Saw Jimi Hendrix at the Fillmore East in NYC in '68 or '69 when he was playing with Buddy Miles in Band Of Gypsys. A good friend of mine from the School Of Visual Arts, where we were both students, and our girls were out and trying to decide what to do when we passed the theatre and bought tickets from a scalper for $35 each. It left me with just a coupe of dollars in my pocket, but it was worth it. It was a very exciting night.
My most vivid memory is Jimi tuning his guitar between songs as he played what sounded like classical spanish guitar riffs, and then when he was ready, bursting into "Fire". It just blew my mind, as we use to say.
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