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Music, Money, Madness...Jimi Hendrix in Maui

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Music, Money, Madness...Jimi Hendrix in Maui

This 2022 Grammy-nominated film chronicles the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s storied visit to Maui, and how the band became ensnared with the ill-fated "Rainbow Bridge" movie. Never-before-released original footage, and new interviews with key players such as Billy Cox and director Chuck Wein, form this fascinating account about one of the most controversial independent films ever made.

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'Music, Money, Madness': A Triumphant Moment in Jimi Hendrix’s Final Days

Jimi Hendrix had done it all, or so it seemed. In three whirlwind years, the one-time journeyman guitarist had transformed himself into a counterculture shaman. Who else but Hendrix would find himself playing a gig on the side of a volcano in the middle of an ocean? Yet only two months after that concert in July 1970, he would be dead.

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"Rainbow Bridge" never had a chance. It was ostensibly inspired by the 1969 movie “Easy Rider,” but the notion of somehow recapturing that pop-culture moment would prove to be an insurmountable task for countless directors and producers hoping to make their own version of a low-budget independent movie that turned into a $60 million franchise.

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