

If security guards turned her away from the hotel, she dodged them through the stairwells. Sometimes, Cynthia climbed a hotel’s fire escape to catch a glimpse of a band she loved.
#Cynthia plaster caster jimi hendrix how to
In 1964, high school chums Kathy Barnett and Cynthia figured out how to meet rock bands: when The Rolling Stones rolled into town, the gal pals hung around their hotel. She was a fan of The Beatles, whose music made her want to have sex, even if she didn’t really know what that exactly meant. Growing up in Chicago, Cynthia loved to draw. In one skillfully playful swoop, she deftly integrated music, art, and sex. Her horoscope for that day told her that she was about to get what she most wanted. Cynthia told me, “That was an unbelievable evening.” They accompanied the band to Room #1628, casted two of the three band members, and Cynthia had sex with her favorite bassist. They were in Dianne’s car, trying to catch the band’s attention by waving their official suitcase with the Plaster Casters of Chicago logo (that Cynthia designed) through the window. The Jimi Hendrix Experience had just played a show at the Civic Opera House, and Cynthia and her casting mates had followed the band’s limousine after the set.


She was so nervous that she stuttered, but Jimi said he’d heard about her in the cosmos and invited her up to his room. When 21-year-old Cynthia Albritton met Jimi Hendrix on a cold Chicago night in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel in 1968, she asked if she could plaster cast his penis.
