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In 1981, radio station KZOKFM accepted an invitation from the Woodland Park Zoo to place a memorial there and raised more than $26,000 from listeners.
Zoo rock pays tribute to Hendrix
The Associated Press
But the city government has approved no high-profile memorial.
SEATTLE — Sixty years after his birth, one of the most important artists to emerge from Seattle is almost invisible there.
Seattle has no Jimi Hendrix Boulevard, no Hendrix Arena, no Hendrix Elementary School.
A few other markings around the city include a private company's small bronze statue on a sidewalk in the Capital Hill neighborhood and Garfield High School, which Hendrik attended, has a bust and mural of him.
The only thing the city has done to recognize the man many consider the world's greatest guitar player is to give him a rock in the African Savanna exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo.
flame-shaped tiles of the walkway; "Purple Haze," for the purple-leaf Japanese shrubs in the area; and "Third Stone from the Sun," for the Hendrix rock, embedded with a bronze, sun-shaped plaque.
"Third Stone" is written from the perspective of a space traveler who lands on Earth and remarks about the strange life here. Visitors stand on the Hendrix rock to get a better view of giraffes grazing in the nearby grassland.
"It's successful from the standpoint that it's got a lot of symbolism in it, but it isn't in your face," said Jim Maxwell, who was the zoo's project leader for the memorial. "If you're not looking for it or if you're not interested in it, you're not going to really notice it."
Maxwell said he didn't see how the memorial could seem inappropriate.
"He was not African. He was an American. He grew up in Seattle," he said. "There's no connection to racism, so I don't have a political view of it."
But for many Hendrix fans, that's the point: If Hendrix wasn't
African, why stick his memorial in the African section of a zoo?
frendrix grew up poor in Seattle, and his favorite local bands — the Dynamics and the Statics, among others — were of mixed race. He became one of the first major black artists with a predominantly white fan base, and when the Jimi Hendrix Experience formed in London in late 1969, it was the first major rock band featuring a black frontman backed by whites.
Hendrix was never comfortable being a poster boy for political causes, said Jim Fricke, senior curator at the Experience Music Project museum, but "sometimes those subtle messages are the most important ones. The fact that people got used to seeing a black frontman with a white band may have had some effect on people's ideas about race."
Janie Hendrix, Hendrix's half sister, said of the memorial: "Well, you know. It's a marking for Jimi, and I don't want to say anything bad about it. Would we have done that? Probably not, but at the time that they did it, there was nothing in the city that recognized Jimi."
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