I heard Hendrix playing 'Are You Experienced' and I said, "What the fuck is this?" It blew my mind! The way he used the whammy bar? Forget about it. He'd knock those strings out of tune and then he'd stretch them right back into tune. The guy was unreal. . . . Led Zeppelin, Cream, and Hendrix were huge at that time. Being from New York, I was never into the San Francisco sound - the Dead, the Airplane and all that. But when these guys started coming over from England, a different world opened up. I mean, the Stones had great blues riffs in the mid-60's like Satisfaction, The Last Time. . . .

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