How obscene could military propaganda be in using Jimi Hendrix's music in movies when Hendrix is dead?

If he were alive, he would absolutely object to his music being used by a corrupt death machine which serves the only purpose of ruling rich elites that Hendrix sang against. He's dead with no control of his copyrights, and the military takes advantage of that.|||Hey Mucus! Read a biography of Jimi before you display more ignorance. Jimi Hendrix served two tours of duty in Vietnam and was a veteran of the US Armed forces. He is an excellent choice to play in military movies-- he is a favorite of our armed forces.


His surviving family sells his music to whom they choose, and all royalties go to who gave permission.|||A)Jimmy Hendrix was a member of the 101st airborne division.


B)You have no way of knowing whether a dead person would object or not


C) Somebody owns the rights to that music and licensed it to the military, that is who your beef is with.|||Somebody already told you (the last time you asked this) that his family owns the rights to his music and they are the ones selling it to whoever. Take it up with them.|||That is up to the people who control his music, I believe that is his family.|||You can bet they paid hefty royalties into his estate to use that music.|||Wow, you know what dead people think? Maybe you should be one of those quack psychics, not a troll on Y! Answers.|||Who cares.|||Hendrix served in the Army, not really by choice. He was a pathetic example of a soldier and could not wait to get out.


He never went to Viet Nam.





In the Army





Hendrix got into trouble with the law twice for riding in stolen cars. He was given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the Army. Hendrix chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961. After completing boot camp, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. His commanding officers and fellow soldiers considered him to be a subpar soldier: he slept while on duty, had little regard for regulations, required constant supervision, and showed no skill as a marksman. For these reasons, his commanding officers submitted a request that Hendrix be discharged from the military after he had served only one year. Hendrix did not object when the opportunity to leave arose.[32] He would later tell reporters that he received a medical discharge after breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump. The rock music journalist Charles Cross contended in his biography of Hendrix, Room Full of Mirrors (2005) that Hendrix faked being homosexual鈥攃laiming to have fallen in love with a fellow soldier鈥攊n order to be discharged, but did not produce credible evidence to support this contention.





At the base recreation center, Hendrix met fellow soldier and bass player Billy Cox, and the two forged a loyal friendship that Hendrix would call upon from April 1969 until Billy's breakdown shortly before Hendrix's death. The two would often perform with other musicians at venues both on and off the base as a loosely organized band there named the Casuals. As a celebrity in the UK, Hendrix mentioned his military service in three published interviews; one in 1967 for the film See My Music Talking (much later released under the title Experience), which was intended for TV to promote his recently released Axis: Bold as Love LP, in which he spoke very briefly of his first parachuting experience: "...once you get out there everything is so quiet, all you hear is the breezes-s-s-s..." This comment has later been used to claim that he was saying that this was one of the sources of his "spacy" guitar sound. The second and third mentions of his military experience were in interviews for Melody Maker in 1967 and 1969, where he spoke of his dislike of the army.[33] In interviews in the US, Hendrix almost never mentioned it, and when Dick Cavett brought it up in his TV interview, Hendrix's only response was to verify that he had been based at Fort Campbell.[34]|||You are correct.