Lithofayne Pridgon Interview on Jimi Hendrix (1973)
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2021
- Lithofayne’s one-octave singing voice was no secret, she said, but Bobby “Blue” Bland still took her on the road once to sing backup. She said her singing was so bad he told her to “stand way back from the microphone and sing softly, while the other singers were instructed to sing louder and drown me out.” Still, she wrote tunes most of her life. Atlantic Records chief Ahmet Ertegun personally recruited her to his label in the early 70s, and sent her to the iconic Muscle Shoals studios to record. But she was so dissatisfied with the result she would not give her permission to release the album.
Known to her friends as Fayne, Faye or Faytoe, Lithofayne was born with a congenital heart defect called ALCAPA (Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery), a condition occurring when the left coronary artery, which carries blood to the heart muscle, begins from the pulmonary artery instead of the aorta.
People born with that defect rarely made it out of their 30s, and it could only be diagnosed on a corpse until a diagnosis on living persons was developed just over a decade ago. Fayne learned then why she had been so easily fatigued for most of her life, and that her fatigue had a name.
She also learned that her heart’s ejection fraction constantly hovered in the range that produces what cardiologists call “catastrophic events.” The ejection fraction is the percentage of oxygenated blood the left ventricle pumps out when it contracts. The normal range is between roughly 52 and 75 percent. Fayne’s ejection fraction was in the teens.
“I’ve been given expiration dates more times than I can remember,” she often told me in the dozens of telephone conversations we had after she moved to a suburb of Las Vegas about 20 years ago.
But the expiration date did come on April 22, 2021. She was 80.
Fayne had allowed me to read excerpts from her chapter on Eddie Hazel back when her home-schooled daughter Magic was an honor student at the public high school she had recently entered, and before another daughter FiFi was incinerated in a fiery car crash on a Los Angeles freeway, leaving Lithofayne two granddaughters, Fantasi and Kharisma, to raise.
Andreé Penix Smith, an editor and mutual friend, had arranged for us to meet, telling Fayne I could help her organize and edit the mountain of material she had compiled for her Hendrix book. Bankers boxes sat against one wall in her apartment, filled with notebooks holding the journals Fayne had begun writing when she was 12 or 13 back in Moultrie, Georgia, her hometown. And she continued writing those journals through her years in New York and Los Angeles.
“How in hell else could I have remembered all of these details?” she once told me while giving a blow by blow account of a 1960s fistfight in the alley behind New York’s Palm Café.
Her family was from Moultrie’s across-the-tracks “dirty spoon” neighborhood, but they didn’t live down in “the bowl,” she said, chuckling. “We lived up on the handle.”
Her life had been peopled by colorful characters - Madam Lou Ida, who ran the busiest brothel in town, Dr. Buzzard, an infamous but respected conjurer and caster of spells, and her grandmother who counseled that all you need in life “are a few good White folks.”
She had been born with a caul, a piece of amniotic membrane covering her face - very powerful mojo, especially in the South where it was seen as an omen that could confer good fortune, metaphysical powers and the gift of seeing the spirit world. No matter how much she denied it, a stream of entertainers, like Eddie Hazel, showed up at her door, convinced that she had mystical powers that could enhance or restore their musical talent.
Willie John, whose recording of “Fever” gave Peggy Lee a career, took her to Harlem for the first time when she was 16. He was fond of smacking her on the butt and declaring: “This is good enough to hold church in.”
After she moved to Vegas, we continued talking and exchanging emails and text messages. She gradually began to soften, and began calling me her BTBN (By-the-book-Nigga). But showing affection? No, she preferred the needle. In one email she wrote:
Ed,
The only educated man I allow myself to associate with intentionally.
Let’s talk when you find a bit of extra time (with your square ass).
Who's here from watching Ashley says so video last night😊
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 🎉😂
The OG FoxeyLady!! The 1st one who truly knew that Jimi was a groundbreaking talent and would be a star...R.I.P.
She is so smooth and engaging. Now I see WHY SHE WAS SO ADORED BY MEN!
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.
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.
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
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.
@@DJAstroBlack 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?
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.
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.
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.
I have always loved this interview! She is great, relaxed
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'.
She literally witnessed his metamorphosis when he got back from london...thx for great post...
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.
2 peas from a pod. Man, I could listen to her for hours. And what a beauty.
This was beautiful. Just a great story with smiles and truth. Rest in Power J. Hendrix
Impossible not to like her.
Yes, this lady is truly fabulous.
She is beautiful...
Damn, she was so beautiful… Seemed very down to earth
She is so spaced out cool.
RIP!!!!! legend!!!!
What a great story teller
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
RIP Fayne
I can hear Jimi Hendrix, and I can listen to her tell stories all day.
My new phrase: "I couldn't get ready for it." 😄
Haha yes. That’s effin brilliant. Bet it works for anything too! 😂
Mine too!!!
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
To think this was just a mere three years after Jim's passing .
She looks just like Dionne Warwick
She’s so beautiful.. 🔥
I love hearing stories about Jimi,thanks for this☺🎆
These are outtakes from the 1973 documentary "Hendrix".
Thanks
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.
thats a fine woman.
Rest in Power, Foxy Lady !
what a beauty
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 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.
What a gorgeous lady 💜❤️💕
shes so beautiful bro
Beautiful woman
Faye mom say "You and that n" and the rest was cut
Damn, she really is one Foxy Lady.
She sounds so much like him.
RIP Foxy lady..
Gorgeous and cool. Very funny too.
Love this!
I love this woman
i love her.
From the sound track album, Jimi Hendrix, 1973.
RIP Lithofayne
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.
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.
It was just too much, I couldn't get ready for it. 😆 🤣
She was Fine ❤️
R.I.P Faye You Sure Nuff Was Outta Sight Foxy 🦊 Mama 💃🏿
love how happy she looks talking bout
mr. jimi
Brilliant
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.
This footage is so cool!
Elle est si belle ! Waou , i am love . Lol
Beautiful and cool woman.
it sooo fine that the vid is exactly 4:20 xD
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.
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!
What a find. Read about Faye in room full of mirrors. His life before London is insane
So very cool.....
Rip +++
She's Gorgeous
Fay joined Jimi today RIP
She is intelligent and beautiful. Lovin her hair man. Cool cat 😎
She's a cool *kitten
@@lkb3rd is a kitten not a cat? 😂
I love her already... she seem she couldve steadied him out
The first Karine Stefans. Aka superhead. But she is a beautiful lady. Very pretty.
She’s beautiful :D
Bleeding heart
"wasn't even the same cat"...England,Acid,Marshall's , wah wah , how cud anyone be the same ?
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 speaks very well
She was absolutely beautiful!!!!!
its beyonce aint it ,what a tasty women ,damn jimi had some right foxy ladys
Jimi purple haze plaque in east London, video on my channel . Always love this Fayne interview
Love her
She has the same accent as Hendrix.
Jazzy women damn.
RIP Foxy Lady.
It hurts me too was actually Tampa Red-I hope Jimi was a fan of his also.
I figure she is referring to Elmore's rendition.
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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....
She was a Foxey Lady. Long hair & that dimple chin.😍 I love the picture on the inside of Electric Ladyland of them kissing.👍🏾
What a babe
"Foxy Lady" she was funny and beautiful.
The stories devon Wilson could have told
Yes! There was apparently no female as close to Jimi as her.
She was cool, still is !
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
Fine asl 😘😍
The original hot girl, super head