Lithofayne Pridgon Interview on Jimi Hendrix (1973)
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- In September 1962, after Billy Cox was discharged from the Army, he and Hendrix moved about 20 miles (32 km) across the state line from Fort Campbell to Clarksville, Tennessee, and formed a band, the King Kasuals.[64] In Seattle, Hendrix saw Butch Snipes play with his teeth and now the Kasuals' second guitarist, Alphonso "Baby Boo" Young, was performing this guitar gimmick.[65] Not to be upstaged, Hendrix also learned to play in this way. He later explained: "The idea of doing that came to me ... in Tennessee. Down there you have to play with your teeth or else you get shot. There's a trail of broken teeth all over the stage."[66]
Although they began playing low-paying gigs at obscure venues, the band eventually moved to Nashville's Jefferson Street, which was the traditional heart of the city's black community and home to a thriving rhythm and blues music scene.[67] They earned a brief residency playing at a popular venue in town, the Club del Morocco, and for the next two years Hendrix made a living performing at a circuit of venues throughout the South that were affiliated with the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA), widely known as the chitlin' circuit.[68] In addition to playing in his own band, Hendrix performed as a backing musician for various soul, R&B, and blues musicians, including Wilson Pickett, Slim Harpo, Sam Cooke, Ike & Tina Turner[69] and Jackie Wilson.[70]
In January 1964, feeling he had outgrown the circuit artistically, and frustrated by having to follow the rules of bandleaders, Hendrix decided to venture out on his own. He moved into the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, where he befriended Lithofayne Pridgon, known as "Faye", who became his girlfriend.[71] A Harlem native with connections throughout the area's music scene, Pridgon provided him with shelter, support, and encouragement.[72] Hendrix also met the Allen twins, Arthur and Albert.[73][nb 10] In February 1964, Hendrix won first prize in the Apollo Theater amateur contest.[75] Hoping to secure a career opportunity, he played the Harlem club circuit and sat in with various bands. At the recommendation of a former associate of Joe Tex, Ronnie Isley granted Hendrix an audition that led to an offer to become the guitarist with the Isley Brothers' backing band, the I.B. Specials, which he readily accepted.[76]
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We are here
Right here ❤😂 it's nice to hear her voice, she and Jimi Hendrix have the same cadence. This was nice to watch. ✨
Me
ME!!!! Lol.....
Sayso squad STAND UP!!! BABY WE IN HERE 🎉😂
She is so smooth and engaging. Now I see WHY SHE WAS SO ADORED BY MEN!
Man... She used to drive me home with her daughter in highschool... RIP 😪
She had a great sense of humor, any stories?
@@nurknanker6105 I was high half the time, but she would ask me to play the guitar for her; I'd play castles made of sand or little wing, and she'd say, in her tone, "baby, you're the reincarnation of jimi..." I'd tell her daughter that Jimi would be disappointed reincarnating into me 🤣
@@nurknanker6105 I regret not keeping in touch with her... Her daughter doesn't live in vegas anymore and life got in the way.
The OG FoxeyLady!! The 1st one who truly knew that Jimi was a groundbreaking talent and would be a star...R.I.P.
Lithofayne Pridgon: Jimi Hendrix’s original ‘foxy lady’ So pretty woman!
Man, I love Jimi. She almost speaks in a similar way. They probably laughed a lot together.
Maybe he spoke like HER...
@@greghiggins2870 yeah SAME thing.
Maybe, but I don't actually understand the great spell on him
@@hardcorehouse because you have bad ears
@@tapangasoul6928 no it's not. Jimi was doing a Fayne Pridgeon rap most of his short life. THEE FOXEY LADY
I watched the documentary 'Hear my train a comin'', and this lady said she still kept her letters with Jimi and talked about Jimi with her grandchildren. That's moving.
Foxy lady. She sounds a lot like Jimi actually, just the way she tells her stories.
yeah im pretty sure i saw her in maui rainbow bridge and there is a movie with her in in hawaii. but she says she only went to one gig so maybe its another similar girl
She does
@@purpleeyeseverywhere5889 Pat Hartley is the chick you saw that was there in Hawaii.
His soul mate .
I was thinking the same thing.
I could listen for hours. Beautiful
There's a hint of sadness in her voice , when she said he changed so much and was nothing like the old Jimi , makes you wonder if he would've had a happier life without fame
I remember reading that after what would be his last live performance at the Isle of Wight, he walked off the stage saying, 'Ive been dead a long time'. 2 weeks later he was dead. Hendrix was truly depressed at the end of his life. ...just like one of his songs..Manic Depression. Hendrix was also overheard saying that if he didnt get a wife and kids soon that he might as well die😱
I will never forget a preacher saying in church that the wild sex and the wild parties became too much for Hendrix.
All that being said...the brother left a powerful musical legacy behind that still stands to this day.
He was young....having a good time...and then the pressures became too much.
Elvis stated that he, himself wouldnt live much longer past 40...and he did die at 42.
May Hendrix and Presley both rest in peace and power💯💪❤️😇Amen.
@@sunnyhill5119 his last performance was isle of ferhmarn germany on sep 6 1970 and he was found dead on sep 18th so nearly 2 weeks after that concert
@@sunnyhill5119 lots of people believe jimi was murdered by his manager michael Jeffery because jimi was planning to fire him and get a new manager...I think their contract was coming to an end and jimi's life insurance was 2 million dollars which Jeffery could claim and jimi was gonna 86 him...apparently Jeffery turned up at jimi's flat with a couple of goons and jimi was water boarded with wine...jeffery claimed the life insurance and then was killed I think in a plane crash a few years later...anyway lots of conspiracies about how stars died...jim morrison died in the toilets of rock and roll circus from snorting pam's heroin and was carted out of there by 4 men and taken back to where pam was in the room and placed in the tub...brian jones was murdered by a man supposedly hired to do some maintenance work who was paid by mick and keith to drown brian in his own pool...when mick and keith kicked brian out of the band he threatened to sue them over the use of the name "the rolling stones" which brian came up with and brian started the band so...they had him killed...they coldly played a concert soon after in hyde park
@@sunnyhill5119 as for elvis he suffered a lot after losing his mother and even at that time I think he said he had no will to live longer...the pills kept him going...elvis was one of the few non black american singers actually loved by most black people
@@babkeebabkus8177 Sorry,...I thought it was the isle of wight. Thanks.
She was a longtime friend of mine. We spoke quite often. I lived with her for a bit over a year, in LA. She was a beautiful woman.
is she still alive?
@@tootsiePOP745 She passed away end of April this year. She was in bad health since late last year.
@@DJAstroBlackMusic oh no was about to ask so sad to hear this about Miss Fay. 😢 Lovely lady, seemed so kind spirited like Jimi & always enjoyed her stories in his movie from the early 70's. Shame these got cut all hers were so funny! Wonder what became of their friends the Arthur & Albert Allen twins in Jimi's film anybody know? They were great!
You're lucky to have known her. She sounds like a beautiful person.
Is there a full version of this fam?
This woman is stunning, lmfao
Goddess
Honestly right I thought I was trippin definitely a goddess
So she was his woman?
@@leahflower9924 I guess she was the inspiration of "Foxy Lady". Longtime girlfriend from what I read.
Chick got Hella swag. I've seen her, and, the whole documentary at least 5 times. Every woman who commented had that something that can't be explained. Including her.
what documentary?
@@aaronlindh149 The Jimmi Hendrix documentary that young lady is/was a part of.
@@Carlostherocker084My brother had the Jim Hendrix album. 1973. I heard it in 1974. I was 10. I didn't know who JIMI HENDRIX WAS! The caughy eye at the time because of the producer: JOE BOYD. My last me is Boyd also. I'd figured the guy to b relative.
Impossible not to like her.
Stunning woman. Just beautiful.
I agree. I know I wouldn't have been able to resist that smile. I would've melted like a snowman in the desert.
It’s interesting that the way she speaks is identical to how jimi used to talk
Jimi didn't speak nor talk like her! He spoke more like a west coast (and almost) white hippie dude. She spoke like young and hip black women of that period, who sounded like most of the women in my family do, even today.
@R R I mean, most working class black folks around the U.S.A. can have a similar 'swing' within their respective sub-vernaculars and tones, but, Jimi and even Jimi's father didn't sound like Lithofayne. She was born in a city called Moultrie, Georgia..., which is why I stated that she sounded like some of the women in my family who were born in the deep South.
@@skineyemin4276 he was from seattle so duh
Similar to how he speaks. I can dig it
@@CandySlim501 Gtfoh. You trippin'.
That clip was taken at Sly Stones house in Belair.
Another good man
@@piplee1439 I was just thinking about what a cool place that looks
Just curious, How do you know?
@@joomlaserviceprovide hes still about i think
@@austinque9 if you look closely @ the beginning of the set you see Sly sitting in the background in the bushes to Fayes left plus she stayed there and decided to leave because of his wild lifestyle.
Damn, she was so beautiful… Seemed very down to earth
She literally witnessed his metamorphosis when he got back from london...thx for great post...
I have always loved this interview! She is great, relaxed
2 peas from a pod. Man, I could listen to her for hours. And what a beauty.
She is beautiful...
Female Jimi...strong influence.. you can hear it in her voice!
Thought the same thing. People rub off on each other. Maybe it was her who rubbed off on him.
@@jhowson3748 Exactly... so true.
@@jhowson3748 She was a few years older than Jimi
This was beautiful. Just a great story with smiles and truth. Rest in Power J. Hendrix
She is so spaced out cool.
Yes, this lady is truly fabulous.
RIP!!!!! legend!!!!
What a great story teller
I love the way girls spoke back then. They were not "acting cool", they just were cool. There is no conscious effort to think of a way to look and sound cool, she was just expressing herself naturally with no filter. When you see young people speaking caught on film from this era, they all seem so natural. Youngsters today are soo full of shit.
“Youngsters today are so full of shit”. That is also what your elders said about your generation and what their elders said about theirs. So stupid.
@@dheevesh16 Thats not quite right, elders disliked the music (which is what most elders in every generation does) sure, but they never talked about the young being full of shit. The 60s generation went on marches (civil rights, veatnam the death of Martin Luther King), it was the norm that the kids got involved. Only a small minority get involved in such things today, but it's not what a regular kid does today. All I'm saying is we should look within ourselves for our personalities. In the 60s the parents were mainly speaking about the awful sounds of the music of the times, not about the behaviour so much. Just watch Woodstock at the segment were adults were being questioned about the hippies, to see the adults opinion of that generation. This is not how adults see youngsters now. Just watch reality TV. I'm not saying this is how "ALL" kids act, I'm saying that it's become the norm for kids to act the same way the people on them programs act. They have made a conscious decission to act that way, and It's become normal. Also, I guess I'm talking more about the majority of the working class. The young (from the city's especially) are not conscious caring people (which is now the norm). In this generation they was. (which again, was normal). I also blame the amount of destractions kids have today, (computer games especially).
@@dheevesh16 crap.
Society has been regressed.
This beautiful, articulate woman proves it.
Show me such eloquence in a woman today .
Not an overweight, BLM narcissist.
Im 20 yrs old and can tell u most ppl my age are fucking stupid.
@@stringbender3 aye
She’s so beautiful.. 🔥
She looks just like Dionne Warwick
My new phrase: "I couldn't get ready for it." 😄
Haha yes. That’s effin brilliant. Bet it works for anything too! 😂
Mine too!!!
RIP Fayne
This looks like unused footage from the Pridgon interview filmed for the early 70's Hendrix documentary. They used the more interesting segments in the movie.
She has lived here in L.A. for decades, I met her a couple of times. I heard that later on she was Eddie Hazel’s girlfriend.
Wow!!
She was mostly known as a girl friend of Sam Cooke, and she was with Shuggie Otis. She went with a few musicians, on the soul music r & b circuit.
@@redstar7292 she must have been, as Bette Davis sung, " A Big Freak."
She was no one’s girlfriend lol thts not how she got down. She was messing with Eddie hazel at one point. And Sly Stone, too. She was a free spirit
@@redstar7292 James Brown.
shes so beautiful bro
thats a fine woman.
She recently passed away. She was 81. She said the murder rumors were BS. :)
How would she know? This is his ex from earlier. Niggas got killed
Rest in Power, Foxy Lady !
what a beauty
Everyone in the circle Jimi Hendrix and his foxy lady FayePridgon ran spoke that way. People sound like idiots when they say “she speaks like Jimi.” You didn’t know him personally, don’t call him by his first name.
Faye Pridgon lived one hell of a life herself, look her up sometime. Today we would call her fierce, she was plain awesome.
Truly a Foxy Lady
You dont have to know jimi personally to call him by his first name name u tool
These are outtakes from the 1973 documentary "Hendrix".
Thanks
Beautiful woman
her friend etta james said in book fayne and hendrix had a daughter together called fe -fe(she was later gone in a auto crash in la sadly though.
What a gorgeous lady 💜❤️💕
To think this was just a mere three years after Jim's passing .
I can hear Jimi Hendrix, and I can listen to her tell stories all day.
I love hearing stories about Jimi,thanks for this☺🎆
Gorgeous and cool. Very funny too.
She sounds so much like him.
Damn, she really is one Foxy Lady.
RIP Foxy lady..
Beautiful and cool woman.
She's cool and Jimi's girlfriend before he got famous.
They still had dealings during his fame
@@tuakhuraur3480 really? How cool and sweet of Jimi
@@elmorevandodewaard544 she also got with Sam Cooke AND James Brown
@@elmorevandodewaard544 What's cool or sweet about it? He was in love with her and wouldve settled down with her but she was a free spirit who wanted to roam and experience her own life. He is far from the first star she's ever been with. He was not doing her any favors, he loved her.
Faye mom say "You and that n" and the rest was cut
From the sound track album, Jimi Hendrix, 1973.
I love this woman
It was just too much, I couldn't get ready for it. 😆 🤣
i love her.
She speaks very well
What a find. Read about Faye in room full of mirrors. His life before London is insane
I think Fayne might have helped to keep Jimi grounded had they stayed together. But it was not meant to be. The Universe had a different plan for him.
RIP Lithofayne
Love this!
She's Gorgeous
Brilliant
Elle est si belle ! Waou , i am love . Lol
I love her already... she seem she couldve steadied him out
Man she was hot!! I'd love to spend a weekend with her, but how the hell can a mere mortal follow a legend like a Jimi Hendrix!
I liked Fayne,,,shes a real lady ,,,I think Jimi liked her the best,,,She seems like she has a good heart,,,I get that vibe ,I wish there were more interviews from her , as I am SURE there were many more stories to tell. Does anyone know is Fayne still around?
Unfortunately she took her own life last year.
Damn she's fine.
Jazzy women damn.
R.I.P Faye You Sure Nuff Was Outta Sight Foxy 🦊 Mama 💃🏿
love how happy she looks talking bout
mr. jimi
She was absolutely beautiful!!!!!
So very cool.....
She is intelligent and beautiful. Lovin her hair man. Cool cat 😎
She's a cool *kitten
@@lkb3rd is a kitten not a cat? 😂
This footage is so cool!
Teyana Taylor would be perfect to play her in a biopic
Uhh.., no. I think there's another sista who is better suited play that role.
@@skineyemin4276Ok, liiike....??
@@BcuzImElena Keke Palmer. Stronger acting chops and more range than Taylor and about the age Lithofayne (Faye) Pridgon was when she was with Jimi., give or take a year. Well, Teyana Taylor is about 30 years old but I don't think should would be quite right for it. Also, Keke Palmer's overall look is just much closer to that of Lithofayne Pridgon than Teyana Taylor. Teyana is beautiful, though.
I agree
Y’all disgusting lol please, no.
She’s beautiful :D
Rip +++
The first Karine Stefans. Aka superhead. But she is a beautiful lady. Very pretty.
"Foxy Lady" she was funny and beautiful.
Love her
Bleeding heart
She was a Foxey Lady. Long hair & that dimple chin.😍 I love the picture on the inside of Electric Ladyland of them kissing.👍🏾
She has the same accent as Hendrix.
Fine asl 😘😍
its beyonce aint it ,what a tasty women ,damn jimi had some right foxy ladys
Fay joined Jimi today RIP
Jimi purple haze plaque in east London, video on my channel . Always love this Fayne interview
49 cents for a can of tuna that today cost you almost $6 for that same can, if prices stayed the same as they were even with the minimum wage the way it is right now there would be no poor people we would be living in a world of haves instead of have and have not, but the powers to be don’t want everyone to have
Someone has critical thinking skills and also paid attention!
👍
Blimey, she's a female Jimi aurally.
I was just thinking the same thing. Man they talk so much alike!
@@BrentLane1 same roots ....Seattle, New York ????
@@piplee1439 no, they're from different states.
@@kennyblackbird5794 oh.
All the same to a UK bumpkin
RIP Foxy Lady.
One day my sweet 😋🤗
it sooo fine that the vid is exactly 4:20 xD
FOXY CHOCOLATE LADY 🌋🎸🎸🎸🎤
Fayne, you are crazy but I love you anyways.You did not know it at the time but Jimi's talent was God given and I need not say anymore.
That acid....after England...."evident he had made a hell of change when he came back from England" she said " you wudnt even know that he was the same Cat"....rest my case....and the rest is his tory....
The stories devon Wilson could have told
Yes! There was apparently no female as close to Jimi as her.