Lavender haze.Maybe he was singing "'Souse me while I kiss this guy" and not "kiss the sky" in "Purple Haze" after all. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new bio, legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix said he was gay to get discharged from the Army. Medical records reveal that he "began going to the base psychiatrist [claiming], 'I'm in love with my bunkmate bunk·mate n. A person with whom one shares sleeping quarters. Noun 1. bunkmate - someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself ,'" says Charles R. Cross Charles R. Cross is a rock music journalist and author based in Seattle. He is the founder of Backstreets magazine, a periodical for fans of Bruce Springsteen, editor of "Springsteen: the Man and His Music," a compilation of Backstreets articles, and is also author of a biography , author of the just-published Room Full of Mirrors, to The Advocate. Hendrix joined up in 196] to avoid prison on charges of stealing cars; 13 months later he was honorably discharged--and not due to a broken ankle, as Hendrix later claimed. Cross found no evidence Hendrix ever had gay relations. But he did have gay friends, including a Harlem hairdresser. "Jimi was obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with his hair," he said. |
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