Now here is a story you don't hear every day. I have heard stories of people being high on drugs. I have also heard stories of kidnappers taking people. However, I have never heard of someone being so high on drugs that they didn't realize kidnappers were abducting them. Well, today is the day I suppose because that is exactly what happened when Jimi Hendrix got kidnapped.
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Jimi Hendrix Got Kidnapped?
The final year of Hendrix's life was crazy. According to Grunge.com, there was a lot going on. He felt a little lost musically, toured relentlessly to the point of exhaustion, and apparently someone kidnapped him. Hendrix was so high on drugs when it happened that he didn't even realize that someone had kidnapped him. I guess that makes the experience less traumatizing.
According to the accounts, Jimi Hendrix was kidnapped about a month after his Woodstock performance, exactly a year before he died. The story, which came from a member of the mob, is as follows. Hendrix was at a party looking for some drugs when two men approached him. The person who shared the story admitted that the kidnappers didn't officially belong to the Mafia. However, they were "cut from the same cloth." The men offered Hendrix cocaine and removed him from the party.
Once they moved him to a second location, they contacted his team and demanded a ransom. However, they weren't just asking for money. Grunge shares that they "demanded a ransom in the form of ownership of Hendrix's record contract." However, they never got their demands. After a real mobster made some threatening calls, the kidnappers released Hendrix and returned him without demanding a ransom. While the whole ordeal could have been quite traumatizing it appeared that Hendrix had no memory of it.
He was so high on drugs that Jimi Hendrix didn't even realize that someone had kidnapped him. Additionally, the details surrounding the event are so hazy that no one seems to know the full truth. In fact people don't even call it a kidnapping when they discuss it. More often, they refer to it as "The Lost Weekend." Some people have even hypothesized that Hendrix's manager set the whole thing up to look like a hero.
While the world may never know the full details one thing we do know, is that the last year of Hendrix's life held some truly bizarre events.
