. . . I was trying to reach him on many levels during that period . . . when I think about it now, that's what helped me get over my own 27th year, I was concentrating on other people like Jimi, who I could see was in deep trouble. He was very removed and in Britian he was a stranger in a strange land. The people who proported to be his friends were bringing him gifts of poison in the form of bad drugs that he was so ready to consume, he didn't care. . . . and of course by that time Jimi had burned so many axes, and made so many psychedelic sacrifices that's what the audience's chant became, 'Burn the guitar! Burn the guitar!'. And at this time Jimi was trying to reach Miles Davis and become the Jazz icon that he should have been. In fact he would have created a new jazz that we all need and a kind missing today. It was a knee-jerk reaction when Hendrix died. I had a road manager who was thinking ahead of me, and he went to my apartment and found my 12-guage shotgun and got rid of it because that's where I was going. I was going to go and get that gun and go after the guys that I felt were responsible. . . .

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