Editing Jimi Hendrix (section)

=== Violent behavior ===
When Hendrix drank to excess or mixed drugs with alcohol, often he became angry and violent.<ref>{{harvnb|Cross|2005|p=236}}: mixing drugs and alcohol; {{harvnb|Roby|Schreiber|2010|pp=28, 51, 87, 127, 163, 182–183}}</ref> His friend Herbie Worthington said Hendrix "simply turned into a bastard" when he drank.{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=237}} According to friend Sharon Lawrence, liquor "set off a bottled-up anger, a destructive fury he almost never displayed otherwise".{{sfn|Lawrence|2005|pp=142–143}}

In January 1968, the Experience travelled to Sweden to start a one-week tour of Europe. During the early morning hours of the first day, Hendrix got into a drunken brawl in the Hotel Opalen in [[Gothenburg]], smashing a plate-glass window and injuring his right hand, for which he received medical treatment.{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=237}} The incident culminated in his arrest and release, pending a court appearance that resulted in a large fine.<ref>{{harvnb|McDermott|2009|p=86}}; {{harvnb|Shapiro|Glebbeek|1995|pp=238–240}}.</ref>

In 1969, Hendrix rented a house in [[Benedict Canyon]], California, that was burglarized. Later, while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, he accused his friend Paul Caruso of the theft, threw punches and stones at him, and chased him away from his house.{{sfn|Cross|2005|pp=236–237}} A few days later Hendrix hit his girlfriend, Carmen Borrero, above her eye with a vodka bottle during a drunken, jealous rage, and gave her a cut that required stitches.{{sfn|Cross|2005|p=237}}