Plans For Jimi Hendrix Monument Unveiled
Sketches and renderings of a monument honoring legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix were unveiled last Friday in Renton, Washington, during a press conference organized by his father (and caretaker of the Hendrix estate), James.
Hendrix hopes to memorialize his son's final resting place with a life-size bronze statue of Jimi, modeled after his likeness at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, which would be enclosed by a large granite dome and pillar structure, according to the Associated Press.
Current plans call for the Hendrix monument to be placed near the site of the guitarist's gravestone at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, located about eight miles southwest of Seattle, the city in which Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942.James "Al" Hendrix hopes to dedicate the monument on September 18, 2000, which would mark the thirtieth anniversary of the musician's death in London.Since a court awarded James rights to all of his son's recordings in 1995(after a lengthy legal battle with Jimi's former producer, Alan Douglas), the estate has issued remastered versions of Jimi Hendrix's studio albums as well as new LPs of songs culled from the guitarist's archives.
The most recent of these albums, Jimi Hendrix's "Live at Woodstock," was issued in July.
