I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar, and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone. . . . I'd heard the solo on Stone Free and refused to believe that someone could actually play this. It had to be some kind of studio trickery, the way he talks to the guitar and the guitar talks back to him. . . . I knew it wasn't possible. So I went to the Saville, determined to be a disbeliever, but I was swept off my feet. I thought, "This guy is the most astounding thing I've ever seen." And he did the Stone Free solo live, absolutely perfectly. It was back to the drawing board for me. . . . He was the coolest guy on Earth. No doubt about it. . . . We got fairly close to the front. But you didn't have to be at the front, actually. It was all-enveloping. . . .

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