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Hendrix childhood home dismantled
Fuckin Capitalism Sucks!!!! The US childhood home where rock star Jimi Hendrix is said to have first discovered music has been dismantled after eight years of preservation efforts failed. Barely a shell of the 900-square-foot house originally in Seattle's Central Area neighbourhood remains on land across the street from where Hendrix was buried. Owner Pete Sikov, 54, told the Seattle Times that parts have been saved and may be sold later, adding: "Can you imagine a guitar made out of wood from Jimi's house? Who wouldn't want that?" Hendrix, who lived in the house from age 10 to 13 in the 1950s, rocketed to fame in the 1960s with blazing guitar licks in songs such as Purple Haze and Are You Experienced? He choked to death on his own vomit in 1970, aged 27, in London after taking sleeping pills and alcohol. The house is where Hendrix first picked up a ukulele that had one string and figured out how to strum the theme song from the television detective show Peter Gunn, said Leon Hendrix, the late musician's younger brother. Mr Sikov said the demolition crew saved original parts of the home, including kitchen cabinets, a bath and the back door. The demolition of the home is the end of Mr Sikov's fight to preserve it, beginning in 2001 when the original site was purchased for condominium development. Sikov paid more than 30,000 dollars to buy and move it to a city-owned site where he and the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation hoped to renovate it as a music centre.