Jimi Hendrix Makes A Crash Landing From The Phantom Zone
Michael Gross, Circus, May 1975
LATE AT NIGHT, the cluster of rock neophytes bunched around the portals of Steve Paul's famous club, The Scene, would scatter like mice as Jimi Hendrix flashed out the door and disappeared down the grim streets of New York's Hell's Kitchen.
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