“You Might Remember Me,” based on interviews with Hartman’s family and friends as well as Hartman’s letters, takes us inside his professional and personal lives, revealing not just an instinctive comedic genius, but a pot-loving surfer, hippie and ladies man whose 1998 murder at the hands of his third wife, Brynn, remains inexplicable. Just this week, visitors to the website Grantland voted Hartman the second-best cast member ever, behind only Will Ferrell. The roadie in question was future “SNL” cast member Phil Hartman, who would go on to create an array of impersonations and original characters - from takes on Frank Sinatra and Bill Clinton that captured the essence of their bawdy and raw qualities, to his hilariously insufferable Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer and Anal Retentive Chef - that made him perhaps the most versatile actor in the show’s history. You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman by Mike Thomas (St. So the Foo’s dedicated stoner/surferboy/chick-magnet roadie rushed out, “got on his knees, and held the instrument in place for the song’s duration,” his “shaggy hair” flopping around as the guitar legend wailed just feet from him. During their set, Hendrix himself took the stage to jam, followed by his Band of Gypsies’ drummer Buddy Miles, who hit his kick drum so hard it flew about a foot downstage every time he hit it. club owned by a friend of guitarist Jimi Hendrix. In June of 1969, a band called the Rockin Foo played a show at an L.A.
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