After Hendrix died without a will in 1970 , his father Al received the rights to Hendrix 's estate , including " It 's Too Bad " . A little more than thirty years after the song was recorded , it was one of four Hendrix songs newly discovered and added to '' The Jimi Hendrix Experience '' , a four disc box set . In reviewing the song on The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( 2000 ) , producer and audio engineer Eddie Kramer noted about the tune : " I think it 's very clever , and very , very emotionally charged . It has a tremendous wallop " . Two years later , Hendrix 's father died and Leon sued their father 's estate and Hendrix 's stepsister Janie to gain control over about one quarter of US$ 80 million . After Washington Superior Court judge Jeffrey M. Ramsdell limited Leon 's claim to a single gold record left to him when his father died in 2002 , Janie remarked in 2004 about the lawsuit : " Jimi wrote a song about Leon and it was called , ' It 's Too Bad ' . The lyrics to that song are what this is all about "
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