Chas Chandler Trivia

EASY GOER

This should be listed under "Trivia"

It's kind of irritating to me that Shia LeBouf's character is named "Chas Chandler". As any true Jimi Hendrix fan knows (and I am a HUGE fan), Chas Chandler played in the band "The Animals". However, his main venture in life was he saw and heard Hendrix play at "Cafe Wha", a club (I lived 1 block away from it for over 10 years) in the Village in downtown Manhattan. Chandler very quickly went on to put him with the drummer, Mitch Mitchell and a bass player, Noel Redding to form THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, which became legendary, and the rightly. I saw Hendrix (and The Experience) play when I was 14 years old. It blew my mind, and I decided right then and there to play guitar. I did so for many years. I apologize for digressing. Anyway, as I wrote, it is frustrating they used Chandler's name as a character in this film. As Hendrix said in the song "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", "I'll see you in the next world, and don't be late".

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