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[Daniel James]

> I can find higher quality music being given away by the artist
> for free than its possible to find in all the archives of major
> labels (well, ok Hendrix is major label, but look, they assassinated
> him).

Hendrix is actually a great example. Far from unknown and then 
'discovered', as most people would have it, he was playing live for 
years but no-one in the industry would give him a break.

It took an outsider (and a musician, not a label executive) to 
recognise his talent, and introduce him to other UK-based musicians. 
It was on their insistence that he got the gig at Monterrey in 1967, 
which I think was his first big break in the US.

As for assassinated, I think it would be fairer to say that they 
didn't look after him very well. He actually died due to the 
combination of sleeping tablets and alcohol, shortly after playing a 
storming set in a field just outside our village to 600,000 people. 
He's kind of a religious figure around here...
 
Cheers

Daniel