. . . didn’t read music. There are a lot of great musicians who don’t read music - black and white - that I’ve known and respected and played with. So I didn’t think less of Jimi because of that. Jimi was a just a great, natural musician - self-taught... Once he heard it he really had it down. We would be talking, and I would be telling him technical shit like, ‘Jimi, you know, when you play the diminished chord...’ I would see this lost look come into his face and I would say, ‘Okay, okay, I forgot.’ I would just play it for him . . .

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