There's always time for a little Jimi...

Jimi had some advantages over other mere mortal guitar players, technique from soul music developed with long fingers playing all over the "chitlin'" circuit providing chops no white guy seemed to know about, utilized with an effortlessness coming from endless hours of practice and an obsession with the music around him at the time...the endless benefits of a curious mind. 

Mitch sat in with my band in a Honolulu club in 1969 and was so immediately funky he burned the place up. Amazing, and our band got orchestra pit seating to watch the Experience a couple of nights...I'd already seen them in '67 (CA) and '68 (Hawaii) but from up close...whew...I met and hung out with Jimi a little (got his non working cassette player working somehow for which he was grateful...he said he had the receipt just in case) as he was vacationing from the road for a week or so. What an interesting character and really nice guy. He had a Gibson SG Custom and a Princeton Reverb for home noodling.