Jimi Hendrix's Roadie Reveals Rockstar's Touching Final Words to Him Before Tragic Death: 'That's Just the Kind of Man He Was'

Jimi Hendrix's former roadie revealed the star's final words to him before he died of asphyxiation while intoxicated on sleeping pills.

Eric Barrett worked with Hendrix at the height of his fame from 1968 to 1970 and recalled his final interactions with the guitarist on the Isle of Fehmarn in Germany.

According to Barrett, who later wrote a memoir about his experiences with Hendrix, the outlaw motorcycle club H---- Angels took over the Love & Peace Festival grounds before the "Purple Haze" singer was set to play.

"There was no control. It was a scary place to be," he remembered. "We had two cars there waiting to get us off the island and go back to London. But the H---- Angels didn't want us to get off the island. They wanted the boys to stay and party. And then it got violent."

Barrett told Fox News Digital that hundreds of members of the motorcycle gang began attacking festivalgoers, chasing off security and wreaking havoc on what would end up being Hendrix's final performance.

As chaos descended on the event, Hendrix went back to his room "alone, sober." The next day, the rowdy crowd booed the rockstar.

"I don't give a f--- if you boo, as long as you boo in key, you mother," he shouted back, concluding his set with, "Thank you, goodbye. Peace!"

As Hendrix's team escorted him toward the car after the show, one of the H---- Angels broke through and attempted to strike tour manager Gerry Stickells with a baton.

"I put my arm up to take the blow. I nearly passed out from the pain, but imagine if it had landed on Gerry's skull?" Barrett recalled. "We managed to get inside the car. Jimi kept looking at me because he saw me take the blow."

While they rushed out of the venue, Hendrix never stopped checking in on Barrett.

"He just said to me, 'Are you OK, Eric? Are you OK?' He kept asking me if I was OK," he concluded. "That's just the kind of man he was. And... that was the last thing he ever said to me."

Barrett remembered his late friend as a "wild man" on stage, but "shy" and reserved in private.

"He was very charming. And he was shy. People were in awe of Jimi. And when he had his guitar around his neck, over his shoulder, he was comfortable. That was his crutch," he reflected on his favorite of the "beautiful memories" he shared with the man.

"I was on a plane with him after a show. Jimi looked at me and said, 'Eric, what do you think, will they remember me?' I was flabbergasted. I went, 'Will they remember you? You're huge over here,'" he shared. "But he was so insecure...That was Jimi, a gift to the Earth from the Lord. And I miss him."

Just over a week after the festival, paramedics rushed to Hendrix's girlfriend Monika Dannemann's apartment, where she alleged the star was unresponsive after taking nine heavy-duty sleeping pills.

"She couldn't wake him. She called Eric Burdon of The Animals, who was a good friend of Jimi's," Barrett explained. "He screamed at her, 'Call the f-----g ambulance!'"

"What I'm being told was the ambulance guys ... laid him on his back, and he threw up," the former roadie added. "He asphyxiated. That was the accident. The pills were the accident. Tragedy was him dying."