[Windflier]

BTW according to Richard, Jimi was his opening act on many concert tours.

Little Richard is a hoot. Jimi was just a hired hand when he worked with him. Little Richard never let him do any such thing as open for him. As Jimi tells it, he and the other players would get raked over the coals by LR every time they did the slightest thing to draw attention to themselves onstage.

Jimi didn't make a name for himself until long after he'd left Little Richard and the chitlin circuit. He fronted his first band while he was in New York, from about '64 to '65. It was called Jimmy James and The Blue Flames. It was while playing with that band, that he was discovered by Chas Chandler, who got him his first real record deal.

[a fool in paradise]

As Jimi tells it, he and the other players would get raked over the coals by LR every time they did the slightest thing to draw attention to themselves onstage.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.