Did Jimi foresee the future?

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Did Jimi foresee the future... of a specific southern area of western Canada (British Columbia)?

This is no hoax. It's reported by Canada's top news broadcasting network, CBC. Photos of the peculiar "purple haze" phnomenon have been contributed by four different photographers, to the story. Intriguing. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pink-purple-fog-kelowna-penticton-1.7100456

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Jimi actually spent part of his youth living in Vancouver, BC. So, oddly enough, he did have a connection with our province. Articles about the famous guitar virtuoso & singer have mentioned that Hendrix dreamed about a "purple haze" then started writing a song with the image.

Do you have any ideas on what might have caused this?
 

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When I was in my late teens, I took Mescaline. I saw a purple haze and every other color of the rainbow. Plain ordinary sidewalks, lit up like they were made of colored glass, like there were lights below making them light up. A slimey little pond, looked like water with hieroglyphics painted in it. I stuck my head into a bush and saw little elves running up and down the branches carrying little torches.

He didn't see the future. He was totally zonked out on drugs.
 
The link attempts to explain about special atmospheric conditions, lighting, that's fine., Maybe some rare particulate in the air. Maybe Jimi saw this weather phenomena like the others did, maybe he was tripping, maybe both. Doesn't mean he saw anything of the future. Cool idea tho'.

More mysterious, is the legendary Purple Cow.

The Purple Cow​

I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one,
But I can tell you, anyhow,
Iā€™d rather see than be one!

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Gelett Burgess
 
Yes!! He also saw the time we are living in now with "Up from the Skies"!

I just want to talk to you
I won't uh, do you no harm
I just want to know about your different lives
On this here people farm
I heard some of you got your families
Living in cages, tall and cold
And some just stay there and, dust away
Past the age of old
[Chorus]
Is this true?
Please let me talk to you

[Verse 2]
I just want to know about
The rooms behind your minds
Do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind?
Or is it just uh, remains from vibrations
And echoes long ago
Things like "Love the World"
And uh, "Let your fancy Flow"

[Chorus]
Is this true?
Please let me talk to you
Let me talk to you
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Drake ā€“ 8am in Charlotte

[Verse 3]
I have lived here before, the days of ice
And of course this is why I'm so concerned
And I come back to find the stars misplaced
And the smell of a world that has burned
A smell of the world that has burned

[Bridge]
Yeah well, maybe
Maybe it's just a change of climate
I can dig it
I can dig it baby, I just want to see

[Verse 4]
So where do I purchase my ticket?
I would just like to have a ringside seat
I want to know about the new Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything

[Outro]
Aw, shucks
If my daddy could see me now
Everything, everything
Everything, everything
 
JBR said:
Did Jimi foresee the future... of a specific southern area of western Canada (British Columbia)?

Jimi actually spent part of his youth living in Vancouver, BC. So, oddly enough, he did have a connection with our province. Articles about the famous guitar virtuoso & singer have mentioned that Hendrix dreamed about a "purple haze" then started writing a song with the image.

Do you have any ideas on what might have caused this?
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The History And Influence Of Jimi Hendrixā€™s Purple Haze ā€“ velvetunderground.com

"Purple Haze is a song by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, released in 1967. Hendrix wrote the song in 1966, while in England. It was inspired by a dream he had, in which he walked under a purple sky."

Devi said:
He could not have performed as he did if he was "totally zonked out on drugs".

That said, wasn't Purple Haze a form of LSD?
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What is Purple Haze?

"Purple Haze, a cannabis plant, is a type of flowering plant found in the Sativa variety. Veteran consumers will remember the haze of this strain as a sweet burst of ecstasy reminiscent of the psychedelic era. It apparently comes from Colombia, where it was obtained and standardized from the epic Haze strain of the Haze Brothers. Purple Haze is a name used to describe a specific strain of clearly violet marijuana. In fact, this name was originally used to describe a type of LSD sold in the 60s and 70s that was impregnated with a purple blotter paper. Later, this marijuana strain received this famous name thanks to its high potency and high concentration of crystals.

This cerebral herb is an excellent headache reliever that tastes like strawberries and contains high levels of THC. This old-school Sativa is named after Jimi Hendrixā€™s 1967 classic legendary hit, and it produces a nearly hallucinogenic effect. Besides its immense potency, it is characterized by the color it takes on when exposed to low temperatures during the flowering period. Indeed, the Purple Haze leaves and Purple Haze calyxes change from a dark green to a lavender-blue color or to a very intense purple color.

The history of Purple Haze marijuana, however, changed dramatically exactly at the moment this glorified Purple Haze term was used in Jimi Hendrix's song. Most people believed that the song revolved around the story of this super-strong LSD created by Owsley Stanley, not the story of this cannabis specimen. Nevertheless, Stanley named this LSD 'Purple Monterey' in anticipation of the Monterey Pop Festival, where Hendrix was supposed to consume either Purple Haze marijuana or LSD before hitting the stage. In this way, it remains unclear whether the name Purple Haze comes from one or the other."
 
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Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze was the consequence of Stanley's Monterey Purple LSD; his varieties included White Lightning and Blue Cheer and aficionados called the best acid simply "Owsley".

I know because I tried it a couple times. :eek:
 
Devi said:
He could not have performed as he did if he was "totally zonked out on drugs".

That said, wasn't Purple Haze a form of LSD?
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Not sure about purple haze but very sure on the purple microdot lsd. It was powerful stuff.
I think he must have been really high.
 
ā€œPurple Hazeā€ is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967. ... Because of ambiguities in the lyrics, listeners often interpret the song as referring to a psychedelic experience, although Hendrix described it as a love song.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience ā€“ Purple Haze

Here's Jimi's lyrics to Purple Haze:

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things, they don't seem the same
Acting funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

[Verse 2]
Purple haze all around
Don't know if I'm coming up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me! Help me!
Ah no, no

[Instrumental ā€“ Guitar solo]

[Verse 3]
Yeah! Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowing, blowing my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

[Outro]
No, help me
No, yeah purple haze
Oh no, no
Oh, help me
Tell me, tell me
Can't go on like this
You make me blow my mind
No, no, no
No, no, purple haze
 
I went to see Hendrix at Winterland in SF. I went with a friend who went backstage and got pretty close to him and his entourage. My friend said that he was popping pills that people gave him like candy. I don't know how he could of performed being THAT zoned. Maybe, maybe not.
 
Devi said:
He could not have performed as he did if he was "totally zonked out on drugs".

That said, wasn't Purple Haze a form of LSD?
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I don't doubt Hendrix was usually high when he performed, but not totally zonked out.
But it's totally plausible he wrote lyrics about experiences he had while he was trippin'.
 
Murrmurr said:
I don't doubt Hendrix was usually high when he performed, but not totally zonked out.
But it's totally plausible he wrote lyrics about experiences he had while he was trippin'.
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Okay. I do recall there was some acid called "Purple Haze" ā€” maybe nothing to do with Jimi, but that's my recollection from a zillion years ago.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I went to see Hendrix at Winterland in SF. I went with a friend who went backstage and got pretty close to him and his entourage. My friend said that he was popping pills that people gave him like candy. I don't know how he could of performed being THAT zoned. Maybe, maybe not.
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I had a cousin who would swallow any kind of pills anyone gave him, and then ask "What was that?" He was also an alcoholic and usually downed whatever and however-many you gave him with a big swig of vodka.

Greg and I were really close when we were teenagers and young adults, and I went to his 35th birthday party...sometime in the mid-80s. His girlfriend brought out a cake that was decorated on top with a variety of pills, most of them capsules, black ones, red ones, two-toned ones, plus some cross-tops and other little white tabs.

Greg immediately plucked all but a few of those pills off his cake and downed them with his birthday martini; vodka and vermouth with a splash of grenadine.

I didn't make it to his 36th birthday party, but neither did he. His cause of death was alcohol poisoning with liver failure.
 
Murrmurr said:
I had a cousin who would swallow any kind of pills anyone gave him, and then ask "What was that?" He was also an alcoholic and usually downed whatever and however-many you gave him with a big swig of vodka.

Greg and I were really close when we were teenagers and young adults, and I went to his 35th birthday party...sometime in the mid-80s. His girlfriend brought out a cake that was decorated on top with a variety of pills, most of them capsules, black ones, red ones, two-toned ones, plus some cross-tops and other little white tabs.

Greg immediately plucked all but a few of those pills off his cake and downed them with his birthday martini; vodka and vermouth with a splash of grenadine.

I didn't make it to his 36th birthday party, but neither did he. His cause of death was alcohol poisoning with liver failure.
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It's still amazing how drug taking is lauded when it comes to music. At least, I often see people heavily criticizing drug takers, but when it comes to musicians, it's brushed off as a right of passage. Jimi had so much more music inside him, and we never got to hear it. He never got to express it. Sad.
 
Devi said:
ā€œPurple Hazeā€ is a song written by Jimi Hendrix...Because of ambiguities in the lyrics, listeners often interpret the song as referring to a psychedelic experience, although Hendrix described it as a love song.
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Judging from the song's lyrics, I think it's both a psychedelic trip he's on and blaming his lover for it..."you got me blowing my mind"
 
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