Astrofreq
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You don't have to beg me! I'll take an endorsement anytime ya'll are ready.
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You don't have to beg me! I'll take an endorsement anytime ya'll are ready.
slukather
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ROTFLMAO.
Tim O'Sullivan
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This is a very interesting thread, and you cannot discout the power of celebrity endorsements. If it was not for a former EBMM endorser, I would NOT be playing EBMM guitars. Its the only reason I found this brand. I would have ended up playing a PRS or a custom shop Gibson or something like that. And even to this day, the only guitars I play are based on the former endorsers model.
To that effect, I think this string company will sell tens of thousands of sets of these strings, mostly to 13 year olds who are only just discovering Hendrix. So to get back to BP's original question, I think there is too much Hendrix 'endorsed' stuff on the market. I thought the Hendrix wah was a bit scraping the barrel to be honest, bit this is just a joke. At least anyone over 15 years old will see through it!
And for no good reason other than I want to here is a picture of me playing Hendrix's Flying V at the Hard Rock Cafe in London. I can exclusively reveal it was strung with Ernie Ball strings!
To that effect, I think this string company will sell tens of thousands of sets of these strings, mostly to 13 year olds who are only just discovering Hendrix. So to get back to BP's original question, I think there is too much Hendrix 'endorsed' stuff on the market. I thought the Hendrix wah was a bit scraping the barrel to be honest, bit this is just a joke. At least anyone over 15 years old will see through it!
And for no good reason other than I want to here is a picture of me playing Hendrix's Flying V at the Hard Rock Cafe in London. I can exclusively reveal it was strung with Ernie Ball strings!
roburado
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This article is a few years old, but it may explain some things.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/192463_hendrix25.html
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Judge splits decision on Hendrix estate
Brother won't get trust; stepsister's control cut
By MIKE LEWIS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Leon Hendrix won't get a share of the multimillion-dollar inheritance funded by the music of his late brother, Jimi, and his stepsister and cousin will lose some control of the estate, a King County Superior Court judge ruled yesterday in what essentially amounts to a split decision.
Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell, in a 35-page decision he read aloud in a packed, silent courtroom, said Leon Hendrix didn't prove that his stepsister Janie Hendrix unlawfully coerced their late father Al into denying Leon and his children a place in the estate.
Indeed, Ramsdell added, it appeared Leon gave plenty of reasons -- drug use, money demands, litigation threats -- for his father to carve him out of the inheritance. And Al Hendrix, while not healthy, appeared to know exactly what he was doing when he signed the 1998 will and estate plan at the center of the legal dispute, Ramsdell wrote.
Leon Hendrix and his attorney Richard Curran said they were disappointed by the decision. Leon, however, said it was good that his stepsister no longer will control all of the Hendrix trusts, even thought he won't benefit from them.
"It doesn't matter. It's all good," he said walking quickly out of court.
Garnering international attention, the lawsuit pitted Janie and her cousin Robert Hendrix against Leon Hendrix and a dozen beneficiaries of trusts and companies set up by the late Al Hendrix, Jimi and Leon's father. Simply, Leon wanted back into an inheritance he once had but lost when Al wrote him out of the will six years ago.
Leon, 56, claimed Janie manipulated an infirm Al into denying money for Leon and his children. Ramsdell disagreed. But in the separate legal claim filed by beneficiaries of the estate who said Janie and Robert were unfit to run the funds, Ramsdell agreed.
The judge, however, left the pair in control of the Hendrix companies, such as Experience Hendrix, which are the sources of the trust money.
The decision represented a partial victory for Janie Hendrix, 43, who as a little girl was adopted by Al and met Jimi only a couple of times before his death in 1970. When the guitar hero died without a will, his father was awarded the rights to his music. During the past 10 years, Janie largely has taken control of an estate now valued at $80 million.
Ramsdell concluded that Janie and her cousin Robert so badly mismanaged trust funds that the court will remove the pair from control of a handful of the trusts Al established.
The beneficiaries -- other family members named in the will -- had claimed that Janie and Robert illegally refused to disburse money to them while they drew plush salaries, took no-interest loans and bought expensive cars on estate money. In the trial, Janie and Robert defended the spending as "bad advice" from accountants. They said the lack of disbursement was merely acting on Al's will that no money go out until the estate was debt-free.
Ramsdell found the arguments implausible. "The abdication of their duty as trustees is not justified by reference to any directive from Al," he wrote, adding that Al himself gave little indication of such an order.
Robert Hendrix wouldn't directly answer questions when asked for a reaction to the decision. "I think the judge did what judges do," he said after the verdict. "I think the facts speak for themselves."
The case has proved lengthy, complicated and expensive, with the trial lasting nearly three months. In court, Curran portrayed Janie, and to a lesser extent, Robert, as greedy and inept controllers of an estate they had little right to. Robert Wilson, attorney for Robert and Janie, in return, tried to depict Leon as a lazy, drug-addled freeloader who was out for money he didn't deserve and that Al didn't want to give him.
Developer Craig Dieffenbach spent nearly $3 million of his own money to fund Leon's challenge. Janie and Robert borrowed money from Sony to pay for their defense.
In removing Janie and Robert as trustees of three of the seven trusts established by Al, Ramsdell ordered that the two pay the legal costs from their own trust accounts. The three trusts represent 17 percent of the estate.
This, too, could push into the "high six figures," said David Osgood, attorney for the successful beneficiaries. Osgood, while happy about the partial victory, said he remained worried about unanswered questions.
"(Ramsdell) recognized that Janie and Robert breached their duties," Osgood said after the verdict was read. "But I would have liked for him to go a bit further."
Specifically, Osgood and other plaintiffs wondered what it means when Janie and Robert continue to run Experience Hendrix and other Hendrix companies that fund the trusts.
"Are they fit to run this company?" Osgood wondered rhetorically. "Our position still is no, they are not fit to run the company."
The question might, in part, be discussed Oct. 15 in a hearing to enact the verdict. Additionally, Ramsdell is going to decide whether Leon's separate civil claim against Janie can move forward. It's unclear whether he is going to do that at the October hearing.
Leon and his attorney have not yet decided whether to appeal the ruling.
Charles Cross, the former publisher of "The Rocket" and a Kurt Cobain biographer who is completing a Hendrix biography, "Room Full of Mirrors," said it doesn't appear anyone is acting as Jimi would have.
In researching the book, due in August, Cross said he discovered that many of the people who Hendrix was closest to as a child -- particularly on his mother's side of the family -- never received a dime in any of Al's various wills and estate plans through the years. Al had divorced Jimi's and Leon's mother, Lucille, in the late 1950s. She died a few years later.
And unfortunately, said Cross, who attended most of the trial, fights over money made on Hendrix's talent are nothing new. "The sad legacy of Jimi Hendrix is that ever since his first record came out, people have been fighting over the money."
THE FAMILY
Jimi Hendrix: Born in Seattle on Nov. 27, 1942, to Lucille and Al Hendrix. Creator of several classic rock albums. Died of drug overdose in 1970.
Leon Hendrix: Born in 1948, son of Lucille and Al. Sold his share of song copyrights to the lawyer overseeing the estate, he says at his dad's wishes.
Janie Hendrix: Adopted by Al Hendrix in 1968 when he married her mother, June Jinka. Holds much of the control of the Hendrix companies and trusts.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/192463_hendrix25.html
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Judge splits decision on Hendrix estate
Brother won't get trust; stepsister's control cut
By MIKE LEWIS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Leon Hendrix won't get a share of the multimillion-dollar inheritance funded by the music of his late brother, Jimi, and his stepsister and cousin will lose some control of the estate, a King County Superior Court judge ruled yesterday in what essentially amounts to a split decision.
Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell, in a 35-page decision he read aloud in a packed, silent courtroom, said Leon Hendrix didn't prove that his stepsister Janie Hendrix unlawfully coerced their late father Al into denying Leon and his children a place in the estate.
Indeed, Ramsdell added, it appeared Leon gave plenty of reasons -- drug use, money demands, litigation threats -- for his father to carve him out of the inheritance. And Al Hendrix, while not healthy, appeared to know exactly what he was doing when he signed the 1998 will and estate plan at the center of the legal dispute, Ramsdell wrote.
Leon Hendrix and his attorney Richard Curran said they were disappointed by the decision. Leon, however, said it was good that his stepsister no longer will control all of the Hendrix trusts, even thought he won't benefit from them.
"It doesn't matter. It's all good," he said walking quickly out of court.
Garnering international attention, the lawsuit pitted Janie and her cousin Robert Hendrix against Leon Hendrix and a dozen beneficiaries of trusts and companies set up by the late Al Hendrix, Jimi and Leon's father. Simply, Leon wanted back into an inheritance he once had but lost when Al wrote him out of the will six years ago.
Leon, 56, claimed Janie manipulated an infirm Al into denying money for Leon and his children. Ramsdell disagreed. But in the separate legal claim filed by beneficiaries of the estate who said Janie and Robert were unfit to run the funds, Ramsdell agreed.
The judge, however, left the pair in control of the Hendrix companies, such as Experience Hendrix, which are the sources of the trust money.
The decision represented a partial victory for Janie Hendrix, 43, who as a little girl was adopted by Al and met Jimi only a couple of times before his death in 1970. When the guitar hero died without a will, his father was awarded the rights to his music. During the past 10 years, Janie largely has taken control of an estate now valued at $80 million.
Ramsdell concluded that Janie and her cousin Robert so badly mismanaged trust funds that the court will remove the pair from control of a handful of the trusts Al established.
The beneficiaries -- other family members named in the will -- had claimed that Janie and Robert illegally refused to disburse money to them while they drew plush salaries, took no-interest loans and bought expensive cars on estate money. In the trial, Janie and Robert defended the spending as "bad advice" from accountants. They said the lack of disbursement was merely acting on Al's will that no money go out until the estate was debt-free.
Ramsdell found the arguments implausible. "The abdication of their duty as trustees is not justified by reference to any directive from Al," he wrote, adding that Al himself gave little indication of such an order.
Robert Hendrix wouldn't directly answer questions when asked for a reaction to the decision. "I think the judge did what judges do," he said after the verdict. "I think the facts speak for themselves."
The case has proved lengthy, complicated and expensive, with the trial lasting nearly three months. In court, Curran portrayed Janie, and to a lesser extent, Robert, as greedy and inept controllers of an estate they had little right to. Robert Wilson, attorney for Robert and Janie, in return, tried to depict Leon as a lazy, drug-addled freeloader who was out for money he didn't deserve and that Al didn't want to give him.
Developer Craig Dieffenbach spent nearly $3 million of his own money to fund Leon's challenge. Janie and Robert borrowed money from Sony to pay for their defense.
In removing Janie and Robert as trustees of three of the seven trusts established by Al, Ramsdell ordered that the two pay the legal costs from their own trust accounts. The three trusts represent 17 percent of the estate.
This, too, could push into the "high six figures," said David Osgood, attorney for the successful beneficiaries. Osgood, while happy about the partial victory, said he remained worried about unanswered questions.
"(Ramsdell) recognized that Janie and Robert breached their duties," Osgood said after the verdict was read. "But I would have liked for him to go a bit further."
Specifically, Osgood and other plaintiffs wondered what it means when Janie and Robert continue to run Experience Hendrix and other Hendrix companies that fund the trusts.
"Are they fit to run this company?" Osgood wondered rhetorically. "Our position still is no, they are not fit to run the company."
The question might, in part, be discussed Oct. 15 in a hearing to enact the verdict. Additionally, Ramsdell is going to decide whether Leon's separate civil claim against Janie can move forward. It's unclear whether he is going to do that at the October hearing.
Leon and his attorney have not yet decided whether to appeal the ruling.
Charles Cross, the former publisher of "The Rocket" and a Kurt Cobain biographer who is completing a Hendrix biography, "Room Full of Mirrors," said it doesn't appear anyone is acting as Jimi would have.
In researching the book, due in August, Cross said he discovered that many of the people who Hendrix was closest to as a child -- particularly on his mother's side of the family -- never received a dime in any of Al's various wills and estate plans through the years. Al had divorced Jimi's and Leon's mother, Lucille, in the late 1950s. She died a few years later.
And unfortunately, said Cross, who attended most of the trial, fights over money made on Hendrix's talent are nothing new. "The sad legacy of Jimi Hendrix is that ever since his first record came out, people have been fighting over the money."
THE FAMILY
Jimi Hendrix: Born in Seattle on Nov. 27, 1942, to Lucille and Al Hendrix. Creator of several classic rock albums. Died of drug overdose in 1970.
Leon Hendrix: Born in 1948, son of Lucille and Al. Sold his share of song copyrights to the lawyer overseeing the estate, he says at his dad's wishes.
Janie Hendrix: Adopted by Al Hendrix in 1968 when he married her mother, June Jinka. Holds much of the control of the Hendrix companies and trusts.
Eilif
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There does seem to be an awful lot of Hendrix ads these days. I hope it is just a passing trend and that SRV won't end up being the next craze. It's one thing for a living person to endorse a product but quite another for the dead to be used in advertising.
If companies like Ernie Ball and Marshall want to say that Jimi used their products, that's cool because it's the truth, and indeed they were essential elements of Jimi's toolbox.
But something like "Microsoft Windows--Hendrix version" or "Hendrix Bran Flakes" is going too far, and it does seem that the market is heading in this direction. If it makes money for Jimi's family, good for them, but the use of Jimi by companies who had nothing to do with him cheapens his accomplishments and shows a lack of respect for a musical genius whose life ended quite tragically.
If companies like Ernie Ball and Marshall want to say that Jimi used their products, that's cool because it's the truth, and indeed they were essential elements of Jimi's toolbox.
But something like "Microsoft Windows--Hendrix version" or "Hendrix Bran Flakes" is going too far, and it does seem that the market is heading in this direction. If it makes money for Jimi's family, good for them, but the use of Jimi by companies who had nothing to do with him cheapens his accomplishments and shows a lack of respect for a musical genius whose life ended quite tragically.
