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Another wonderful tiny slice of LR is when he's interviewed about Jimi Hendrix (search for "Little Richard on Jim Hendrix" on youtube - it's a very short video)
by derriz 6y ago
Another wonderful tiny slice of LR is when he's interviewed about Jimi Hendrix (search for "Little Richard on Jim Hendrix" on youtube - it's a very short video). I must have seen it 20 or 30 times as I was a Hendrix fan and it was on some VHS copy of a documentary on Hendrix I had at the time. In theory it's an incoherent mix of religiosity, homosexuality, flamboyance and almost narcissistic self-regard but for some reason on some level, it all seems to make perfect sense. I've just watched it again - having not seen it for 20+ years and I'm still smiling as I'm typing this.
- DonHopkins 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHlRa-RPjWE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHlRa-RPjWE "That time that he used to make my big toe shoot up into my boot!" Wow. His freaky look gave Jimmy Hendrix confidence.
- pfarrell 6y agoWow. I love both Jimi and LR and had never seen that! He was something else. Thanks for mentioning it derriz and for posting the link DonHopkins.
- wyclif 6y ago"[Jimi Hendrix] was a star! When I got him, he was a star!" Easy for Little Richard to say that after Hendrix blew up, but apparently the reason Hendrix quit LR's band was because the band hadn't gotten paid in five weeks. There's a letter from Hendrix that he wrote to his Dad from the road where he talks about this. OTOH, LR's brother claimed that Hendrix was fired because ‘he was always late for the bus and flirting with all the girls and stuff like that.’ So who knows what the real story was there. I think it's closer to the truth to say that Little Richard could not tolerate anyone else getting the spotlight and diminishing his star power, while Hendrix was too flamboyant himself to settle for being a sideman and already had his own original ideas and ambition to go solo.