Queen Elizabeth – ironically with the press in hot pursuit. The Radziwills' other house in the country afforded the family more privacy. Both houses were decorated by Renzo Mongiardino who is considered by those in the business as one of the finest interior designers who ever lived. A brilliant man, romantic and well versed in history, his career started in set design. After Mongiardino worked his magic for the Radziwills, their two houses were thought by many to be the two prettiest in England. Radziwill has been quoted as saying she had Mongiardino at "his best." Now deceased, Mongiardino's influence can still be seen in work created by today's designers.
The great British photographer Cecil Beaton – a close friend of Lee's took this picture of her in the early 60's at her London home.
Rare pictures of the First Lady in London after she and her sister visited India. On her left is her courtier Oleg Cassini hamming it up with medals she brought back from the trip. These photos are purported to have been taken in Radziwill's London home, pre Renzo. Since this is 1961, this may show how the Radziwills lived while waiting for the new decor which was installed in 1965. Looking closely at the fireplace above, it does seem to match the fireplace in the Mongiardino drawing room. Interesting to imagine that this rather bland French room is the same space as the spectacular Renzo ' Turquerie Room.'
The First Lady and Cecil Beaton, the photographer.
Princess Lee Radziwill on the left, and the First Lady – learning how to do the twist!
In London, at #4 Buckingham Place – the famous drawing room by Renzo . He used yards and yards of hand-blocked cotton fabric from India. The room became synonymous with Renzo, and those who could, created their own version of the Turkish Room.
Lee Radziwill in the 'Turquerie Room' of her London home, leaning over a stone lion's head statue.
This picture could hold a clue to where the "Turquerie Room" idea really came from. This is a picture of Jackie Kennedy in her Georgetown house before she was First Lady. Her day bed is awfully similar to what her younger sister created five years later.
Besides the London house, Lee and Stas shared a country home, Turville, a 17th century Queen Anne in Oxfordshire. Here is a picture of the cobblestone courtyard around which all the buildings faced, creating its own picturesque village. The buildings seen are actually guest houses - the main house is not really visible here. At the center of the courtyard was a large beech tree with a bench around it for mounting horses. Off to the side of the courtyard was a tennis court and there was both a kitchen and rose garden that was hidden behind peach walls. The walkways were lined with espaliered pear trees that were heavenly when they bloomed in the spring. There was another building, an indoor pool house which was built to resemble the underside of a boat. The story of this house fascinates me and I wish there was a book that documented it, all the changes and additions, and all the outbuildings. But, alas, there wasn't a market for such stories back in the 60s. The designer John Stefanidis lived in a country house, Cock Crow, that looked very similar to this – outbuildings that connected around a main house and a courtyard. Thankfully, he DID document the creation of his country house in the book Living Through Design, which remains one of my all time favorite design books. An interesting factoid, both Radziwill's and Stefanidis' country houses had a ha-ha. I'm not entirely sure what a ha-ha is – some kind of landscaping boundary, but whatever a "ha-ha" is they both share it!!!
Renzo Mongiardino was the designer for Turville and the dining room is considered the most spectacular room in the house. In the New York Times, Radziwill describes the room: ''On the walls, Mongiardino applied Sicilian scarves printed with flowers on a background of blue. Then, over the scarves, his friend Lila de Nobili painted more flowers and, in oval shapes, portraits of Christina and her favorite animals, which included a lot of birds, and for Anthony's portrait there were dogs and horses. It sounds cute, but it wasn't. It had lots of atmosphere. I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal. I thought this was magical. Lila de Nobili thought the room had a very Turgenev feeling.''
Close up of Lila de Nobili's paintings over the scarves.
The entrance hall to Turville had a wonderful fireplace. Radziwill wanted a house filled with flowers and Mongiardino obliged with walls lined with floral fabrics and paper.
The room between the living room and library was another floral filled space that housed birds and parrots.
Another view of the bird room with a wonderful set of botanicals that moved with Radziwill throughout the years. What an arrangement of flowers! I wonder if they always had flowers like this in the house or were they brought in just for the photographer?
The interior designer Mark Hampton created this water color of Lee's Mongiardino-designed bedroom at Turville. The accuracy is almost like a photograph. Notice the painted floor – this pattern shows up again in different houses of Radziwill.
For Christmas one year the children got a old gypsy caravan – something that many upper crust English country houses shared.
One constant in Lee Radziwill's life is her love of animals, dogs especially. She says she has never not had a dog. Here, a photo, probably taken in Turville shows her pug and cats.
And a closeup of the urn on the 50 acre property.
At Turville in the early 70s near the end of the Radziwills marriage. Notice at the end of the vista is the urn, barely visible.
One summer the Radziwills rented a villa in Italy and the then First Lady came to visit for awhile. Here the two sisters casually sunbathe, both smoking cigarettes. Jackie was a chain smoker, something she tried desperately to hide from the public. I've often wondered if her problems giving birth to children (the miscarriages and stillbirths) were somehow related to her smoking. What a different era it was back then! Imagine today a First Lady summering in Italy without her husband.
When the First Lady went on an official visit to India and Pakistan – she asked her sister Lee to accompany her. Their clothing was a hit of the tour – many of the dresses Oleg Cassini created for the visit ended up in the collection of dresses shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2001. Here, the two are dressed in pink while riding a camel.
Long white leather gloves while riding an elephant are quite an accessory!
Here they both chose a shade of peach and three strands of pearls. How gorgeous are they? Jackie – with white leather gloves looks like a model! Soooo pretty!! No wonder generations of women everywhere admired her sense of style.
Times Change: After the death of JFK, Jackie lived in this house in Georgetown for a short period of time. Here she and Lee leave after touring it with interior designer great Billy Baldwin. Baldwin had been hired to design this house and another house in hunt country Virginia where the Kennedys planned to retire. After the assassination the Virginia house was quickly sold and this Georgetown house was barely lived in. Instead, Jackie bought a penthouse in New York where she lived until the day she died, in her beloved apartment – as her son John said at that time:
"My mother died surrounded by her friends and her family and her books, and the people and the things that she loved. She did it in her own way, and on her own terms, and we all feel lucky for that."
After Jackie moved to New York, Bobby Kennedy approached Stas about him allowing Lee Radziwill to move with the children to New York to keep Jackie company. Stas hated New York, but apparently Bobby was persuasive and the Radziwills took an apartment in NYC on Fifth Avenue. Eventually, the children even went to school in America, not London. Lee called on Mongiardino to help her decorate the apartment – but it is not clear whether he was THE designer, or she was. He suggested the vivid red theme, large Bessarabian carpet and lettuce green taffeta curtains – which unfortunately do not show up good in these pictures. The beautiful mirror above the fireplace mantel remains with Lee today and is in her present NYC apartment. The drawing room was very large and at the center were two sofas, back to back. Notice the painted red and black crown molding and baseboards. The bouillotte lamps show up in Radziwill's current NYC apartment.
The room was punctuated with black accents – such as this gorgeous chest. Here you can see the two sofas – Lee put a piece of textile over the backs of the sofas.
Radziwill says that she likes to start designing a room by getting the rug first. Here, the Bessarabian rug that Renzo Mongiardino chose for the penthouse.
The dining room with silk moiré walls and a charming painting. The table and chairs are both Regency.
The library, with the silk velvet tiger upholstery. I wish these pictures were better so we could see the actual colors. The round medallion paintings show up again in Radziwill's current apartment.
The master bedroom is a complete departure in this apartment – she wanted it to have a lighter feel. Notice the floor pattern is the same as it was in her country home in England. Painted floors like this are having something of a resurgence today. Recently, Mary McDonald painted the floors in her Los Angeles house in a similar graphic manner. Radziwill's bedroom is more country French than the Regency inspired public areas of the apartment.
Throughout the years, Radziwill has worked at many different jobs. She was briefly an actress, she worked in public relations for Armani, and in 1972 she and her best friend Truman Capote toured with the Rolling Stones. Here, pictured in her bedroom, in 1976, she announced she was an interior design consultant, working out of her Fifth Avenue duplex.
Happy Times: 1966, Lee and Truman Capote at his famous White and Black Party. The two were best friends for years, though at the end of his life, they were no long speaking. Other great friends included Andy Warhol and his gang and the ballet sensation Rudolf Nureyev who actually lived with the Radziwills for a time.
SAD TIMES: Stanislaw Radziwill and his wife Lee, seen traveling to America in 1968, for the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy. Earlier that same year, Jackie had married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, a move which shocked most Americans. In truth, insiders knew that the two sisters had been connected with Onassis for quite some time. In several books, it was alleged that Lee was the sister most intimate with Onassis. After the death of her newborn son Patrick, Jackie – at Lee's urging – joined her and Onassis on a cruise around the Greek isles. The cruise started just a few weeks after the tragedy of Patrick's death and it was then that Onassis shifted his gaze from Lee to her older sister Jackie. Once the cruise was over and she returned back to Washington, Jackie did not appear at a public function until a few months later in November – on that fateful trip to Dallas. Four years later, she and Onassis were married. Onassis, a victim of much family tragedy too, died seven years later, and some say, it was just before he was planning on divorcing Jackie. She never remarried, but did spend the last years of her life in a committed relationship with Maurice Tempelsman, which many say was the first mutually respectful relationship she had experienced.
Lee's marriage to Stas officially ended in 1974. Later that year, she almost married again, but left her groom at the altar, 5 minutes before the ceremony. Throughout the years, Lee had suitors – a long standing one was Peter Beard, the handsome photographer. After her divorce from Stas, Lee left the Fifth Avenue duplex for this smaller Park Avenue apartment. The ambiance of the two apartments could not have been different – Lee said that the Park Avenue apartment reminded her of Turville, with its sunny terraces and flower drenched rooms. Her children were now grown and she says that she missed them terribly.
Much of the furniture from the Fifth Avenue apartment made its way to Park Avenue. Here the same dining room table and chairs look completely different in the sunny apartment. The gorgeous botanicals are seen again, hanging here.
In 1998, Lee takes her third husband, the handsome widower and prolific movie director Hebert Ross (Funny Girl, Steel Magnolias, The Turning Point). Here the happy couple arrive at Jackie's apartment for their wedding reception. Not too long after, tragedy starts to strike again and again.
Lee, shown at Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis' funeral – in 1994.
Five years later – these two little boys, who were more like brothers than cousins would both be gone. John Kennedy Jr and his wife Carolyn and her sister were killed in a plane crash. What the world didn't know was that Lee's son Anthony was in the last stages of terminal cancer. Three short weeks later, he too would be gone.
Lee and her husband Herb Ross at John and Carolyn's funeral. Three weeks later, her son would die too. The two couples, John and Carolyn and Anthony and his wife Carole were all the best of friends. After the tragedies, Carole Radziwill was left alone having lost her three best friends. A few years later, she wrote the book "What Remains" a heartbreaking tale of their four lives. The book portrayed Lee as a thoughtful and loving mother who handled adversity with grace and strength. In 2001, she and Ross divorced shortly before Ross himself unexpectedly died.
Today, Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross is a beautiful woman, devoted to her daughter Tina and her niece Caroline and her dogs! She divides her time between Paris and New York.
Elle Decor recently published her two apartments: in Paris, she lives in a small flat bathed in sunlight. The apartment is filled with white and touches of pink. The sofa is a early Christian Liaigre and the two commodes are steel. Simple seagrass covers the wood floors which are not stained and were left unfinished, so that they feel "sandy."
The other side of the drawing room is awash in pinks, flowers, and books. The traveling botanicals, a gift from the Duke of Beaufort, have made their way back across the Atlantic to Paris. Aren't they stunning?
The library is beautiful, completely upholstered in Le Manach fabric! Fabulous!!!! The photograph of the giraffe is by Peter Beard. Apparently her bedroom in NYC is also completely upholstered in the same Le Manach fabric.
The bedroom is simply furnished, her books become the focal point. The walls give off a soft pink glow, but the blanket really ties the apartment all together.
Not from the Elle Decor shoot, this photograph is of her Paris apartment bedroom where her desk is.
In New York, all the red and fancy interior design has been toned down. The living area is calm, white, and classic. The antiques are superb, the French chair next to the fireplace is signed Jacob. Recognize the mirror, the black tole bouillotte lamps, the Bessarabian rug?
The dining room is fabriced in reds and pink, slightly like the original Renzo Turkish living room in London. The chairs are 19th century and the fabric is an Italian silk. The picture next to the window came from the library on Fifth Avenue. The pinks ties the New York apartment to the Paris one – making the transition easier.
The sitting room is a stunner in pink and white stripes by Rubelli. The day bed was designed by Radziwill. Notice the beautiful tufted chair by the window and the sumptuous curtains. Gorgeous!
The New York library is, like in Paris, completely done in a Le Manach toile. Notice the book – Nureyev! The settee is antique Swedish.
Recognize the small chair next to the desk? It was in Radziwill's Fifth Avenue coop's bedroom.
Today, what occupies Radziwill's free time? She is taking watercolor lessons. Examples of her work, above, are placed throughout her apartment.
Happy Times, her short and sweet memoir, half scrapbook, half biography. In it, Radziwill remembers only the good times. She has a remarkable ability to be a positive person, to focus on the good, not the sad, then she moves on and keeps going. The book has not one negative word about anyone or anything that she has had to endure throughout her life. It's a fun, easy read, full of pictures of the happy times from her life. Available here.
What Remains by Radziwill's daughter in law, Carole Radziwill recalls the events leading up the summer of 1999 when her three best friends all left this earth within a few short weeks of each other. Tragic and unbelievably sad, it is very well written - surprisingly so for a first time author. It's a quick, short read, and one that I HIGHLY recommend. Available here.
And finally, interior designer John Stefanidis' account of the rebuilding of his country estate in England. Something about his property reminds me of Turville. Living by Design available here.


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【転載】Jimi Hendrix: 1942-1970
Jimi Hendrix: 1942-1970
Remembering the life and music of the guitarist after his untimely death
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Jimi HENDRIX, performing live onstage in England on February 24th, 1969.
The exact nature of the death is still vague, and a coroner's inquest is to be held in London September 30th. Police, however, say it was a drug overdose. They say he took nine sleeping pills and died of suffocation through vomit.
According to Eric Burdon [The Animals, War], Hendrix left behind for the girlfriend in whose apartment he died what Burdon called a "suicide note" which was a poem several pages in length. The poem is now in the possession of Burdon, the last musician with whom Hendrix played before he died.
Said Burdon: "The poem just says the things Hendrix has always been saying, but to which nobody ever listened. It was a note of goodbye and a note of hello. I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to."
Burdon went on BBC television September 21st – three days after Hendrix's death – to say Jimi "killed himself." He made no mention then of the poem he told Rolling Stone about two days earlier. The inquest was to have been held September 23rd, but the day after Burdon appeared on television, it was postponed one week. (Burdon refuses to show the poem to anyone.)
"I don't believe it was suicide," answered Michael Jeffery, Jimi's personal manager. "I just don't believe Jimi Hendrix left Eric Burdon his legacy for him to carry on. Jimi Hendrix was a very unique individual.
"I've been going through a whole stack of papers, poems and songs that Jimi had written, and I could show you 20 of them that could be interpreted as a suicide note," he continued.
Speaking with Jeffery on another phone extension, Michael Goldstein, Jimi's publicity agent, said, "A lot of foolish things will be said in the next few weeks by people who considered themselves close to Jimi Hendrix; they will not be saying them for Jimi; they will be saying them for themselves."
Both Jeffery and Goldstein said that Burdon was never that close to Hendrix, and also noted that Burdon and his current manager, Steve Gold, have a lawsuit in the courts against Jeffery, Burdon's former manager.
Hendrix had spent Thursday evening, September 17th, at the Samarkand Hotel flat of Monika Danneman, a German painter. She found him in a coma Friday morning and called an ambulance. The ambulance rushed to the hotel on Landsdowne Crescent, in London's Nottinghill Gate district, and took him to St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:45 a.m., London time.
Police said the sleeping pills were missing from a bottle in Miss Danneman's flat, which she had rented in mid-August for six weeks, and that Hendrix had taken some when he retired the night before. They took the rest of the pills as evidence.
Hendrix had been in Europe since he played the Isle of Wight Festival August 30th. That was his first British gig in two years, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience (with Billy Cox on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums) had taken off almost immediately for a tour of the Continent. The tour was supposed to end in Rotterdam on September 14th, but that final date had been cancelled when Cox suffered a nervous breakdown and had to return to the States. Noel Redding, the original Experience bassist, was due to leave New York to join the group in London when word came of the death.
Jimi had been staying at the Cumberland Hotel off Park Lane since he arrived last month. He was due to check out after Wednesday night, but asked the manager instead to book him over one more evening. However, he didn't return Thursday night.
The last time he had appeared before an audience was Wednesday night, when he joined Burdon and War on stage at Ronnie Scott's Club in London for a jam session.
"I know he had been in a bad state for a year," said Burdon. "He came out of his shell on Tuesday and came over to the club and asked if he could play with us the next night, the 16th, which he did. At first he played like an amateur, real bad, using stage tricks to cover up. Then he came on with a solo which was up to scratch, and the audience dug it. He went off stage and came back, playing the background to 'Tobacco Road.'" That song was his last.
Hendrix had been for some time attempting to become more independent in his business affairs. He saw Electric Lady as a step toward that goal. Burdon says that a week before Hendrix died, Jimi told him he was going to get new management.
"Numerous amounts of times he complained about his managers, I'd have to say he did," said Buddy Miles, who played with Hendrix in the Band of Gypsys. "I ain't gonna lie and say I don't know, because I was with him a lot and got to him in ways lots of others didn't.
"The few good things Jimi got, he really deserved. Even more things, as far as I'm concerned. When I left the Band of Gypsys, I know Jimi was extremely unhappy," Miles added.
"He never said to me he wanted to change management," Jeffery replied to these statements. "What happened was, both of us were expanding in areas, and at certain times he needed very close attention. There was a time when he wanted to expand the group, and the thing was, half my energies were in the studio and other things, and I didn't have time to devote energies fully to helping expand the group.
"Both he and I felt that the three-way function of manager – artist – agent was quite likely to fall apart, because the times are different than they once were in show business. People outside the circle mistook this for discontent, but it wasn't, because Jimi was intelligent and bright enough. If he wanted to split, he would have split.
"As far as being artistically frustrated, Jimi had an incredible genius about him, and the common thing with most artists of that caliber is that they are constantly artistically frustrated," Jeffery added.
"He told everybody different things. He was that way. Always changing his mind," Burdon said over the weekend. "Hendrix was in a such a deep well that the only way out was to stop playing music and try to clear up the mess. But he knew that without music he would be destroyed anyway. He realized that the only thing to do was to keep on playing and died anyway because he was being stifled creatively.
"He realized that the only way he could get what he wanted, helping the Panthers, and setting up an anti-ghetto project in Harlem, was to die and hope that someone else would take care of the business for him using the things that he left behind, his music and his last poem, to make the money," stated Burdon.
Jimi's affairs were in a state of confusion at the time. At one point his road manager, Jerry Stickles, said that the day Hendrix died, he (Stickles) had called Dick Katz, his European agent, to tell him that Jimi wanted to do another European tour and a British tour as soon as possible. Katz lined up a German tour and some British dates that day before he heard the news, according to Stickles.
At another point, however, Stickles said that at Jimi's request he made airline reservations to return to the States September 21st, because Jimi wanted to finish up some recording for a new album by the Experience. (All that needed to be done on that album was the mastering, which Hendrix was going to do himself at Electric Lady.)
None of Jimi's friends or associates except Burdon, at first, would discuss the matter, and in the absence of a complete report, the London press chose to carry instead pure sensationalism. One Sunday paper had an "exclusive story" by a groupie which told of five-in-a-bed orgies with Hendrix.
In America, the first report – spread across the country primarily by FM radio within hours after his death – was that Hendrix had died of a heroin overdose. American newspapers generally carried the story of his death on the front page Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
September 26th, Radio Geronimo in England played unreleased Hendrix material the entire evening, including a tape of Jimi with Buddy Miles and the Last Poets, and another unreleased live album.
The funeral was to have been Monday, September 28th, in Jimi's hometown of Seattle, Washington.
James Marshall Hendrix was born November 27th, 1945. On the day of his death, his father, James, a landscape architect, talked about his son's childhood. The Hendrix family lives in a simple house with lawn and garden in the better part of Seattle's black neighborhood, near Lake Washington. The mantel is covered with pictures, guitar straps, magazine clips and other evidence of Jimi's illustrious career. Mr. Hendrix has remarried, and has two daughters by that second marriage. He also has a 22-year-old son, Leon, by the first marriage.
The last time the family saw Jimi was on July 26th, the day after Leon began doing time for grand larcency. As always when he was in Seattle, Jimi stayed at the Hendrix house that weekend.
Mr. Hendrix recalled that Jimi first became interested in music when he was 10 years old. His father remembers going into Jimi's room one night in the dark and tripping over a broom. He asked Jimi why the broom was there, since he obviously wasn't using it to clean up his room.
"That's my guitar, Dad," Jimi had answered. "I'm learning how to play it."
When he was 11, his father bought him a cheap acoustic guitar, and at 12, Jimi got his first electric guitar. He learned quickly, and was playing in bands at 13. When he was 14, that first electric guitar (inscribed "Jimmy") was stolen, and he was unable to replace it until his sophomore year at Garfield High.
Members of Jimi's bands were quite surprised when he became a star, because he seemed the least likely person in any of his groups to make it. He was then only an average musician, and gave no indication of the almost compulsive creativity that he showed later. He was also known for being very shy and reserved. He displayed no stage presence at all.
Jimi quit Garfield High in the middle of his senior year and went to work as a handyman for his father, who was then doing mostly gardening and lawn jobs. One day as they were working, Jimi told his father that he felt the work was a drag, and that he'd just decided to join the Army instead. This was in 1963.
He left Seattle within a few days and joined the 101st Airborne Division, stationed in the South. His father remembers going into Jimi's room right after he left, seeing the guitar, and expressing surprise that Jimi hadn't taken it with him. Sure enough, a few days later he got a call from Jimi, who said the Army was driving him mad and he needed his guitar "right away."
Except for a photo he received in the mail, that was the last time Mr. Hendrix heard from his son until Jimi reached England in 1966. He had been discharged from the military after 14 months when he suffered a back injury in a parachute jump, and he'd spent the next couple of years criss-crossing the United States, playing with more than 40 rhythm and blues groups. Using the name Jimmy James, he played for six months with a New York group called the Blue Flames. At various times, he backed Little Richard, Jackie Wilson, the Isley Brothers, and Wilson Pickett.
"I got tired of feeding back 'In the Midnight Hour,'" he told an interviewer in 1968. "I was a backing musician playing guitar."
He also played with a group called Curtis Knight and the Squires, and, after he became a star in 1967, Capitol Records embarrassed him by releasing an album called Got That Feeling; Jimi Hendrix Plays, Curtis Knight Sings, an album that was poorly recorded and of no historical value. It revealed only traces of the Hendrix artistry. Hendrix said: "The Curtis Knight album was from bits of tape they used from a jam session, bits of tape, tiny little confetti bits of tapes ... it was done. Capitol never told us they were going to release that crap. That's the real drag about it. It shows exactly how some people in America are still not where it's at, regardless. You don't have no friend scenes, sometimes makes you wonder. That cat and I used to really be friends. Plus I was just at a jam session and here they just try to connive and cheat and use. It was really a bad scene."
In 1966, he was playing (and, for the first time, singing) with a group at the Cafe Wha? on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village when Chas Chandler, then the bass player with the Animals, walked in. Chandler was enthusiastic about Hendrix, who had assembled this group only two months before, but Jimi expressed doubts about his own musical ability and about Chandler's claim that he could become a star. Two weeks later, after a quick tour with the Animals, Chandler returned to New York, confirmed his first impressions, and talked Hendrix into going back to England with him. This was in September, 1966.
A few days later, James Hendrix, Sr., received a phone call at about 4 a.m.
"It's me, Jimi. I'm in England, Dad," said the voice at the other end of the line. "I met some people and they're going to make me a big star. We changed my name to J-i-m-i."
Surprised, his father asked why he'd changed his name, and Jimi replied that it was "just to be different." Mr. Hendrix remembers telling Jimi that if he was really calling from London, the call was going to be very expensive. They both started crying over the phone. "We were both so excited I forgot to even tell him I'd remarried," his father says.
Once in England, Hendrix formed a new band. Noel Redding, who had come to audition as guitarist in the Animals, met Hendrix through Chandler. "Can you play bass?" was the first thing Jimi asked Redding. He never had before, but he immediately became bassist, and sometimes-guitarist, with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Mitch Mitchell, another Englishman, was picked as drummer.
Six weeks after he left New York, four days after forming his trio, Hendrix opened at the Olympia in Paris, on the bill with French pop star Johnny Halliday. He reminisced about it for an interviewer in 1968:
"Paris Olympia is worse than playing the Apollo. Four days after we got together, we were playing the Olympia. It is the biggest thing in Europe. The reception was great and we played four songs. We were trying to get together. We did everything. We never played these songs except once in Germany. We got together with 'Midnight Hour,' 'Land of 1000 Dances,' 'Everyone Needs Someone to Love' and 'Respect.'"
They took off on a tour of Europe. Eight days after the Beach Boys broke an attendance record by playing to 7,000 in two shows at the Tivoli in Stockholm, the Experience drew 14,500 for two shows. They became the second group (the Rolling Stones were the first) to sell out the Sports Arena in Copenhagen. At the Seville Theater in London, they were the first act ever to sell out both shows, and, when a return engagement was booked a month later, tickets sold out the day they became available. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was, as the European press said, "an overnight smash."
Now it was time to return to America. With several hit singles and a successful album in Europe behind him, Hendrix made his U.S. debut in 1967 at the Monterey International Pop Festival. Few in the audience knew that, until nine months ago, Hendrix had lived his whole life in this country. Few knew anything about him except that this "freaky black English bluesman" was making his "American debut."
Lou Adler, with John Phillips, co-producer of the festival, said he heard of Hendrix from Paul McCartney – "He told me about some guy in England playing guitar with his teeth." Adler decided on Hendrix and the Who as the "new" acts to be introduced to the Monterey audience.
In the liner notes to the live recording of Jimi's performance (ironically, it was the last Hendrix recording to be released before his death), Pete Johnson of Warner Brothers writes what happened:
"Their appearance at the festival was magical; the way they looked, the way they performed and the way they sounded were light years away from anything anyone had seen before. The Jimi Hendrix Experience owned the future, and the audience knew it in an instant."
Another ironic note was the presence of Jimi's R&B counterpart, the late Otis Redding, whose own Monterey performance is coupled with Hendrix's on the new album.
And yet another fallen star was at Monterey – Brian Jones, who attended the festival with Nico and spent most of his time as a spectator, seated in the press section. Adler recalled: "Brian was over here for his own pleasure, but he went up on stage and introduced one of the English acts – either Jimi or the Who." Hendrix was on the same bill as the Who and the Mamas and the Papas. His next performance would be at the Hollywood Bowl with the Mamas and the Papas.
The stories that came out about Hendrix after Monterey were enough to shoot him straight to the top, just like in Europe. "Purple Haze" became a hit single, Are You Experienced? a hit album. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, electric hair and all, was taking America by storm.
But if the audience knew just where Jimi Hendrix was at, the same can't be said of the music business brains. In one of those showbiz anomalies, the Experience took off on a tour, second billed to the Monkees, playing to the kiddies. When a promoter complained (under pressure from the Daughters of the American Revolution) that their stage act was "too sexy," the Experience refused to modify it, instead dropping out of that tour and packing houses on one of their own.
Monterey was where Jimi introduced his guitar-burning bit, and by now he was finding it necessary to explain: "At the Monterey Festival, I decided to destroy my guitar at the end of the song. It was a painted guitar. I'd just finished painting it that day and was really into it. I had my little bag on stage. I had my rawhide bag on stage, carried everything in it including kerosene for my lighter which was given to me by Chas at Christmas. I destroyed my guitar again in Washington, D.C. It was accidental.
"I think of people who say that setting your guitar on fire has nothing to do with the music as cellophane, bags and bags of cellophane. Of cellophane but in bags of cellophane. Have you ever thought of lighting cellophane on fire? There's no need to."
The British pop magazine Disc voted him Musician of the Year for 1967, as did the pop newspaper Melody Maker. In 1968 – by which time each of his first three albums were gold – he was named Performer of the Year by Rolling Stone.
When Jimi made his triumphant return to Seattle early in 1968, he received a key to the city and an honorary diploma from Garfield High. His father was floored when he saw Jimi in purple velvet cape and rainbow shirt. Not only did the elder Hendrix not realize how big a star Jimi had become, but he remembered his son as a conservative dresser with a subdued, reserved personality.
But if Hendrix was a brash dresser, if his stage act was pure mayhem, he also had a distinct ambivalence toward being a rock and roll star. Onstage, he was what every mother feared when she expressed doubts about rock and roll's effect on her daughter. Offstage, he remained the same quiet, boyish, seemingly vulnerable Jimi Hendrix as always.
The ambivalence became more noticeable in 1969, his most unproductive year. Hendrix became more uncommunicative, more withdrawn, and the Experience broke up. Noel Redding had his own group, Fat Mattress, and Jimi was saying little to anyone.
In May, he was up for his first, and only, dope bust. It came as he was crossing the border into Canada; the charge was possession of heroin and hashish. Hendrix claimed he didn't know what was in the bag, that a fan had given it to him a few days earlier, and he had packed it without looking to see what it was.
At his trial last December, he said he had tried just about everything from grass to cocaine – but never heroin – a few times, and that he had "outgrown" dope of any kind. The trial lasted three days, and the jury found him innocent of both charges.
Still, through most of last summer, he kept himself out of the public eye. Billy Cox, an old Army buddy, was announced as his new bass player, and Mitchell stayed on. Jimi spent most of the summer with an "electric family" of musicians – everyone from old bluesmen to avant garde classical composers – in upstate New York. He questioned whether he was taken seriously by other musicians. He said the new "family" was going to do what he called, for lack of a better term, "sky church music" and that the group would have other singers and songwriters.
"I don't want to be a clown anymore," Jimi told one interviewer. "I don't want to be a rock and roll star."
But the musical family didn't work out, and when Hendrix surfaced again, it was New Year's Eve at the Fillmore East and he was playing with Cox and old friend Buddy Miles on drums. This was A Band of Gypsys. Bill Graham danced in the stage wings during their set, then personally went up to the dressing room to tell Hendrix it was the best music he'd ever heard in his hall.
Although all but the Curtis Knight albums were on Warner-Reprise, Jimi still owed Capitol one album through an old contract deal. He gave them the Band of Gypsys album, although in later interviews he revealed he wasn't completely satisfied with the performance because his guitar was out of tune. Stylistically, the music was close to the "Purple Haze" days, and Hendrix had merely stood on stage and casually played his guitar, with none of the old gyrations.
Just a couple weeks later, at the Moratorium concert in Madison Square Garden, he put down his guitar in the middle of the second song, said "We're not quite getting it together," and walked off the stage. He was depressed about the new group. The music just wasn't right, and soon he was back with the original Experience.
In an interview given at that time, Jimi explained what had happened to the Gypsys: "Maybe I just started noticing the guitar for a change. It's like the end of a beginning maybe or something. I figure that Madison Square Garden is like the end of a big long fairy tale. Which is great. I think it's like the best ending I could possibly have come up with.
"The Band of Gypsys was outasite as far as I'm concerned. It was just ... going through head changes is what it was, I really couldn't tell – I don't know: I was very tired. You know, sometimes there's a lot of things that add up in your head about this and that and they might hit you at a very peculiar time, which happened to be at a peace rally, you know? And here I'd been fighting the biggest war I ever fought. In my life. Inside, you know? And like that wasn't the place to do it."
Supposedly, things were to be better than ever with the Experience together again, but that didn't turn out to be true. Relationships between the three weren't entirely patched up, and for the rest of this year he played with Mitchell and either Cox or Redding.
One of the last interviews Jimi Hendrix gave was to Melody Maker, the British pop newspaper, around the time of the Isle of Wight. Jimi told reporter Roy Hollingworth about his fear that Europeans didn't regard him as they used to.
"While I was doing my vanishing act in the States I got this feeling that I was completely blown out of England. I thought they had forgotten me over here. I'd given them everything I'd got, I thought maybe they didn't want me anymore, because they had a nice set of bands. Maybe they were saying, oh, we've had Hendrix, yeah, he was okay. I really thought I was completely through here," he said.
Jimi was pleased to find he was wrong, that they still liked him in Europe, and the interview ended with him stressing, "I'm happy, it's gonna be good."
Hendrix explained that he had been "... thinking about the future. Thinking that this era of music – sparked off by the Beatles – had come to an end. Something new has got to come, and Jimi Hendrix will be there.
"I want a big band. I don't mean three harps and 14 violins. I mean a big band full of competent musicians that I can conduct and write for. And with the music we will paint pictures of earth and space, so that the listener can be taken somewhere.
"It's going to be something that will open up a new sense in people's minds. They are getting their minds ready now. Like me, they are going back home, getting fat, and making themselves ready for the next trip.
"You see, music is so important. I don't any longer dig the pop and politics crap. That's old-fashioned. It was somebody's personal opinion. But politics is old hat. Anyone can go round shaking babies by the hand and kissing the mothers, and saying that it was groovy. But you see, you can't do this in music. Music doesn't lie. I agree it can be misinterpreted, but it doesn't lie.
"When there are vast changes in the way the world goes, it's usually something like art and music that changes it. Music is going to change the world next time.
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Fernandez, Myers headline GIBBY Rookie of Year class
Jose Fernandez has been named the National League's best rookie and Wil Myers the American League's top first-year player, but who will be voted the Majors' Rookie of the Year?
Fans can help decide which player will take home that honor by casting their votes for the Rookie of the Year GIBBY.
Jose Fernandez has been named the National League's best rookie and Wil Myers the American League's top first-year player, but who will be voted the Majors' Rookie of the Year?
Fans can help decide which player will take home that honor by casting their votes for the Rookie of the Year GIBBY.
Myers and Rays teammate Chris Archer are up for the award, as is shortstop Jose Iglesias, the third finalist for the Baseball Writers' Association of America's AL Rookie of the Year Award.
"Obviously I was excited to be able to take this award home, especially with all the guys, with Archer and Iglesias, two great guys who had great seasons," Myers said.
The field also includes Fernandez, the BBWAA's top NL rookie, and fellow finalists Yasiel Puig and Shelby Miller.
Braves rookies Evan Gattis and Julio Teheran, Pirates right-hander Gerrit Cole and Dodgers lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu round out the list of nominees, showcasing just how deep and talented the rookie class was in the NL this season.
"I was kind of expecting to be the Rookie of the Year, or it to be close," Fernandez said.
Major League Baseball's A-listers will take home 2013 GIBBY trophies -- the ultimate honors of the industry's awards season -- based on votes by media, front-office personnel, MLB alumni, fans and the Society for American Baseball Research.
This year's GIBBY Awards feature nominees in 22 categories. Individual honors will go to the MLB MVP, in addition to the year's best starting pitcher, hitter, closer, setup man, rookie, breakout hitter, breakout pitcher, comeback player, defensive player, manager, executive and postseason performer.
GIBBYs also will be awarded for the year's top play, storyline, hitting performance, pitching performance, oddity, Cut4 topic, regular-season moment and postseason moment, from MLB.com's Must C highlight reels.
In the past five years, fans have cast more than 50 million votes across the various GIBBY categories, none of which were restricted to individual league affiliation. Fan voting runs through Dec. 1.
Winners will be presented their GIBBYs at the MLB.com Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards extravaganza during the Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Fernandez, who hadn't thrown a pitch above Class A ball before this season, went 12-6 with a 2.19 ERA -- the fifth lowest by any rookie since 1915 -- and a 0.98 WHIP, the lowest by any first-year pitcher since 1967. The Marlins righty struck out 187 and allowed only 111 hits in 172 2/3 innings. In short, the 21-year-old wasn't just the best rookie pitcher in the NL; he was one of the best pitchers in all of baseball.
Myers became the first player to lead AL rookies in RBIs in fewer than 90 games since Detroit's Hoot Evers did so in 1946. The 22-year-old Myers was called up on June 18 and paced AL rookies in doubles (23), extra-base hits (36) and OPS (.831). Overall, Myers hit .293/.354/.478 with 13 homers and 53 RBIs, showing that he could be a middle-of-the-order presence for years to come with the Rays.
Archer might have been his teammate's toughest competition in the AL. After coming up in June, the 25-year-old right-hander led AL rookies with at least 100 innings pitched by recording a 3.22 ERA, including a 0.73 mark in July, the lowest ever by a rookie that month, along with a .226 opponents' average, a 1.13 WHIP and two shutouts.
Iglesias was among the AL's best defensive infielders this season, which he split between the Red Sox and Tigers, but he also was surprisingly effective with the bat. Iglesias hit .303/.349/.386 with 16 doubles, 29 RBIs and 39 runs scored, impacting two eventual playoff teams along the way.
Some fans might feel the NL honor could have gone to Puig, making him a viable candidate for this GIBBY. The 22-year-old Cuban sensation hit .319/.391/.534 with 19 homers and 42 RBIs, sparking the Dodgers to the top of the NL West and turning seemingly every one of his at-bats into must-see events.
If not for Fernandez's historic rookie campaign, Miller's excellent season with the Cardinals might have received more attention. The 23-year-old right-hander finished 10th in the NL in ERA (3.06) and ranked first and third among Major League rookies in wins (15) and strikeouts (169) over 31 starts.
Gattis burst onto the scene this season sporting an incredibly unusual backstory, and his work at the plate was just as intriguing. The 27-year-old catcher/outfielder hit .243/.291/.480 with 21 homers and 65 RBIs, leading all rookies in RBIs and game-winning RBIs (11) and finishing second in home runs despite starting only 91 games.
Teheran, 22, capitalized on his first extended time in the Majors, putting together the fourth-lowest ERA (3.20) among all Major League rookies and ranking among the game's best with a 3.78 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Teheran finished 14-8 with a 1.17 WHIP in 185 2/3 innings.
After being called up in mid-June, the 23-year-old Cole showed why he was the first overall pick in the 2011 Draft. Cole finished 10-7 with a 3.22 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 117 1/3 innings. He began his career with a Pirates-record 10 straight starts of at least five innings and no more than three earned runs allowed.
And then there's Ryu, the 26-year-old lefty who might have been as dependable as any rookie pitcher. Ryu led all first-year hurlers with 192 innings pitched and finished second in ERA (3.00), tied for second in wins (14) and fourth in strikeouts (154) for the NL West's first-place Dodgers.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry.