Jimi Hendrix's former girlfriend Kathy Etchingham - full interview
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- On Tuesday 9th February 2016, Planet Rock broadcast live from Jimi Hendrix's restored old flat at 23 Brook Street.
Whilst there, Wyatt spoke to Jimi's former girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, who lived there with him, on what the restoration meant to her, playing Twister, and Jimi's love of Coronation Street...
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Kathy Etchingham is absolutely lovely! I can see why Jimi Hendrix was so drawn to her. I bet they had the greatest time together. Awesome.
I agree - and if he'd stayed with her, he would probably still be alive today. Or at least he would have lived a lot longer.
get glasses shes fake
Ive known a few people who knew Jimi way back in the days in London and they all said the same thing about him, that he was a gentleman and very very humble.
@Wes 76 :You have no idea who I am mate, I lived in London, Im British, in the late 1960s and knew many people in the Rock N Roll world, I almost met Jimi but it just didnt happen for various reasons, friends knew Chas Chandler, who brought Jimi to the UK.
@@abw48 his girlfriend has aged well. I liked him as a kid. I always thought that he was heavy into drugs! Was watching an interview with Roger Daltry yesterday. He was clean also, they needed someone to be. Stay healthy both 😎
@@Thefunksoulbro : Most of us in that scene were into various drugs, mainly Hashish and LSD, Jimi loved both, as did I, as for Roger Daltry he was the ONLY one in the Who that were NOT into various drugs and so, as he has stated in the past, he was the one that had to be in control of the Band because the others were out of it. Personally I got clean and sober in 1984.
@@abw48 if you remember the 70s you weren't there 😀 I dabbled, just beer and wine now I'm 60.
@@Thefunksoulbro : I think it was Robin Williams that said "If you remember the 60s you werent there". I have many blank spots in both decades, mid 60s to mid 80s.
Thats not a badge of honor in any way, just what my life was about.
I ran through it like a Bull in a China Shop holding a joint i one hand and a bottle in the other hand.
. No regrets. Im now 72 and wondering how I made it this far along the Yellow Brick Road.
What a sweetheart Kathy is. Great Interview!
I can see why Jimi liked her so much. Very sweet , gentle lady.
Wished he stayed with her and never got involved with Monica and got away from Mike Jeffery. He might have been with us much longer
What a likable woman. She brings it all vividly back to life! And I love the domesticity aspect of Jimi's London life with her.
Jimi watching Coronation Street. Priceless!
I belive the line 'after all the Jack's were in their boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed' referred to the test card picture that used to appear on the TV (the little girl with the jack in the box and clown) when the TV shut down/opened.
✌🏻✌🏿
@kevindlinc Quite true, had never thought of it before but you're right.
@@Alison-LoveAndUnity Yeah, I think I heard that somewhere. I just love the idea of Jimi watching British TV in the 60's.
She sure is a likable nice lady, glad she is around to share such wonderful and positive stories about Jimi.
I read her book, they had a lot of easy going fun together, watching silly tv shows, going skating, playing board games, laughing about ridiculous situations. They fought when they needed to, they didn’t seem to hide their feelings. It must have been a comfort to have her in his life when it was spinning out of control from fame.
Kathy is a really Lovely woman who took care of Jimi from the day he landed in London for almost two years. A real Sweetheart! Rev. Muddy
she's experienced.
lol
So was pamela courson.
lmao!! Homie that was a good one
Are...YOU...?
And you're jealous
I went there a couple of weeks ago, I highly recommend for any fan.
Great interview Kathy, I have seen a lot of interviews about Jimi, and they all say the same thing, Jimi was very cool, and a real person, not some superstar that had a god complex. He is still one of my all time rock hero’s. RIP Jimi
Jimi was an amazing musician, a Sagittarius, and a clean freak... a man after my own heart :)
SCorpio born november 5th
George Platsakis November 27, 1942
Thanks for the feedback..just i learned before 2 days he was a scorpio and to remember this i connect with paganini who was scorpio too and playing the violin with virtuosity as hendrix played the guitar.It is ok isnot so big deal!!
I appreciate your action to reply more than the true of the info!
George Platsakis 🤣 he is a Sagittarius! His birthday was November 27, 1942. Google it
@@KrysLynne82 wow!so fast feedback.I wonder what is our time difference....seems you are a saggitarius too!
That's what people forget and younger people don't realize is how monochrome and still post-war kind of austerity England was in then despite how all the 'swinging 60s' docs present it. Rock and pop was still relatively new and the new stars and younger generation who were breaking free of all the conservative repression were essentially down to earth humble types. The whole rock star icon thing started in the 1970s but the 1960s figures like Hendrix and Jim Morrison whose stage personas and public image they were trying to emulate were genuine creative individuals who got caught up in and carried away by the changing times they were in before they probably really knew what was happening or just what a cultural force they were creating.
Yeah, but Jimi's dad wasn't a navy Admiral caught up in the false flag of the Bay of Tonkin incident. Something fake about Morrison......"You're all slaaaaaves!". Well, you would know, Jim.
They were both Sagittarius.
@@davidwhite4874What a ridiculous statement.
@@stj971 Why? You're not basing your comment on your own ignorance, are you?
This is really cool. Thank you so much Kathy!
maulerism n
Man, that interview flew by in seconds, should of gone for much longer
So down to earth.....just shows Jimi was like everyone else....apart from his extraordinary talent....
Great interview and what a lovely lady . Brilliant.
What a lovely lady. Jimi had taste ;-)
Beautiful Eyes This Lady
YUPPERZ!!!
Great taste.
Went to his flat the other day, it felt so warm and private there, Jimi had a very cool Pad! :) Mw
THE best preserved 60s person - Kathy Etchingham!
Kathy You are wonderful! So nice to see you! Jimi, we love you
That's his room.. wow what an honor it would be to sit on that bed
I have the same amplifier as Jimi & Kathy had in this flat, a Leak Stereo 30, made in Acton London in 1960s and it still sounds great!
Wonderful interview.
she is so cool
Wow. I googled Kathy Etchingham and a photo of her and Jimmy came up with the same tapestry that appears in the video in the background. This place is like a museum.
That was fun! It's a privilege to hear how things were, when Jimi was relaxing at home, and not performing!
Jimmy was a normal, sensitive soul in real life...he was a poet.
Hendrix was a military idiot, the whole family has a military background and has blood on their hands. a fake hippie
Went here last Friday. Really a pleasure. Bought Kathy's book, Through Gypsy Eyes, in the gift shop, too. Read it in a day. Glad I went to the museum. Tenner entry, 5 quid each for the kids. Bargain.
Awsome interview. They both had fun
Kathy Etchingham is a lovely lady. Glad to know this flat has been turned into a museum. I went past it today at Brook Street.
Jimi Hendrix comes across as a pretty normal guy.
It's been 51 years since he died. That's a long time to be carrying a non-related deceased person in your ❤️. That's loyalty!
When Hendrix chose Kathy, he chose well. I hope they are reunited someday...
51 years ago?!?? 😱😱 my goodness
@@ChuckTay23 It feels like a lifetime ago, because it almost is. I wonder what he's doing in the afterlife. Is he aware that people are still listening to him? Does he know that we wish he hadn't died so young?
And, for all I know, Kathy is now dead.
@@lisarochwarg4707 update: Kathy is now 77 years old , and is still alive
Yes. Kathy still hold Jimi close to her ❤
Great interview..
Lovely gal
I LOVE the fact that Jimi Hendrix in some way got a kick out of the old Ena-Sharples Coronation Street! I love it when America meets England and vice versa (English-born naturalised American here, married to a native New York honorary Englishman!)
She is still beautiful & bubbly as ever! Nice.
I was at Ft. Bragg, 82nd Abn. Div. 1984. I had "The Experience," rather PRIVILAGE of being invited by a grunt, to sit in Jimi's room. I was, his initials are etched in the concrete block, invited to notice his initials. I finished my cigarette, cleans off the table, straightened up and left in awe. All The Way and Then Some. Screaming Eagles. ROCK STEADY.
Thank you!
awesome!! thanks!
She is an absolute doll. I wish I had neighbours like her
Thanks so much 🤗🤙🌺
i used to drive through brook streets many times and see the blue plaque, glad they have opened it up
Kathy is a classy, very grounded lady, I’ve always thought he would have lived a lot longer if they’d stayed together.
I think if Jimi was alive today he would down play him being a guitar God. He was humble .
Onya Kath. Delightful interview. ty
Wow! She is still so beautiful today. She must have been an absolute stunner in her day.
@Gary Nelson just curious but what experiences have you had with her??
I need to find out where the replica bedding, carpet, and decor came from because they are perfect.
Excellent
she mentions KISS..awesome 😊
Mary. Still love Jimi more today than back when he was living. Wish they could had a long marriage . I feel she could have kept him grounded.
Read Kathy's book -"Through Gypsy Eyes" very interesting
Amazing how sharp her memory is. I did a lot of partying in the late 70s on to 90s. And I can barely remember much. Photos help jog some memories. But those many years. She is definitely a charming woman as well!
From what I've read, she inspired "Wind Cries Mary"
+brad s As well as Foxy Lady and Send My Love to Linda.
+Ceri As well as 1983 (A Mermaid I Shall Turn) although she didn't want him to use her actual name in the song..
+Mundi Cox I fucking love 1983! it's 13 minutes of brilliance. I did not know Kathy I spired it though
Rik Morgan It's an increadible song and he sounds amazing in it! And as for Kathy, I saw it on a documentary or read it somewhere, but can't remember where
There is this moment, somewhere in the middle of the ambient nautical interlude and during the bass solo, when Jimi comes back in with a few pentatonic blues licks. It briefly builds and then subsides, but it is so so fucking sweet that Ill play that 30 seconds on repeat for ages. So nice to chat with other fans :)
Total Class she is
God Bless her ..she loves Jimi alot and is a very smart woman I can see quite a bit of the voodoo child in her.... she rocks!!!
Not necessarily, I've read some things she said that made jimi Hendrix sound like dope fiend alcoholi. c , anyone who knows jimi couldnt get drunk because it made him mean usually wake up in jail.. He couldnt drink lot.. Although jimi could take lsd nobody would know he function. I never seen anyone function on acid
She killed Monika Dannemann saying she lied in court monkina then went and killed herself this woman is pure poison and a money grabbing whore
@@paulgrahamedwardspencer5161 I would be glad to help Ms Etchingham sue you for that poisonous libel...What Kathy did was bravely defend the truth, which no one in England managed to do up to the point where Kathy finally did it in 1990...Only a blind fool would say Kathy killed a sweet innocent Monika...What Kathy did do is find the original witnesses like the ambulance drivers who told a story that drastically differed from Monika's false version...Kathy's investigation led to questioning of all those involved that proved the actual events happened 6 hours earlier than what Monika told the police and that Monika's lies were designed to cover up the fact Jimi was murdered...How dare you accuse Kathy of murdering Monika...Monika died directly because the truth was coming out and her true participation in the events of that morning were finally being exposed and would have demanded accounting...Monika died because she stood to expose a terrible assassination that involved governments...And she may not have killed herself as believed - which is just another case of a misreported death just like Jimi's...
@@Exiles800 did KATHY ETCHINGHAM attend Hendrixs`s funeral in late 1970?
Jimmy Hendrix watching Corrie... who'd have thought it
He could probably play the theme tune backwards on his Strat!
Allan Jones never thought it either,tomorrow never knows as Beatles lyrics.....
Well missed RIP Jimmy 🥀🥀🥀🎸✌💕😪
Jimi, bless him. Has anybody a bad word to say about Jimi Hendrix?
As I said when JIMI was first OUT I was 6-7 yrs old but I heard him,my older brother & sis spun his records...more my bro who also hband...ethen I dug it!
Jimi was the man!!!! Wish he was around longer. True genius
ALSO IS THAT A STELLA ACOUSTIC GUITAR?HALLELUJAH!HENDRIX IN THE HANDEL HOUSE!!CHRIS,BARB
Im 71 years old. I remember the 60’s well,the good and the bad. I remember the Motown Sound artists during that time and also the British Invasion. Somehow I missed Hendrix,but not by much. I started listening to his music during the summer of 71. He was dead around nine months. He was very unique. I think Kathy was a woman that truly cared about him.
I really miss the simple retro stuff, im a simple person.
It's a small world, Jimi liked Ena Sharples from Coronation St. who - when she wasn't being an interfering old bint - like to play her Harmonium, that very Harmonium Ena owned was later played by John Lennon on 'We Can Work It Out'
I read her book. I actually bought it at that place. I like her and enjoyed the book although I expected more from it. What struck me though was that she didn't give me the impression that she was into his music. I could be wrong but I would've loved to read more about what it was like when he played guitar at home. Maybe it's just me but that's what I really missed. While I am nitpicking, I also thought she was trying to show off about who she has slept with as if they had agreed that they had an open relationship but I think she was in denial about all the woman he slept with during their relationship. In other words she is trying hard to make the world believe that their relationship was very special and that she was his only great love. Maybe she was but I am not so sure. Maybe I am not making any sense but these are the feelings that always pop up when I hear her.
She was 1 of many.
I think Kathy is doing a good job to tell a more truthful story about Jimi than otherwise would be known. I remember I read that the reason she left Jimi was because of his interest in other women. Kathy got married and had children and so on, and I think Jimi wanted her back later on but she was not available anymore....they were still on good terms...those were the sixties with free love...
She is doing a good job at making people believe she was the one which is some bullshit.she actes like she is jimi widow.Jimi dated Many women during his lifetime none of them has been as attention seeking as this Kathy woman
Brilliant my mums mates got a broach which belonged to Kathy or jimmy I forget but kathys name got brought up..coronation st
Awwwwww.. How Special is This :) :)
The wind cries Kathy
She's gorgeous
yup look at that big fat booty
Kathy. You are awesome.
Love you Kathy live fore long long baby.
MEED TO SPEAK WITH HER REGARDING Jimi Hendrix. VERY IMPORTANT
A pleasure
fantastic love to meet cathy
She's pretty cool.😁
Jimi's Angel
where is james daniel sundquist at?
What a lovely lady..wow I feel I know them totally on same wave length..JImi watching Ena Sharples?! LMAO
He sounds awesome. I only started looking at interviews of him recently. He reminds me of Kenny The Spaceman (my house share mate). Anyway. Yeah. Sounds normal. His music entertainment stage persona seems to have become almost like an Urban Myth. But we when he speaks he was just regular old Jim. (Nes Manga)
the were actually humble pp. and cute couple. how sweaaat
Holy shit it's a shame they didn't have a kid.
I would pay that kid's college tuition.
LOL!!!
U shoulda paid Jimiz.
Jimi wanted 2 take sum time off & go 2 school, so dat he could learn his nstrument better, & learn mo about theory & orchestration. Bizness CONcernz, kept him from pursuing his lofty goals.
SMH
they had one ...
@@urs-wernermerkli3035
Liez.....
LIEZ!!!!
@@urs-wernermerkli3035
There wuz many a paternity suit, launched against Hendrix, while he wuz alive, BUTT only 2 stood.
He met a young black runaway, whilst he wuz struggling 2 achieve fame/while playing sideman guitar. Dis young lady, took 2 prostitution, when she & Hendrix were having a hard time making ends meet. About a year b4 he left da U.S. 4 London, she left him, after he struck her, bcause she went out turning tricks, after he told her 2 stop.
Later, about a year b4 his death, da young lady appeared @ 1 of his showz & told him he had a lil gurl
2nd child, wuz born n Sweden, 2 a young fan. I blieve her name wuz Eva Svendiquist, & she had a boy. He grew-up, seeking a sex change, I think.
Kathy Etchingtam & Jimi, never had a child. After visiting him n New York & seeing pimpz, prostitutez, & drug dealerz, surrounding Hendrix, she grew frustrated & scuttled their relationship. She ended-up marrying sum kind of Doctor. Jimi wuz REALly n love wit Kathy, so he took her marriage, very hard.
From there, he went on wit several relationshipz. Devon Wilson, his bi-sexual, drug procuring, personal manager typo gurlfriend. Stella & Collette, 2 WOmen, who were hangin around Producer Alan Douglas. ( 1 of em wuz married 2 him. I blieve it wuz Stella. ) Movie actress Kristin Nefer, whom he proposed 2 a week b4 his tragic death. Lastly, there wuz Monica Danneman, who also claimed 2 b ngaged 2 Jimi. ( LOL!!! @ Hendrix runnin game on da lassez. ) Jimi ended-up passing away, whilst n da company of Monica Danneman. Bottomline - none of these post Kathy relationshipz, produced any offspring.
@@Einnor084 why do you type like an idiot
Can anyone picture jimmi Hendrix engrossed in an episode of coronation street
When I went to England, I saw that a lot of British people were stuck in the 60's lol. I really thought about Austin Powers lol.
I like her
very cool...
#DrMorq
They Was A Great Couple Because She Is A Gemini And He Is A Sagittarius ♐️ 🌸Rip My Fellow Sagittarius 🔥
I wonder if Jimi's missing Strats are buried in the attic ? 🎸☮️💟🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺✨✨✨✨😃
the older we get the closer we get to jimi
What is she doing now?
JIMI HENDRIX the JACKIE ROBINSON of mid -late sixties blues guitar in the uk.
Monika Danneman (one of Jimi Hendrix's girlfriends who was there when Jimi died back in 1970 ) years later
killed her self (suicide) on 5th April 1996 , she had lost an ongoing court battle with another of Hendrix's girlfriends, "Kathy Etchingham", two days earlier
Ken Barlow’s been in corrie since Moses parted the Red Sea
Fuck this one made me LOL 😆 😂 🤣
Kathy needs to do the right thing and use her Hendrix celebrity to call for justice for Jimi's murder. She's on the wrong side of this right now and trading truth for Hendrix celebrity...
That part!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾it’s a damn shame how the powers that be reported his death. Those who dig deeper KNOW he was water boarded with red wine. He was just about to take Mike Jeffries to court the following week.🤔
@@taurushamilton2739 It's not a shame...It is a deliberate plan under the CIA's control of the media...Now we have scumbag corporations controlling content in cooperation with the government, completely destroying the concept of check and balance free press...I am well-studied on this and I never heard of any evidence that Jimi had a scheduled plan to take Jeffery to court the week after he died...What Jimi did was call his lawyer and tell him to fire Jeffery and to work out a plan where any future contracts were satisfied with Jeffery but Jimi was to be free of him...Jimi was dead under questionable circumstances 12 hours after that call with everyone lying...
Monika Danneman-the chic he was with when he died, Kathy was always suspicious of her and after watching documentaries and reading the books on his death, I think Monika played a pivitol role in his death!!! The woman committed suicide yrs later taking all the guilt to the grave with her, she married the Scorpions guitarist and kept his fender stratocaster "black beauty" which that twat had NO RIGHT keeping!! Just hearing that name Monika Danneman boils my blood!!
She’s already tried that, search more
@@thebuddyholly Not as hard as she could have...I know Kathy personally...She already admitted that to me...
Interviewer looks like a long-haired Heath Ledger
Still gorgeous
reading a book about Jimi and Linda Keith just took the Statocaster away...:)
Interesting interview. What Coronation Street was on all the way back then! Just watched the biopic. Andre 3000 was too old to play Jimi and Hayley Attwell's accent sounds far too northern and hurt my ears. Not a great film but interesting moments
She was at his side as of any other groupies...if he was really feeling loved,he wouldn't give up his life that way
That's right.
They weren’t together when they died, and she broke up with him. His close friend said he became lost when she ended it
She was afraid of his hangers on with guns in the U.S. Very sad but his lifestyle including other women overwhelmed her. He tried to win her back but it was too late.
I had read in numerous stories that Jimi was murdered
Imagine how.much his.lyric pads will be worth nowadays