ized the industry. We’re living
in a time now where musicians
don’t matter. People are not get-
ting what he did. Jimi was doing
certain things that I point out in
my lectures. I do lecture demon-
strations on Hendrix and I show
what the guy was doing and how
different it is from what other
people do.
He had a certain touch, which
is what Miles Davis loved about
him. He had a certain touch that
I don’t think is being duplicated.
Is that touch harder to replicate
than his voice?
Yes.
Is it hard to sing like Jimi?
I would say it is. He had more
of a balladier or a roaming min-
strel type sound that he picked
up from Bob Dylan. He used to
always think he couldn’t sing. A
lot of people don’t know that be-
fore he died he was taking sing-
ing lessons from Buddy Miles.
He didn’t like his own voice. He
Watch a documentary on Jimi Hendrix
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