The Daily 03-21-23 Did Jimi Hendrix ever actually live in SF's 'Hendrix Red House'?

Google “Jimi Hendrix Red House,” and you’ll be inundated with unsourced blogs and articles about how Hendrix lived at 1524 Haight St. at some point during the ’60s.

Some even go so far as to imply Hendrix wrote the song “Red House” based on his time staying in a ground-floor apartment, adjacent to what is now a dog grooming business. 

But it only took SFGATE's Alex Shultz a couple of calls with biographers to confirm that there’s no way Hendrix lived at 1524 Haight. In fact, despite murals and rumors to the contrary, there’s no evidence he lived anywhere in San Francisco during his 27 years on Earth. 

The biographers may have validated Shultz's skepticism, but that only left him with more questions. 

Through a hippie-induced rabbit hole, Shultz discovered how folklore and internet aggregation spawned an overblown Haight tourist attraction... Read more »

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