pretty complete foxy lady from miami pop festival...
sounds like he always had a guitar with him, and had a total commitment to music bordering on obsession seen in world class artists from other fields...
before leaving for Europe the last time, he mentioned to a friend a premonition that he would die before he was 30... she said you should never talk like that, and he said, no, i know it and am OK with it, but his only regret was that he had so much music left in him.
Not sure I see that as a "premonition" as much as a realization that the danger involved in the drugs he was into at that point had escalated. I think a lot of people using hard drugs are acutely aware of the idea that their days could be numbered. That fact that he died so soon after saying that suggests that he felt he had already cheated death a time or two. It's not Pete Townshend posturing, saying I hope I die before I get old, but one friend to another in private.
Are you sure the Miami footage is new? I feel like I've seen that before. The STP thing was news to me, though. The guy's ability to not only keep firm command of his instrument while most would be off chasing birds was ridiculous, never mind the fact that he would take it to the next level and way beyond. It's difficult to play the guitar when that high. It's obscene to play it that fluently. That's a whole other talent he had that was not really touched on in the doc beyond simply stating that he took STP before Miami.
maybe.
i'm not sure what hard drugs he was taking... nobody ODs physically from pot or LSD (though in syd barrett and maybe brian wilson's case, it has been speculated that heavy use of hallucinogens may have brought to the surface latent mental or emotional illnesses... as far as we know, hendrix seemed to have his wits about him, though i have read in bios that at that point in his life he was despondent at times about financial issues, in part from the cliche of getting ripped off by an earlier bad contract he signed... but others have said he was finally extricating himself from these earlier bad decisions and financial messes, and was in good spirits because of that at the end, so NOT likely to committ suicide)...
not sure if he was a heavy heroin user (like keith richards, and many musicians in many genres over the years), but i don't think so?
it was mentioned that he had trouble sleeping and used sleeping pills (barbitutates)... that can definitely lead to death, especially in combination with alcohol, and pretty sure jimi imbibed (a lot?)... but it also said the last night might have been a misunderstanding based on not knowing the strength of the sleeping pills... which didn't sound like it would be a common thing?
perhaps he had a dream about his death, even though he thought he was taking adequate precations to not OD... he was not "seeing the future" before it happened... but he reported it, maybe believed it could be a premonition... than he died...
no doubt, if he had been scared straight by the "premonition" and stopped taking drugs, and taken matters that were in his hands to control as much as possible, he wouldn't have ODed.
* my understanding is that seemingly to incentivize buying the doc, in the extras, there is more from the the miami pop festival, that is new... i don't recall if i have seen complete performances of foxy lady from miami pop before? those extras also contain more material from the last recorded concert in europe, AFTER isle of wight (though the audio is i think unprofessionally recorded, but all the hendrix estate has in their possession to doucment it... not sure, but i think this has been synched to existing, possibly professionally recorded video?)...
i'm more familiar with the '73 biopic (this was similar, probably too many talking heads, would like to have seem more long form uninterrupted performances - but than there are many existing audio documents of concerts, and less, but still a lot, relatively speaking, in the video archives, for that purpose)...
also monterey pop, woodstock, band of gypsies, jimi plays berkeley, rainbow bridge (part concert doc strangely interwoven with other fictional/dramatic film elements, as i recall?), isle of wight...
there is a recommended making of electric ladyland album (possibly from VH1 series, but not avail streaming from neflix) documentary DVD... it is my favorite album of his, so i appreciated the greater depth which could be explored about the lengthy process involved in its gestation, and greater details about his and engineer eddie kramer's methods)...
also, the recent hendrix back-catalog remasterings/reissues, there are interesting short docs (kind of like beatles counterparts) on the three albums he released during his life, and a few posthumous ones (like first rays of the new rising sun - some of the PBS doc stuff in studio with kramer breaking down dolly dagger may have been sourced from this... and possibly blues and the BBC sessions?)...