WHAT HAPPENED TO MY CAREER? by Michael Fairchild

As the writer for Are You Experienced? Ltd. I achieved the most visibility of the world’s Hendrix experts. My booklets included with 14 official Hendrix CDs are familiar to more than six million people. Many of these people dislike Alan Douglas.

“A lot of people are going to hate you because of me. You’re one of the bad guys. The collectors all hate me, because I have control of the situation. They all want to have that, just like I would like you to have it if I’m not around. OK?"

"Al Hendrix will go to court to try to win back the rights to his son's legacy - a legacy said to be worth about $100 million. It will be an uphill battle...Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and a Hendrix fanatic whose planning a Museum for his idol in Seattle, has been bankrolling Al Hendrix's suit, spending some $5 million thus far...his motives may not be entirely selfless...his attorney has acknowledged to Newsweek that the businessman is now negotiating a deal with Al Hendrix. If Hendrix signs the deal - and if he wins his suit - Allen's nonprofit museum will be off to an extraordinary start. The museum has sought exclusive rights to exhibit Jimi Hendrix's name and likeness, create and sell merchandise, mount interactive displays, and open a theme restaurant. It has sought these rights for 100 years for free. Hendrix could refuse to sign such a deal, but it remains to be seen if Allen will continue to foot his bills. Jimi Hendrix died in London in September 1970...he did not leave any will. Presumed to be the rightful heir, Al Hendrix began selling off various pieces of his sons estate. Hendrix sold rights to Jimi's record catalog to a Panamanian tax shelter called PMSA in 1974, and the rights to his son's likeness wound up at a company called ARM in 1983. The rights have since changed hands many times...He's named his former lawyer Leo Branton Jr. in the lawsuit...Branton produces many signed documents containing passages the lawyer believes are quite clear; 'Hendrix hereby sells and conveys to PMSA all his right, title, and interest,' etc...some believe Al Hendrix is simply kicking himself for having sold off his songs legacy too early...there was little reason to believe that Hendrix's music would rise again. The marketplace was already awash in his albums...and none were selling, but then...Warner Bros. hired record producer Alan Douglas to oversee the Jimi Hendrix catalog...old and new fans bought 3 million of his albums. More than a million Hendrix records were sold last year...MCA bought the rights to the Jimi Hendrix catalog for a staggering $75 million in 1993. Al Hendrix's lawsuit was born in April of that year...no one really blames this lawsuit on Al Hendrix...Al isn't behind this lawsuit, Yale Lewis and Paul Allen are the real culprits...Allen needs the rights for his museum, and he's financing the lawsuit to get them. Allen's lawyers insist that this is a charitable venture, and that the legal fees will exceed the value of any rights to come the museum's way."

[NOTE: Paul Allen's publicist team fabricated this scenario so as to suggest to readers that his motive is to get rights to Jimi's music and image for his museam, now called the Experience Music Project (EMP) in Seattle. But this was a smoke screen, Mr. Allen never did obtain rights to Jimi's catalog, because his real motive and intentions were to prevent me from becoming the director of the Hendrix production company, and the only way he could do that was to offer Al Hendrix millions of dollars to put his name on a bogus lawsuit, a case that transparently had no merit, a case that everyone involved knew would be settled out of court, with terms that exiled me from the company and prevents that company from ever having further involvement by me. Mr. Allen then instructed his media empire, including DreamWorks Movie Studios, to systematicly "treat" the asteorid prophecy that I'd been writing about. A long series of their movies and reports for mass media publications followed, and continue today. This list of asteroid movies and news is being chroniclled on this website's Timeline, while a network of Hendrix collectors, jealous of my work and insights, cheer and support Mr. Allen's persecution of me. After my book, Rock Prophecy, was published in 1999, Mr. Allen continued his obsessive reactions to my insights by producing "rebuttals" to the book in the form of a series of PBS specials about Evolution and The Blues.

So it is this psychological profile surrounding this case, as well as the actual Hendrix asteroid vision (including media and public reactions to it), that have become the central focus of the movies and multi media lectures that are being produced today. An immense number of lessons are revealed through this story, the foremost one being a concept called "Retarded History" - a pattern of human behavior inspired by our culture of inequality, which results in our inability to build any defense against the asteroid that is aimed to impact our planet on Friday the 13th in April, twenty-two years from now, just as Jimi predicted. The "Hendrix-Microsoft lawsuit" was the deal with evil that sealed the fate of civilization, and set the stage for the Murder of Earth...]

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