ARTICLE BY JESSE POHLMAN

Are you experienced with
The Purple Haze?
Is there some manic depression in her?
Perhaps she's a foxy lady?
Sound right, Joe?

Is the purple haze in heaven now?
With the 28-club?
Smelling like teen spirit?
Did she leave on a jet plane,
and is she an L.A. Woman, too?

Is it wrong to wonder why
Our most rockin' musicians
Have decided to join her?
Why Hendrix, Morrison, Cobain and Joplin,
Each went at the same age
Moving toward
The same end of us all?

Certainly the wind cries Mary,
And carries a guitar
As it blows away the Purple Haze
Of our lives.