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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: Top Speed on March 08 2007, 09:07:41 AM
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SEATTLE (AP) - Jimi Hendrix's family filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday over the use of the guitar legend's name to market a brand of vodka.
The family claims in the lawsuit that companies owned by Seattle businessman Craig Dieffenbach used trademarked material to market Hendrix Electric Vodka and other products.
Janie Hendrix, Hendrix's adopted sister and chief executive of Experience Hendrix, the family's company, said the promotional campaign was a "sick joke" because Hendrix's death in 1970 was tied to alcohol consumption.
"We are greatly concerned that there may be a perception that Experience Hendrix has, in some way, authorized this sale of vodka," she said in a statement Tuesday. "As a matter of strict policy, we have never promoted an alcoholic beverage."
Hendrix Electric Vodka is packaged in purple-tinted bottles and has Jimi Hendrix's face and signature above the label.
Dieffenbach said the lawsuit has no legal basis because a 2005 federal court ruled that Experience Hendrix does not own the rights to Jimi Hendrix's name and image - just his music.
A news release on the family's Web site did not specify damages, if any.
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Damn it Sylvan, you had better have gotten me a bottle of this stuff!
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Damn!! Now I want a bottle too!
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I wanted a bottle when I first saw it, but the local liquor store didn't have any.
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Stock up on it now, before it goes off the shelfs. lol
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Stock up on it now, before it goes off the shelfs.
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I had that cassette!
I went to three liquor stores today...none had it but there expecting a shipment of Trump Vodka.
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Stock up on it now, before it goes off the shelfs.
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Since we are a "dry" city, maybe a run to the Boarder (5 min in Kentucky) and see if they have it.......lol I would die laughing if they did...
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Damn it Sylvan, you had better have gotten me a bottle of this stuff!
Damn it Greg, you better get me some absinthe!
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wHOA bRIAN, YOU GO TO BE CAREFUL WITH THAT STUFF. rEMAMBER THAT THREAD ON T6P?
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Why? Are there some light weights that can't handle their candy flavored hooch?
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There was an absinthe thread? I fear no kind of hooch. Even those with hallucinogenic qualities.
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http://www.absinthe.bz/?act_vn
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Yeah man, I drank it with my landlord and neighbors. We got shitty at about 10am. Then I went and finished detailing my cah.
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Yeah man, I drank it with my landlord and neighbors. We got shitty at about 10am. Then I went and finished detailing my cah.
Detailing your cah? Now I KNOW you were halucinating! :rofl; :finga:
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LoL good one :rofl;
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Yeah man, I drank it with my landlord and neighbors. We got shitty at about 10am. Then I went and finished detailing my cah.
Detailing your cah? Now I KNOW you were halucinating!
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You mean I unwittingly (how I do everything, really) contributed to ripping the man's legend off? I'm going to go wash my mouth out with paint thinner.
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You should be so ashamed!
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Nothin' wrong with being a pirate
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You mean I unwittingly (how I do everything, really) contributed to ripping the man's legend off? I'm going to go wash my mouth out with paint thinner.
Think of it more like a tribute ! :supz:
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Pah! It's just hooch. I think his likeness on packs of rolling papers would be a better tribute though.
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I kinda do feel bad....I mean hell, I didn't even put the whole vodka vs. death by alcohol thing together until I read it in the above post. Still, I'm glad I kept the bottle.