According to the sex-film distributor Howie Klein, who sold the tape to Vivid [Entertainment, a porn company], the film surfaced when a collector discovered a tin labeled “Black Man” in a box of rock memorabilia bought at an unidentified auction in London.

As a fan, [Hendrix biographer Charles R. Cross] said, he felt the film was “horrible to watch,” as he thinks the man appears to be on drugs or heavily intoxicated. “I don’t want that to be what I think about when I think about Jimi Hendrix,” he said.

Collect ‘em all.

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