If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.
Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd just started. And it just blew my head off. I had like an afro at the time, too. It was a bit all over the place. And it wasn't a thing to have an afro. No, that's kind of quite old school. You're supposed to have like a neatly cut shaped up haircut.
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. ” - Jimi Hendrix, “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
