Jimi Hendrix
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Just read 'em. Don't even try to sing 'em,
but read what he had to say.

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I was shocked, but it was no surprise.
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He loved everything: Life, music, himself...
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...the people around him, you know.
Give a lot and take a lot.

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He was no more destructive
than any other great talent, you know.

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And he didn't destroy himself
more than the guy...

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...who's in an airplane that explodes.
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I mean, who knows how destructive
you are when you are part of an accident.

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We don't know that.
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So I stopped immediately
to call the ambulance.

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While I was waiting for the ambulance,
I was checking Jimi's pulse...

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...which I had learned because
I had a lot of operations...

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...and his pulse was normal.
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He was breathing normally, but he was,
just that he was sick...

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...and I couldn't get him awake. I tried.
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While the other type of sleep,
the light sleep is coming upon you...

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...there's two sockets
where you can go into.

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One socket is death and one socket
is the socket to live, you know.

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This is how I always felt...
I think they call that a alpha jerk.

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You can get an alpha jerk.
This is when you've felt as though...

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..."Oh, wow, I'm goin' into
the wrong hole here."

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And you really feel funny.
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You feel like that possibly
is the hole to die.

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And the other side is the side
to sleep and get...

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...into your subconscious and sleep,
which is what we normally go into.

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I believe that Jimi possibly could've
went into, got into his alpha-jerk feel...

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...and it kind of felt groovy to him...
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...because he was high,
slightly high, and he said:

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"Damn, you know, I'm Jimi Hendrix.
I wonder if I can die?"

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You know? And the alpha jerk
came on him and he said:

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"Fuck it, let me try the alpha."
And slipped on out. You know?

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And, another way he could have died...
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...I always felt, was...

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