Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: re: Jimi Hendrix, 11/27/42-9/18/70 Message-ID: <3752@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 03:18:04 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3752 Posted: Thu Sep 27 03:18:04 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 00:49:26 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 24 > (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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA