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Discography

For Discography section, the "Studio Albums" sub-section should be titled something like "With The Jimi Hendrix Experience" or something to include the band he played with. Those albums are labeled "The Jimi Hendrix Experience". Fdssdf (talk) 00:46, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Death and Bob Brown

The article states that Bob Brown pronounced Hendrix dead. The source quoted (see the PDF document) only infers Bob Brown was a medical officer and present in the ward when Hendrix was admitted. Nothing in the source supports the article's speculation that Bob Brown pronounced Hendrix dead.

Accordingly, the sentence should be amended. In any case, the mere presence of a minor antipodean political figure in the ward where Hendrix was pronounced dead is trivial and should probably not be in the article anyway. --Mkativerata (talk) 02:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, the source doesn't at all back up what is in the article. I've removed that sentence. carl bunderson (talk) (contributions) 23:22, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Not completely black

His paternal grandparents were on one side half white, half black, on the other side half black and half cherokee.

His mom's father was half black, half white, her mom was of Cherokee and black ancestry.

50% black, 25% cherokee, 25% white.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimihendd (talk • contribs) 02:47, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

• I'm pretty sure you are right about that, but of course it would need a reliable source. It also wouldn't bother me if race were left out of it altogether unless there is something directly related to it that is relevant to the article. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:58, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Hey. 'Its meagainI changed names, cuz i forgot my other password. I have reliable sources to support what I just said. This article only mentions his african-american roots... why can't I edit the page? Can you replace that with 50% black, 25% cherokee and 25% white. Here are the links...one minute ............ This link talks of his paternal grandparents: one side half black, half white, other side half Cherokee and half Black. >>>>>>> http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/blood-entertainers-life-and-times-jimi-hendrixs-paternal-grandparents This links talkf of his maternal grandparents: one side half black, half white, other side Cherokee/black. >>>>>>> http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/index.php?aid=244 His maternal great grandmother said that her Cherokee forebearers had to flee the white threat and that they intermarried with Blacks.

• I'm not sure those are what would be considered reliable sources. And I really don't understand where they could have gone to "flee the white threat" that would have been populated by blacks. Certainly not to Seattle. At the time of the Trail of Tears, there was no such thing as free blacks in North America, with a very few exceptions, they were considered property not people. I still think race isn't really discussed in this article, other than mentioning it in passing, and that information on his race could be safely left out without harming the quality of the article. After all, I wouldn't expect the article on Eric Clapton to mention that he is white, unless he had been involved in some sort of racial controversy or movement. Hendrix was a hippie, or maybe just a "freak" not a Black Panther. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:02, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

• perusing the links on this page, the one cited for his being of African descent [1] actually says he was " a black American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent." so there's another version. I wonder if anyone has an actual authorized biography or something of that nature that could be considered a definitive source for this issue... Beeblebrox (talk) 02:12, 11 February 2009 (UTC)