Jimi Hendrix's younger brother Leon Hendrix has opened up about their family life and the inspirations which led to Jimi's music career.
Leon Hendrix's book 'Jimi Hendrix: A Brother's Story' was published in 2012. He also plays in the Leon Hendrix Band, who have released two albums since 2002.
Speaking to the UK’s The Guardian, Leon Hendrix says that his brother legendary American guitarist Jimi "looked after" him, explaining that he "never missed a meal". He continued, "he looked out for me like an elder-brother-father; he made me what you English call ‘tea’ and made sure I was okay. And sometimes, we used to sneak off to Mom’s for dinner."
Leon says the music Jimi plays simply came from inspiration, explaining, "as in ‘spirit’, as in ‘in-spirit-ation’. It’s in the wind. I was there when Jimi was a boy, and he’d play with a broom, his first guitar. And Pa would come home and see the straw and shit from the broom on the floor, because Jimi’d been doing acrobatics with his his broom-guitar, and Jimi’d get a whuppin’."
"Once, when we were little, Jimi took a radio apart, trying to find the music inside it. We lost the screwdriver behind the sofa and couldn’t put it back together, and that was another whuppin’," he said.
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