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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: Jimi Hendrix, 11/27/42-9/18/70
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 03:18:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 03:18:04 1984
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>	(Quoting from "The Rolling Stone Record Review, Volume II")
> 
>	"I once knew a guitarist who could, upon request, imitate
> any and all of your favorites.... He had them all down, one by one.
[ellipses mine -- jmb]
>	I asked him once upon a time to do Hendrix for me.  He smiled a
> little bit, set up his fuzz-tone, hooked up an echo unit, threw a few
> switches here and there, and gave it a try.  He couldn't do it.
>
>	And neither, for that matter, could have anyone else.  Whatever
> his secrets, Jimi Hendrix took them with him."
>
>			Lenny Kaye, reviewing "The Cry of Love", 4/1/71
> -- 
> ---Rsk

Couldn't agree more, though I'll add one thing: Hendrix may have carried his
secrets with him to the grave, but Stevie Ray Vaughan discovered Jimi's notes
(no pun intended).

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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