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"If I’m free," Hendrix once said, "it’s because I’m always running." He did indeed spend his whole life running. If there is an experiential core to his music, it concerns the interlocking terrors of rootlessness and feeling trapped."There must be some kind of way out of here," he sang in Bob Dylan’s 'All Along The Watchtower', and it requires no great powers of empathy to sense the intensity of his identification with that line: it was the most significant line that he ever sang that he didn’t write. In his life as in his songs, he was forever searching for a place of his own. He escaped Seattle and school by joining the armed forces; he escaped from the army into the world of the road musicians, perpetually shifting from group to group; he escaped from Harlem by moving to Greenwich Village; by relocating to London he escaped the codes of black showbiz and their attendant rules as to what a black entertainer could and should be, only, finally to be ensnared by the more insidious webs of expectation and assumption spun by his well-meaning new admirers.
