Washington City Paper: Contents for Oct. 21

The Jimi Hendrix Re-Experience
Bob Terry has been a Hendrix collector for a quarter-century. Nothing except lack of cash can stop him on his quest for more objets d'Jimi. May This Be Love or Just Confusion?

Cover Story

The musty pile of cloth that Bob Terry holds delicately is anything but impressive: Its faded floral pattern--withering in an aqua-blue field--reveals a tackiness that time cannot conquer. It resembles a motel drape stained by nicotine breezes, now ready for the garbage or a grandma's crazy quilt.

Terry paid thousands of dollars (he won't say exactly how much) for this drab garment, which he unfolds as if it were the Shroud of Turin. But it isn't. It is a kimono, one of the less-blatant fashion casualties from the flower-power era.

The 40-year-old electrical engineer treats it like a holy relic because it once allegedly belonged to Jimi Hendrix, who sported it--apparently quite often--during the summer of '69.

“He didn't just wear it once and throw it away,” explains Terry, admiring the unveiled kimono in all its glory. He reels off the places where the legendary guitarist displayed these silk threads: the Newport Pop Festival and two installments of ®MDUL¯The Dick Cavett Show®MDNM¯, among other public appearances. Even more crucial to Terry, though, is the fact that Hendrix also wore it when he ®MDUL¯wasn't®MDNM¯ performing: outside his New York apartment. On the porch of the house he rented at Woodstock when he was rehearsing with his band. Just hanging around, being Jimi--he probably even slept in the damned thing.

“He wore the kimono a ®MDUL¯lot®MDNM¯--obviously, he felt very comfortable in it,” says Terry. “He loved it, his friends say he loved it.”

It meant something to Hendrix; now Terry can touch it and smell it and, most important, own it. That's all that matters.... Continued

Issue of Oct. 21 - 27, 1994

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The Jimi Hendrix Re-Experience
Bob Terry has been a Hendrix collector for a quarter-century. Nothing except lack of cash can stop him on his quest for more objets d'Jimi. May This Be Love or Just Confusion?
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