1. KISS THE SKY - HENDRIX LEGACY
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through
music” - Jimi Hendrix
Distinguishing yourself in the
colorful musical climate of 1967
wasn’t easy. Merelybeingone of
the most innovativeand exciting
musicians to ever playthe guitar
wasn’t enough.
After the Hendrix Experience
concluded theiropeningset with
“Fire,” Hendrix put down his
guitar by the amplifiers and
sauntered back to the front of
the stage as Mitch Mitchell and
Noel Redding continued to jam.
Hendrix grabbed the guitar,knelt
beside it and, after a few burnt
matches, set it alight.
Burning his guitar drew attention to Hendrix’s brilliant guitar playing and ignited his career. It will
now launch the first music event seen from space . . . and a Global movement.

2. PURPLE HAZE – AN ISSUE OF OUR TIMES
“You have to give people something to dream on” – Jimi Hendrix
The Purple Haze of our times climate change from pollution is a serious concern to 69% of people1
.
Kiss the Sky 2will be a Hendrix legacy event that directly combats climate change equal to taking
over 250,000 cars off the road on the World’s largest land based carbon project 2.5 times bigger
than California.
The project empowers the return of Traditional land management by the Indigenous People in
Outback Australia. It controls vast wildfires and saves critically endangered wildlife.
For authenticity we have the cooperation of Leon Hendrix, Jimi’s younger brother to appear at
Kiss the Sky events.
He believes Jimi would have been right behind the People and Planet outcomes of Kiss the Sky
THE PROBLEM IS THE SOLUTION
Fire and biodiversity have a complex relationship in northern Australia. The current northern biodiversity crisis, at least in part, on vast
wildfires. Early control burns reduce fires by over 80% with a restoration of Traditional fire management by Aboriginals is critical to
conserving savanna landscapes.
We will fit one of these carbon, community and biodiversity beneficial control burns shape of Jimi’s guitar.
Imagine a guitar shaped savanna burn seen from space – the size of Manhattan.
APPENDIX:
1 Pew Research Report, Spring2015
2 From the lyricsof PurpleHaze by Jimi Hendrix
Video:Kiss the Sky Event

3. The return of Traditional fire management by Aboriginal People results in a shift from predominantly late to predominantly early dry
season fires resulting in a net reduction in fuel consumed per unit area and area burnt. Traditional Knowledge and scientific research,
often called the 'two tool box' approach, is a fusion of thousands of years of observation and prescribed burning in conjunction with
satellite mapping, monitoring and a methodology to measure the corresponding reduction in greenhouse gas emissions under an
approved methodology used to create carbon credits. .
Social, cultural & Economic Impact
The underlying causes of poor Indigenous health, drug abuse and alcoholism can be attributed to social and economic exclusion,
unemployment, low income, poor housing and sanitation, poor education, and lack of adequate nutrition. Savanna burning projects
on country replace welfare in remote communities that have very few employment opportunities for Indigenous People. This
generates pride and the resources that reach people on the ground.
Biodiversity Impact
Various lines of evidence indicate that a number of different species of plants and animals are declining in their numbers and
distributions as a result of catastrophic fire regimes which is becoming even more pronounced with climate change impacts. These
include fire-sensitive plants such as cypress pine and groups such as the grain-eating birds. The Gouldian finch is a seed-eating bird
that is thought to be threatened by, among other factors, changed fire patterns. Golden-shouldered parrot studies have revealed the
bird has an intricate relationship with fire.