Over the weekend of July 3-5, 1970, the Atlanta Pop Festival featured an incendiary set from Jimi Hendrix that found him performing in front of his largest-ever U.S. audience.
When Jimi Hendrix died on Sept. 18, 1970, it brought one of rock's most promising young careers to a premature end. But the Hendrix moneymaking machine — and the legal battles to control it — were just getting started.
One of Jimi Hendrix's guitars is in the middle of a legal tug-of-war that erupted last year and has escalated into a lawsuit that could cost the defendant $750,000 in damages.