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Jimi & Genius

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I enjoy being an iconoclastic individual. Evangelical-Intellectual, Athletic-Beer Drinker/Cigar Smoker, Reformed/Open-Minded. I am a niche personality. Working my way out of and whittling down a prefab ready-made audience, eschewing the type of predictability that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have made their billions on, as well as the Liberal equivalents. Perhaps my most illuminating fascination that exhibits my both/and approach is my deep affection for Jimi Hendrix, not just his music, but his personality. Far from only being a drug-addled freak, Jimi Hendrix was a modern day Mozart. Taking the Blues from the Mississippi Delta and expanding it into the Universe. Perhaps one of the few that could legitimately have both the historical roots and the progressive imagination together, making his music a epochal earth-shaking phenom. No other Rock guitarist has had such a lasting legacy. I just finished the book below: (a very plain and drab cover, that looks more like a passport pic