. . . than most people ever get in. And as far as I’m concerned, he had done it. He’d done everything that there was to do. He could have added some more trimmings, but how could he ever have surpassed what he’d done? His life was like a trip in a way: he’d had the hump, right? - the explosion - and he was gently and slowly coming down. So I think that if he hadn’t died, maybe he would have mellowed out. I think probably he . . .would have surprised a lot of people. He was much more of an all-round musician than a lot of people knew. I mean if you sat in a room while he banged about on acoustic, he could play really pretty guitar. See that’s the thing about Jimi. A lot of people think of that wild man, and they forget how he could play really pretty guitar, you know? But anyway, now, it’s a tragedy for the music business that there isn’t a Jimi Hendrix around playing music.

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