It’s been more than 60 days since Vivid Entertainment first broke the news that they were in possession of a Jimi Hendrix sex tape, and since the company hasn’t receieved concrete word that the tape is bogus from Jimi’s posthumous license company Experience Music LLC, look for it on the shelves of a seedy store near you in the near future. When people look back on this era*, what conclusion do you think they’ll come to from the current era’s obsession with watching celebrities mate, even dead ones who can’t be the objects of any realistic fantasies because their bones were turned into dust long ago? I shudder when I think about it. Anyway, for those of you who would like a primer as to what, exactly, will be on this video, a New York Times recap of it from a few months ago is after the jump.
“The film shows a naked man who resembles Hendrix, the guitar legend who died in 1970, wearing a bandanna in his Afro, having sex with two brunettes in a dimly lighted bedroom. His full face appears on screen for only a few seconds, with his eyes closed. In other portions there are flashes of his profile. But his hands, bedecked with rings, roam large on the screen at times. The film has no audio.”
Apparently the women in the tape are groupies Pamela Des Barres and Cynthia “Plaster Caster” Albritton, and as luck would have it, Albritton is going to see a little bit of scratch from the video! So of course, she’s saying it’s real–but based on her past experiences immortalizing Jimi’s member, not of any memories of her actually being in the film.
Honestly, I don’t know how this is going to do for Vivid, which will sell the tape for $39.99. Discussions of the differing aesthetics of “hotness” in nearly 40 years ago and now aside, don’t you think that the Hendrix diehards would at least want some sort of, I don’t know, discussion of the parallels between Jimi’s playing style and the way he used his hands in his off-hours?
Jimi Hendrix sex tape emerges through the haze [NY Daily News]
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* If there are any people left, of course.
There’s an “If 6 was 9″ joke in there somewhere, but it’s hot today and I can’t be bothered.
“If six turned out to be nine, you had the camera upside down.”
I saw it for sale at the Hustler store a couple of weeks ago.
Said it before but the Hendrix estate is just pissed they didn’t find it first…so they could release it.
And why exactly is this tape not called “Are You Sexperienced?”?