To hear him live was an exciting event. He sat in with us two or three times. One track, ‘The Lesson’, a very slow blues taped down at the Speakeasy, later came out on our Diary of a Band record. And it was so unlike what you’d expect of Hendrix, so quiet and subtle. Unless you were told it was him, you’d never ever know. Mick Taylor handed the guitar to Jimi who plays this solo, which is the most low-key thing he could have possibly played. He wasn’t listed on the record for contractual reasons.

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