Fact #42378
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The new Jimi Hendrix Experience album, Are You Experienced, is released in the USA. Meanwhile, in London, the band is interviewed by Bob Farmer of Disc and Music Echo.Full article:
Leslie West (guitarist, Mountain) : I heard Jimi Hendrix playing on Are You Experienced and I said, 'What the fuck is this?' It blew my mind! The thing is, it sounds like it was recorded a week ago – that's how ahead of his time Jimi was. There's some different stuff on that stuff, man. The way he used that whammy bar? Forget about it. He'd knock those strings out of tune, and then he'd stretch them right back into tune. The guy was unreal.
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