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Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

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considered the laws <strong>of</strong> God a form <strong>of</strong> bondage. He sawhimself and other rock singers as liberators <strong>of</strong> young peoplefrom such laws:“We’re in our little cement beehives in this society. People let alot <strong>of</strong> old-time laws rule them. e establishment has set up theTen Commandments for us saying don't, don't, don't. ... ewalls are crumbling and the establishment doesn't want to letgo. ... e establishment is so uptight about sex...” (JimiHendrix, quoted by Henderson, pp. 214, 215).In January 1969, Hendrix expressed his philosophy asfollows:“When I die I want people to play my music, go wild and freakout and do anything they wanna do” (Hendrix, interview withDon Short, Daily Mirror, Jan. 11, 1969).Hendrix believed he was possessed by the devil. GirlfriendFayne Pridgon said:“HE USED TO ALWAYS TALK ABOUT SOME DEVIL ORSOMETHING WAS IN HIM, you know. He didn’t know whatmade him act the way he acted and what made him say thethings he said, and the songs and different things like that ...just came out <strong>of</strong> him. It seems to me he was so tormented andjust torn apart and like he really was obsessed, you know, withsomething really evil. ... He said, ‘You're from Georgia ... youshould know how people drive demons out’--He used to talkabout us going ... and having some root lady or somebody seeif she could DRIVE THIS DEMON OUT OF HIM” (soundtrack from film Jimi Hendrix, interview with Fayne Pridgon,side 4, cited by Heartbeat <strong>of</strong> the Dragon, p. 50).Producer Alan Douglas stated the same thing:“Now one <strong>of</strong> the biggest things about Jimi was. . . he believedthat he was possessed by some spirit, and I got to believe itmyself; and that’s what we had to deal with all the time—hereally believed it and was wrestling with it constantly” (soundtrack from film Jimi Hendrix).Note the two following testimonies about Hendrix byfellow rocker Carlos Santana:292

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