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Published: 2011-07-06 20:35:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1113; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 13
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statue of Jimi Hendrix on the corner of Broadway and Pine on Capitol Hill in Seattle.Related content
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Paul Allen (who i've always heard paid for this statue), co-founder of Microsoft (which made him a billionaire and which he left in the 1980's)/real estate developer/etc., died today, 10/15/2018, of lymphoma, which had gone away and (he had recently announced) returned.
This is the number 1 image in my Favourites folder 'WeNeedA CityOfSeattlePaidFor STATUEof Jimi Hendrix'.
For all who are reading this: TRunna is a very skilled photographer and takes great pictures. That's why i've Faved this one.
Kudos also to the artist (name unknown to me) who created this fine statue.
I am 100% about Jimi Hendrix getting the recognition he deserves From The City Of Seattle. The plaque honoring Jimi Hendrix (I haven't seen it.) i've heard was placed By The City Of Seattle years ago at the big cats Savannah exhibit at The Woodland Park Zoo barely merits mention.
There are socio/economic/political issues involving the wealthy classes that have controlled the city government for the 42 years i've lived here.
Jimi Hendrix is the most revered artist (all across the world) ever to grow up in Seattle.
~respectfull
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I'm sorry, but no billionaire - not Paul Allen, not any billionaire - is qualified to pay for a statue of Jimi Hendrix and place it on public property in Seattle.
Jimi was a man of the people.
Lubbock, TX - where i've visited family over decades - has a larger-than-life statue of Buddy Holly, near, if not in the same block as, City Hall.
I actually never managed to get within a block or so to take a good look at it.
In Lubbock, there is a Buddy Holly Avenue, where there are many night clubs featuring live music.
Seattle has maybe 5 times the population of Lubbock. Martin Luther King County has 3 million people.
Buddy Holly wrote "Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Suzie", and was a big star, increasingly so after his death.
Jimi Hendrix played in Solomon Burke's band touring the chitlin' circuit/with The Isley Brothers/as a Motown session player, was found in Harlem by The Animals bass player, who persuaded Jimi to go to London, where he had no peer, and, forming The Jimi Hendrix Experience, took the world by storm.
The other major blues players - Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Duane Allman - all came to Jimi's own Electric Lady Studios (in NYC) To Jam With Jimi.
Jimi was, beyond blues, a massively creative cultural icon. We played his live Woodstock Festival performance of The Star Spangled Banner quite loud enough to be heard outside our Fort Sam Houston Army barracks. Think about every word if you can find and play a recording of that specific performance as you listen to the meaning of the sound of every note.
The taxes we Seattleites pay (17% in state & local taxes for the very lowest income / 2.4% for the highest income - more regressive than all the other 49 states) should pay for a highest quality statue of Jimi Hendrix and its installation on the uphill side of and overlooking Seattle Center's International Fountain. Then and only then will Jimi have the public honor he is due.
respectfull
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I don't agree with your premise that the wealthy are not qualified to pay for public art. Artists have had wealthy patrons for centuries....like Michelangelo and the Medici or Pope Julius II and countless others. Most artist would not survive without wealthy patrons. And municipalities would never fund the amount of public art we have it it relied on the public funding set aside for art.
But I do agree that the location of that Hendrix stature would be better place at the Seattle Center or some other more open space.
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Not by way of argument, but to clarify my terms of explanation - i agree that the wealthy are qualified to pay for anything they want to buy, to polish their public image or for any reason, by 'virtue' of the fact that they have that much 'disposable income' (wealth) held out of our economy and not invested in production. I'm not aware of the wealthy backing candidates who want to reverse Reagan's repeal our progressive federal income tax, a continuing injury to the vast majority of Americans and state budgets (I can personally document my own multi-decade situation with tax returns i filed with all 4 levels of government.) so that They would pay a fairer share of taxes. Maybe some wealthy individuals do. Neither of the Koch brothers, that's for sure.
Jimi Hendrix was poor until the last 3 years of his life when he sold lots of recordings and booked large concerts. Then, as far as i know, it was Jimi's own money (& not from a patron) that paid for his Electric Lady Studios in NYC and for a house for his dad Al.
It's not just that Jimi was a man of the people. Seattle is one of the wealthiest cities in America, even with the world's wealthiest individual, Jeff Bezos, and Gates Junior Not residing within our city limits. If the wealthy (& the most successful corporations) here paid even halfway fair taxes, there would be enough to build affordable housing and easily fund a statue of the most famous personage ever to grow up in Seattle.
respectfull (former freelance photographer in the predigital era for a couple years - charging sales tax of course on the prints i sold)
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I have stood in that gutter and looked closely at this statue of A Man Of The People. It was paid for by billionaire Paul Allen. That's EXACTLY why i started (this evening) my Favourites folder 'WeNeedA CityOfSeattlePaidFor STATUEof Jimi Hendrix' - where all deviantart folks can find this excellently composed and cropped image. Jimi and his bass player Billy Cox, who first met at Fort Campbell, were both Airborne. I met Jimi's dad Al in November (Jimi's birth month) of 1976 (the year i moved to Seattle) - or 1977 - at a Langston Hughes Cultural Center celebration (Jimi died in September, 1970 while i was in training at Fort Sam Houston). Al Hendrix, one fine human being, was drafted during WW 2, and while in basic training in Georgia (Alabama?) was not allowed to go on leave to Seattle for the birth of his first child (Jimi). The Army even put Al behind bars because they thought he might go AWOL. I recommend the biography 'Room Full Of Mirrors'.
TRunna, your outdoor photography, some of which i've looked at, is wonderfully done, which means, in this day and time, i grieve even more for what we've all inherited, especially my born-&-raised state of WV, which, gauged by strip mining before i was outta high school, has been suffering mountaintop removal for many years (all coal company profits going out of state). Not to mention that the EPA has become the Environmental DEstruction Agency. Your photos imply that you are well-travelled and aware. Be Sure You Vote next month.
Huge thanks for this post!
respectfull
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I knew about Paul Allen’s involvement and there was a great Hendrix exhibit at the EMP that be built at the Seattle Center. And I assume you have made the drive to see Jimi’s grave and memorial is in Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton. Just like with Bruce and Brandon Lee’s graves at Lake View on Capitol Hill I had to wait my turn to get a clear shot of the graves and memorials. I have a lot of photos of Jimi’s memorial that I have not posted but here is one if you have never been there.
My daughter-in-law is from West Virginia and taught high school in coal country there....not far from the PA state line. And finally, yes, I always vote.
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I don't mind cemeteries, but i don't do that kind of pilgrimage. I honored Jimi Hendrix over many years by performing Jimi's "My Friend", especially on the street, my favorite venue. I must compliment your photos for your composition and cropping.
You may know that, on Capitol Hill, Bruce Lee studied ballet at The Cornish Art Institute. It is told that a karate (black belt? master?) - i assume a fellow ballet student - challenged Bruce. After Bruce was not able to talk him out of it, Bruce won the fight, and his opponent suffered badly the result.
My sister taught first and second grades, mostly in the southwest, for 40 years. Kudos to your daughter-in-law. There is not a more honorable profession.
My mother grew up in the southern coal fields of WV (Talcott) with 6 siblings during The Great Depression, her father having died in the influenza pandemic of 1918 when she was 2 years old. After my father (her husband) passed in 1991, she moved the next year from Charleston to Texas where she had 3 more generations of family and where she passed in 2008 at the age of 91. Oh yes - after the funeral service in the chapel of the retirement home in Lubbock where she lived the last 7 years of her life And taking her body in casket in my sister & her husband's 3-axle trailer home to Charleston for burial - i sang Hazel Dicken's "West Virginia, My Home" at the funeral service there.
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Thank you for the kind words about my post production editing. Sometimes it is a "best guess" how much to crop a photo or how much contrast to add or what color values to enhance to improve a photo and still retain the character of the image.
I did know about Bruce Lee studying at the Cornish School.
My daughter-in-law now lives her in Washington and teaches high school.
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Hazel Dickens' "West Virginia, My Home"
Hazel Dickens was a coal miner's daughter from WV and had a long musical career, based out of the D.C. (& Baltimore?) area.
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Thanks...It was a nice find on a busy street.
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Thanks...Will sometime soon post some photos of his grave site and memorial in Renton.
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Excellent to hear!
You are welcome, too!~
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Thanks you and thank you for the favorite.
I will be posting some shots of Jimi's grave in the next few days.
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