Hendrix’s home dismantled after failure to preserve it

THE childhood home where Jimi Hendrix is said to have first discovered music has been dismantled after eight years of preservation efforts failed.

Barely a shell of the house in Seattle’s Central Area neighbourhood remains on land across from where Hendrix was buried. Owner Pete Sikov said parts had been saved and may be sold later.

“Can you imagine a guitar made out of wood from Jimi’s house? Who wouldn’t want that?” he said.

The house is where Hendrix first picked up a ukulele and figured out how to strum the theme song from the TV show Peter Gunn, said Leon Hendrix, the musician’s younger brother.