Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape

“Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape” will premiere today online at www.hendrixsextape.com, with a DVD edition scheduled to hit stores across the country on May 6. Shot in a hotel room circa 1968, the film purports to show Hendrix in “an erotic liaison with two slender brunettes”.

Rumors of the explicit Jimi Hendrix film began to circulate in October 2007, when Vivid registered several Internet domain names for the project. Vivid acquired the rare 8mm home movie footage through distributor Howie Klein of Blue Vanities, who brokered the deal with a rock ‘n roll memorabilia collector who bought the reel (labeled ‘Black Man’) at a London auction.

Even though Vivid had already consulted with several experts to authenticate the footage, (including author Pamela Des Barres, and the notorious Cynthia Plaster Caster) and both women contributed commentary that the man on the video is the real Jimi Hendrix, but several sources have come forward to dispute Vivid’s claim that the man seen in the footage is Hendrix.

“It is not him,” said Kathy Etchingham, a former girlfriend of Hendrix. “His face is too broad and nose and nostrils too wide for Jimi. Also the hair is too low on the forehead. He would never have allowed anyone to see that. In private he was very shy and would cover up”, she added.

Well, is it a hoax? a made-up video? Hmmm… still a mystery about that, but on what we know, during the threesome, Hendrix loses his clothes but never sheds his legendary headband.

Now that’s what I call a legacy signature!