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\"Jimi<\/p>\n

Credit: Far Out \/ Alamy \/ Album Booklet<\/p>\n

Tue 19 May 2026 18:30, UK <\/p>\n

Everyone seems to forget that the mantra of sex, drugs, and rock<\/a> and roll, though oft-quoted, actually involves a lot of sex and even more drugs. Rock and roll sometimes ends up as a by-product. <\/p>\n

But it was a sign that Jimi Hendrix\u2019s musical greatness<\/a> was always written in the stars, because he managed to get the balance just right, at least in his formative years. That\u2019s not to say that a huge amount of sex and drugs didn\u2019t go on, because of course it did; however, the point was he always knew there was a greater motive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to look back on the guitarist\u2019s life and suggest this from the outside, but the true confirmation of where Hendrix\u2019s heart lay had to come from within his innermost circle. Step forward, Carmine Appice: because if there was going to be anyone who knew how his brain worked so intimately, it was the drummer who was by his side through all of it. <\/p>\n

People tend to turn up their noses when it comes to the gritty truth of the rock and roll scene<\/a> at various times over the years, but when that involved nightclubs, prostitutes, drug addicts, and musicians caught up in the storm of it all, nothing could get more real. That\u2019s exactly where you would find Hendrix and Appice back in the day, and it was a more seminal experience than you\u2019d think. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to play the clubs in New York together when he was Jimmy James and the Blue Flames,\u201d the drummer said. \u201cRight up the block, 72nd Street and Broadway, there was a club called the Lighthouse. Back in the day it was all hookers and drug addicts who used to hang out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it was on these seminal nights that Appice realised he had the making of a star on his hands, in the form of his electric friend, recalling, \u201cWe\u2019d go across the street to a Black prostitute\u2019s apartment, and we smoked pot, and we looked out the window at Broadway.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cJimi would say, \u2018Man, I want to make it. I want to get out of this stuff.\u2019 I didn\u2019t know what making it meant \u2013 but he really wanted to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carmine Appice on Jimi Hendrix<\/p>\n

Indeed, they were too young to understand anything that was happening in the moment, let alone what unfolded in the future as Hendrix took off, burned bright, and then was struck down in his prime. Of course, you don\u2019t typically hear poetic opines uttered in the apartments of prostitutes, but it was New York, and it was rock and roll \u2013 what could you do?<\/p>\n

Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n

To be fair, Hendrix was true to his word, and although he didn\u2019t \u201cget out of this stuff\u201d in terms of the immediate vicinity of the sex and drugs procurements that being a rock star offers, he did break free by becoming the global guitarist virtuoso<\/a> who everyone would worship every sound from. <\/p>\n

Clearly, that seminal memory never left Appice, if nothing more than for the sheer reason of it representing the precipice of something massive in both of their lives. The hotbed of life that is New York was one thing to conquer, but Hendrix always knew he was destined for more. It was his job to use all those lessons to take the next leap. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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