Love your thoughts and input to the conversation.
Yeah, I know that Jimi played two sets that night. I’ve got the recordings of both. I listened to the alternate set a few times, but could never get into it. It can’t even pretend to hold a candle to the legendary one.
Boy, wouldn’t we both love to go back in time to save Jimi’s life. It would have been so easy, too. If his girlfriend had snuck out to go shopping that morning, Jimi would still be with us today. He would have had an awful morning, throwing up all over himself, but he would have lived.
He’d be 73 today, and though his groundbreaking days would be long behind him, you know he’d still be performing. He lived by the bluesman’s code, so he would have played til the end of his days.
Last year I saw Robin Trower play. After the show I got him to autograph the cover of my 1974 print of Bridge of Sighs. I got to shake the hand of my second favorite guitarist in the world that night, and thank him in person for the gift of his music. I only wish I could have done the same with Jimi.