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FutureFish 2000

by C.D. Bay-Hansen

398 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #00-0075; ISBN 1-55212-411-8; US$32.00, C$36.91, EUR26.50, £18.50

FutureFish in Century 21: The North Pacific Fisheries Handle Coming Trends, Radical Environmentalism, and Digital Cyberspace (91-92, 94-97). A complete social, political & economic analysis of the North Pacific seafood industry throughout the 90s.

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About the Book, from the author
It was bound to happen. The original, finished FutureFish filled 657 word-processed pages. Not only is such a voluminous manuscript very difficult to sell to (at best) a select readership, it would be nearly impossible to peddle so large a book to a fast [mind] food public. Not just this, but a "perfect-bound" volume (in publishing parlance) ought not to exceed 500 pages. At the close of 1999, I was--pardon the pun--in a bind.
What to do? Looking again at the greater FutureFish, I discovered a natural divide; out of one large manuscript two lesser books could be created. I am a hopelessly "Second Wave" type of fellow barely able to type but, with some inspired cutting, pasting, and juxtaposing, I have been able to produce (i.e. extract) one volume ready for immediate publication - FutureFish 2000: The North Pacific Fisheries Handle Coming Trends, Radical Environmentalism, and Digital Cyberspace (1991-1992, 1994-1997).
FutureFish 2000 deals with the three main topics contained in the subtitle, but also discusses Scandinavian fishermen of north Seattle and Southeast Alaska; the new physics and the New Age; evolution, scientism, and Christian apologetics. A second volume, gleaned from the second half of the parent FutureFish--plus an addended chapter on Micronesian seas--will be completed by 2001. It will feature Asian markets, the Can-Am Salmon Treaty, and more Norwegian Americana.
Lastly, I thank Mr. Francis E. Caldwell of Port Angeles, Wash., for bringing to my attention Trafford Publishing of Victoria, B.C. and their on-demand self-publishing service. What an opportunity for those of us who have for years literally laboured in obscurity! A method of publishing, promoting, and distributing which avoids the terrible tyranny of The New York Times, Kirkus Review, and the sorry sight of 25,000 hard-cover copies gathering dust in a Fun City warehouse.........is truly millennial and "Third Wave"!
-C.D.B-H. Port Angeles, Wash. March, 2000

About the Author

C.D. Bay-Hansen is a 55-year-old fisheries writer who was born in Norway and raised in England, New England and New York. Although he attended a posh Eastern prep school as a teenager, Bay-Hansen found the time to work on an Israeli kibbutz (summer of '61) and on a Norweigan cargo ship (summer of '63), sailing to and from South America. After a U.S. Army hitch during the late 1960s, Bay-Hansen eventually returned to college. He earned his B.A. at Seattle Pacific University in 1978 and his M.A. (in Pacific history) at the University of Hawai'i in 1981. An "empty-nester" with three adult children, Bay-Hansen presently lives in Port Angeles, Washington, where he has resided with his wife since 1987.
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Appendix I

Musical Icon: Jimi Hendrix, Seattle's All-American Boy
Born 27 November 1942 in Seattle, Washington, to Lucille and Al Hendrix. At age 17, Jimi dropped out of Garfield High School and enlisted in the U.S. Army. After basic training in California, joined 101st Airborne Div. ("Screaming Eagles") paratroopers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. After 13 months and 25 successful jumps, PFC Hendrix broke ankle on 26th jump; received honourable discharge from the Army. End of all-American phase of Jimi Hendrix's life.

"Not only was...[Jimi Hendrix] free of slavish devotion to any previous or existing musical or social movement, [h]e himself seem[ed] synthesized, a true personification of Americana -- from the Boy Scouts and football to his stint as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army's 101 Airborne [D]ivision."¹

After several months in New York City's Harlem, Hendrix went on to London, England, and eventually came under the managerial aegis of Bryan "Chas" Chandler (also The Animals bassist). By this time, Hendrix had developed his own eclectic music style and lyric compositions. Accompanied by two (white) British sidemen, Hendrix formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The band therefore had an intercontinental, interracial pedigree, and musically synthesised mainstream rock-n'-roll with black soul, jazz, and blues. But Hendrix, the original Voodoo Child, stamped Experience productions with his own Voodoo imprimatur and other erotic/exotic aspects of the African-American heritage -- all very evident and arguably essential aspects of the Hendrix sound appeal.
11 January 1967: Release of "51st Anniversary" by the Experience. The track expressed Hendrix's vocal opposition to traditional marriage. Hendrix marked performances by setting on fire, with lighter fluid, big Fender Stratocaster guitars during hot licks. Hendrix's behaviour becoming destructive with increased use of acid ("Owsley" LSD). Once in Los Angeles he hit a groupie in the face with a brick; she would require facial surgery. But Hendrix did find time, on a U.S. West Coast concert tour, to visit his father in Seattle. He also praised the U.S. Army as a good career opportunity for black Americans. Most rock stars in America during the late 1960s were, of course, in high-decibel opposition to the Vietnam War. However, in other ways, Jimi Hendrix was acting out his heavy-metal karma right on cue:

"[H]endrix['s] music had come to be associated with burgeoning drug use in America. To many, he [Hendrix] was the high priest of the counter-culture, a defiant symbol whose music and style set him apart from his contemporaries."²

Casual sex, wild partying, and trashing hotel rooms was hallmark behaviour of rock stars during the late 1960s. What set Hendrix apart from his peers was his extra edge ... a tri-racial identity as a "Voodoo Child of deep blues... [T]he Hendrix family tree [had] roots in [Macon,] Georgia with Irish and Cherokee blood. And Irish lore is central to blues and Voodoo history."³ Lucille, Hendrix's mother, had died in 1958, and Hendrix saw his "mothered boyhood" self metaphysically reborn as a "Voodoo Chile bluesman."⁴ For young Jimi, the last was a crucial rite of passage. Thus Hendrix envisioned himself as a multi-cultural phoenix, with a shamanic message cloaked in dream-séance metaphor. Christian researchers John Ankerberg and John Weldon have written:

"[J]imi Hendrix, whose basic philosophy was one of unbridled sex and drug use, commented, 'You can hypnotize people with music and when you get them at their weakest point, you can preach into their subconscious what we want to say."⁵

Just what did Hendrix want to say? And what prompted him to compose, sing, and play as he did? Fayne Pridgeon, a former Hendrix girl-friend recalled:

"He [Hendrix] was so tormented and just so torn apart, like he was obsessed with something really evil... He used to talk about some devil or somethin[g] that was in him, you know, and he didn't have [any] control over it... [H]e didn't know what made him act the way he acted and what made him say the things he said, and songs ... just came out of him."⁶

21-22 October 1968: Jimi Hendrix and the Experience cut a "party" recording of "Calling All the Devil's Children." And the song, "Look over Yonder," was at first named "Mr. Lost Soul." A later album, Electric Church, the derisive title coined by Hendrix, was a 13 page collection of photos taken by Ron Rafaelli. One poster included a picture of Hendrix with two topless, admiring (white) female fans. Hendrix was very preoccupied during this period with science fiction and astrology.
Woodstock Festival, August 1969: Hendrix "... still viewed drugs ... marijuana ... as a recreational exercise."⁷ A close associate, Jim Marron, observed: "'Hendrix was very scattered.... He was using marijuana, hashish, cocaine ... three to five times a week. Drugs were fast becoming a way of life.'"⁸
Earth Day, April 1970: Hendrix in a pre-Earth Day interview said, "'There is a great need for harmony between man and earth and I think by dumping garbage in the sea and polluting the air, we are screwing up that harmony.'"⁹ Also, in April, 1970, Hendrix played bass accompaniment during a recording jam-session with acid guru, Timothy Leary, in "You Can't Be Anyone This Time Around."¹⁰
17-18 September 1970, London: In the company of one Monika Danneman, Hendrix ingested an overdose of Vesparax sleeping tablets. He died by choking to death on his own vomit. But the fey Jimi Hendrix had already written his own prescient obituary:

"'It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you have died, you are made for life. You have to die before they think you are worth anything. And I tell you, when I die, I'm going to have a jam session. [I'll] have them playing everything I did musically, everything I enjoyed doing most.'"¹¹

Post Script: July 1995
The music of Jimi Hendrix is coming home to Seattle. Hendrix's father, Al, will regain the rights to his late son's "prolific musical legacy" under a recent court settlement. The corporations controlling the rights since the 1970s will turn them over to Al Hendrix for "an undisclosed amount of money." The music itself, related rights, plus merchandising are worth $80-90 million, figured O. Yale Lewis, a lawyer for Al Hendrix. "'I'm so elated that it's all over with,' Hendrix, a 76-year-old retired gardener, told a news conference.... 'The money's OK too, but getting Jimi's music back, that's what was really important.'"¹²
END NOTES
1. John McDermott with Eddie Kramer, Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight (London, England: Warner Books, 1993), p. xvi.
2. Ibid., p. 210.
3. Michael J. Fairchild, 'Liner Notes', Jimi Hendrix: blues, MCA Records, Inc., 1994 re-issue, p. 4.
4. Ibid., p. 3.
5. John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on Rock Music (Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House Publishers, 1992), p. 23. Jimi Hendrix quotation cited from Life, 30 October 1969.
6. Ibid., p. 42 Quote from Dave Hunt, America: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice (Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House Publishers, 1988), pp. 239-240. Cf. Michael J. Fairchild, p. 4.
7. John McDermott with Eddie Kramer, p. 269.
8. Jim Marron cited in McDermott and Kramer, p. 287.
9. Op.cit., Jimi Hendrix, p. 311.
10. On the very day of this writing, Timothy Leary expired in Los Angeles. '60s drug guru dies of cancer,' Peninsula Daily News, 31 May 1996, p. A-2.
11. Jimi Hendrix cited in McDermott and Kramer, p. 412.
12. 'Family wins rights to rocker's music,' Peninsula Daily News, 16 July 1995, p. A-5.
Discography
McDermott, John with Eddie Kramer. Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight. Warner Books, London, England, 1993.

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