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What is Johnny B. Goode about? |
A boy becoming a famous guitar player |
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What did Jimi write songs about? |
His own life |
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What kind of guy was Jimi? |
A philosophical one. |
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Where did Jimi go off to for a while? |
London |
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What did Hendrix own up to? |
His future death. |
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What did Joseph Campbell write? |
The Hero with a Thousand Faces. |
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What did Prometheus give to man? |
Fire. |
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What kind of journey did Hendrix go on? |
A hero's journey. |
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What did Jimi declare himself? |
A Voodoo Chile. |
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How many versions does Voodoo Chile have? |
Two. |
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Who could we compare Hendrix to? |
Prometheus. |
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What did Nietzsche think of music? |
It was transcendental. |
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What was Hendrix constantly being compared to? |
His on-stage persona. |
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How long did Hendrix live? |
Not very long. |
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Which philosopher was music very important to? |
Aristotle. |
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What did Aristotle declare everyone needed? |
An emotional release. |
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What did Hendrix write songs about? |
War. |
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When did Hendrix die? |
September 18, 1970. |
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Who did Gil Evans work with? |
Miles Davis. |
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What was Hendrix held up to? |
His rock star persona. |
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Who did Hendrix want to work with? |
Miles Davis. |
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What were the two monks fighting over? |
A cat. |
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What was Joshu's daily task? |
Begging for rice. |
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What is the Buddha? |
Go have tea. |
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What did Nansen do to the cat? |
Cut it in half. |
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When might six equal nine? |
Under the right circumstances. |
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What did Jimi ask us? |
If we were experienced. |
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What did Zeami Motokiyo write and theorize about? |
Japanese Noh drama. |
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What did Jimi provide? |
Experience. |
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Who was Liang Kai? |
A calligraphy-like painter. |
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What did Hendrix challenge people's thoughts on? |
War. |
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What did Liang Kai paint? |
Huining shredding a sūtra. |
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What did Linji think burning a sūtra could do? |
Help you become enlightened. |
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What did Linji think of causation? |
It was empty and didn't mean anything. |
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What did Jimi do to his guitar? |
Lit it on fire. |
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What kind of state did Jimi attain? |
A zen-like state. |
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When did Jimi perform at Woodstock? |
At the end of the 60s. |
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What have 83% of American Buddhist converts tried? |
Psychedelics. |
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What did Douglas Osto write? |
Altered States. |
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What did Hendrix write? |
Purple Haze. |
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What was Jimi known for? |
Lighting things on fire. |
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What did Jimi write about in the 60s? |
Pain and war. |
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What did Jimi do to his guitar? |
Destroyed it. |
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How does Jimi make us feel? |
Horrible. |
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What does Jimi remind us of while we're busy being patriotic? |
Our country is built on bodies. |
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What do people pretend to care about? |
America. |
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What does Jimi's Star-Spangled Banner imitate? |
The sound of bombs. |
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Where did Jimi play the national anthem? |
Woodstock. |
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What did Nietzsche write? |
The Birth of Tragedy. |
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What do people pay no mind to while celebrating the 4th of July? |
Deaths of war. |
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What was one of Jimi's most beautiful songs? |
1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be) |
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What does Jimi want us to understand? |
The horrors of war. |
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How did some of Jimi's music make us feel? |
Upset. |
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How might the song 1983 be described? |
Peaceful. |
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What did Schopenhauer consider? |
The metaphysical world. |
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What was Nietzsche into? |
Socratism. |
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What did Jimi want to do? |
Forget and be happy. |
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What did Ruth Stein write? |
For Love of the Father. |
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What did God do to us? |
Brought us here and put us in space. |
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What does Jimi not do for us? |
Comfort us. |
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Where does Jimi sing about meeting us? |
In the next world. |
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What do people like to think about God? |
God is good. |
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Who doesn't Jimi speak against necessarily? |
God. |
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What does Jimi receive a lot of? |
Praise. |
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What show did Jimi appear on? |
The Dick Cavett Show. |
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Who was Hey Joe originally by? |
Billy Roberts. |
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What does Jimi present in one of his songs? |
A question. |
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What did Charles Manson form a group of? |
Murderers. |
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What didn't Hendrix care about? |
Natural disasters. |
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What did Hendrix want permission to do? |
Live his life freely. |
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What did Hendrix want people to do? |
Live their lives. |
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What did Jimi trash? |
A hotel room. |
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What does Joe go off to do in the song Hey Joe? |
Shoot his wife. |
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What do Joe's morals make him do? |
Kill his wife in a fast way, not slow and painfully. |
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What is Othello sure of? |
Desdemona is cheating on him. |
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What does Desdemona get killed for? |
Something she didn't do. |
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Could Hey Joe be considered traditional? |
No. |
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What is Jeannie Needs A Shooter about? |
Jeannie's dad shooting her boyfriend. |
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Who can't we compare Hendrix to? |
Joe. |
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We can compare Othello to who? |
O.J. Simpson. |
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What show did Ice-T appear on? |
Law and Order. |
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What could we ask about Jimi's morals? |
Were his morals good ones? |
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What did Jimi want love to overcome? |
Power. |
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At what age did Jimi, Janis, and Jim all die at? |
27. |
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What was Edgar Allen Poe? |
A phenomenal writer. |
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What had Jimi been volunteered as? |
The greatest instrumentalist. |
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What was Jimi? |
A genius. |
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How old was Jimi when he died? |
27. |
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What did Jimi, Janis, and Jim all have in common? |
They were all geniuses. |
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Before 1774, what was a genius? |
Someone who did something well under a given circumstance. |
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What did Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publish and when? |
The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774. |
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What did Goethe jump onto? |
Popular bandwagons. |
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What was Goethe proclaimed? |
The first genius. |
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Who was Goethe like? |
Bob Dylan. |
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How much pressure was Jimi under? |
A lot. |
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How often was Jimi mentally stable? |
Sometimes. |
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What language did Goethe translate Shakespeare into? |
German. |
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Who really liked Goethe? |
The Scots. |
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What could Goethe be considered? |
Interesting. |
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Who liked Goethe's writing? |
Kant. |
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Janis wasn't considered what? |
Traditionally attractive. |
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How did Jimi, Janis, and Jim do what they did? |
They just did it. |
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Who did people want others to pay attention to? |
Jimi. |
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When did Jimi let his band know they would be opening with a new Beatles' song? |
Very last minute. |
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What did Andy Warhol know when he saw it? |
Talent. |
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Who did Warhol direct people to? |
Hendrix. |
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Who are people encouraged to paint like? |
Banksy. |
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How was Basquiat doing what he did? |
He didn't know. |
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What did Jim Morrison have, despite his genius status? |
Struggles. |
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What did Kant say about geniuses? |
They were usually socially inept. |
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Who was Kant's greatest disciple and critic? |
Arthur Schopenhauer. |
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Where was Jim Morrison arrested? |
Miami. |
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What did Jim ask his dad's friend for? |
Money. |
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Who was Jim's dad trying to get in contact with? |
Jim. |
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What did Jim's dad say of his performance in Miami? |
It was out of character. |
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What would Jimi, Janis, and Jim have had to do to become as famous as their deaths made them? |
They would have had to be completely original. |
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What was Jimi exceptional at? |
Guitar playing. |
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What is the conspiracy surrounding Jim Morrison? |
He's still alive. |
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Where was Jim buried? |
Paris. |
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How did Jimi, Janis, Jim, and Elvis die? |
Overdose. |
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What were Jimi and Janis doing at the time of their deaths? |
Becoming more popular. |
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Jimi had some great what? |
Ideas and quotes. |
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What did Jim and Elvis never feel like? |
Family. |
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What did Jimi write? |
Poems. |
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What did people in the 80s think of the 60s? |
That's when America started to disintegrate. |
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What did Allan Bloom write? |
The Closing of the American Mind. |
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What could Bloom be considered? |
Harsh. |
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What did Jimi want? |
Freedom. |
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Where was Jimi born? |
Seattle. |
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Who was Jimi's brother? |
Leon. |
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How old was Jimi when he dropped out of high school? |
17. |
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Where did Jimi meet a bass player? |
Tennessee. |
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How were people who moved around a lot in the 60s treated? |
They were criticized. |
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What did Dylan write? |
Like A Rolling Stone. |
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What didn't 60s and 70s kids care for? |
Material possessions, home ownership, and upward professional mobility. |
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What did Jimi experience in Britain? |
British rock and blues. |
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What genres did the Jimi Hendrix Experience combine? |
Rock, blues, soul, and jazz. |
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Who did Jimi get help from? |
A guitar technician and sound engineer. |
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What happens at the end of Bold as Love? |
Jimi's guitar is phased through a Leslie speaker. |
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What was Jimi? |
A performer. |
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Which of Jimi's songs was very popular? |
Hey Joe. |
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What did Jimi write songs about? |
Science-fiction. |
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What was the Jimi Hendrix Experience known for? |
Blues. |
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What was Jimi? |
A performer. |
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How many guitars did Jimi burn? |
3. |
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What instrument did Jimi want Steve Winwood to accompany him on? |
The organ. |
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Which of Bob Dylan's songs did Jimi cover? |
All Along the Watchtower. |
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How did Dylan feel about Jimi's cover? |
He loved it. |
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What kind of tricks did Jimi know a lot of? |
Guitar tricks. |
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What was Jimi accused of? |
Race desertion. |
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Where did Jimi's concerts take place? |
Culturally white places. |
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Where did Jimi want to do a free show? |
Harlem. |
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When was one of Jimi's last performances? |
12/31/1969 |
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What did people consider his Woodstock performance? |
Revolutionary. |
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What did Jimi want to do with his music? |
Spread messages. |
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What did Jimi have? |
Issues. |
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What did Cornell believe? |
We should keep our eye on the prize. |
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Which of Bob Dylan's songs did Jimi cover? |
All Along the Watchtower. |
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What did Mikhail Bakhtin say about monks? |
They could be seen throwing dung at crowds. |
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What did Jimi play for background music in All Along the Watchtower? |
Festival music. |
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What did Martin Heidegger say we are? |
Beings towards death. |
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What did Heidegger say being conscious of death does? |
Allows us to be authentic. |
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How long was Jimi's life? |
Short. |
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At what point in Icarus's life did he die? |
Earlier than he should have. |
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What might Jimi have had issues with? |
Authenticity. |
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Why did Jimi leave Seattle according to Charles Cross? |
Legal issues. |
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What did Jimi leave with? |
A guitar. |
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What did Cross say of Jimi's younger years? |
They were confusing. |
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What did Cross say of Jimi's younger brother? |
He was born physically deformed. |
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When did Jimi flunk out of school? |
High school. |
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When was he denied service in a British bar? |
1967. |
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Who did Jimi support? |
Everyone. |
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What did Bob Dylan's lyrics mimic? |
Biblical verses. |
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What state is Babylon in? |
Fallen. |
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What did Hendrix want to destroy? |
Nihilism. |
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One of Jimi's well known personality traits was what? |
He was self-conscious. |
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What does Hendrix represent? |
Childhood innocence. |
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What did Heidegger think we were? |
Beings of care. |
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What did Hendrix believe in? |
Rebirth. |
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What did Heidegger think the key to authenticity was? |
Getting rid of your they-self. |
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When was A Room Full of Mirrors released? |
After Hendrix's death. |
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What did Jimi make a sculpture out of? |
A shattered mirror. |
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What did Jimi pretend to use as a guitar? |
A broom. |
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What is Jimi's legal name? |
James Marshall Hendrix. |
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How known is Jean-Paul Sartre? |
Widely known. |
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How pessimistic was Sartre? |
Not as much as some people might think. |
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What was Hendrix? |
An existentialist. |
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Why did Sartre think we questioned our own existence? |
To free ourselves from the burden of freedom. |
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When did Jimi perform at Berkeley? |
May 5th. |
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What lyric from Hendrix could be considered a false identity? |
Fighting like a farmer. |
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What is the confusion surrounding one of Hendrix's lyrics? |
Whether the word is body or buddies. |
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What did Hendrix call people out on? |
Hiding behind blame. |
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What don't people think about Jimi as being? |
Authentic. |
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What did Sartre think freedom was? |
A horrible burden. |
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Why does Hendrix think we struggle? |
We don't face reality. |
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Where can you find recordings of Hendrix? |
On the internet. |
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Where did Hendrix sing? |
Berkeley? |
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What did Winston Churchill say was exciting? |
Being shot at, but not shot. |
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When was Are You Experienced released? |
1967. |
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What genre album has Jimi released? |
Heavy metal. |
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Who did Jimi date? |
Kathy Etchinsham. |
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Who was Martin Buber? |
A mid-20th century philosopher. |
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How many times is the term "mysterious mountains" used in Third Stone From the Sun? |
Twice. |
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What does Joe in Hey Joe do? |
Becomes a fugitive. |
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How many times is "help me" said in Purple Haze? |
3 times. |
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What did Plato believe in? |
An order of love. |
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What was Hendrix sad about? |
Love-life issues. |
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What was Jimi associated with? |
Sex, alcohol, and drugs. |
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What did Plato write? |
Republic. |
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According to Plato, what has Jimi left? |
The cave of prisoners. |
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What did Mitch Mitchell play? |
Cymbals. |
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What was Hendrix? |
An intense guitar player. |
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What did Plato identify as two different realities? |
The cave and the outside world. |
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What does Hendrix dream of? |
Walking on the bottom of the ocean. |
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What kind of man is Hendrix? |
A complex one. |
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What do people consider Hendrix? |
A genius. |
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Where did Jimi work? |
England. |
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What did Eddie Kramer exploit? |
The available equipment. |
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What was England's music industry like? |
Experimental. |
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What did Derbyshire create? |
Creepy sound effects. |
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What did Pink Floyd and Jimi use? |
Strong drugs. |
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What were George Martin and the Beatles considered? |
Innovative. |
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What was Jimi's music considered? |
Varied. |
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What did Kittler write? |
Gramophone, Film, and Typewriter. |
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Who were Andy Clark and David Chalmers? |
Philosophers. |
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What did Chalmers think of Jimi's mind? |
It extended to his guitar. |
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What did Clark and Chalmers consider? |
Augmented reality. |
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How are recordings of Hendrix different from Pokemon Go? |
They're not the same type of digital. |
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What aren't Hendrix recordings? |
Visual. |
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Whose recordings did Kramer optimize? |
Chandler's. |
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What did Tom McCarthy write? |
Remainder. |
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How did Jimi view the world differently? |
Differently. |
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What did a child receive for Christmas? |
A stereo. |
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How many albums did Hendrix release while he was alive? |
4. |
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What kind of rights did Hendrix have? |
Moral. |
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When did Hendrix die? |
9/17/1970. |
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When did Janis Joplin die? |
10/4/1970. |
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What did Jim Morrison's band do with their unreleased music after his death? |
Protected it. |
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When did Led Zeppelin's career end? |
1980. |
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What does Jampol Artist Management do? |
Takes care of artists after their deaths. |
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What shouldn't be made the main topic of Jimi's life? |
His death. |
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Who did Jimi perform with? |
Lonnie Youngblood. |
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How many major works did Adam Smith publish? |
2. |
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What did Friedrich Nietzsche have issues with? |
Post-death publication. |
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What happened to Michael Oakeshott's post-death publications? |
They were organized. |
