LOS ANGELES: Jimi Hendrix’s heirs clashed in court Thursday with a producer they alleged reneged on a deal for a concert movie about the iconic guitarist.

Lawyers for the Hendrix family and producer Gerald Goldstein took verbal swings at each other at the Los Angeles trial over rights to the movie, based on a series of concerts in Europe in 1969. Goldstein originally wanted a $2 million budget to cover film’s print, advertising and distribution costs, and Hendrix’s estate contributed more than half of that amount.

But the producer allegedly pulled out of the deal when he realized the limited release that was planned for the movie, which was to feature footage from concerts in Austria, France, Germany and at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

“They pulled the rug out from under Mr.Goldstein and destroyed his ability to present his vision of what he thought the film would be like,” Goldstein’s lawyer Brent Blakely told LA Superior Court Judge Mark Mooney.